Originally Posted by motordavid

~ $800 Billion of taxpayer dough, (yours/mine), in the past year
used to bail these joints...just a running total of the obvious stuff.

Add in the monthly tab of the "war" in Iraq and the US has spent
more dough in the last few years than even the Mint can print...

Any reader here less than 50, will be paying for this and related
fiascos for the rest of their working lives.

For those of us that have a hard time relating to a "billion", some
comparos:
-A Million seconds is 11 1/2 days
-A Billion seconds is nearly 32 years
-A Trillion seconds, which that "$800 Billion" ref'd above, is approaching,
is nearly 32,000 years.

Good Luck, all.