$ 3.7 billion is a lot of money

[Andre II]

No, no, I'm not talking about the money the Pentagon couldn't account for ....
no these are DIFFERENT $ 3.7 billion:

"The government failed to ensure that recipients of terrorism-recovery loans were actually hurt by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, allowing banks to spread more than $3.7 billion in aid to whomever they wanted, Senate investigators concluded Wednesday. (...)
"The lack of clear guidelines allowed lenders to justify making a STAR loan to almost any borrower," the committee report said.
Nearly 3 of every 4 loans made under the program contained either insufficient or questionable documentation to show recipients were actually hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, Snowe's committee found"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060906/ap_on_go_pr_wh/terror_loans

[FoxOnTheRun]

1. the pentagon lost trillions not billions

[Andre II]

2. Stand corrected

Absolutely true!
They had trillions unaccounted for.
Still I say with my modeste income that $37 billion is quite a lot of money.

[JackRiddler]

4. Well, even with my fortune

Which is merely in the low 100-million range in the foundation's investments, I must say, $37 billion is quite a lot of money.

[medienanalyse]

3. If you need to tell a story to get money

you will supposedly tell a story to get that money. So a lot of stories exist about phone calls out of the planes and so on.

Trigger a story - the story will come. Somehow I feel modern journalism works like that. and some religions.