To put the Stimulus bill into perspective:

[hedgehog]

$900,000,000,000 Stimulus Bill $900 billion

$ 50,000,000,000 Amount stolen by Madoff $50 billion

$700,000,000,000 Amount allocated for TARP $700 billion

$ 720,000,000 Daily cost of occupying Iraq $720 million

$150,000,000,000 cost of Iraq to date $150 billion

$527,000,000,000 proposed defense budget for 2009, not including war in Afghanistan or Iraq $527 billion


That's what I came up with, free free to add your examples or to argue those amounts.

[midnight]

1. Let's end this war. It cost way to much.

[leeroysphitz]

5. Even if it wasn't costing this country a DOLLAR it stil coss far too much.

[peace13]

2. Well you have the 9 billion in cash lost and unaccounted for in Iraq

and was AIG and friends included in TARP or were they bailed out before that?

[SmileyRose]

3. Didn't the FED recently "loan" over 2 trillion total? in addition to TARP

[peace13]

7. Shhh they have really managed to keep a secret and confuse the issue.

[BalancedGoat]

4. Posted this on a different forum.

816 billion spread out over 10 years comes out to an average of 3% of the total federal revenue for 2007. The 2000 budget surplus represented almost 11.7% of the federal revenue that year.

[Mnemosyne]

6. Cost of Iraq, so far - $594,183,675,000 and rising.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

:hi:

[Earth_First]

8. You're WAAAAY off on the pricetag of the Occupation of Iraq

We spent that in the first year...

[hedgehog]

9. I just grabbed the first number that came up - I didn't have much time to do research

and I figured someone would know the number for sure!