Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:41am — vastleft
Too bad Paulson wasn't using Heinz ketchup when he made up the number. We could have saved $643 billion.
In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
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Changed your head, VL
When you can tell the whole story in the headline with a juicy quote, that's very good for RSS feeds...
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
This whole campaign has changed my head
Why should today be any different?
But seriously, Lb, fine by me.
Amazing postings today. Thanks to Corrente, well done.
I love this job!
I love this job!
Diane Reems Show today had good discussions of alternative
views, so seldom covered. Good for Frank Sesno and public radio.
Diane Reems Show has audio, but no transcript..
Are They Serious?
So, now we're just pulling random numbers out of thin air? Dr. Evil could have done better than this.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...