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• Thebes commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  1- About loans. These represent money injected into the US economy which was created mostly "out of thin air". That is why this is so scary, this is new money that did not exist before and DWARFS many major spending programs of the past. Its not just money spent, its money CREATED. The various "bail out programs" now amount to 13.9 TRILLION dollars- over 100 grand per US household and more than enough cash to cover New England plus all major US cities in a blanket of continuous dollar bills. 2- Correcting for inflation, it seems that most of the...
• subliminati commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  Infographic?!?! The "info" seems suspect, and the "graphic" is an unaesthetic cluster fuck of ugly. Interesting concept, horrible execution. This = Fail....
• teufelsdroch commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  sublim, your talents are wasted here. youtube needs your work far more than boingboing. if you concentrate your efforts there, i'm sure it will lead to fame and glory. godspeed....
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  Or, really, any kind of speed....
• Haakon IV commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  @Roku You're making the classic mistake of ignoring the context and substance of every post that disagrees with your preconceived viewpoint. It is not "100% irrelevant" to comment, in response to a post about a single infographic, that both the information and the graphics are misleading. This does not imply that all of us who think that this is not a stellar example of a helpful figure are huge fans of the bailout, or that the numbers involved are not gargantuan. It's not a helpful figure. The bailout is huge and scary. Both can be true....