Jesus. $1.8 trillion dollars. Any idea just how much money that is? No? Would you believe $15,000 for each and every American household!  That  is how much, so far, the incredible government  (taxpayer) bailout of banks and lending institutions is going to cost all of us.

Where does that figure come from?  A Reuters dispatch is simply adding the $700 billion dollar “rescue fund” being prosed to the money already pledged to take over AIG, the global insurance giant, Fannie and Freddi, the enormous mortgage firms and Bear Stearns which was sold to Chase with taxpayer back-up. The result: $15, 000 per household.  It could even get larger!!!

Have Americans become so blind, deaf and dumb so as not to grasp what is truly going on here? That we are picking up the tab for every mistake and crooked financial deal made by a host of institutions.  They will all clean their books of bad debt, while Americans continue to be kicked out of their homes in record numbers. Shame on us for being so freaking stupid that we appear set to go along with this scheme.

We are being told that we must act quickly…yesterday, if possible, to avert disaster. But the disaster has already happened. What is happening now, is an effort to make all of us pay for the clean-up operation under the threat things could only get worse.

Really? Worse than forking over $15 thousand dollars for every household in America, half of many people’s yearly income?  Gosh, it’s pretty hard to see how that could be.

Or do they (government and banking leaders) really mean that things will get worse for THEM if we don’t move quickly, with little to no time to think about what it is we are actually getting ourselves into?

And guess what. How long do you think it will take until the government and the greedy bankers will be back, hat in hand, begging for even more taxpayer money? Tomorrow? Next week? Next Month? All three???

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