1.8 trillion

[Requia ☣]

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6580

The new version of the bailout bill is over 300 pages long, most of it riders, and is expected to cost up to 1.8 trillion (but it might be as small as 1.5 trillion too!) in give aways and tax cuts.  It's also apparently the compromise bill the democrats asked for.  It's already passed in the Senate, and awaiting a House vote.  I spent some time thinking about who might actually stand up and oppose it, and the only person that came to mind is Ron Paul.

Things are now so desperate that I am forced to have hope in RON FUCKING PAUL.  We're going to be so fucked my ass is already bleeding.

[Idem]

1/5 of national debt.

[Jasper]

Uuaaaaghh.

[Cain]

This is the usual way of politics under Bush.

BUSH: Pass my bill.

DEMOCRATS: No.

BUSH: Pass my bill or I'll call you terrorist loving freedom-haters until you do.

DEMOCRATS: Um...OK then.  But can we have a few concrete concessions?

BUSH: No. You can have some meaningless ones and be glad for them.

Democrats:  Damn.  Well, we will pass the bill anyway.