Yeah, but that's taking supposed "stimulus" over the last several *years*, and most of that isn't even stimulus money in the first place (FDIC money isn't "stimulus" money in nearly any definition but the author's) and much of the rest of the article is speculative at best. It isn't even remotely "true" that the _stimulus_ is within spitting distance of the claimed $9.7 trillion.
Now if the *stimulus* money were *really* $7+ trillion life would be very interesting indeed. Chuck On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > Find all the details in this article. > > > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? > pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok > > U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs (Update1) > By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry > > Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is > completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the > financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 > percent of the nation’s home mortgages............. > Brian > > > Chuck Bartosch wrote: >> >> LOL, dude, some pretty trivial math would tell you that's clearly not >> even in the ballpark! >> >> Maybe if the stimulus were $7.4 trillion, not $740 billion. But, hey, >> what's a factor of 10 or so between friends, eh? >> >> ;-) >> >> Chuck >> >> On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Brad Belton wrote: >> >> >>> Is it true that the amount of money spent in "stimulus" plans would >>> be equal >>> to or less than the government writing every household in America a >>> $70k or >>> $80k check? >>> >>> Something tells me that would have been better use of taxpayer funds >>> to >>> "stimulate" the economy rather than what has and is been done so >>> far... >>> >>> Brad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Travis Johnson >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:34 PM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] schools >>> >>> Too bad this isn't really helping much. I am heading to a Public >>> Hearing >>> right now for our school district. Even with the stimulus money, >>> they >>> are still talking about getting rid of 20-30 teachers and counselors >>> next school year. And the year after that there may be that many >>> more. >>> That's a 10-15% reduction in our school district. >>> >>> So now it's looking like we did a $700 Billion dollar "loan", and we >>> are >>> STILL going to have a ton more layoffs and businesses going out of >>> business. :( >>> >>> Travis >>> Microserv >>> >>> RickG wrote: >>> >>>> Where is this headed? >>>> http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/factsheet/overview.html >>>> Is this an income stream possibility for a WISP? >>>> -RickG >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> >>>> WISPA Wants You! 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