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POPSAdding Up Total Bailout Tab = $8.8 Trillion In the clip, the top number is Committed & the bottom is Spent. The top section of the clip is a break down of the Gov as Investor & that summary is below (too much to clip): The Government as Investor $4.6 trillion Spent: $921 billion Includes direct investments in financial institutions, purchases of high-grade corporate debt and purchases of mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae.
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POPSEmperor's New Clothes: Palin Pork Public Over the last couple days, every newspaper and network in America has disproven Sarah Palin's claim that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere. Yet just moments ago at a campaign rally in Lebanon, Ohio, she repeated her familiar refrain on the bridge, claiming she told the federal government, "Thanks, but no thanks.