U.S. Bailout Costs May Reach $23.7 Trillion, TARP Inspector Says

So that means that if you have a family of 4, your families share of that is 23.7 trillion is $316,000. Looks like they found a way to make you pay for that that house you walked away from anyway!

Dont worry all you single guys and girls...your share is only $79,000, but looks like you can say goodbye to that porche 911.
 
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So that means that if you have a family of 4, your families share of that is 23.7 trillion is $316,000. Looks like they found a way to make you pay for that that house you walked away from anyway!

Dont worry all you single guys and girls...your share is only $79,000, but looks like you can say goodbye to that porche 911.
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No worries - the banks can offer a teaser rate sub prime deficit lending to american consumers to pay off their 79,000. then they can package the loans, insure them ficticiously, sell the coupons and use the cdo's as collateral to borrow 40 to 1. Bonuses all around!!!
 
We have a President that has a strong sense
of how to take the US to the next level.

He is trying to increase taxes in a recession (especially
on small business). Heck, capital gains tax is evil too,
so just tax hell out of that too. All of these should
help redistribute wealth so that we can all share the pain
together. Let us all hold hands. (except for
GS, which plays with different rules).

We also have a strong VP like Biden who says
intelligent things like "We need to spend
more money to avoid bankrupting the country".

This really makes sense to me. In order to get
out of a recession, increase consumption by
printing more money. The Fed has unlimited
power.

Nothing to worry about.
 
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July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bail out financial companies, according to Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury�s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Barofsky made the estimate in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing tomorrow.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQEI97EY.fs0

ROFLMAO ! :D
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Most likely his numbers are understated. I don't think it's funny. Sorry.
 
No, it's not funny. It's quite sad. When I look at my 2 children I wonder what their life is going to be like. This debt can never be repaid. What are they going to do? Just wipe the slate clean and call "do-over?" I very seriously doubt that.

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Most likely his numbers are understated. I don't think it's funny. Sorry.
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No, it's not funny. It's quite sad. When I look at my 2 children I wonder what their life is going to be like. This debt can never be repaid. What are they going to do? Just wipe the slate clean and call "do-over?" I very seriously doubt that.
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You can always emigrate, relinquish your US passport and offer your kids an independent expat lifestyle without Uncle Sam's fingers in your and your families' pockets.
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bail out financial companies, according to Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Barofsky made the estimate in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing tomorrow.
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I call BS on this $23.7 TRILLION number for the simple fact that many of the programs are backed by collateral and the "headline" number represents the gross, AND NOT NET EXPOSURE that the government could face.

Moreover, no one has even suggested that the full amount, in fact, will be used.
 
$23 Trillion is nothing, I dont see one person worrying about how much these bailouts are costing the taxpayers. The more they spend on these bailouts the better it is for our economy going forward, how else are we going to prop the consumer back up to spend more and keep the economy going. This is the best debt ridden economy in the world.
 
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