>>After a week of reversals and intense lobbying, the measure ended up passing comfortably by a vote of 263-171. >>
Fucking politicians. They'll never have to pay a cent of this. $700,000,000,000.00 for a +100 in the DOW that retreated 30 minutes later into the red? I could have slipped an anonymous tip about the Arabs increasing oil supplies, with the same results!
In a fantasy world, one where we spend that money on ramping up our military to surpass the Russian challenge, instead of bailing out bankers, I would go for it. But the government is corrupt, so I wouldn't believe them even if they were straight up about it.