I've been trying to capture for people just how dire the situation is behind this bailout.
We keep hearing $700,000,000,000 (that's seven hundred billion dollars) bandided about as if it's what we're actually going to pay.
But there's a lot more.
Before I get into the "more" let's do a little thought experiment on the $700 billion.
You know those "Visualize Whirled Peas" bumper stickers? I'm going to help you visualize $700 billion dollars, and some other interesting dollar amounts, which might help you see what we're up against.
Warning for the faint of heart: don't read this diary.
For everyone else, I hope you will take any numbness you may feel when you're done and convert it into righteous anger, then turn that anger into serious community organizing to get this "bailout" stopped, and replaced with a New New Deal, because that's the only thing that will save us.
This Diary is long. Really long, but hopefully easy to read. It's the combination of 2 diaries I posted on Green Mountain Daily (with some small edits for clarity and corrections to the math - gotta remember to divide by 5,280 to get miles from feet. Now you know why I wasn't a math major...)
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