No kidding.

And when you consider what came out of the Race to the Moon (just to pick one example) in terms of technical advances and the jobs that resulted from them you really have to ask whether it makes any sense to bail out failing banks and auto makers.

Might not far more, and better, results come from letting the companies that are failing just fail, and spending money on (just to pick one example) a Race to Energy Independence?

Huh?

If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. …

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

And that $3,920,000,000,000 is what you get if you add up the inflation adjusted numbers.

- Marshall Plan
- Louisiana Purchase
- Race to the Moon
- S&L Crisis
- Korean War
- The New Deal
- Invasion of Iraq
- Vietnam War
- NASA

“The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined.”

Hand out for me = good.