"Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion" - thoughts on this Politico.com article?

[bbernardini]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25164.html

One of my "friends" on Facebook posted a link to this. She's a right-wing nutjob, so I thought I'd see what you all had to say about it before I respond.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Orrin Hatch just said $39 trillion for Medicare.

[Deja Q]

2. 1. It's Politico.

2. Goto 1.

:)

[johnaries]

3. Bernanke talked about the Fed's "exit strategy" in an Op-Ed today

in WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300050657897992.html

edit to add: Bernanke's statements proves the Politico article is pure bullshit.

[lapfog_1]

4. Pure bullshit.

and hyperbole.

But that didn't stop Faux from running it (it was on their crawl for hours).

[bbernardini]

5. She also posted this one from The Economist:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14043440

She's on a tear today, it seems. :)

[galileoreloaded]

6. Actually it was a Bloomberg article that quoted the independant Inspector General.

Google is your friend. Or Bing. Whatever.

[bemildred]

7. Politico tends to be full of shit.

The money is already gone, the question is what to do about it.

[bbernardini]

8. Kick!

[bbernardini]

9. Kick!