All but 240,000,000,000
The president said recently that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system.”
Same day he said it, the Congressional Budget Office reported the bailout had cost $24-billion.
So, 24-billion dollars weren’t recouped. But all the dimes were.
Should’ve spent more dimes. Or fewer dollars.
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October 18th, 2012 at 10:06 am
“Brother, can you spare a dime?” Apparently not. The government wants all their dimes back. Fatty wads of bills, though…they just throw them around. No need to repay those. I’m going to start asking, “Brother, can you spare a G note?”
October 18th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Basil, to this government, that’s petty cash. Besides, we’re supposed to be thankful that the too-big-to-fail banks were saved and no one has gone to prison.
October 18th, 2012 at 10:29 am
I think your number is too small. That’s a lot of zeros created by the biggest zero but I think you need to add one more zero to make 24 billion.
October 18th, 2012 at 10:33 am
Actually, I had one too many zeros to show the number of dimes in $24-billion.
Math is hard. Just ask a Democrat.
October 18th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
He didn’t say WHO got it back, he meant “we” as in HE and the rest of his kind in “campaign contributions”
October 18th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Frankly, the mere fact that the federal government recovered 10 cents of every dollar it wasted is refreshing because we typically get a recoupment rate of 0:1. Bernie Madoff got 150 years in prison for making just $18 billion disappear. To be fair, for all the money he made disappear shouldn’t Mr. Obama get 1,500 years?