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“2008 Bailout Costs As Much As Several Large And Famous Government Projects Combined.” The Consumerist. 12/3/2008.
I’m unclear as to how exactly they generated the graphs, but I think they set the radius of the bailout graph (left) to be proportional with respect to the radius of the graph of the other government plans (right).
The other government plans: $3,920,000,000,000 (adjusted for inflation).
The 2008 bailout total as of Nov 2008: $4,616,000,000,000.
The ratio is 1:1.1776, or put another way, the bailout costs 17.76% more than all those other projects put together.
