Tuesday, October 07, 2008

THE COMING MOTHER OF ALL BAILOUTS

"Think $700 billion to bail out Wall Street is expensive? Just wait. The mortgage meltdown is cheap compared with the coming fiscal firestorm fanned by unfunded Social Security and Medicare costs. Together, these programs hold unfunded obligations totaling $41 trillion - 60 times larger than the proposed Wall Street bailout."

- Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation

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