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5. Chicken feed compared to the bank bailouts...

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 07:44 AM

Oct 2014

All told those were the equivalent of the total value of all of the real estate in the entire country.

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We Need To Talk. [View all] unhappycamper Oct 2014 OP

And think of what we could achieve if we spent Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2014 #1

Amen.... daleanime Oct 2014 #2

I guess they expect us to buy it back first. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #6

No, they would rather have us rent.... daleanime Oct 2014 #14

And the amazing thing is zeemike Oct 2014 #9

hear, here. times 400 billion. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #11

K&R.... daleanime Oct 2014 #3

Chicken feed compared to the bank bailouts... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #5

True, but unhappycamper Oct 2014 #7

The point of this F-35 program is how we spent on this jet... TRoN33 Oct 2014 #10

Thanks for the post. ctsnowman Oct 2014 #12

And worse Man from Pickens Oct 2014 #13

I am in favor of schools and hospitals instead of guns and bombs. oldandhappy Oct 2014 #15

Agreed but how do you transition the 100K Lockheed employees? Rose Siding Oct 2014 #16

yep You got it!! oldandhappy Oct 2014 #17

One Zumwalt-class destroyer can provide 69,000 $50,000 handouts. unhappycamper Oct 2014 #19

As much as I agree... here I'm in NC littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #18