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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:22:14 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

The TARP (and other handouts) cost twice that much in one tenth the
time.

and the TARP saved the banking system, created over 1M jobs and
prevented a great depression

We didn't even create any jobs. At least The Iraq war employed
lots of people for 10 years making

uh huh. according to a consensus of economists interviewed monday by
USAToday, the TARP created about 1.2M jobs

Surprising to see you praising a Bush policy decision with such vigor.
I still think it was a big gift to a lot of rich people.



The Bush "policy" decision was that he didn't want to be known as the
president who caused the world financial markets to collapse. He had to be
pushed into it by Paulson, et. al.

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