Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching

Here's some interesting perspective.  A slideshow of the biggest government expenditures of all time - adjusted for inflation.  A nice little comparison to all the bailing out that's been going on lately:

Hoover Dam: $782 million
Panama Canal: $7.9 billion
Gulf War I: $98 billion
Marshall Plan:  $115.3 billion
Louisiana Purchase:  $217 billion
Race to the moon:  $237 billion
Savings and Loan Crisis:  $256 billion
Korean War:  $454 billion
The New Deal:  $500 billion
Gulf War II/War on Terror:  $597 billion
Vietnam War: $698 billion
The 50-year history of NASA:  $851.2 billion
World War II:  $3.6 trillion
2008 TARP Bailout:  $700 billion ($3.8 trillion when all of the other bailouts, etc. is thrown in) - so far

In other words, once you throw in all the bailouts (so far), our government has spent more bailing these morons out than they spent for all of World War II.  Awesome. 

You, there in the back of the class with your hand up - do you have a question? 

"Yes.  Where is all this money coming from?"  The answer is simple, really...