This $700 billion proposed bailout is raising a lot of red flags amongst the public, media, and Congress, both democrats and republicans. And as Forbes points out even the basic question of how this enormous figure of 700 billion was determined is unclear:
"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?
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