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Old 10-30-2010, 12:41 PM   #11
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Re: David Brooks to Obama: Less of your shucking and jiving, please.

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Yep. Although the $50 billion price tag is limited to TARP and more specifically AIG. The price tag for all the bailouts is far higher. Fanny/Freddie alone are several hundred billion and counting.
Yes, Fannie and Freddie have monstrous bailout costs, but just as TARP led to paybacks, over time, a lot of that bailout money will be recouped. You can't freeze the music now and call the request for additional funding a loss any more than you could call a business asking for expansion of its credit line a loss.
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