It would be "ridiculous" if they didn't manage to pull it off and take $700B in one shot alone out of our pockets (and another >$10T in followup bailouts that didn't get the publicity that TARP did).
Neil Barofsky put the total potential exposure at $23T. I fear that he may have underestimated the thieving ambition of those at the top of our financial and political systems.
18 posted on 08/21/2011 6:11:09 AM PDT by icanhasbailout
(Some people would believe Karl Marx was conservative if he had good hair and ran on the GOP ticket)