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equark on Sept 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Armstrong to Nasa: You're embarrassing

This statement is false. TARP cost $19 billion compared to NASA at $18.5 billion per year.

http://www.housingwire.com/2011/03/30/cbo-drops-estimate-of-...

dhugiaskmak on Sept 23, 2011 | [–]

His number is way too small, if anything. There was an awful lot more to the bailout of the US economy than the TARP program.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristoc...

melling on Sept 23, 2011 | [–]

Also, aren't companies suppose to be paying the TARP money back?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program

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