Wow....

Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion

Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion

Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion

S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion

Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion

The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)

Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion

Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion

NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion
TOTAL: $3,920,000,000,0002008



BAILOUT TOTAL AS OF NOV 2008: $4,616,000,000,000



Now, it should be noted that this is sort of apples and oranges, the bailout is a loan, not an expenditure and we expect to get some of this money back... but that will be in the future (Sometime... not this year) and the government didn't print that money to be given away, it is borrowed against our assets.



I'm not saying anything for or against the bailout (Honestly, I'm underinformed on it, so I can't, in good conscience, say anything for or against...)... This is simply something I saw and thought it was interesting. :)



---Fascinated...