3 trillion Dollars to counter crisis

[None of the above]

WASHINGTON – On a single day filled with staggering sums, the Obama administration, Federal Reserve and Senate attacked the deepening economic crisis Tuesday with actions that could throw as much as $3 trillion more in government and private funds into the fight against frozen credit markets and rising joblessness.

"It's gone deep. It's gotten worse," President Barack Obama said of the recession at a campaign-style appearance in Ft. Myers, Fla., where unemployment has reached double digits. "The situation we face could not be more serious."

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Depending on each news article the sum varies from 2 to 3 trillion. This one's written by a few AP correspondants.

Gigantic.

[Eris]

Reminds me of a quote by Feynman: There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

[Diocletian]

When Obama said "We want change" he meant pocket change.

[DOOM!]

Let me put this in another matter, and I'm going to quote: "A billion seconds ago was 1978, a billion minutes ago, Jesus walked the earth, a billion hours ago there was the stone age, a billion days ago, nothing two-legged waked the earth, and a Billion dollars ago, was just 8 hours ago" at the rate politicians spend money on BS.
I don't know where could they possibly pull out such a sum(physically, at least) but I can already tell it won't do.

[Haoie]

Oh, if I had a trillion bucks each time capitalism screwed everyone over.