Thursday, September 18, 2008

By The Numbers



14,500,000,000,000 (trillions): Estimate of dollars of value of all goods and services produced in the U.S. this year

6,000,000,000,000 (trillions): Dollars in mortgages that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac owned or guaranteed

600,000,000,000 (billions): Dollars that central banks worldwide have recently put into their financial systems to increase liquidity

16,000,000,000 (billions): Maximum number of estimated barrels that could be retrieved from ANWR
10,000,000,000 (billions): Size in dollars of Fannie Mae accounting scandal 3 years ago
100,000,000 (millions): Dollars earned by Frank Raines as CEO of Fannie Mae

22,000,000: Approximate barrels of oil consumed per day in the U.S.

20,000,000: Estimate of homeowners who currently owe more than their house is worth

4,844,572: Dollars since 1989 that members of congress have received as political
contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

165,400: Dollars since 1989 that Chris Dodd alone has received as political contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (he's #1 in that)

126,349: Dollars that Barack Obama alone has received, in only 2 years(!) as political contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (he's #2!)

200 plus : U.S. Soldiers Obama associate and bomb designer Bill Ayers hoped to kill with a nail bomb in 1970

3: Bill Ayers' comrades who were killed making a bomb intended to kill U.S. Soldiers

0: Comments by Barack Obama on government bailout of AIG

Unknown: Number of clients serviced by prostitution ring operating out of the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's D.C. apartment (Barney Frank)



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