"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Goethe
Financial Rescue Approaches GDP as U.S. Pledges $12.8 Trilli
The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.