Paul, I'm not insulted, but its not like the banks haven't given us sufficient reason for the "banks are bad" feelings.They screw millions of americans out of hundereds of billions of dollars.

Fannie asked for $5 billion last week to stop the bleeding.

With Obama’s proposed $800 billion stimulus package you are at a cool $8 trillion!

Cash & Due from Banks 29,028.00 <--- cash on hand and at Fed Total Deposits 774,185.00 3.7 percent coverage, meaning in a bank run, above 3.8 percent is out of money Does the fed and the FDIC have $745.157 Billion Dollars to pump into CITI?

The stimulus was "cut" down to "merely" $780 Billion.

There is $5 BILLION for weatherization.

My concern is that we are throwing around Millions Billions Trillions without much preparation.

A Brazilian I was just reading yesterday that it took 200 years to get 800 Billion Dollars into circulation, and over the last 6 months we've more than doubled that amount.

Here's the latest headline:Obama aims to cut deficit in half by 2013Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090221/ts_nm/us_obamaHe wants to "cut" the deficit to a mere $533 Billion in four years.

Here is an interesting article about the loss of perspective when you are dealing with millions, billions and trillions.