Tip of the iceberg ,imo and heres' why:2. cnnmoney.com--outstanding "risky" commercial loans2006-95 billion2007-114 billion2008-373 billion2009-642 billion!!

The only thing that has happened is that the government has spent BILLIONS of dollars propping up prices with their home-buyer programs.

Companies in Fortune's Global 500 database with revenue of $10 Billion or more, and the top foreign companies operating in the U.S.

Of the 1.4 BILLION in commercial loans (on mostly new, vacant properties) due to recast or become due in next couple years. 700 million of those loans are now considered "troubled assets", and likely to flood the market soon.

Option ARM's recasts are about to double to around $5 Billion/month and climb to around $12 Billion/month by October 2012.

I just can't imagine that the tens of billions of dollars that big oil has spent on government lobbying efforts over the past 50 years is actually having an impact...

Greece has all the problems they have , and are asking for 139 billion from UK to keep from sinking.

An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration and the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year.Immigration is a net drain on the economy; corporate interests reap the benefits of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost.

"Companies from China are spending billions to build factories in the U.S. -- and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers." .... this appears to be a good thing, we need jobs right?!

I am sure we waste a few hundred billion there.