A quote to give you confidence in the bailout

Bad News For The Bailout

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

Boy combined with the oversight lying, now now now, don't read just pass, 2 1/2 pages, pay for itself bullshit, this quote from the treasury just wells you up with confidence that our best and brightest are concerned with getting this right. Was there no wheel they could spin for dollar amounts? A dartboard? Did they rule gambling on the roulette wheel right out or did it take them a few days to cut it out of the proposal, the vaunted missing half page?