Conceptualizing The Numbers

The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history. Crunching the inflation adjusted numbers, the bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 B
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 M, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 B
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 B
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 B
• Korean War: Cost: $54 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 B
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 B
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 B
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 B
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 B, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 B

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

(Via The Big Picture)