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ANOTHER OBAMA FAIRY TALE TURNS TO DUST: CBO CONFIRMS $24 BILLION LOSS ON BAILOUTS
ANOTHER OBAMA FAIRY TALE TURNS TO DUST: CBO CONFIRMS $24 BILLION LOSS ON BAILOUTS
By: John Hayward
10/16/2012 09:22 AM
According to CNS News, Barack Obama is still running around and claiming “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system.” Like so many other Obama and Biden statements, that is absolutely false:
The Congressional Budget Office–based on figures from Obama’s own Office of Management and Budget—gives a different assessment.
“The cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion,” said the CBO report, which was released on the same day Obama spoke.
TARP is the Troubled Asset Relief Program – the formal name of the government’s financial bailout program passed in October 2008.
CBO said that the cost of TARP “stems largely from assistance to American International Group (AIG), aid to the automotive industry, and grant programs aimed at avoiding home mortgage foreclosures,” noting that the losses will be so large they will eclipse the financial gains the government will realize from bailing out other large financial institutions.
In fact, CBO reported that as of now $65 billion in TARP funds remain outstanding.
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