"Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
The original figure in January was $189 billion, but it is now $356 billion — $152 billion more for 2009 and $15 billion more next year, the CBO says in its March report updating the budget and economic outlook."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090404/ap_on_re_us/bailout_costs
Is anyone surprised? Isn't that what the critics predicted?
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