Some numbers to compare the Stimulus bill to:

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the Right wing is spreading around a lot of talk about how you couldn't spend all the money in the stimilus bill if you had 1000 years or you could lay dollar bills from here to the sun and back, etc.

Try this comparison:

Cost of Stimulus Bill $789 Billion

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/money/2009/02/housesenate-deal-cuts-stimulus-bill-cost-to-789-billion.html

Size of Madoff Scandal: $50 billion

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1866154,00.html