The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages. .....
The pledges, amounting to almost two-thirds of the value of everything produced in the U.S. last year, .....
The $9.7 trillion in pledges would be enough to send a $1,430 check to every man, woman and child alive in the world.
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