Check My Math. Please

My calculator isn't big enough to handle the math, and it's been far too long since I had to do math unassisted...

So this "bail-out" is pretty much like handing my family a bill for $10,000. Is that about right? One trillion dollars divided by approximately 100,000,000 households?

Are you fucking kidding me?

And this isn't even going to buy us any assets like the S&L bailout did, or even any regulation or accountability?

This is handing the Bush Administration a blank check to dole out as they see fit?

Do I have all that right?

Where the fuck is Obama's ass-kicking ad on this?

I wonder...

If Barack Obama accepts public financing for the general election, I believe he gets $85 million. Does the clock not start on that until after the convention and his nomination is formalized? Isn't $85 mil enough to last two months? Can he raise and spend at his current pace up until the Convention and just bury McCain early?

I've been collecting a lot of links and thoughts on this whole public finance issue, and my position has swung back and forth. Maybe I'll be able to bake them into a post later today, and finding out the answers to my questions above (which a short search did not reveal) will be decisive. I just hope Obama listens to what I come up with... ;-)