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  • noun Plural form of bailout.

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Examples

  • Failing that, how about taking some of the billions they got in bailouts from the taxpayers and putting it towards helping their customers instead of buying gold-plated commodes for their executive biffies?

    Gas Price Survey 2009

  • Ben Nelson's vote with Wall Street and for the continuation of taxpayer bailouts is a huge political loser and we're going to make sure he learns that lesson.

    Liberal group targets Democrat on financial reform 2010

  • Ben Nelson's vote with Wall Street and for the continuation of taxpayer bailouts is a huge political loser and we're going to make sure he learns that lesson.

    Liberal group targets Democrat on financial reform 2010

  • To suggest that having this fund will mean tax payers will not have to pay for further bailouts is the deception.

    Dem defends $50B fund, challenges GOP to provide alternatives 2010

  • The bailouts is not how to step up ... changing the representation focus in this country is how to step up.

    CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent 2009

  • Then of course there is the unreported story that Obama has spent trillions in bailouts and, and [...]

    Obama's Cabinet claims $243 million in federal savings 2009

  • Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz contrasts the American response to its economic crisis with the measures it shoved down the throats of poor countries during their crises, and discusses why rich-world double-standards ( "Buy American/European" provisions in bailouts that only discriminate against poor countries) contribute to a global disillusionment in the values that the rich world nominally espouses: democracy, transparency, and so on.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Newsflash: the hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts were passed last year under Bush Jr.!

    GOP unveils new health care ad campaign 2009

  • The dismal record of government programs costly ten times more than they were estimated and requiring constant tax bailouts is there for all to see.

    What's next for health care? 2009

  • Woo Hoo 50 Billion for the American people. wall street, AIG banking, auto industry received four trillion in bailouts, the American people 50 Billion, my god every time Harry Reid sneezes we spend more money than that.

    Obama: Bailout for Main Street 2009

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