Nope.
JUST we Americans lost FAR MORE THAN THAT as the value of our retirement packages and real estate went down.
That unrealized capital gains that we were all counting as our wealth far exceeds a louzy trillion bucks.
And the citizens in rest of the Western world lost as much, in some cases -- even more! -- than we did.
They are going about fixing this all wrong, folks.
They're protecting the richest people on earth from losses, but allowing the citizens who actually produce the world's wealth to swing in the wind.
And even worse than that, they are protecting the wealthiest people on earth and handing the workers in the world the BILL for making the bondholders and monied classes whole again.
Evil fucking system we have, run by very intelligent evil selfish people.
In that sense, I'm sympathetic with the Tea Party folks.
They're complete WRONG about who is responsible, and they're tools of the very motherfuckers who are screwing us all, but at least they understand that they're getting screwed.
Would that the loyalist Dems understood what's happening, right now.
Would that the loyalist Republicans understood what was happening to bring us to this state of affairs too.
Sadly both groups seem to want to blame their neighbors rather than the unseen MASTER CLASS who fucked things up so badly to begin with.
Sadly, people are ignorant and the they are ignorant because nearly everything they hear is either a half truth or an outright lie.