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To: Tommaso who wrote (92600)	3/21/2008 2:27:19 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 110194

I'd like to see a study done on the ratio of campaign contributions to taxpayer funds. I'm guessing it's about a 10,000-to-1 ratio. One arena is 'earmarks' which would be perhaps just 1000-to-1, but in the financial chicanery word, it's probably much closer to 100,000-to-1. Investment banks would want to know how much taxpayer insurance they need to buy. To insure a trillion dollars, JPM e.g. would need to 'donate' 10 million dollars to the proper authorities. Sounds about right to me...