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I refuse to give this post much effort because I want to pretend for a while longer that Congress did not just hold the world economy hostage so that it could pack more pork into a bill that is itself 100% pork for the world's corporate elite. So, with no further ado, the relevant graph from the New York Times is what you get:

Within an hour, the legislation had been conveyed to the White House and signed by President Bush. Standing in the Rose Garden shortly before signing the document, the president thanked Congressional leaders of both parties by name and said they had achieved something “essential to helping America’s economy weather the financial crisis.”