UAW members at GM 1970's: 450,000
UAW members at GM today: 45,000
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21133

Top 400 taxpayers in 1955 paid three times more of their income in taxes compared to now:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21130

Some banks backing out of bailout money:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11bank.html

Coast Savings to miss capital requirements (1990):
www.thefreelibrary.com/Coast+Savings+to+miss+capital+requirements.-a09853543

The Pentagon's $1 trillion prob:
www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Pentagons-Accounting-Mess

186 institutions have publicly turned down bailout money*:
www.startribune.com/business/42288087.html

*Also: "Treasury's standard agreement included a section allowing Congress to impose conditions retroactively." So was this not applied to bailout money to AIG, for example, as such would've allowed gov't to retake the money because of the exec bonus payments?