Bloomberg has reported the government has pledged nearly 13 trillion dollars in an effort to unfreeze the credit markets but where is the money?

Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion

March 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.

New pledges from the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. include $1 trillion for the Public-Private Investment Program, designed …

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Well, the whole idea was unfreeze the credit market but there were no mandates to lend, so they didn't. This has put a big strain on small businesses and many may go under, taking jobs with them.

One of the more disturbing aricles referenced here was how the government is trying to redirect contrats from small businesses to conglomerates.

Small businesses are going the way of the mom & pop corner store, yeilding to the muntinational corporations, with our government speeding the process along.

To small to survive it seems.

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. link

It just doesn't work that way. This is the kind of thinking that leads to a one world work camp.

Like you said, not rocket science. we are in a mess!