The great bailout heist: What will $1 trillion buy?

As if $700 billion weren’t an incomprehensible enough sum on its own, that widely repeated figure only represents Henry Paulson’s personal stash of get out of debt free cards. The total tab on the array of taxpayer-financed Wall Street bailouts presently contemplated is likely to be closer to $1.8 trillion by the reckoning of CNBC, whose highly recommended estimate includes a rundown of the additional bailout billions.

The following list of things you can buy with a trillion dollars is cadged from the invaluable Undernews. For starters, a trillion dollars is enough money to:

Buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo (pictured above; base couple starts at $186,900).

The list continues…