How would you ask for $700 billion?
"The Takeaway's" John Hockenberry went on the streets to ask ordinary Americans how they would ask for that much money.
"So the question I have about this bailout that is being discussed in Congress right now — this $700 billion bailout — is 'Does it take a special kind of person to ask for $700 billion, like Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson is doing? Can anyone do it? What if any American just asked for $700 billion? What would that sound like?'"
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