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The Manhattan project, the largest most expensive thing ever taken on at the time, cost $22 billion in today's dollars.
Kinda puts the $812 BILLION stimulus spending in perspective, doesn't it? 37 Manhattan projects.

Oh, BTW the Manhattan project created over 130,000 jobs. Real ones.
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