Paperwork Fun Fact

The federal government is giving a $700 billion bailout to big banks - the application is 2 pages long (with 4 pages of guidelines):
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/reports/applicationguidelines.pdf

The feds are giving 1/467th that amount ($1.5 billion) to homeless programs nationwide - the application is a very lengthy online process with 313 pages of instructions:
http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf12/supernofa/nofa08/snofa.pdf

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