$48 Billion?... It's probably something like $100 **TRILLION**. Hell, some people have estimated over $150 Trillion... That's not even counting the amounts they've siphoned away by incessant printing either. *I think I should specify the numbers I was estimating were the amounts that taxpayers have had seized and used for things that aren't benefiting taxpayers. I was expanding on what you were saying, albeit in a pretty vague way.