Big TARP

The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) is 700 billion dollars that our government is using to cover up our economic ills.
It got me wondering; how much could we cover up with $700 billion worth of tarps?

A decent 6.5 ounce heavy duty tarp runs about 12 cents per square foot.
$700 billion will buy 5333 billion square feet of such tarps. (Maybe more. You might qualify for a quantity discount.)

Even without a discount, that is 351,997,245 acres of tarps; one acre for every person in the nation.

With an average of 4 people per household, every household in the nation could give up their troubled mortgage and use their tarp to build a really cool tent about the size of a city block.

Sounds good to me.