go up, whenudgets it is higher than the cost of social security, will it be expedient? brian: if you are a saver, do you worry that the government may not have -- that the banks will not have enough money. a to hundred $50,000 from f -- $250,000 limit the fdic. james: the united since government pulled out every stop in 2008 to make sure that there were enough dollars. writing about general electric. generalto the crisis, electric was a aaa rated company. they had the greatest balance sheet of any industrial company. turns out that it didn't. it was funding itself with an imprudently-large volume of laonoans called sharp paper. no one was willing to roll those loans over for ge during the height of the crisis. brian: do they call the loan? james: they called the government. the fdic was one of the federal agencies that leapt to the rescue of the then-aaa rated ge. that is how extreme and extraordinary an intervention. people say, it won't happen next time. oh yeah, it will happen next time. i don't think the government will run out of dollars to pay. the fed will furnis