What is it Really Going to Cost?

This is a huge plum for a limited number of well connected crooks who caused this mess. My Dad's house cost less than $30K. I sold it in 2003 for $339K and its value(?) climbed to almost $600K. What's its real value today - not what the Fed is willing to pay their buddies. There are thousands of good banks out there who didn't make adjustable "no doc" variable rate loans or any of the other scams the Fed wants to buy up. There is plenty of capital in this country. We are not even in a real recession (yet). If the old boys club can't handle the credit demand, get them out of the way and let some honest bankers step up!.

Why are the taxpayers (including the honest financial community) not burying Congress with objections. Without expressing an opinion on that issue, the taxpayers got the immigration bill killed by thesheer force of public will! I've contacted my Representative and both Senators - have you?

I want to own a piece of each company my tax money bails out. If im bailing them out, then i should have a fair stake in that companies stock or assets.

My question is: Why does Paulson still have a job?

DEMOCRATS ARE SUCH HYPOCRITES!! THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHO IS TO BLAME AND THEY HAVE TO HIDE BECAUSE THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY FOR YEARS. OBAMA WAS RIGHT IN THERE AS WELL BEING THE SECOND LARGEST RECIPIENT OF MONIES FROM FM/FM. IT WOULD BEHOOVE THOSE OF YOU WHO SUPPORT OBAMA TO ASK WHY AND DEMAND AN ANSWER. CHRIS DODD WAS THE LARGEST RECIPIENT AND THERE HE STANDS ON TV TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED. HE KNOWS , BUT LIKE ALL DEMOCRATS THEY CAN'T BE TRUTHFUL.

I would like to know how many CEO's and higher ups will lose their homes and jobs if nothing is done? How many of them will continue to collect their high paychecks and live in their lap of luxury while the paycheck to paycheck people are trying to make ends meet, to feed their kids, and to keep a roof over rheir heads? To me, it sounds as if the CEO's and the government will make out with handfulls of money while the little guy goes under loosing all! Let the CEO sell their million dollar homes, loose their high paying jobs and pay back the money that they scammed from the working people. I pay my dues, let them pay theirs. ENRON did, now it is Fannie Mae and Freddie Macs turn. McCain wants to be in on "doing" something about all of this, while Obama wants to talk, talk, talk, it's time that the talk stop and the action begins.

it's not a rescue. it's a bail out. And it's not going to cost a cent. All of us Americans should go to DC and demand it be for by big oil windfalls, Bush's Saudi buddies, Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater and all the private contractors who have made a killing off of this illegal war. There it's paid for.

In case you missed history class 101: the Clinton Administration and the Democrats are the ones who did the bank deregulation, not Bush and Republicans.All the liberal news media, which covers 99% of journalism in the United States, has tried to bury that horse with the fact that OBAMA has never really done a damned thing but talk a good talk. He and the Democrats are bought off by the special interest groups and big business, and if you don't know that YET, you will when congress has to again raise taxes and they start pulling it out of the average Joe and Jane's butt!
The Demarcates past a little tax relief bill to make themselves look good, and show just how in touch they are with the average guy on the street.
We have hundreds of social programs that need money. Where do you think that is going to come from? It will not be coming from big business and special interest groups, they have the Democrates shorts tied in a big knot! Who do you think has been funding Obama's campaign. NOBODY can be that ignorant to believe he has gotten this far with our nickle and dimes.
WE the People will pay for this bail out, while the executives are overseas in their mansions, laying the beach, drinking a cool drink and spending their billions.

How would you like to be able to see when your favorite sausage is made? If you are fearful of what it's ingredients might be, then you don't want to see it being made. If you feel that the ingredients are healthful and nourishing, then you would like to see it made.
The bailout is much like sausage with unknown ingredients. This is written in the article above and both Paulson and Bernanke admit that they do not know the full extent of the ingredients.

Not bailing out would result in all of the ingredients of the failure being visible and out in the open. She all crashes to a certain level, all of the violators go broke, congress legislates preventive measures so that it won't happen again, and then we start from scratch, broke but wiser.

Those who weathered through the great depression tell of hardship, but they also tell of the warmth of family and friends through all of the hardship and the lessons learned by all of the failure of markets, and the pride that was taken in the hard work of rebuilding a secure system is evident in all of the stories. We seem weak and fearful now of the unknown. But, I wonder if maybe instead of trusting a goodly part of our nation's wealth to people who will work behind the scenes to "rescue" us, we might opt for the known instead of the unknown and just go ahead and face reality today instead of eating a sausage made of unknown and questionable ingredients.
Just a thought. Could be just as wrong as right.

What did we lose? The peoples pride!! For some reason I feel like I was just blamed for the market, and having supported a family of 4, on no more than 20,00 per year,but it's MY fault. The Economic policy is all my fault,, we the peoples,, not the Gov, but we the people are all at fault,,,that's what i herd Bush TELL me last night!!