[Dan40]

OK, the Utopian fantasy of "selling" houses to people that couldn't and wouldn't pay for them was a Democrat idea. BUT the Republicans [with plenty of Democrat help] were the ones who made it work. So there is enough blame for all. They all got together and made "securities" out of scrap paper.

I agree with the post above that we are all going to suffer until the economy sorts itself our with actual values instead of imagined values. If we must suffer, and we must, I'd just as soon do it without devaluing our money ANOTHER $700B.
In the defeated House bill, one wonders why the "needed" $700B required raising the debt ceiling by another $2 TRILLION?

Our elected "officials" have the exact same grasp on REALITY as Reality TV shows do. Zero.

Dan