so apparently they're going to drop 700 billion

[barbtries]

in the lap of henry paulson, and go away until next January?
wtf?
http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_rm.aspx

mel martinez R fl speaking now.

[ProSense]

1. People need to stop

misrepresenting the bill

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Let us wait and see how much better we are all doing down the road...

NOT.

[ProSense]

3. Funny thing about crises,

and we are in one, even Kucinich agrees, they don't allow people to sit down and haggle about who's right or wrong. (On edit: that's why consensus is important.)

The only time the people on both sides are ever proved right is after the catastrophe.

[Oregone]

4. I like wooden arrows.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. and I notice the Dems are repeating the same talking points IN FAVOR of the bill.

Actually, I also shocked to hear my Repub. Senator talk against the bill.

A topsy-turvey world.

[stray cat]

6. I thought it was 250 and re-evaluate

[TexasObserver]

7. Imagine a housing subdivision in a drought, the yards parched.

A big truck with water comes in and waters the lawns of 5 homes in the subdivision with hundreds of parched lawns.

Does having a few green lawns among hundreds of dry ones end the drought? Does it bring up the other home values?

[barbtries]

8. i've been looking at it like this:

your house is falling apart. you spend x number of dollars to fix one broken window. the house goes down. you could have saved the money.

[TexasObserver]

12. or ... sand down a rat hole

[Adsos Letter]

9. With $700 billion...

we could have provided untold numbers of American students with access to high-end education in fields that would help us regain some degree of competitiveness in the world, in real terms...including educations that could produce minds capable of leading this nation in a better direction in so many ways.

[Imagevision]

10. The current problems will continue to get much worse for at least 1 more year, foreclosures

are said to reach 2 million more through 2009.

[Individualist]

11. 700 billion balloons the deficit,

ballooned deficit devalues the dollar; devalued dollar results in rampant inflation.

[lapfog_1]

13. deficits don't devalue the dollar

debt can.

$700B is about 7 percent of the total debt... this could hurt the dollar, but not by that much.