i totally agree with your perspective,...
all this bailout plan is is a manipulated scenario to scare the public (American citizens and the House and Senate) into going along with one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history into the banking/financial sector of our tax dollars. othing short of a Financial Tsumani that was used to create a Financial Terrorism that opened the door for Financial Patriot Act
it might be too late to halt a global recession because of derivatives but the market is a self correcting instrument if left alone,...
the Treasury and Fed need to back off,..
hopefully the House and Congress really holds Paulson nose to the grindstone to demand the banks to mark to market their bad paper and then demand they use their clean funds to buy that bad paper at a realistic price once adjusted. these banks were paret of this and we the people are not responsible to clean up their debts.