i fully agree to the comments, the bank will use to fill the hole or to pay dividend to the shareholders. see what happened to ubs switzerland

Give the "BAIL OUT" a chance to work. It is not an over night fix. Things will get better. It always does. We, the taxpayers, need to get ALL corrupt political trash out of our government. It is us, the people of this great nation, that has the power to do so. We don't need all the PORK put into bills to get them passed. It is time for the american people to stand up and say we have taken enough of all the crap, and take control of the country.

The banks and other finacial institutions created their own problems by resorting to slick marketing ploys. They should be held accountable and be made to dig themselves out of the mess that they created. Afterall, these institutions are run by supposedly highly educated individuals. I have every faith that if they truly think back upon the theories taught in school, that they can figure out another way to go about doing business that has less potential to blow up in their faces in the manner that the last 20 to 30 years of poor business decisions coming home to roost has done. Neccesity is said to be the mother of invention. Let's ee what turns up. Has a bailout been reserved for me?

Why dont they just give every tax-paying citizen a check for 5000.00 to help pay bills?

It will work gradually after 7 years of abuse.....T Banker and Debtior both abuse the system of credit for the last sevem years of abuse..... it will work........Patient......no magic ..........it take time to take effect probably Mr Bush is gone allready when it took effect......Give a year .........No quick fixed the most is 3 three months and beyond.....No casualty start will go up the following with a broken legs and arms............Either Obama or Mccain will witness the magic formula is working........It will work........

It will work....that is for sure..........

Are you Hedge Fund or Short seller.....All you say is all negative...

You think the bailout will work, give it more time???? Are you crazy and ignorant? They have blatantly ripped the US tax payers off of close to 5 trillion when you add everything up. Not one penny for the tax payer, oh my bad they will give our money back to us at interest. This is socialism. We need to get off our butt and not vote in Obama or McCain. They are all crooks. Obama is blatantly calling for socialism and people are lining up to vote him in, amazing to me. Distribution of wealth is the very fundamentals of communisim. Why are we not arresting him for even the consideration? I am floored at the political ignorance in this country. We are doomed. We sit and let them steal our money and say gee it will work, they will pay us back. Has anyone noticed they still owe 10 trillion to other people they have to pay back? Do you think anytime in our lifetime we will see this? We will see a socialist police state before we see any tax money returned.

Surprise. Surprise! Throw cash at loser business models to solve symptoms of problems without root cause analysis. Who'd a thunk... ??? Nothing like government intervention to fix things. I say, take the hit for your mistakes. Let the failed banks fall. Install a new overlay banking system to pick up the pieces. Pain in this regard is unavoidable. Its just a question of do we want it in the form of short term accute or long term sommatic pain. Bretton Woods II, being advocated in Europe will bring the recapitalization of America. The cost of insurance for t-bill continues to rise. Its all about faith with fiat currencies, and the world is losing faith. Very difficult situation for a country that must use additional debt to service existing debt. If a company ran its business like this, it would be called a pyrimid scheme and would collapse with its executives prosecuted for their deception. Lets put our plan in place on how to move forward and take the hit now. America is bankrupt and no longer in a position to act as the super-power we once were. Thank you Mr. Bush (and company) and goodbye!

I cannot get over the optimism. I feel sorry for my family that we are stuck in a country that is so blindly ignorant. Everyone but Paulson and Bush and some Democrats say it cant work, it will fail. This WILL NOT WORK!!!!

What should happen is that a certain portin of the capital given by the govt should be REQUIRED to be used for lending and unfreezing the credit markets. Who the hell do these people think they are? They are getting money from the govt for a purpose not for their discretionary use. The problem is that they can't be trusted to do the right thing, so they have to be forced. If they wont do it in a reasonable time frame then they should be seized or the executives should be ousted and someone else who is on the bus should be put in. It is absurd that the Treasury and the citizens of the country should stake these guys so that they can sit on their asses and feel good about themselves instead of getting the economy moving again and doing business.

What should happen is that a certain portin of the capital given by the govt should be REQUIRED to be used for lending and unfreezing the credit markets. Who the hell do these people think they are? They are getting money from the govt for a purpose not for their discretionary use. The problem is that they can't be trusted to do the right thing, so they have to be forced. If they wont do it in a reasonable time frame then they should be seized or the executives should be ousted and someone else who is on the bus should be put in. It is absurd that the Treasury and the citizens of the country should stake these guys so that they can sit on their asses and feel good about themselves instead of getting the economy moving again and doing business.

If McCain wins - stocks will go down If Obama wins -- stocks will crash even more :-(

Paulson & companies are HEDGE FUND MANAGERS LOCATED OR BASED IN NEW YORK....IT HAS NO RELATION NO NO FAMILY RELATION TO SECRETARY PAULSON..... paulson comapanies made a $ 1 Billion Dillar in short selling and they have a bet against Barclays Bank, Llyods TSB Halifax Bank of Scotland...and most all Merillyn thei victim.....They spread bad publicity to make people panic and profit from company collapse.....

I agree with "Nevetsdp". The sooner we clean out the Congress of all the incumbents, the sooner the economy will recover and the brighter all our futures will be.

Stop this bailout crap! The banks are not going to lend with this new found cash! They are not borrowing to small businesses like mine. Another couple of weeks and I am going to have to close my doors, wheres my bail out going to come from, the fed, the banks, D. NONE OF THE ABOVE! If I am going to survive in my business, I am going to have to lay everyone off and hope I can wait it out, I have no other options!

FREEBIRD !!!!!

After 'listening to all the experts', I have come to the conclusion...THERE ARE NO EXPERTS.

Obama wants to guarantee more bank liabilities. Since when is it the government's job to guarantee bank liabilities? Isn't that what got us into this mess with Fannie and Freddie? Dodd, Barney, Bush, Obama, McCain, Bernanke, and especially Paulson should all be prosecuted under RICO. Go to www.votenader.org. Look at the documenntary about Nader "An Unreasonable Man". Watch Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist the addendum. Also pay attention to Ron Paul. Then you will understand our two party system is a hoax and gives no choice to the U.S. citizen. All these sheep that vote for Obama and McCain deserve whats coming to them- a fascist police state there to preserve the interests of corporations and lobbyists. It's truly disgusting. So all you sheep go back to Walmart, keep buying your cheap goods, go to Applebees and keep stuffing your faces full of garbage, keep watching American Idol and other such nonsense designed to diverte your attention away from the real issues. Its really disgusting.

Give me a break, this only happened a week ago and Henry Blodget, he of the stellar reputation, is already damning it. What the govt action did was stabilize the banking system, it's not going to head off a recession because that die is already cast. What it will do is prevent a complete economic meltdown and temper the length and depth of the recession. Clearly the banks are going to protect their ratios, this is what the cash injections were principally about, duh, but taken with the other actions it's going to prevent a complete freeze up of credit although credit is going to tighten substantially.