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"... the excesses on Wall Styreet led to this crisis and then people couldn't make payroll and laid-off people and that led to this crisis even though consumer spending helped for a while but this is unsustainable and foreugners will no longer lend is money and so the immediate job is to stop the downward spiral and this means putting money in peoples' pockets and that, by the way, is important even if you are fiscal conservative and even if there are no tax revenues because people have lost their jobs this will put an enormouis strain on the federal and state governments and so we have to stop the economy from tanking and this notion that I came in here to to gin-up a $800B bill means that as soon as popssible the mid-term and long-term budget is addresses while people who are worried about their mortgage payments become less fearful and then we can decide how to work more prudently and so if you want to buy a house that you can't afford we have to reform our bad habits..."

Q: Won't it really cost over a trillion dollars to fix the economy, not an additional $ 350B"

Barry: "We didn't get the bang for the buck from the first TARP money we expected and Tim Geithner is coming-ip with ideas to use this money more transparently to work with the banks in a more effective way to clean-up their balance sheets to make sure we know what is on the bank's books to restore trust and get a better idea about the mortgage loan situation in a way to restore market confidence to get a better idea of how to restore market confidence which can make a big difference to restoring more market capital..."

the excesses on Wall Styreet led to this crisis and then people couldn't make payroll and laid-off people and that led to this crisis even though consumer spending helped for a while but this is unsustainable and foreugners will no longer lend is money and so the immediate job is to stop the downward spiral blah, blah, blah, blah......

Gee, we didn't have all these troubles until the dems took over Congress in '06. Apparently many have forgotten when all the trouble started! Their change is the kind I can do without!

... the excesses on Wall Styreet led to this crisis and then people couldn’t make payroll and laid-off people and that led to this crisis even though consumer spending helped for a while but this is unsustainable and foreugners will no longer lend is money and so the immediate job is to stop the downward spiral and this means putting money in peoples’ pockets and that, by the way, is important even if you are fiscal conservative and even if there are no tax revenues because people have lost their jobs this will put an enormouis strain on the federal and state governments and so we have to stop the economy from tanking and this notion that I came in here to to gin-up a $800B bill means that as soon as popssible the mid-term and long-term budget is addresses while people who are worried about their mortgage payments become less fearful and then we can decide how to work more prudently and so if you want to buy a house that you can’t afford we have to reform our bad habits...”

Dyslexic? Deranged? Doesn’t know what a sentence is? High on blow? total moron?