[mlocher]

I sure am glad that we spent $850 Billion to solve this problem.

[rawhide]

Just think how much farther we would have been today if they had not passed the bailout bill? Yep, that bill saved us! /s

[Mr Rogers]

If you can’t trust Barney Frank, who can you trust?

[r9etb]

I sure am glad that we spent $850 Billion to solve this problem.

FWIW, that's just the allocation; nobody's spent anything yet... I doubt there will be any large-scale gov't buying unless and until the markets and banks stabilize at some level.