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A side-by-side comparison is available here from Roy Blount's office and I'll just summarize the key missing points below (as I see them)

Why does this bill not drop the capital gains tax altogether (2 years is a start, but I'd like to be rid of it completely)
Why does this bill not dictate that this money be used ONLY for the purchase of mortgages, not "mortgage related securities"
Why does this bill not dictate that this money be used ONLY for the purchase of mortgages FROM US Institutions (no foreign investment banks)
And why has John McCain not grown the gonads to stand up and publicly describe in detail how we got here and how our "affordable housing" initiatives actually caused this and name names. I want to see Barney Franks, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barry Obama named specifically and the real information on how this happened made public.

Why is this money not restricted to buying actual mortgages?

Why is this money not restricted to assisting American companies?

Ask your representative and push them to answer!

Why does this bill not dictate that this money be used ONLY for the purchase of mortgages FROM US Institutions (no foreign investment banks)

Wellershoff of UBS criticises US authorities

The chief economist of Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, says that United States authorities should not have allowed the Lehman Brothers banking group to collapse.

Klaus Wellershoff commented in Saturday's Bund newspaper of Bern that he believed the decision not to give financial aid to the ailing group was a "clear mistake".

He also said that the planned $700 billion dollar (SFr763.4 billion) rescue package in the US was necessary to bring back confidence to the financial system.

"It is very important that the US government, whatever it does now, strengthens the financial system... Whether this programme will be enough is anyone's guess."

"We have seen the fall this week of the largest American savings bank, Washington Mutual. That shows there are still too many uncertainties around."

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Wellershoff_of_UBS_criticises_US_authorities.html?siteSect=104&sid=9779611&cKey=1222511479000&ty=nd

I was showing a bunch of these movies like the “Burning down the house” one to someone last night who is one of those almost mindless die hard liberals”. After he saw them he actually believed that this was democrats fault. He said to me. “Why isn’t John McCain using this in his campaign”. I said “I don’t understand that either”.

BTW he hates Obama and is planning on voting for John McCain. He said he has not voted for a republican since Nixon.