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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Analysis?
	Date:	10/9/2008 12:15:36 AM

I don't disagree about the time value of money and the point I was trying to make was that the blanket statement that we will lose all this money is simply not correct. We can quibble about cash flow discounting, discount rates, etc, and come up with a bunch of different scenarios. The point of the plan is to create liquidity and stabilize home prices. If you have a better suggestion as to how to do that I am all ears.

Again, the simplistic view is to let the loans fail and the holders of the consolidated risk fail. But fiscal conservatives that I trust are saying we need to act to hopefully stem even greater losses. If you have cancer you accept chemotherapy even though it is basically poison because in the long run you recover from that poison and hopefully put the cancer into remission.

What is missing from all these discussions is to fix the programs that caused the problem in the first place but that is being blocked at every turn by Democrats that want to buy votes.