posted on Nov, 24 2008 @ 12:37 PM
It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages. (think of it homeowners, half of our mortgages or 50% off everyone's. I could live with
that, think of that economic stimulus... how much more money would you have to spend? The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for
every man, woman and child in the country. (See article link and highlights below)
The bailout includes a Fed program to buy as much as $2.4 trillion in short-term notes, called commercial paper, that companies use to pay bills,
begun Oct. 27, and $1.4 trillion from the FDIC to guarantee bank-to-bank loans, started Oct. 14.
bloomberg.com...
“Whether it’s lending or spending, it’s tax dollars that are going out the window and we end up holding collateral we don’t know anything
about,” said Congressman Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican who serves on the House Financial Services Committee. “The time has come that we
consider what sort of limitations we should be placing on the Fed so that authority returns to elected officials as opposed to appointed ones.”
‘They Got Snookered’
The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It’s nine times what the U.S. has spent so
far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office figures. It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages.
“There is a lack of transparency here and, given that the Fed is taking on a huge amount of credit risk now, it would seem to me as a taxpayer there
should be more transparency,” Kasriel said.
Bernanke’s Fed is responsible for $4.74 trillion of pledges, or 61 percent of the total commitment of $7.76 trillion, based on data compiled by
Bloomberg concerning U.S. bailout steps started a year ago.