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Comment by Oliver Gilbert on Thursday, Oct 2 at 11:52 PM

Did anybody not hear Buffett when he said that we need to stop arguing and bring the patient back to life? Don't think of the patient as the world class athlete, think of him as your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, your cousin, any member of your family who is the bread winner. If he/she doesn't get up you won't have an income. Buffett said unemployment will go up ... possibly way up. Does anybody understand what it means when credit markets freeze? It means that companies can't make payroll. I'll say it again THEY CAN'T MAKE PAYROLL. That means THEY CAN'T PAY YOU. Unless everyone posting to this site works for the federal government you had better stop worrying about who got us into this mess, who is to blame, who are scoundrels and start worrying about your job. This is serious. Without the credit markets functioning money cannot be raised for new factories, money cannot be raised for new companies with promising technologies, loans will not be advanced to qualified borrowers to buy now discounted homes and cars. This needs fixing NOW. So what if the solution is imperfect, so what if it costs $700 billion, so what if it costs $1 trillion or $2 trillion? What are the assets of the US? $100 trillon, $200 trillion? Add up all the real estate, all the public companies, all the private companies, all the cars, all the assets the US government owns. $10 trillion, $11 trillion, $12 trillion worth of debt is nothing compared to the assets. The world is still going to buy bonds issued by the US Treasury. The "full faith and credit of the United States of America" is still the best issuer on the planet. Would you rather have Russian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Venezuelan, .... you name it, any other bond than a US Treasury. Like Buffett said, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the US economic system, the system is just gummed up and if we leave it that way WE ALL STAND TO LOSE ... starting with our jobs. So stop arguing about who got us into this mess and get to a solution. After your Congressman or woman votes for the bill then make sure the next 10 bills in Congress deal with getting the scoundrels, regulating Fannie & Freddie, putting curbs on executive compensation, preventing overly complex securities from being issued, whatever your pet peeve is. The economy is suffering a crisis of confidence. If you want to know what the end result of a crisis of confidence can be then do a Google search on soup kitchen lineups in the Dirty 30s.