Another interesting point. Home mortgages. Does anyone actually believe that this $850,000,000,000.00 (that's billion with a B) is going to keep a family from loosing a home that they couldn't afford to pay for in the first place? These folks by and large bought more home than they could afford, and when gas prices went up, it pushed them over a ledge they were already standing on.
Bush asked for $700,000,000,000.00, and the Senate, INCLUDING McCAIN, added another $150,000,000,000.00 of PORK, to make it more appealing to the Congressmen whom were holding out. All McCain proved to me was, that he didn't mean what he said, when he said he was against PORK. Mr. McCain and company knows how to buy votes, and he and they proved it.