these threads are all the same now, a bunch of angry bitter people whining because Obama had the audacity to do something other than what they think he should do

i think this will benefit a lot of people. mainly the citizens of the US that have the mortgages.

It doesn't do anything for those people. They still pay there mortgage just the same. If they don't, the get foreclosed on, just the same.

The only thing that will change for them, is who they write the payment too.

Who this helps, is the banks. Who it hurts, is everyone else.

lol, you mean to do the same thing Bush did, but worse?

Spend money we don't have on things we can't afford. Yay for change.

random user: I like what Obama is doing
Mafoo/Kasz: No, Obama is wrong, because _______________________

But the government will probably be able to adjust the mortgages to affordable and balanced rates making it so that people wont have to foreclose at all.

The government is not running the mortgages. The private investment firm is. They might have reason to do what you say, but I suspect will only do so if it servers there interest.

Here is a good read on a economists vision (same as mine actually).

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/23/will-the-geithner-plan-work/

When he's wrong, he's wrong. When he's right, he's right.

He has yet to be right on anything economically related however. He has been right on other things though (like stem cell research).

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by the way, there is another government program to do what your suggesting, It's website is here:

http://makinghomeaffordable.gov/

The thing revealed today however, won't do that.