What are these securities that the Government is talking about buying on the American people's behalf?

Easy answer is they want us to pick up the tab for the crappy stuff so they can keep doing what they have always been doing...screwing John Q. Public. Now the credit markets are locked up. I say keep them that way for 6 months, the crappy stuff will fall through the floor as it should, then we can "reconsider their request" for OUR money. It may give us time to learn some "new truths" and WE get to decide.