Conn, everyone will be able to plant a garden anywhere in the event of a collapse. That aside, the problem with this bailout is it ISN'T the bottom and your, mine, our children's future indebtedness to the government because of the bailout guarantees nothing! There is a false bottom in housing, even though prices have adjusted, we will be financed by China and other nations scraping off the little cream there will be left and so on. Read lots of articles, listen because there is a lot of spin by people with money to be made. I think the President does want to help save our economy but this nation has never been quite in this situation before and the solution isn't simple. I think a plan will be passed Thursday but are we we putting our last bandaid and all the bacterial cream we own on an amputation. It won't be enough.