"If..."? "hopefully..."? Why am I not reassured?

[girl gone mad]

Say it ain't so, Barack.

[babylonsister]

1. He can't predict the future. Would you prefer if he lied? nt

[11 Bravo]

2. Nostradamus and Madame Sophie understand this post.

The rest of us don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about.

[anigbrowl]

3. Because certitude is deceptive

Put your big girl pants on and accept that we are dealing with an unpredictable situation and using our best judgment about how to respond to it.

[Beregond2]

4. He's not a seer.

There are no guarantees.

[magellan]

5. Wouldn't the lending freeze be helped

...if the industry was forced to open their books? I'm sure I read somewhere that the main reason they aren't lending is because none of them knows who's got these "toxic assets" and how much. (I'm guessing that would include state/local governments; some FL counties were heavily invested in poisoned securities and there was a lot of withdrawing of funds when it became known. Between that and property tax cuts we're now running on fumes in some counties down here.)

If that's the case, I don't understand how throwing money at the problem will fix it. The toxicity is still poisoning the system.