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	The Great Bailout	Save America Plan
Winners	Foreign and U.S. investors in, and foreign and U.S. management and employees of, financial companies in and outside the U.S.	Americans
Losers	Americans	Foreign and U.S. investors in, and foreign and U.S. management and employees of, financial companies in and outside the U.S.
Borrows from American taxpayers	Yes, over $700 billion with high risk of not being paid back	Yes, much less than $700 billion with near zero risk of not being paid back
Deposit and investment account insurance	Weakens them by weakening FDIC, NCUA, and SIPC	Strengthens them by strengthening FDIC, NCUA, and SIPC
Money market fund insurance	Yes, temporary and limited funding	Yes, permanent and unlimited funding
Inflation	Raises inflation a lot, costing Americans more to live	Raises inflation a little
Management of surviving financial companies	As weak as they are today	Much stronger than they are today
Liquidity	Uses a new unproven method to inject cash into the financial system to reestablish the flow of credit	Uses existing proven methods to injects cash into the financial system to reestablish the flow of credit
Toxic, high risk loans/debt	Bought by the Treasury at over-market prices and held for a long time, gambling that buyers will eventually pay more than the inflated purchase price	Briefly held by FDIC, NCUA, and SIPC before being resold to willing buyers at market prices
Housing prices	Fall to sustainable levels slowly, delaying the recovery	Fall to sustainable levels quickly, speeding the recovery
Concentration of power	Treasury, which has strong ties to Wall Street	FDIC, NCUA, SIPC, and the Federal Reserve, who have a long history of serving Main Street
American education	Weak focus on safety of deposit accounts and money market funds	Strong focus on safety of deposit and investment accounts, safety of money market funds, and financial management of houses and investments