Hmm... It seems a big fuss over the semantics of a single word, then, especially as you seem to be using it in a non-standard way. No one says, for example, "I

Hmm... It seems a big fuss over the semantics of a single word, then, especially as you seem to be using it in a non-standard way. No one says, for example, "I bought a car yesterday, but I won't know how much it cost until I eventually sell it." The bailout has an up-front cost -- an opportunity cost if nothing else. That's $4.6 trillion that suddenly cannot be used for something else, right now, regardless of the value of the assets we are purchasing.