Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them
with turds.

Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poor rated
these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all over the world to investors.

Eventually somebody bites into a turd and discovers the crime. Suddenly nobody trusts American chocolates anymore worldwide.

Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and hold all these boxes of turd-infested chocolates for $700 billion dollars
until the market for turds returns to normal.

Meanwhile, Hank's buddies, the Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates are not being investigated, arrested, or indicted.

Mama always said: 'Sniff the chocolates first, Forrest'.

Or you could have used" Stupid is as stupid does"

The sub prime crisis is like a box of chocolates.

Lots of sub prime loan homes are inhabited by chocolates.

So we got a chocolate President who will fix all the problems from too much borrowing and spending with more borrowing and spending.