This is a MUST READ! Steve Santelli at CNBC analyzed the potential costs to taxpayers of the housing bill. His conclusion:

"The numbers are staggering and likely to get much larger. What we have here is, through a variety of programs, a stealth bailout where more than a trillion dollars of taxpayer guarantees have been extended to the housing market, both to keep it going and to clean up the mess from the past. "

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25851253