主题：【原创】美元末日理论：两房终于被美国政府接管 -- 子玉

John McCain and Barack Obama agree the Treasury needed to step in to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They disagree over how much the U.S. government should be involved in the housing market once the immediate crisis is past.

McCain is clear on what he wants to do. He backs a solution put forward by former Federal Reserve Chairman and fellow Republican Alan Greenspan that would break the companies up and sell the pieces off.

McCain would ``get them completely off the taxpayers' back,'' Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's chief economic adviser, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television yesterday.

Obama has been more circumspect on what should be done once the crisis is over, while making clear that a return to the status quo that existed before the rescue is unacceptable.

``We must ensure that any plan clarifies the true public and private status of our housing policies,'' the Democrat said over the weekend. ``We have to make clear that in our market system investors can't be allowed to believe that, unlike working families, they can simply invest in a `heads they win, tails they don't lose' situation.''

In any case, whoever wins the presidential race will have to get a plan through a Democratic-controlled Congress that has strongly supported Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.