The following experts have slammed the bailout:

• The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President (Richard Fisher) said the proposed bailout would plunge the U.S. government deeper into a fiscal abyss

• The former Secretary of the Treasury (Paul O'Neill) questions the bailout

• The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (Peter R. Orszag) said the bailout could deepen the crisis

• Hundreds of leading economists, including numerous nobel prize winners, question the bailout

• Former White House economist (Steve Hanke) adamantly opposes the bailout

• Nobel prize economist and former chief economist of the World Bank (Joseph Stiglitz) opposes the bailout

• Many other leading economists question the bailout