From Llewellyn Rockwell in this piece: "If the money is used to prop up failing companies, that's particularly bad since it is an attempt to override market realities, an attempt that is about as successful as trying to repeal gravity by throwing things up in the air."
然而,對該計劃200億美元的援助承諾嚴重束縛了財政部金融救助計劃的手腳,除非財政部向國會申請動用總額7,000億美元救助計劃中第二批總值3,500億美元的撥款。加上周二承諾的200億美元,財政部目前已經動用了首批3,500億美元撥款中的3,300億美元,其中包括向銀行業注資2,500億美元,向美國國際集團(American International Group Inc., AIG)提供的400億美元援助以及對花旗集團(Citigroup Inc., C)的200億美元注資。