by Laura Conaway

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And a chicken in every pot.

A couple of reactions from the wide world to Sen. John McCain's mortgage rescue plan. At Tuesday night's debate, the GOP presidential nominee unveiled a proposal to have the Treasury buy up bad mortgages from individual consumers in an effort to help them stay in their homes. The government would renegotiate people's payments based on the true (lower) value of the property.

Stop right there, says the Sundries Shack. "The value of housing fluctuates with the demand for housing," the site says. "The government is hideously bad in picking the value of anything."

CNN Money takes a newsier approach, but the headline's not friendly: "McCain mortgage plan shifts costs to taxpayers."