On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think this is best expressed in terms of the
> metaphor itself. Bailout is, of course, a metaphor that refers to
> trying to keep a boat afloat by emptying the water it is filling with.
> The metaphor emplies a certain localization of the problem. It is one
> boat with a leak that is presumably containable. But this metaphor
> does stretch to whole system. Then you're talking about bailing out
> the sea. There is no effective "out" to bail to.
>

Is that the right metaphor? I thought the phrase bail-out refers to posting
bail to get someone out of jail.
-raghu.

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