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How To Get The Lender To Pay For Your Borrowing

It seems to me that there's something a bit screwy about the government's credit crunch bank rescue plan. If it's true that they plan to fund it by issuing government bonds, then since the likes of you and me are the ones who are expected to buy the bonds, that means we will effectively be lending to the banks. Forgive me if I'm being naive, but isn't it supposed to be the other way round? What's more, whatever the banks repay will be recouped from us, their customers, in interest and bank charges. What they don't repay, the government will recoup in tax. Either way, we ourselves will be the ones paying back what was borrowed from us. Surely it's the borrower, not the lender, who is supposed to repay the loan?