The way to view the Paulson Plan is as a piece of a global plan to centralize the financial system:
Global Revamp Urged For the Regulation of Markets
Wall Street Journal (07 Apr 2008)
It will now be more obvious to astute observers that the Housing Bubble was deliberately engineered. “Heads, I win; tails, you lose.” Make money on the way up. Make money on the way down. And on the way down tighten controls which will make more money.