[pmalynin]

Have you actually looked into "bailing out banks" (which is called Troubled Asset Relief Program), because if you have you would have learned that the US Government actually made ~$15 billion in profit after selling off the toxic assets 6 years later. Not to mention the money the government made thru preferred stock repurchase by corporations and other things (interest etc) the US Treasury booked a total profit of ~$121 billion.

Sorry for calling you out but I'm just very tired of purely emotional responses to this topic because people actually just refuse to go thru the facts of how events transpired and their consequences.

EDIT: You can see this for yourself from ProPublica https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

[youngtaff]

Yes, the US government did make a profit on those assets but what did the bailing out the banks cost everyone else?