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Keep telling yourself that....
The only thing the bailouts did was to take money from us and give it to the banks and Wall Street and all the people who acted improperly and drove us to this state in order to remove the consequences of their actions. Meanwhile, Main Street was left to suffer and left to weather the resulting collapse. The bailouts and such went to the rich. The "stimulus" like cash for clunkers and all that did nothing either. There was a marginal increase in the number of people looking to buy a new car over those who were going to do so anyway. Same with housing. The taxpayers spent a lot of money for very little gain.