The biggest cause for Americans going in the toilet is economics. The middle class are going broke. The poor are getting by on welfare. The rich just going up and up. Trump understands the problem and he is the only one with the cure and fast. He is a man of action with less talk as a President.
At that point, an AIG collapse would have brought down the whole system with some severe world wide implications. Lehman bros importance quickly diminished as everybody realized that AIG was the last anchor.
The hard part to swallow (aside from getting into that predicament) was most of the money was used abroad.
Why should Americans be born into economic slavery?
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One:
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
/Freneau
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities. - V.I. Lenin