And find a taxpayer who, in the long run, is going to be better off because of the continued government bailouts of poorly run and managed companies.
People practice one entry accounting. They pretend every raise they ever got was merited as a real increase, but the nasty financiers and gubmint went and mucked everything up and took half of it back through inflation and what-not. Nobody ever thinks the first part was about as much due to more money sloshing around as to anything they did themselves.