And if the government had stayed out of it and let them fail and reap what they had sewn, then it wouldn’t have cost the taxpayer a dime.
Wake up.
Who was in charge of the legeslative and executive branch when TARP, Fannie, Freddie, and AIG bailouts were 1st instituted?
Where is the sense of saying “oh governemnt is bad” AFTER you’ve already given the money to the crooks? If anything the only true capitalist thing to do is to look after your investments and to make sure that they’re working the way they should. Since we are now the defacto owners of AIG we should be allowed to dictate to them what their policies are, just like any other owner.