It’s good that the money got paid back. It doesn’t change what happened. The big banks got bigger and the federal debt and budgeting restraint got worse. Now, we’re possibly on our way to another credit bubble. The middle class has been decimated. Paying back the TARP money doesn’t seem to have stopped the damage that “too big too fail” contributed to.
--but that's what we're saying. TARP had nothing to do w/ federal debt and the middle class, it was just for fighting deflation and it worked. If we want to do something now about budget debt and the middle class we need to repeal Obamacare. The fed had nothing to do w/ Obamacare.