Right you are. Nothing more than crony capitalism at its finest. The deal is: the government keeps shoveling them our money, with the proviso that, if there’s a populist eruption to be exploited for political purposes, the fat cats will agree to act as whipping boys for a temporary period. This allows the administration and congress to pretend to be concerned about the ordinary citizen, while all the time allowing them to run down free-market capitalism (which of course this is NOT) as evil — which furthers their ultimate endgame, which is the destruction of American capitalism and its replacement with a command economy, run by the pols and the fat cats.