to unjustly enrich the people who screwed up this thing so badly.

i mean, why should we have to bail out organizations that intentionally kept these sketchy securities off the books and off shore to evade even a modicum of public scrutiny, just to come hat in hand to the american people?

This reminds me of that scene in "The Jerk" where an oil millionaire shows up to beg for new leather seats for his lear jet, and Steve Martin is so touched by his story that he writes him a check blotched by his own tears.

Let's save our money for publicly supported banking organizations to take over after all of these pillars of Ponzitude collapse into ruin.