All this "financial bailout" crap really gets on my nerves. What about simply suceeding or failing by your own merits and actions? If you build a good enough mouse trap and price it reasonably enough you'll do fine as this is the basis of capitalism.

But, building mousetraps that don't work, or at least not work as expected/marketed by companies that are executively overburdened by overpaid and over compensated policies regarding their managers is a recipe designed for failure. Why should the taxpayers be further burdened by an expectation to keep such poorly engineered and managed enterprises afloat?

The really sad deal is that this bail out crap has seemed to snow ball and now more and more industries are stickin their corporate hands out goin "What about us?".

For this hardline capitalist the whole issue smacks waaay too much of socialism to me