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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5406481" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>That's not the same as giving them money to keep them from collapsing.  And the bailouts weren't just banks or Wall Street.  Remember General Motors?  And here's the thing Ricky, if the government didn't bail them out then depositors money would have disappeared.  Jobs would've disappeared.  The economy would have been in ruins.  They probably could have handled it better.  The firms whose greed led to the bailouts certainly could have.  But in your zeal to attack all things American you're greatly exaggerating.  Truth still matters to some of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>