Like SS and Medicare?
I understand why Bernanke did what he did, they were running scared and the last thing they/he wanted to do was exacerbate the problem. The thing that really, really pisses me off is it got this far. This problem was preventable but congress was "bought off", regulations were relaxed, non existent or not enforced. There should never have been "too big to fail" institutions. They knew it then and they know it now yet nothing is being done to stop this from happening again... and it will.