>>Just like some thing that just because a company has offices in Wall Street, it's automatically part of the bailout $$$s
Even if they didn't receive a taxpayer penny, the survival of the established order benefited every one of them. Sad but true, and only acceptable because sweeping it all away would have hurt everybody else even more.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
