“The main purpose of the bailouts were to defend this country against a threat large enough to be classified as a national security event.”
No, the main purpose of the bailouts was to transfer huge sums of money to the political and financial elite
The only other thing accomplished by the bailouts is summed up very nicely by CA renter – ie, we have postponed the inevitable and made it far worse than it would have been otherwise
The real threat is that this country has been taken over by a small group of people who have no morals or compassion for their fellow man