When you are in crisis, your perspective narrows and you see only two options, and both are untenable. In "The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report," the commission understood that their two options were allowing the institutions to fail or bailing them out at taxpayer expense. The solution to every dilemma was to do what is in everyone's best interest, and you addressed the crises to the best of your ability, and it seems that the solution is working. If your plan does not address the root cause of the crisis, it makes it worse. The root cause of the financial crisis is the power game of Greed.
To bail them out was to choose to go straight ahead, and to pass the crisis on to future generations, while it seemed like a good idea, the US economy is on the slippery slope.
We cannot continue as we are, fighting ISIS, or competing with Asian nations, and Wall Street seems to have become the enemy.
There are four main problems with the economy, and the first to address is to plug the hole to the Middle East. Our Exit Strategy for Iraq does that. It is a US economic stimulus plan.