Well it seems like our banks were too big to fail and went broke because of all the sub-prime loans they made. So our government wrote some big fat checks to the banks to bail them out. That's probably were a lot of it went to. you know, our government could have written the checks to the sub-prime home owners who could have then paid off their mortgages. the homeowners would still have their homes and the banks would have their money. But our efficient government decided to eliminate the middle man, pay the money directly to the banks and leave the homeowners on the street.
