The Tea Party was one of the most outspoken groups against the bank bailouts. Had the rest of the nation forced the bailout money to go to the people instead, so they could get out of debt. which would have allowed people to have more disposable income, to support a consumer driven economy and would have helped considerably and the economy recover quicker.... Instead we see the results of helping the bankers, at the expense of the people.... The banker class able to borrow money from the Fed window near zero %, and now the banker class sitting on piles of cash, is now pushing the Federal Reserve, to raise interest rates, so the banker class, can take the cash they are sitting on and they can make more money when they do loan it out  .....    Forcing the government to live within it's means, allows the private sector/individuals, the leverage it needs, to tell the banker class to "go to hell", just as they told us to do; we can say "you are asking to much, for the use of their money" "go ahead, continue to sit on the cash you accumulated at the expense of the working class, sit on it and see if you can make money, see what happens when you kill the goose, that laid your golden eggs" "You will no longer be able to get the government to borrow so you'll have to deal with the people if you hope to make money by lending."  ....  Not only does the insatiable, money hungry, Congress try to tax the crap out of the individual taxpayers; all the while giving Corporations tax breaks, along with giving their cohorts the banker class, free money and Wall Street crowd loving inflation, because it drives up the profits, if goods cost more, but wages stagnate. ....But not satisfied with this money making arrangement, these greedy folks and the best government money can buy, allows the government to sells bonds, allowing it to run deficits, which in turn benefits the very groups spoken of earlier, at the expense of the working class... They get the Gold and we get the shaft..... The American people had a choice at a pivotal moment in history, letting the banks fail in order to rein in the abuses of the banker class, but the public failed to act; now live with sequestration...... Who did you think was going to bear the burden, of the bailout?  .... Had Americans been debt free;  we wouldn't be beholden to the government or the banker class they support; for handouts;  The government of this class wanted the working class dependent on them....  Like a drug pusher loves their addicts,  the government and banker class loves the addiction of spending and borrowing.... . They figure the more you can hook them on spending and borrowing, the more money to be made.  That's not freedom; it's being enslaved to your habit. which they will gladly keep you.