Remember, the people who struck this deal are largely the same folks upon whom the salvation of 500 million jobs per month is depending:
A government watchdog group says the federal government overpaid for stocks and other assets from financial institutions under its $700 billion rescue program. The chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds told the Senate Banking committee Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion.
Well, at least we know where that 18.4 billion in bank bonuses came from.