answer:We’d be bailing out the people and companies who had so much money invested and then lost everything. And it’s not like we’re just giving them money. We get ownership of parts of their companies and hold it until it’s worth something, then sell it back. Or at least that’s how I understand it. I could be mistaken.. And I think (I could be totally wrong here, correct me if I am) that they need to be bailed out because, well, they need the money. Banks don’t make the money themselves. It comes from the Federal government and is printed at the BEP. Banks are companies too and they can’t just say “Oh, let’s just forget about this $X billions of dollars.”