♫ut you know what? The bailout, by the numbers, clearly did work.
It has become politically toxic, which inhibits reasoned public discussion about it. You hear over and over that the bailout was a disaster, it cost taxpayers a fortune, we didn't really need it, it didn't work, it was a failure.
The bailout of the financial system is roughly as popular as Wall Street bonuses, the federal budget deficit or LeBron James in a Cleveland sports bar.
