Don't forget bailing out banks that fueled bubbles. With the money that went into that we could had by now a the Sahara rainforest.
Sorry for calling you out but I'm just very tired of purely emotional responses to this topic because people actually just refuse to go thru the facts of how events transpired and their consequences.
EDIT: You can see this for yourself from ProPublica https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/