The bailouts, and there have been many over the years, are unconstitutional and a foolhardy practice. There is no company too big to fail. By bailing out failing companies, the government rewards unethical and unwise behavior which inevitably punishes those companies that followed sound practices. And, as we have seen first hand with the recent bailouts, they are effectively an enormous transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to the Washington power broker or Wall Street fat cat. This is unconscionable. To add insult to injury, this very action slows economic recovery. Had DC not bailed out those businesses the situation would have self corrected. The bankrupt business would have liquidated their assets. Solvent companies would have bought those assets and hired more employees to handle their increased market share and production. People would still be employed, the government would have no basis upon which to take over private sector activities, and the citizens wouldn't be in debt to foreign governments for having bailed out poorly managed companies. For free markets to work, they must include failure as a necessary self correcting mechanism. When we prevent the free market from self-correcting, the resulting disaster is not due to a failure of the "free market system," it is a result of unnatural interference in that system.