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-You come to a bridge, your driving over the bridge, the bridge is about to fall in and somebody comes
up and repairs the bridge, and
you cross the bridge. You don't even know they repaired the bridge, so you just keep going you think maybe well
everything was okay and it wasn't.
If that bridge had collapsed it would have taken this entire economy down. It would have taken
the country down financially.
-But you know so many people in your party,
on the far right.
I don't mean the conservative mainstream. I mean the far-right are knocking off people
like Bob bennett out in Utah, going after people across the board in your party
saying T.A.R.P. was evil.
-Well they're wrong, on the left you getting it also and
people saying T.A.R.P. is evil and that the Fed. is evil.
The simple fact is that T.A.R.P. did what it was supposed to do.
It basically saved
the financial system on main street
on main street
and not only did it save it but it did in a way that the American taxpayer have
actually made money off the money that we put into the system to try to stabilize it.
We've made about seventeen billion dollars off of T.A.R.P.
We've gotten almost all the money back that we put into the financial system. We haven't
gotten it back from the auto industry,
we haven't got it back from AIG.
And we've gotten almost all the money back and put in the banking system, and we expect to
get it all back
and the American people who make money and at the same time we stabilize system and are
actually people safer and sounder financial system.