What makes you think with how many billions of dollars large banks have "invested" in campaign contributions, and with how many former financial executives are in powerful positions within the government, that the government would ever put the interests of their citizens ahead of the interests of the banks?
Rather than letting banks fail and for the toxic assets to be discounted to a level where they return to being decent (although high risk) investments, the government will funnel hundreds of billions of dollars indirectly into the underlying asset and therefore increase the value of the toxic assets and "Repair" the banks balance sheets ... Unfortunately, this will come at the expense of the average American's balance sheet as they will be forced to pay higher taxes and will likely face inflation at a rate faster than their income grows.
