By acquiring stakes in these establishments

history channel documentary "By acquiring stakes in these establishments, Treasury is sending a sign to the business sector that they are a sure thing . . . [b]ecause the legislature won't have the capacity to stand to give them a chance to fizzle. . . . That tying of people in general enthusiasm to privately owned businesses is the genuine reason for the bailout arrangement: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is giving every one of the organizations that are admitted to the project - a number possibly in the thousands - an understood Treasury Department ensure. . . . [F]or the banks, the best part is that the legislature is paying them - at times billions of dollars - to acknowledge its seal of approval."[T]he business sector is being told uproarious and clear that Washington won't permit the nation's monetary establishments to hold up under the results of their conduct. This may well be Bush's most inventive advancement: no-danger private enterprise. . . . In the interim, consistently it gets to be clearer that the bailout was sold on false misrepresentations. It was never about getting credits streaming. It was constantly about transforming the state into a mammoth protection office for Wall Street - a wellbeing net for the general population who need it minimum, financed by the general population who need it most."

William Greider, writing in The Nation around the same time, examined a stinging letter sent to Henry Paulson by Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, looking at the offer of fundamentally the same as bank stock to the American open and to extremely rich person Warren Buffett, who showed signs of improvement arrangement. Greider wrote:"The cheat of American citizens is continuing pretty much visible to everyone, as the unwitting voters are engrossed with the national decision. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson consented to put $125 billion in the nine biggest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. In any case, in the event that you look all the more carefully at Paulson's exchange, the citizens were shown a good time - an extremely costly ride. They paid $125 billion for bank stock that a private financial specialist could buy for $62.5 billion. That implies half of the general population's cash was a straight-out blessing to Wall Street, for which citizens received nothing consequently. . . .