What astonishes me is the grand scheme . In a few years these banks acquired insane amounts of wealth . They were committing slimy high level banking which helped cause the crash , while they were giving out lots of loans including faulty ones . When shit hit the fan the government meaning the people bailed them out . We paid for all their slimy deeds , their new bonus ' s , while they kept all the houses , cars , boats , land , etc , from loans people couldn ' t afford . Then when the recession happened even more people had their loans go curplunk . The banks kept it all , and the American people footed the bill . It was the single largest redistribution of wealth in our recent history . We should be furious , we should be at the gates ready to destroy these false slimed fools . Yet we spent the last year arguing over TrumpHillary , neither of which will be taking action against one of the largest crimes against humanity . People have accepted it , forgotten , and most don ' t even understand what really happened .