Businesses shouldn't have been bailed out in 2008.
That's when I officially quit the republican party. (It had been brewing, I didn't vote for Bush's second term...I voted for Troy Smith). When McCain left his campaign trail and rushed to the senate floor to assure that the bailout passed, I was through. My last hope for anything positive with the Republicans left with Ron Paul.
I was 24/25 at the time, so I probably didn't fully grasp it as well as I should have, but in retrospect, I probably would have left right then along with you. One of the traditional pillars of "bridled" capitalism is that you have to "earn" your way to the top, but once you get there, you are not entitled to stay. That was all thrown out the window in 2008. We incentivized bad behavior at that point in time, and continue to do so.
