Yes.
A part of me really really really resents these government bail outs and buy outs to private firms.
They keep any profits, but tax payers get to pick up the tab for crazy and greedy out of control bad poor and crappy investments?
On the other hand, the government has pretty much admitted that the entire US banking system and financial system would have crashed if they were not doing these buy outs/bail outs - followed by the banking systems of who knows how many other countries since the economies of so many countries are so interconnected these days.
So as much as I resent the buy outs/bail outs, I would be bothered by a huge worldwide recession/depression a hell of a lot more.
What is happening to us personally right now as a family is a cash crunch. People owe my husband six figures right now...
They cannot pay him because they simply do not have any money.
So we do not have much money beyond my hospital salary, which makes things tight.
We actually have fairly big stashes of cash in CD's (for the kid's college funds, thank God I told the investment councilors I wanted that money in safe CD's rather than the stock funds they were pushing so hard back when my father passed away, as this big amount of cash came from his estate) and in money markets (my emergency stash from years of pinching every penny until it screamed and then saved in case one of us cannot work due to injury or illness) - but I do not want to touch any of that other than for their intended purposes.