Maybe there are no qualified applicants ? Perhaps everyone already has too
> much debt ?
Sure, but they could have continued to hoard their own money, the stuff they had BEFORE the bailout.
I think accepting $700 billion of publicly largess implied a certain obvious quid pro quo.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."