Like it or not, TARP and the other bailouts saved everyone's arse.
I call bullshit and please define "everyone"?
Depositors and creditors should have been completely wiped out. No exceptions.
The bastion of capitalism turned into a corporate/crony cluster fuck.
If you want to throw Keynes and a social conscience into it for the retirees and "mum & pop" investors, the US could have written checks for $0.50 in the $1 for anyone with assets under $2million.
The printing done each month to "save us" could have bought you a complete universal health care system for everyone of your citizens with change left over.