Taxpayers stuck with what now looks like a $45 BILLION to make the deal work. Well, those investment bankers did work a long weekend to put together a deal that could only work after massive government subsidies and they probably had their annual bonuses trimmed back a bit, so that’s fair. Just because the already too-big-to-fail businesses are even larger now and that the ultimate US mega-bank (Citigroup) is being chopped into pieces and sold because they were too big, why not hand out more to delay the inevitable overhaul of Bank of America? Yea, they’re probably going to fire even more people with this merger but I haven’t heard of employment being much of an issue today.

Who doesn’t want to sacrifice $20 million to help a poor, starving investment banker? Anyway, it’s probably not any business of Congress to ask questions so I guess it’s OK.