# The Federal Government is not Giving Money Away

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-federal-government-is-not-giving-money-away/486490>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 19, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-federal-government-is-not-giving-money-away/486490 "2009-02-19T01:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-federal-government-is-not-giving-money-away/486490/61 "2009-02-21T18:55:40Z")

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Bank of America is getting help in 2,count them 2 different ways. One is the purchase of stocks and warrants that are rapidly diminishing in value. I guess some of you see this as a money making proposition . The second is not a stock transaction. We are simply taking over the lousy investments like the swaps and derivatives ,and bad loans the mismanaged banks accumulated. We are not getting money making sure thing big time profits like the first part. We get their debts. We get their crappy transactions that required the best and brightest extremely highly qualified indispensable MBAs to come up with.

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