So what ($30 million goldman sachs employee...lest we forget) paulson is saying is: if the tax payers had not given his mates $700,000,000,000 they would have sulked and closed the credit markets for longer than are going to.
this money clearly went to compensate wall street for the incompetent/fraudulent practices it had been engaged in...great.
now the economy as a whole is going under the US tax payer may well ask if that massive amount of money would have been better spent on Obama's upcoming stimulus package for the whole of the US rather than handed out to a tiny percentage of politically connected half wits. this is by far the biggest fraud in the history of mankind. democracy is dead and buried if these swindling clowns are not imprisoned.