This makes no sense to me...

Can someone please explain to me why the government is considering giving 700 million or billion dollars to these companies to bail them out of financial situations and there has been very little done to help people out who are losing their jobs, foreclosures and an economy that really sucks right now? It just seems so backwards. And most of the higher ups that are asking for this money probably participated in crooked crap that caused problems that led to this...