. I, like an educated person, provided factual statements with citations to counter your falsehoods.  I called you out on your GOP fiction, lecturing me about economics, your sneering about "truth hurts" and calling me a "guy"   and you got your panties all in a bunch.  Poor baby!  You also clearly didn't read the article you must have searched so hard for. It did NOT say TARP was the main reason by any means.  What it said was "And TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) was pretty much as unpopular as a program could be. “Bank bailout,” may be two of the ugliest words in the English language." that stabilized the banks  responsible for the recession the first place.  It did not stop the economic free fall or restore the ECONOMY,  JOBS, HOMES etc. You don't know anything. This is always your history in comments - biased, GOP fiction. You probably were not old enough to even remember.  I am done with you.