Insurers, automakers and American subsidiaries of foreign banks all want the Treasury Department to cut them a piece of the largest government rescue in U.S. history.
The betting is that many with their hands out will be successful, especially with financial markets in a stomach-churning dive and predictions the economy is about to tumble into a deep recession.
Yeah because this method of handing out money worked so well in Iraq and after Katrina. Has nothing been learned at all in the past 8 years? January 20th cannot come fast enough.