We were told the capitalist elites deserve their outsized payouts because of all the risk they took and how that was the most meritocratic thing and how dare Go

We were told the capitalist elites deserve their outsized payouts because of all the risk they took and how that was the most meritocratic thing and how dare Government think to interfere with the beauty of the free market. Now the risk has shown its downside, Big Government is asked to bail them out?