You talk as if these investment banks were poor helpless living creatures or something. They gambled and they lost, then they had their government cronies bail

You talk as if these investment banks were poor helpless living creatures or something. They gambled and they lost, then they had their government cronies bail them out. An analogy would be an idiot gambling away his entire live savings on the slot machine, and then going to the house and complaining: "I deserve all my money back because I didn't win."