When they bailed the banks and car manufacturers out, a lot of regular people got directly screwed - and indirectly we all got screwed.
I had GM stock. The government spent over 10 billion to bail out GM, wiped out my shares and then had a new public offering - in which the government owned over 60 percent of the shares. So GM shareholders lost all of their shares and then new GM shares were offered that the Government owned most of.
GM shareholders lost all their shares and then a new GM offered shares. All paid for by the same tax payers that lost their shares.