Double Standard

Key Cog in South, Silverton Bank Fails
Wall Street Journal (2 May 09)

Excerpt: Federal regulators were “not sympathetic” to the argument that a Silverton failure had to be averted, Mr. Moeling said. “The argument tends to be that ‘You guys got yourself into this mess, don’t look for us to come fix it. Don’t look for us to bail you out, because you are not Citigroup.'”