governments buying stakes in banks good/bad

The present crisis started not because the market was allowed to run its selfish course, but because the government interfered with the operation of private businesses and allowed excessive growth of money and credit.

Take housing, where the crisis began. The government interfered with private decision-making by requiring banks to make loans to people who could not afford them, through the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. It forced banks to improve lending and service to borrowers in poorer neighborhoods, including people with poor credit histories. Some of these borrowers only qualified only for subprime mortgages, which had introductory low rates that eventually rose.

In another example of government interference, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were given implicit government guarantees, letting them borrow at favorable rates. The rationale given by both mortgage companies was that this was the way that less-affluent Americans could get homes of their own--housing that they could not afford under otherwise. While the government was pressuring financial institutions to increase lending, the Federal Reserve was lowering interest rates to try to avoid a recession. This vast expansion of money and credit had to go somewhere--and it went into an inflation of housing prices of horrendous proportions, the real estate bubble that eventually burst.

The mission of the central bank is to keep a sound currency. The Fed failed us by interfering with basic market principles of supply and demand.

Yes it is how he did it - exactly, step by step. When the
government controls the banks, or the banks control the
government -either way you get fascism or communism, but
you sure won't see a Republic.

WE financed the Corps and banks with money (forced out of
our pockets) that WE worked for - and they spent it at will to
finance stakes in these companies and WE do not get the
returns on the investment - the government does, and they
can do what they will with them. And they can just keep taking
from us to buy more.

Whether this money is going to be used to finance a communist
or a fascist society is the only question left.

I would advise anyone who may at this point be a financial liability
to the elite to be very, very careful, and to get as self-reliant as
possible as quickly as possible. Homeland security has already decreed
that in an emergency the old,the disabled, and THE POOR will be
unattended or saved last.
Their philosophy is that the old and disabled have less likelihood to
make it through the heat anyway in a major crisis (the excuse anyway)
-- but the POOR?
Are you telling me that young poor can't be strong enough to survive?
To look at that philosophy and not see danger coming is to be so totally
subconscious to your surroundings that you would risk the life of anyone
trying to save you in a fascist/communist take over. So if you are a
"conspiracy theory" screamer, don't be surprised if you are on your own
when the excrement hits the air-conditioning.