premise: A million stupid people from lenders to regulators to individual buys made stupid decisions that lead to this point . It is not the taxpayer 's job to fix this for them . An inflated market worldwide and stupid short - term thinking worldwide , fueled this mess . The government should n't have save the airlines after 9/11 . Why is it not the taxpayer 's job to fix this ?
hypothesis: Because the airlines need to be saved .