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 .

Question: Why is it not the taxpayer 's job to fix this ?
Answer: Because the airlines need to be saved .Because the taxpayer did n't cause the problem .None of the above choices .Because a million stupid people made stupid decisions .