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Reap what you sow
The corporate right is against any type of bailout or regulation when it helps consumers, but are for any bailout or regulation that that lines up with their interests.
People often confuse regulation and government aid as helpful to consumers and harmful to corporate interests. This is not a case. Regulation and bailouts are merely tools. They hurt consumers as much as they help them. Companies to reap what they sow as do many consumers.
I work in the energy industry, and there's constant cry to reregulate by people who've forgotten part of the reason deregulation occurred was to prevent utilities from getting fat by building oak paneled cafeterias and the like.