ParaSkS
I see it as them doing their jobs as employees of the "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Corp". When we fought that war for freedom in 1776 we borrowed money. Those Frenchmen that King George, who had just taken France and was the holder of the French debt for reparations, had sent to help us fight his Easter European Soldiers that he sent to kick or ass because the Real British Army had relatives in the Colonies and may have chosen sides with Us.
The war is over, we think we are free, and we have no money so we were on the hook for all those French troops at about $1.50 per day in Sterling Silver. Plus all the Rifles and powder. That note the French sold to the British to pay off the French debt to the Bank of England. We have been renegotiating that debt ever since. In 1812 they came and made a fuss because we didn't pay them. Since then we keep renegotiating that debt with the added interest and the new debts brought on by WW1, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. Then there is the Federal Reserve who in 1937 began this Federal Reserve Notes FRN stuff and the loan keeps getting bigger. We can't pay and so we give them land like Lincoln did after the Civil War. Gold like Nixon did. It happens every few years.
The bank bail out was one of those payments. The Fed printed up a S..t load of money and gives it to the Banks it owns. Then they declare non-owned banks insolvent and their banks buy them with the printed money. They sell the bad loans to the Fed who bills the Government for it and adds it to our debt. Then they foreclose on the land and buildings and get paid again.
The we have Goldman-Saches dropping 43% of their shares in BP 17 days before the leak. The old president of BP sold about half his shares. Then the Oil Rig which is owned by a company out of Korea goes up in a flash.
Then BP begins spraying Chemicals on the water, the beaches where people live, and the old BP president steps down and the new guy moves in or the finale.
Then they, States-Fed-homeland security-whomever, move the people off the "Contaminated Land" as a part of of an evacuation, and issue the owners FRN to relocate to safety, preferably far away. Then the Fed reserve charges BP that money. BP is owned by the Bank of England. They call it a loss on stock and reduce their Taxes for 10 years.
The Fed used no money just paper and ink on a ledger and now have deeds to Gulf Coast land. Then in 20 years when the land is determined safe they sell it to a developer for gold and our interest on the debt can be paid for no investment. BP will have an oil well that will never run out of oil. The States will have taxable resort properties and income so everyone except the people who were moved off that property, is happy. The "Evacuees" will have a new home, new expenses, and a few dead relatives. The loan is paid for a few more years and every one makes money.
The answer is always money.