The  so-called financial companies (pyramid schemes) that made the stupid descisions need to die, not be rewarded. Their assets need to be sold or just handed over to the FEDs to liquidate them to other companies that were not trying to game the system and juggle the books for the short term investors and shareholders.
Not bailing these financial crooks out is also the best method of saving the economy from the clowns running the financial circuses that are dragging the USA down with them. These greedy firms have ruthlessly pillaged their own financial resources to the point they are left begging for a hand out from Uncle Sam and the taxpayers. They had the chance to put the brakes on over lending/spending in their firms years ago, and they obviously failed to do so. 
But yet their CEOs and shareholders and investors got paid, and even obscenely so. But when you institutionalize cooking the books like this for years, and the Feds convieniently look the other way because of the powerful financial lobbies, you can bet the balloning debt will come due sooner rather than later. The taxpayers don't owe these financial thiefs one red cent to continue shady business as usual.