Cynical? Moi?

Not so long ago certain financial institutions were deemed too big to fail and got bail outs.

 Once you've started down that road you have to keep going, so, now we've got whole countries deemed too big to fail.

Reminds me of  "Oh look, this side of the Titanic is not even close to the water, lets move the deck chairs over here." 

We know how that ended..