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This case has been written to raise an interesting debate on who has to bear the burden of the bail out package announced to tide over the US financial crisis (2008). On 3 October 2008, the most expensive government intervention in business history - in the form of a $700 billion bail out package - was approved by the US Congress. This intervention is in addition to the bail out that the government extended to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG and the Big Three automobile companies. The massive package of $1 trillion is being financed using taxpayers' money to prevent the current crisis from deteriorating further and thereby gradually stabilising the economy. However, it is being argued that, it is unfair on the heavily burdened US taxpayer to bear the additional burden of bailing out the Wall Street firms. The US financial crisis is an outcome of the financial industry's greed along with the irresponsible risk taken by the Wall Street financial wizards, who pocketed tens of millions of dollars while creating the bubble. Thus, US taxpayers feel that they are being penalised for the greed of the managers of big financial institutions, as when profits were made they were kept private, but losses are being socialised.