>> rigan: llitnded when we hhd to go to the government for $30 trillion dollars in synthetic money ú& federal reserve to cover the thing up. >> smith: right. >> ratigan: that was prety much thend of the >> smith: so you, you don't think -- i mean, in that case you don't think that the government's decision that this has become very. >> ratigan: sure. >> smith: .controversial, even clint eastwood is now in the middle of this conversation. government decision in view of what happened. >> ratigan: yeah. >> smith: .to bail out the -uto industry was the correct decision or not? >> ratigan: i think that that's the wrong question. >> ratigan: and i'll tell yowhy. if, if you have a daughter who is a heroin addict in san francisco and you rescue her from her heroin addiction in san francisco and then set her up in austin with a pile of heroii, have you done. but you had no choice to get her out of texas, right, or to get her out oo california? so i mean obviously you had to bail them out. >> smith: right. >> ratigan: well. >> smith: your perception is that the bailout fundsswere. >> ratigan: .