Really I could've sworn it was bush that approved the money. He diverted funds from the TARP to the tune of 17.4 billion in December 19,2008 which was a month before obamas inauguration. He had to divert the money from elsewhere because congress wouldn't approve. It was all done under bush and obama simply backed the bailout. I'm pretty sure that money was paid back  from what I remember and a 2 billion gain was had. Obama continued to lend until the final tally was around 80 billion and a loss of 10 billion was reported which will be a net loss to taxpayers as maintenance must be payed on the debt as well as principle. Of course it was all for not at this point. We have companies recording half year, half billion dollar credit losses and a subprime auto loan crisis that's just tipped a trillion dollars. Don't even get me started on the student loan fiasco too or did obama save that as well hahahaha