@Curtis Kropar, are you referring to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, which authorized expenditures of $700 billion, and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008?

That program ended in 2014 with revenue of $441.7 billion on $426.4 billion invested, so it actually yielded government a modest profit.  It appears the Obama administration ran the program properly.

If you are keen to lay blame, why not the 1%?  We've watched the middle class decline for decades along with attacks on social services for the poor.  But bankers were fine with TARP, which represented socialism for the rich.