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TARP Is Bad for Dividend Investors

Tarp in my mind is a life line to inestors with a long term outlook. OK perhaps today dividends may be reduced, but at least the company is still operating. Without TARP many of these organizations would have been forced to liquidate assets in order to satisfy creditors. Share holders values along with the probability of return to profitability would have been eliminated.
At least now shareholders have a prospect of dividends after the markets and the publicly traded companies they have invested in return to health. People should stop complaining and thank the US taxpayers for extending them a lifeline.