System is working as designed. It's helpful to think of the USA economy at the very high level as a single gigantic factory. Instead of producing widgets, FactoryUSA produces multimillionaires and billionaires. The raw materials that come into the factory are taxpayers' and customers' money. Human labor gets applied to this money, sometimes products get moved around, bought and sold, sometimes it's just the money that moves around, but at the end of the assembly line, out come rich shareholders, SVPs and CxOs into their retirement. And at the exit marked "waste product" out comes the worn out bodies and minds of the working and middle class.

If you want to explain US policies, just look for whatever keeps the above assembly line cranking out rich people. If that requires bailing out a single company, it will be bailed out. If that involves a "cash infusion" from taxpayers, that's what will happen. If that involves less restrictive labor laws, we'll get them. The purpose of FactoryUSA is to consolidate everyone's money into a small number of "rich people" finished products.