Rewarding failure

If anyone truly believes that America doesn't reward failure, then he or she mustn't have paid attention to the last two years. After all, TARP was all about that because the big banks got at least $700 billion of our money. Of course, when Congress asked them about how that money was spent, the banks and the Fed told them that it was none of their business. Another example came last week when the NCAA strongly considered placing 5-7 teams in bowl games since they are worried that they would not have a lot of 6-6 teams to fill slots for extremely insignificant postseason games. So, the NCAA wants to add sub .500 teams into bowl games but not even consider a plus-one for the BCS national championship.