And here, Brian Cox explains just how much money the taxpayer has hosed into the banks. Which raises the question, "What have we got for the money?". Cox is drawing attention to the fact that it would be more productive to pump money into science because at least we would get a return on the investment. We have thrown money at the banks, not because they did anything well and we wanted them to do more of it, but because they did everything badly and they ruined our economy.