"... value for money"

If your master is surly, from getting up early
(And tempers are short in the morning),
An inopportune joke is enough to provoke
Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
Then if you refrain, he is at you again,
For he likes to get value for money:
He'll ask then and there, with an insolent stare,
'If you know that you're paid to be funny?'
[Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan]

We've tossed $350Bn of $700Bn "bailout" package to the banks, insurers, and brokerage firms... Best as I can tell, so far without effect on the larger economy.

Will Obama's regime figure a way to get us "value for money"???