Being well-educated and well-connected reflects their upper-class status, a socioeconomic status that encourages attributes leading to higher education and professional success with a high income.
In this view bailouts serve only to distribute wealth to the well-connected, while long-term costs are borne out by the majority of the ill-informed public.
Because resources were limited and the transportation system suffered bottlenecks, resources were diverted to politically well-connected enterprises or those whose managers complained the loudest.