Who's paying for the bailouts?

I've lost track of how many trillions of dollars were given to bail out banks and Wall St., etc. Where has this gotten us? And who is going to foot this tremendous bill?

As you can see from the following disturbing story that one person is a 92 yr. old woman who lives only a few miles from me. I guess this throw away generation would like to see these people disappear. Did she retire at 62 or 65 with all the cushy benefits that our politicians get after only serving a few years? No, this lady worked until she was 80 and where did this get her? This country has lost its ways. It is too concerned about stockholders and it comes at the expense of stakeholders.  If this is the way we are going to recoup what we gave to people who don’t know how to live on $11K a month never mind a year there is something drastically wrong.

WASHINGTON — Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter. Deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can’t afford enough heating oil to stay warm.

She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans.