How will we be affected?

'Why is it my responsibility to bail these companies out?'

Wendy Maeda/Globe StaffChristopher Tocchio, with sons Max and Domenic and wife Nicole behind him, is frustrated by government bailouts. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)

By Jenifer B. McKim

Globe Staff / September 21, 2008

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Melissa Hamlet worries that the stock market's wild swings will mean fewer potential buyers for her home. Restaurant owner Christopher Tocchio fumes that the government isn't holding failing businesses accountable for their reckless decisions. And Mary Vaughan, a recent widow, wonders why government rescues corporate America while she struggles to pay her bills. (Full article: 952 words)