Global Financial Crisis - some questions

The words in the title of this blog bring to mind so many different thoughts, especially now that 'clean up' processes are supposedly under way:
why do we, the little guy, have to clean up after the rich (they won't ever be affected by the crisis, but we are)?
why does no one insist the rich have to pay for their mess?
is the 'bail out' really helpful, or just another money grab by those who want more (the stock markets still haven't responded positively, despite plans in the US, UK and EU)?
is the crisis truly global (I haven't heard any word of trouble in China, India or the Arab nations)?
just how long can we put off the inevitable collapse of the Western Empire?

and one that I'm quite interested in recently, in this world of ubiquitous addiction (food, TV, work, substances, religion), why has no one insisted that those responsible for the 'economic crisis'--the leaders and major stockholders of the banks--undergo therapy for money addiction? Yes, that's right, these people, who have far more than enough (the richest 400 Americans have more combined assests than the poorest 150 million Americans!) are clearly suffering from severe addiction to money. As part of any bail out deal, they should each be made to undergo intensive addiction treatment until they realize that they have neither the right nor the need to make more than 400 times what their average employee makes.

Alas, it won't happen. Why? Two reasons. First, the rich are the ones in power and thus make the rules. They see nothing wrong and so nothing will happen to them. Second, we the people, the masses that actually support the system, don't insist. That's right, it's as much our fault as theirs for letting them get away with it, for following along like sheep, for allowing our own greed get the better of us and believing and hoping that their fairytale--you too could become disgustingly rich--could, possibly, be true.

'We the people...' have the power. That's why much of government/industry's energy is bent towards controlling us--either calming us into a state of quiet acquiescence, sedating us with cheap baubles and flashing images so we ignore what they're doing, or whipping us into a state of fearful panic so we gratefully allow them to do what they want. We're like trained dogs, panting at sweet-sounding orders for their amusement. And until we wake up (if we ever wake up--read '1984' by Orwell people, it's far more prophetic than the bible) we always will be.

'We the people...' have the power. But we have to get out of our lazy-chairs to use it.