Edit: Additionally, I think "wealth" and "money" are not the same thing and as such any argument that the wealth of the poor is being unfairly taken cannot be denied purely on the grounds that they don't pay much in tax. Their wealth is being taken before they even see a monetary representation of it.
The middle class and non-connected sort-of-wealthy are the ones getting screwed by the bailouts.
Unless you assume that the poor have a right to what others earn (as opposed to simply the right to not get screwed and exploited by the wealthy, as the parent is talking about), then the poor have nothing to complain about as far as bailouts go.
They're still better off with the bailouts than they'd be without them. They'd be even better off if policies that prevented the necessity of bailouts were in place back then. I hope the policy changes since then have been enough.
(Basically, the single overwhelming issue is "too big to fail". To the limited extent that this has been addressed at all by regulatory changes such as Dodd-Frank, it has been to make the problem worse.)
(We don't have individual rights today, and we haven't had a consistent adherence to the ideal in well over a century. For example, if you own a home, it can be taken under eminent domain. If you have built a giant enterprise on your own, it can be smashed by antitrust. If you have an innovative idea in nearly any field, you'll find that regulatory restriction make it difficult or impossible to execute, with a small number of exceptions like the computer industry.)
Consider food. You need a job in order to eat. You have to work a lot of hours (maybe with a long commute on top) in order to keep your job, or worse, to make enough money to afford your food and housing. You could save a lot of money and improve your health by cooking your own meals, but that's time consuming. Every minute you spend shopping for groceries or cooking your own food is one less minute you could spend at work. So you live on fast food and a big chunk of your paycheck goes to a fast food restaurant.
Now consider the corporation itself. Its foremost incentive is to provide wealth to its owners. Any incentive to provide value to employees or customers is incidental to that goal, and there are of course ways to avoid doing that. Ideally it's just funneling as much money as possible from the customer to the shareholder.
The poor can't afford to be shareholders. So where is the money going?
Do poor people resent fast food restaurants for providing them with cheaper food than they can make at home (including the cost of their time)? I presume they don't. Fast food restaurants provide a valuable product that poor people want to have. I wouldn't call that fleecing.
Also note that making shit food tasty while still being cheap is indeed fleecing, and the oldest trick in the book: sweet, fat, salty. Consider how cheap it is to make soft drinks, which are easily preferred by most folks, and yet how terrible they are for your health.
Humans are hardwired to seek out certain flavors and characteristics, and large fast food joints do nothing but exploit this.
Now, consider how the markets and government reward farmers for growing things that may be in excess of what people need (lol corn subsidies) and how they drive upwards prices of food perceived as a status symbol (compare "organic" produce or milk with the mass-produced varities).
It's a pretty rigged system.
I'm all for eliminating subsidies, educating people better about nutrition, and mandating that restaurants provide nutritional information about food that consumers are likely to see at the time of purchase.
If you know how to cook, it is pretty easy to make very inexpensive and tasty food that is also healthy and quick to prepare. It is definitely cheaper and faster than eating fast food too. In many parts of the US, the very poor do cook all of their meals because it is a skill you learn when growing up and a great way to save money. A lot of the guys I knew who weren't raised that way always ate fast food because they'd never made a meal in their life. Not knowing how to cook was a significant gap.
I always knew how to cook, so it was easy to eat reasonably well on $10-15 per week for one person. Some of those recipes were fantastic so I still make them even though I'm not trying to pinch pennies.