The Local Boy Done good - George Bailey is easily bailed out of financial trouble; and in fact, he has a number of bar patrons come to his aid at Martini's (before he receives the goodness of Bedford Fall's residents at end of film; when he gets into it with Frank Welch. Why? Forget the respected man about town (which he obviously is), he is responsible for just about every man in town having a good paying job (and becoming homeowners). George Bailey chides Sam Wainwright into building a plant in Bedford Falls instead of Rochester (right after He and Mary moves Martini into his new home). George Bailey literally help create a middle class in a town that had only the very rich and the mostly poor. This is why the "rabble" as Potter calls them come out of the woodwork to help George Bailey.
The Local Boy Done good - George Bailey is easily bailed out of financial trouble; and in fact, he has a number of bar patrons come to his aid at Martini's (before he receives the goodness of Bedford Fall's residents at end of film; when he gets into it with Frank Welch. Why? Forget the respected man about town (which he obviously is), he is responsible for just about every man in town having a good paying job (and becoming homeowners). George Bailey chides Sam Wainwright into building a plant in Bedford Falls instead of Rochester (right after He and Mary moves Martini into his new home). George Bailey literally help create a middle class in a town that had only the very rich and the mostly poor. This is why the "rabble" as Potter calls them come out of the woodwork to help George Bailey.