Back when I was unemployed -- about a year ago, in fact -- I was part of a support group for job seekers. 99% were white collar, and about 80% were worried sick about health care for their families (some had working wives with health insurance), keeping their homes, providing for their kids; the same sort of thing blue collar workers worry about. Of the 300+ who were members of the support group, about 65% had been unemployed for a year or more; about 45% no longer had ANY unemployment coming in.

There were people who had literally brokered multi-billion dollar mergers. People who had spent fifteen or twenty years with a company, some who had never held another job since college. People with doctorates, people who spoke several languages fluently. Computer types were very well represented. African-Americans, caucasians, hispanics, every race was represented.

Most defined themselves a Republicans. Most vote. Most felt that they had made a huge mistake in voting for GWB.

No matter how loyal an employee is to a company, there is little loyalty by the company to the employee. As my (currently unemployed) brother once said, "You no longer have a career. You only have a job."