I was laid off from my teaching job due to budget cuts for education. I've a sister-in-law who just got laid off from Arthur Anderson, and my brother (her husband) whose job is hanging in the balance at Qwest. They are supporting three kids, one still a toddler, and recently bought a new house they may well lose now. And all this happened to us living in a state with a strong economy.

It isn't just about people who are losing money in the stock market who are suffering from corporate criminality by any means. Many, many others are being effected in very tangible ways by these scandals--we are losing pensions, jobs, and homes. And it makes us pretty damn angry, and yes thank you, we do blame the corporate culture for it. The corporate culture that Bush/Cheney is part and parcel of. First MBA president, who both my brother and sister-in-law voted for BTW, who pledged to bring their vaunted corporate accountability to bear on the federal government.

Corporate accountability? No thanks. My brother and sister-in-law are voting Democratic this fall, not that it will make any difference. They just want to punish the Republicans for the decade long greed binge.