"Meanwhile, our government is being wrecked by corporations, which now receive 40% of federal discretionary spending. More than 800,000 jobs, once handled by government employees, have been outsourced to corporations, a move that has not only further empowered our shadow corporate government but also helped destroy federal workforce unions. Management of federal prisons, the management of regulatory and scientific reviews, the processing or denial of Freedom of Information requests, interrogating prisoners, and running the world's largest mercenary army in Iraq -- all this has become corporate. And these corporations, in a perverse arrangement, make their money directly off of the American citizen. This devil's deal is but an expansion of the corporate welfare enjoyed by the defense industry."

Doesn't anyone think this had anything to do with the recent oil prices? They quadrupled in less than a year. People were spending their money on getting back and forth to work instead of buying goods which caused less demand on everything else thereby causing the global recession. Why blame it on corporations? Competition keeps them in line.

It did not keep the Finance/Banks and Mortgage companies in line.