A Culture of Lie, Cheat, and Steal
One of the real components of our current state in the economy is a culture of lie, cheat, and steal. Over the last several years the culture has been if you want to get ahead you need to lie, cheat, and steal. You don't need to look far to see proof of this statement. Just look at all the hearings in the senate these days: Madoff, Lehman CEO, Auto CEO's, Bank CEO's, Blagojevich, and the steroid era in baseball.

What happend to the philosophy that you give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Is that now passe due to the state of the current economy and the culture of our nation? Where have all the so called core values that every corporation has in their mission statement gone. Do they even know what core values mean? Even the radio ads talk about calling in sick so you can go skiing.

Experts say that it was because of the mortgage industry. I say its because of the greed and the new culture of lie, cheat, and steal. The new problem that is about to come to the forefront is the credit card crisis. Banks have found another way to capitalize on this crisis by unknowingly creating all these new ways to charge extra fees on credit cards. The scary part is that there are many more people that have credit cards than people who own homes and have a mortgage.

If the government doesn't step in and regulate these banks for their despicable practices we will soon become the USA of China.