It's been a strange few months -- and I'm not talking about the weather. Taxpayer-funded bailouts, double-digit unemployment, and soaring deficits have put the country in a sour, uncertain mood. Americans' usual sunny optimism has taken a back seat to real concerns about the health of the economy, our 401(k)s, and the future.

No surprise, then, that people, as Joel Orosz, a nationally recognized authority on philanthropy, puts it, are 'mad as hell.' They're mad, says Orosz, writing on the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog, 'about the federal government in particular and -- this is crucial for foundations -- institutions in general.' Writes Orosz:

Consequently, we have already seen leaders, from President Obama on down, begin to stake out populist positions, from taxing the banks to gutting the budgets of certain federal government departments. These attempts to placate the torches-and-pitchforks sensibility will only increase as we approach the November[...]

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