I think it's a combination of an increasingly complex world, especially the financial world, and frustration from too few signs of improvement and personal advancement.
It's diffuse and out of focus.
I'm just irked that after bailing out the slimeballs who to a large extent created the mess, they're not stepping up and hiring again. Instead, they're still cutting jobs, including switching to contractor status, sending work overseas, etc. Yes, folks, the reason that your business is down is because you helped create a lot of unemployment and under-employment, and that's why people aren't buying cars and houses and consumer goods, so stop being disingenuous, and step up and do your part by creating jobs and helping get this country going again. Guess what, you can afford it. Your obscene record profits can drop a half a point or so.
And consider that instead of saying that you can't afford to do this, or perform actions that benefit the communities around you, because it will reduce the money returned to your stockholders (read: it will reduce the profits received by top-level management), try going old-fashioned on us and decide that you have a responsibility to be a good corporate citizen and give back to the cities and towns that you keep trying to dodge paying taxes to. (Hear that, Chevron??)
/end rant
And luckily, I do once again have a job with bennies, so off I go, tra-la. 
