Chris,
I wholeheartedly agree that we must believe in what is larger than ourselves, than listen to those voices smaller than ourselves who believe only in themselves.
It is because we cannot see, are not privy to, the boardroom decisions of, say, Barbara Handelin, Tony Frudakis, and/or Hector Gomez in their attempts to enhance the value in the oft repeated term 'improving shareholder value', that we must pull back in stubborn, persevering Job-like-faith favor of those who tell us that they are trying to improve it from those who insist that they cannot.
I cannot repeat often enough that those persons here who purport to inform and protect us are here for their own benefit, not ours.
There are charlatans, envious pretenders, and parasitic traders who feed on the efforts of small business entrepreneurs, and care not if the body they feed on expires. There are hundreds more creative projects they can move onto to perform their malicious and vicious acts of blood-sucking destruction.
Jobs which are created they couldn't care less about.