Politicians are hearing from the few:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61825,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 It might be a good idea to let them know that for every CEO weighing in, there are many, many more unemployed, soon-to-be-unemployed and fearful-of-soon-to-be-unemployed workers who have a different viewpoint.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.