You make it sound like some generic class of people have dopey business expectations. But in this specific situation AT&T promised to hire people as an inducem

You make it sound like some generic class of people have dopey business expectations. But in this specific situation AT&T promised to hire people as an inducement for the massive tax gift. Criticisms are rightly directed at CED Randall Stepto who promised to turn our (we taxpayers) gift to AT&T into 7K hard hat jobs for every $1B of tax giveaways.