Personal beliefs are everything in some cases. It's exactly why people are stuck in their own circumstances and situations that could easily be changed. But instead they keep waiting for some invisible person sitting on a cloud to give them a lottery winning, or cure their diabetes, or justify the other reasons their life is so crappy. Rather than put in effort on their parts that could actually result in change, they would instead prefer to sit around and wait on help that is never coming. Which is why Republican trickle down economics never work.