Think about it. Benefits to the economy provided by innovation are small increments that have to accumulate over time. How much progress is destroyed by a Global Crossing or Solyndra? Small, slow, cumulative gains are destroyed in a flash by corruption. Systemic corruption, which, right up to this moment has not been reigned in.
Global Crossings infrastructure is still in use and what does Solyndra have to do with the growth of the internet and the offshoot businesses?