Begin to comprehend the national debt
I thought about that as I filled my gas tank on the north side of Phoenix and paid $2.79 per gallon. Gas prices are probably the No. 1 indicator of how people feel about the economy—at least at the most basic, close-to-home level. In fact, when gas prices soared as Barack Obama was running for a second term, some believed it would swing things in Mitt Romney’s favor.
Many folks are clueless about the ways of Wall Street, and most of us can’t begin to comprehend the national debt. Yet nowadays we follow gas prices penny by penny, and right now they’re remarkably low.
So, it could be said that things are OK in America, in fact pretty good.
You wouldn’t know it from the headlines. For instance, there has been a rash of stories about the Ebola virus, frightening many Americans while affecting very few. For a time, it seemed White House policy about Ebola had infected the president’s popularity.
Yet, according to an ABC News poll, Americans now support Obama’s handling of the Ebola situation, 49 percent to 41.
There are stories and photos from halfway around the world showing the brutality of ISIS and, again, conservatives have been quick to condemn the White House policies. Yet the same ABC News poll shows a majority of Americans now back the president’s handling of the latest terrorist threat.
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