A Wall Street Journal poll reveals that only 25% of Americans think the nation is on the right track – the lowest since 2008. Two-thirds say we are on the wrong track.
As always, the economy is the main concern. But we are five years into a recovery. That is what we are told. So, where is the optimism?
Foreign policy? Drift. Immigration? Drift. Economy? Stagnant wages. Congress? Gridlock. Federal deficit? It is still reported at $500 billion a year, five years into the recovery. This is hailed by Keynesians as a major victory.
Then there are ISIS and Ebola. What happened to safety? Where is there a sign of leadership?
The public schools always get worse. No one expects differently any longer. It’s only a matter of how bad they will get in your ZIP code, and how soon. Yet here is America’s only tax-funded church, with its own self-screening priesthood: the American Federation of Teachers.
What does the state do that is seen as a clear benefit, with better to come? This is the key phrase: ‘with better to come.’ Nothing, i.e., not one thing.
This post was published at Tea Party Economist on October 21, 2014.
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