You don’t believe we are in an economic mess?
In general the economy is still a growing economy, although the cost of gas makes it seem otherwise. If gasoline were $2.97 per gallon rather than $3.97 per gallon, people would think things were pretty good. If gas were $2.27 per gallon, people would think things were even better. However, the fact that gas is high does not mean the economy is bad anymore than the fact that the stock market is down does. The stock market is not a proxy for GDP anymore than the price of gas is. Unfortunately, the drive-by media either doesn’t know the difference, or worse — they do know the difference but they deliberately lie in order to shape public opinion in favor of socialist solutions to the “bad economy”.
Were we in an “economic mess” in 1992, when clinton campaigned on “It’s the economy, stupid”? Everybody thought so and the drive-by media talked about how terrible the economy was every day right up until clinton was inaugurated. Then, once clinton signed the largest tax increase in history, the same drive-bys started recognizing how much better the economy was doing. They even referred to the clinton recovery — even though the recovery began in March 1991 a full 19 months before boy clinton was elected.