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”.
Our economy is in a mess and it is BECAUSE of past socialist “solutions”. We need to face up to our problems and we need to make sure voters know who is responsible for them.