Go out to the swing voters in my neck of the woods and tell them that. They see their jobs leaving. Those with jobs see their paychecks getting smaller and a higher share of their paychecks going to required costs. Gasoline. Food. Etc.
If you think that is dumb, just remember which part of the country decides elections. It's the Midwest.
Tell the swings voters in your neck of the woods what? That the word “recession” has an actual meaning — and that no matter what the bobble heads on their televisions tell them, we haven’t been in one since the last two quarters of the Clinton administration? What should I do, make a sandwich board and stand on street corners in the Midwest until these people figure out they’re being lied to?
Your friends deciding elections in the Midwest already helped inflict a socialist Congress on their country, added a full point to the national unemployment rate in the process and seem dead-set on putting a Marxist radical in the White House. They don’t like the gas prices? Too bad. Maybe they should have paid some attention to energy issues before gas hit $4.00 a gallon and voted accordingly when they had the chance to do something about it.
There’s nothing I can say to convince these people of anything. They wanta nanny-state to babysit them through life and guarantee their happiness. They’ve completely lost sight of what a Constitutional Republic is supposed to be and don’t have the first clue how to keep it, because they refuse to take responsibility for anything in their own lives. What’s happening in this country is their fault, more than anyone else’s. Honestly, I don’t give a damn what they think about anything. They’re beneath contempt and beyond hope.