Crime, abortion, teen pregnancy and oil imports are also way down, while renewable power is way up and the American auto industry is booming again. Newt Gingrich promised $2.50 gas it’s down to $2.38. Mitt Romney promised to bring unemployment down to 6 percent in his first term it’s already down to 5.8 percent, half the struggling eurozone’s rate.
OK, she was talking about the Senate torture report, not the state of the union, but things in the U.S. As Fox News host Andrea Tantaros proclaimed earlier this month: “The United States is awesome! We are awesome!” You no longer hear much about the Ebola crisis that dominated the headlines in the fall, much less the border crisis that dominated the headlines over the summer. Consumer confidence is soaring, inflation is low, gas prices are plunging, and the budget deficit is shrinking. Just in time for Christmas, the Dow just hit an all-time high and the uninsured rate is approaching an all-time low. Oh, and it added 320,000 jobs in November, the best of its unprecedented 57 straight months of private-sector employment growth. economy grew at a rollicking 5 percent rate in the third quarter. Michael Grunwald is a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine.
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