Someone on NPR just told me that's what South Carolinians said in exit polls at the primaries today.
???
The environment. Healthcare.
These are the two most important issues the next president will have to cope with, in that order. The economy is a minor fraction of a footnote. The economy goes up and down. No, it's not good right now. Witness my lack of income for the past several years. But it's a pendulum and it will swing back.
Unless, of course, there is a catastrophic global climate crisis, like Florida being underwater, or honeybees failing to pollinate, oh, say, everything in California. Or unless more millions of American children and old people simply no longer receive health care because it is unavailable and unaffordable. I could see either of those scenarios turning apocalyptic and having a deleterious effect on the economy.
Jeez, come on people!
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Hear, hear. And that's only if we want to consider just the citizens of the US. If we expand our horizons a bit, the things that really need to be done/fixed is mind-boggling. But if we really made some progress on the environment and on health care, that would be a good start.
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