Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
The economy is a very sensitive organism.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.