It's incredible that the MSM report so little news that should be a template for the American mind to digest in front of an important election, but that just doesn't happen anymore where the 1st Amendment is shrouded in gilded speak. Today it's reported quietly that there are now 36 states that have elevated obecity ratings, exaserbated by high food prices, (inflation), primarily the out-product of high energy prices.  It's no wonder if the various fuel tanks that aren't connected to some "green source" that the economic flow through is getting to be a rough ride for everyone remotely connected to breathing on a regular basis. So the 'news' that wallet constriction has resulted in not only billions of fewer traveled miles,(otherwise spelled as some sort of fun), has caused the pantry to exhibit similar indigestion, which was the news not heard.  All the 'alternative' eating  for cost reasons, any wonder, last year you could buy chicken for less than bananas, or apples for beef or pork...well that has reversed, all the while the cost of fuel has lent a previous substitution to now even other food choices..which are more carbohydrate centric and less 'healthy eating' oriented.  So the liberal coalition of Sierra Clubbies and NO-DRILL friends are exacting a real toll, we'll leave the NEA out today, their no exercise policy for the friends of trial lawyers is so well known for lazy children...or the living wage that is like math&science to GDP+inputs=outputs doesn't =2, that as the Democratic party says they care about the 'little guy', really they just throw head mud at your temple and think that you're too stupid to get the trail of what comes from where and what it took to do the exercise!  Every day that I eat out of our garden and don't have to compete in the grocery store I feel that I've contributed to competition at the checkout counter without encouraging the tax man or some other liberal misdirected idea taking root in a solution that was the result of BAD POLICY, just ask Nancy from San Francisco.  If phantom energy years out is doing anything to solve your mortgage payment or even keep your dinner choice stable then you live in a world that is even more microscopic than the food that I appreciate from our garden, but that isn't the macro of America, and Pelosi doesn't get the number picture anymore than who paid for her last plane trip home as Speaker.