Nope, sky is still there

I heard that the sky is falling so I decided to take a look.

But I return home disappointed.

Expecting to travel over barely passable roadways through dangerous, crumbling cities filled with angry, disenfranchised Americans, my wife and I found instead a country little changed from what we saw two years ago on our last 6,000-mile road trip to Florida and back.

Oh, there were some differences.

We saw more “Now hiring” signs than ever before. And not just at fast food restaurants and convenience stores. Toyota was seeking workers at a plant in Indiana. So was Carhartt at a factory in Kentucky. W...