The global economy may be going to “hell in handbasket” (what a great old-lady phrase, as my teenage daughter would say), but for us ordinary folks, life goes on. We still have to pay bills, do our jobs, satisfy our clients and keep our businesses running as profitably as we can.
That lesson hit home last week at the annual PIIAI meeting for Illinois agents in Springfield. It was a beautiful fall day, so I made the three-hour drive to check out the scenery.
Although national politics was on display–a panel moderated by Bob Rusbuldt featured media savants Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson posturing about the upcoming presidential election–it was the “smaller” issues that dominated the day.
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