over the last couple of years I've watched some Sky news stuff and concluded it's the down under version of Fox so not worth another minute of my time.
All of what you say maybe true. But competent economists do worry about the state of the US economy (and other nations). The deficit is large and producing growing debt. There seems to be no political will on either side to stem the tide so there is a large future risk.
I suggest you see if any of the Economist articles on this are publically available.