Are you better off than you were four years ago?

If they are no different then doesn't that mean it has balanced out and we are no longer going down?

 

....and the stock market was at 6000 (half it's current value), sub prime mortgages were exploding, GM was on the verge of bankruptcy, taxpayers had to bail banks out, and we were dangerously close to depression. Get a better job and quit whining...right?? It's just the "market" forces smoothing things out anyway...right?

 

actually, if i remember correctly, the stock market started going down when Obozo was elected and then he started his ill conceived solutions that only made things worse.

 

I'm much better off. Got a big pay raise last year, and can hopefully pay off my entire student loan in the coming years. My company is ok but we may have a lot of upside in the near future. Some of us liberals are actually hard workers. Go figure, we some lazy bums.

 

Really? Funny..because I recall it crashing on his way out the door. Revisionist history there?

 

What garbage!

The country was losing nearly a MILLION JOBS PER MONTH the DAY Obama took office, and the number of losses dropped every month from thereafter.

And those 4 MILLION PEOPLE whose jobs Obama SAVED with ECONOMIC CRISIS LEADERSHIP and STIMULUS SPENDING, on top of the 8 MILLION PEOPLE who LOST their jobs under BUSH would have been starving in the streets with 24 weeks of unemployment with Republicans still in charge, a probable cut back of food stamps and nothing but blame from the Republicans for being jobless after a lifetime of work!

 

actually i don't believe some of you guys. You have higher food and fuel prices like the rest of us..unless for some reason you are not having to pay those. Are you living at home with mom and dad. Fess up guys. Do you own or rent. Do you have health insurance? wife? kids? You are not telling the truth i'd bet the farm.

 

I am better off now. New job plus 30% pay increase makes me a 10%er. At what pay rate must I become a con? Lol! NEVER!

 

it's not the money you're making dude. It's what you're doing with it.

 

What I'm doing with it? Do you mean what my wife is doing with it? Lol

 

Not living with our parents. Our only debt is a mortgage and a car loan. Credit cards are paid in full every month. We pay an increasing share of our health insurance, and some of our regular prescriptions are no longer covered. No wife. No kids. No pets. Still better off despite rising prices.

I'm sorry that you're disappointed to hear that not everyone is miserable in this economy. Like I said, my job is somewhat insulated from it.

 

do you buy groceries? We? An insulated job. that's nice. How does that happen?

 

My job is somewhat insulated from bad economies as well. I work as an engineer and technical artist for a game developer. People still want to be entertained even during bad economies. Why do you think movie records are still being broken.

And luckily the bay area of California is always in the forefront of technology, so unemployment out here is pretty low and vast venture capitalist money is always pouring in creating new jobs. I do not live with my patents but I do pay rent, and only have a student loan as far as debt.

 

If you are being truthful. Then, not to worry you will be soon enough...these things become more clear as you mature.

 

And if you believe that unemployment is at 8.6% and the rest of what you claimed as fact, tell me how Rewind / Ransack will fix it if elected in November.

 

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Most definitely.

 

Seems to me to be an odd situation:

Righties here are worse off and should be the people who'd understand and empathise with others in their situation.

Lefties seem better off and some of us would actually benefit from the GOP, but via empathy and symapthy for others, prefer central politics (or communist / socialist to the Righties), which would benefit people other than ourselves.

Thatr is most bizzare and very telling.

 

Im better off than 4 years ago.

 

Yes. But, like virtually all questions of economics, it has nothing to do with the President.

 

Right wingers are too big on anyone looking for a handout and a free ride at someone else's expense. regardless of race.

 

The stock markets better because of Obama outsourcing like GE and GM.

 

Yes, I am better off now than I was four years ago.

However, what you miss is the follow-up question..... WHY am I better off now than I was four years ago?

The answer to that question has nothing to do with the government, the current POTUS, or anything that either party has done. In fact my success over the last four years has pretty much been in spite of the government.

 

Am I better off than I was four years ago?
Sadly, no.

Four years ago, the price of gasoline at the pump, and the cost of my weekly grocery shopping, did not eat up every single cent of my disposable income.
A cart full of groceries used to cost me about $135 or so.
Now I pay right around $250 for the same cart full of groceries.

My salary is the same, but I no longer have the ability and freedom to take the wife away for the weekend, let her go shopping at the mall, or buy us new clothes or shoes.
We used to go to the movies nearly every weekend.
Now we simply cannot afford it.

My health insurance costs have gone up, and the bureaucracies put in place by Obamacare have made it so that the service I get from BCBS, TRICARE, and Express Scripts is poor.
I pay more, and I get less bang for my buck.
The customer service people at those health care providers apologize and apologize, but, as they say, "Things have changed so much!".

I guess that's what Hope and Change meant.

 

I know what I was asking. I wanted to see how many Government workers we have posting here.

2009 Unemployment rate annually - 3.6%
2010 Unemployment rate annually - 4.4%
2011 Unemployment rate annually - 4.7%

http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab14.htm

Of course anyone working for the Government says they are better off. Obama took $840 Billion taxpayers dollars and made sure you'd be better off. Since the Keep Government Workers Employed Act was passed, we saw only one Stimulus Bill sign pointed to a "Shovel Ready" project. It was a new concrete approach to the parking lot of a City Hall 15 miles away. That's it. Unemployment is 13% in my county, unless you work for the Government. Folks have lost their homes at a prodigious rate. There's a new day dawning in November. I hope Government workers have enjoyed themselves since 2008, that's all about to change in January.

 

Prof, your assertion has been thwarted, many people here are better off. Perhaps you should have got yourself a better skill set?