Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

[coachdb18]

It's not a question, it's a fact, America has been going downhill fast for the last four years, suffering its first ratings downgrade in its history. America now has had four years of 8% plus unemployment, and it's rising. Gas prices are going up, as are food prices. Employers are giving up and leaving the country for a better chance to successfully run their businesses. Regulations are putting people out of work, all while Obama selects losers and loser technologies to throw money at as they go bankrupt (Solyndra). He has an administration replete with criminals and felons, and has a history now of killing his own people, both with drone missile fire and ATF agents vs border police, no different than the Syria he assails. His Justice Department is a newborn GESTAPO, with violence when it feels like it, and abuse of citizens of the 'wrong' color or demographic. It's been open class warfare since day one of this junta.

So it really isn't a question as to whether we're worse off than we were four years ago, it's now a question of 'Will we as a country survive the abuses of the last four years'?

 

[run_silent]

No, I am not.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I am much better off than I was four years ago.

Thank you, President Barack Obama, for restoring hope in America.

 

[Jades]

Why ask a question if you are going to say its not a question? Geez. It's not as if people aren't confused enough already.

 

[bronzeage]

Much better off.

I can't take full credit. There was a lot of help from public school educated employees and a transportation infrastructure which allowed easy access to my business.

Of course, being incredibly smart and making wise decisions helped.

Most of the credit has to go being born a white male in the USA, in the second half of the 20th century. It truly was our time and possibly the smartest thing I ever did.

 

[blobfish]

I'd say so, but not because of Obama.

 

[coachdb18]

No, I am not.

Unemployment figures for the country stand at 15%, when all the unemployed are counted. We now have a tyrant who laughs at our national trainwreck, the one he caused, and tells us 'the private sector is doing fine'. He sings and dances while people are in distress, taunting the very pain he's inflicted, like a mob hitman. And now he has said entrepreneurs who have taken risks and worked endless hours, investing their futures to build businesses 'You didn't build that'! He's a madman, a psychotic fuck of the same standing as Caligula...

 

[tinylittlegnat]

After bush left office my life has improved greatly. In the last three years I have gotten engaged, married, went on a cruise, 2 vacations, a Disney honeymoon, started a new career for a job I enjoy, bought my wife a new car, and built a house. These last few years have been good to me.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Bout the same actually.

 

[bronzeage]

Unemployment figures for the country stand at 15%, when all the unemployed are counted. We now have a tyrant who laughs at our national trainwreck, the one he caused, and tells us 'the private sector is doing fine'. He sings and dances while people are in distress, taunting the very pain he's inflicted, like a mob hitman. And now he has said entrepreneurs who have taken risks and worked endless hours, investing their futures to build businesses 'You didn't build that'! He's a madman, a psychotic fuck of the same standing as Caligula...

The worst part of the past 4 years has been listening to those who think government has caused all their problems and all they have to do is get a new government to solve their problems.

The problem lies with them. A Republican President will not make them any smarter, or less likely to whine about their shortcomings.

 

[Recidiva]

I am actually much better. I kept my job, the recession forced my place of business to fire those who made my job harder to do, and Ulaven had about the same. I became more valued when fewer morons were about and both companies he and I worked for hired people with more stringent qualifications and less bullshit. Ulaven got a nice raise.

This year we got three times more back on our taxes than we've been accustomed, with approximately the same amount earned.

Thanks!

 

[Adre]

Quite a bit better, and I appreciate your asking. I worked and planned for a time when I could kick back, and so far so good. How about yourself, since you seem so interested in your fellow man? Am I correct in thinking you believe we would be much better off with McCain/Palin at the helm? They would have been much better at pulling us out of the deepest financial pit of our lifetimes?

 

[Adre]

Coach, I said it earlier and I'll say it again, you and stupid are predictable bedfellows

 

[busybody..]

They would have been much better at pulling us out of the deepest financial pit of our lifetimes?

yes

 

[Wrong Element]

I sure am.

 

[coachdb18]

Quite a bit better, and I appreciate your asking. I worked and planned for a time when I could kick back, and so far so good. How about yourself, since you seem so interested in your fellow man? Am I correct in thinking you believe we would be much better off with McCain/Palin at the helm? They would have been much better at pulling us out of the deepest financial pit of our lifetimes?

So you aspire to be successful, and to 'kick back', and to plan for a future where you can put away money to live on in retirement, during a time when we go through the 'deepest financial pit in our lifetimes'? Don't you feel like the government should take ALL of that ill-gotten gain of yours? You don't aspire to be greedy like that, do you?

 

[Recidiva]

So you aspire to be successful, and to 'kick back', and to plan for a future where you can put away money to live on in retirement, during a time when we go through the 'deepest financial pit in our lifetimes'? Don't you feel like the government should take ALL of that ill-gotten gain of yours? You don't aspire to be greedy like that, do you?

So...someone is actually doing well and it's their fault? It is possible to thrive through difficult circumstances. Blaming someone's ability to thrive is really not all that productive and just shows how partisan you want to make it.

My sympathies to people not doing well, but it isn't all of us.

 

[Adre]

So you aspire to be successful, and to 'kick back', and to plan for a future where you can put away money to live on in retirement, during a time when we go through the 'deepest financial pit in our lifetimes'? Don't you feel like the government should take ALL of that ill-gotten gain of yours? You don't aspire to be greedy like that, do you?

I don't aspire, I did it. The government did not take all of it. What don't you understand about this?

 

[busybody..]

So...someone is actually doing well and it's their fault? It is possible to thrive through difficult circumstances. Blaming someone's ability to thrive is really not all that productive and just shows how partisan you want to make it.

.

really?

Didnt Obama say that?

YOU DIDNT EARN THAT!


Didnt he say that???????????????

How DUMB can you really be?

Oh wait! IM ON IGGY!

 

[coachdb18]

So...someone is actually doing well and it's their fault? It is possible to thrive through difficult circumstances. Blaming someone's ability to thrive is really not all that productive and just shows how partisan you want to make it.

My sympathies to people not doing well, but it isn't all of us.

The same people who are advocating 100% taxation are bragging about 'doing well', while simultaneously taking from others, and supporting a guy who says 'you didn't build that, somebody else did'.

 

[busybody..]

I don't aspire, I did it. The government did not take all of it. What don't you understand about this?

You DIDNT do it by yourself

 

[Sean Renaud]

The same people who are advocating 100% taxation are bragging about 'doing well', while simultaneously taking from others, and supporting a guy who says 'you didn't build that, somebody else did'.

Nobody is talking about 100% taxation and he didn't say you didn't built that someone else did. Are you faking stupid or for real stupid? Cus you should never go full Jen.

 

[coachdb18]

I don't aspire, I did it. The government did not take all of it. What don't you understand about this?

The government WILL be coming for it, you did NOT do it, or haven't you heard. It's not yours, and you will be giving it up. Just look at France... and look at the trend to take 401(k), savings, to tax more, to find more ways of creating class warfare.... so there is nothing to aspire to, or as you say, you 'did it', because it is after all just government money that doesn't really belong to you after all.

 

[Recidiva]

The same people who are advocating 100% taxation are bragging about 'doing well', while simultaneously taking from others, and supporting a guy who says 'you didn't build that, somebody else did'.

You realize you're talking to yourself, right? Not me. I didn't see any of that, just that you're pulling this crap out of your ass and then frothing when reality doesn't agree with you.

That's generally considered crazy.

 

[blobfish]

Fun fact: the highest income tax rate in history was 94% on the top earners in 1944-'45.