Are you better off? Compare

[Reverenddel]

2008 Average fuel price $2.67
2012 Average fuel price $3.82
-Source AAA

2008 Average gallon of milk $2.31
2012 Average gallon of milk $3.79
-Source USDA

2008 Unemployment rate for the U.S.A. 5.8%
2012 Unemployment rate for the U.S.A. 8.3% (as of July)
-Source U.S. Bureau of Labor/Statistics.

U.S.A Tax rate for Corporations 39.2%
Amount of corporations leaving the U.S.A 1.32%
-Source OECD

Foreclosure filings have increased 97% since 2006.
-Source CBS News

The Navy SEALS hunted, and killed Osama Bin Laden. What's the President supposed to do, say "NO"?!? He'd be CRUCIFIED in the media, and popular opinion.

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them.

And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"- Barrack Obama

And let's now add "THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION" to that list!

Along with the following scandals:

- Eric Holder (D) Attorney General, was held in Contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives after refusing to turn over all of the documents they had demanded concerning the Fast and Furious gun walking operation started under the Bush administration but ending very badly. Holder was involved in the pardons of Marc Rich and 16 Puerto Rican terrorists under Bill Clinton. He is STILL EMPLOYED by BARACK OBAMA

- Terence Flynn (R) an appointee of Barack Obama to the National Labor Relations Board resigned in May, 2012 after being accused of serious ethical violations by leaking information to the National Association of Manufacturers.

- Martha N. Johnson (D) head of the General Services Administration fired two top GSA officials and then resigned herself after it was revealed that $822,000 had been spent in Las Vegas on a four day training conference for 300 GSA employees.

- Rashid Khalidi was an advisor to the PLO. Obama dined with him, served on a board with him, and Khalidi held fundraisers for Obama. Jesse Jackson Sr. promised one audience that the Jewish influence on American foreign policy would soon come to an end with an Obama victory.

-Solyndra On August 31, 2011 mad an announcement it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, laying off 1100 employees, and shutting down all operations and manufacturing. Solyndra's quarterly employee meetings told employees that the company was losing money, and that production costs, while declining, were still higher than the also-declining market prices for solar panels. The decision to lay off employees and cease operations came about as the result of a board meeting on August 30 in which terms for the injection of additional capital could not be agreed upon. This left Solyndra with virtually no cash. It had received more than $500 million in federal loan guarantees through a Recovery Act program. The loan process is now the subject of a congressional investigation.

(and it goes on, and on, and on...)

Am I better off? No.

If you are? Congratulations, you're in the minority.

Remember this... You can CLAIM you voted for someone, and vote for someone else... No one is in that booth with you.

[ShotgunBlast]

Yay! I'm FINALLY a minority!!

[ratherfish]

You Kreutz and the speakers at the dumbocrap convention.


Splains a lot!

[SHMIV]

I actually am better off. HOWEVER, this is in SPITE of Obama and his crew of thugs, not because of them.

As it happened, when Obama took office, I was jobless and living in a homeless shelter. I could only go one more step down, and it wasn't a very big step. My state of being, by the way, had absolutely nothing to do with Bush or his policies (nothing to do with the First Idiot, either). It had everything to do with poor decisions on my part.

Somehow, I suspect that I would be even better off today, without all these meddlesome politicians getting in my way of actual progress. (and when I say "progress", I mean "progress", not what gets passed off as such by those on the left, which is actually the precise opposite of it.)

[ratherfish]

4 more years of the Obaminator and picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and making something of your life may be as impossable as it is in most other countries.

I'm sure it wasn't easy. But YOU made it!
YOU did it!

Not the welfare state.
Not Obama!

I know. I've been through it myself.

[rromeo]

I'm better off. 4 years ago I lived in California. Now, I'm making the same salary and my expenses are nearly half. Obama didn't do it, but the democrat run state assembly and senate did.

[SpanishInquisition]

I actually am better off. HOWEVER, this is in SPITE of Obama and his crew of thugs, not because of them...

Congrats, sir. You built it.