Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

Personally, yes I am. Although I have many friends who are not better off.

My uncle lost his job, my mother had her pay cut, I was unable to get a summer job over the past three years, and the cost of gas to get from home to college is killing what little I make.

I think you will only get better if YOU decide. So ok you can't eat out every nite , big deal. There a million jobs at the Gulf. People are vacationing and having a time. You people are goin to worry yourself into a horrible daily life. Enjoy what you have even if its just loved ones. I'm better because in this mess of a government I found my family and spending time with them. Find what makes you happy instead of grumping around , it helps nothing. Dang and i'm a conservitive Rep. https://mythoughtsandmedotcom...

It could be worse

I'm not making less money but my money is worth less.

Nope..

yes its way better

I am better-off now than I was when I got zapped with that $2,000 Payroll Tax Increase, 10-weeks-ago!

Keeping up with the cost of living if that's what you mean. Healthwise, about the same....looks?....let's not talk about that.lol.(:

Nothing has changed in my life. I'm still free to do as I please, I still have money, I eat three meals every day, still have insurance, and now I have vision insurance which I didn't have before. But I am certainly happier now that the election is over and that the President was reelected.

No not by a long shot. My paycheck has shrunk, thanks to obamaflation. Food, gasoline and other prices have shot sky high. My health insurance premiums have doubled and that;s just the beginning.

My wife and I are much worse off now than we were four years ago. Most likely, welfare mothers and other moochers are better off with Obama as president.

Although it has more to do with my development as a person than politics.

Things that affect me daily have all cost more.....Gasoline went for $2.50 to $3.75
electricity up.....healthcare up....car insurance up.....water bill up...
Every type of food up......Tax on my paycheck up.....
everything is up except my paycheck....

Personally yes, but everything around me is not better.

mentally and emotionally yes....but I see this is more of a financial/economic question. In that regard, no. definitely not better off.

About the same.
I now have my own room, a nice phone and laptop.
I can go out by myself.

because i miss my exgirlfriend... she and my current girlfriend were amazing together and i always dreaded and was excited when they got together D:

no you idiot, just its not as fun having an intellectual with 2 people as it is with 3, one being always the opposite opinion on things
and please dont be rude

If he's running for the highest office in the world, want to be the executive over this nation's government, and ultimately his signature make policy and law the YEAH, you bet your ass his tax returns are my business. For all I know he could be doing business with drug cartels and organized crime. Which would pretty much be par for the course for a republican anyway.

Now that he's just another citizen, I don't give a crap and don't care if I see him or his tax returns ever.

Well I'm happy for you. YOU may have it like that but too many who work their asses off just as hard or even harder don't. You can best bet the owner of a McDonald's or Denny's don't pay a cook, cashier, or waitress $4 grand a month. And when they are assessed for higher rent/leasing and utilities, etc... I can bet you that they're more than happy to pass that "expense of doing business" on to the consumer of their product. 401K is a scam anyway, if your boss had gave you a "pension" then that would be different. But that's the problem with you people, you consider simply wanting to be treated fairly "begrudging". Don't get it twisted, no one is knocking anyone for attaining wealth or being so, it's the fact that the norm as become to get more and more wealth at the expense of someone else getting the short end of the deal. There's a word for that and it's called GREED, and it's running a muck in business today, especially in the corporate and conglomerate sectors.

Once again, happy for you. I also believe you, living in Texas I see on a daily basis brainless, uneducated morons who aren't worth their employment in pesos, the majority of which exploit the "good 'ol boy" network to despicability. I also see many who do their jobs, do them well, perform beyond expectations and are a direct cause of higher productivity and still keep the same crappy non-living wage 15 years later that they started with. Speaking for myself, I've earned two degrees, also work very hard, and thus I'm what's called an asset to the company I work for, as well as my own business. Just because our particular situations are good, there simply too many that are dire when they don't have to be and it's all because of wanton greed. Please excuse me if I care about more than just me, myself, and I.

LOL!!! I know what you mean, and it's true these kids don't value employment because many of them are still under mommy and daddy's roof and aren't responsible for themselves yet.

But there are many adults who are responsible, and do those jobs well and diligently. I'd say the living wage law should be that if you're an "adult" especially with a single dependent or more, then YES pay them a decent living wage of $23/hr. But anyone 18 and under still in school living with parents, the minimum wage pocket change, "the least I'm allowed by law to pay you wage" would apply. I don't think it's that hard of a problem to solve.

no groceries have gone up, utility bills, doctor bills, insurance, you name it and the price has risen

No. There is only one family in America that is better off than they were 4 years ago.

same

Much worse off.

Ment to hit NO
I had a job, a savings account, folding money, a good car, now I have no job, am living in below provety level and have a 22 year old car

4 years ago we had hope, cash jobs now we have no hope no cash and no jobs

i think you meant to click the no button my dear D:

OOPS!!! your right so I'll add something to it