Are you personally doing better in some way like financially or having a better life in what you own under Obama than you were under Bush ?

I use to be able to buy 6 months of grociers with $1200 bucks now I only get about 4 months worth (same products)
I use to be able to fill up 3 vehicals one of them a truck every two weeks now I have sold teh truck and the cars get filled up one and then 2 weeks later the other and we do not drive anywhere extra I ride my bike and walk more
I use to have money to buy a high quality dog food for my dogs now we by cheaper food for them.
I use to be able to send my mother money to help her pay her bills now I cant. i use to have a savings account with 12 months worth of living saved up now I have a savings accout with $10.52 in it.
My spouse use to bring home 5 figures at least 1 time a year in commissions now commisions are far and few betweem.
Our retirement accounts use to be pretty good for low risk investments now... well good thing we both like our work cuz we will be at it a long time

But in all honesty I do not blame either president for this mess... I blame all those people who have been pushing for decades for government to tax and spend so people who don't earn their own way can have many of the things those who do earn their own way have. I blame those who cry foul when someone is successful and then push to punish that sucess until there is no incentive at all to be sucessful.... presidents have very little control over the economy except in their ability to sign into law those polices writen up by congress which kill incentive to work, drive employers off shore and pit people against people in a envy war so they can remain in power and teh people so stupid and selfish and lazy fall for it every time.... its the people's fault we are so screwed up and until the people get tehir business together that is the way we will stay

Obama was elected and appointed Tim Geithner as US Treasury secretary in January, 2008 and Ben Bernanke as the head of the Federal Reserve. That event led to the total destruction of my family's construction business, the destruction of four other construction businesses, the direct layoffs of over 100 construction workers, and, eventually, the foreclosure of our home, the foreclosures of the homes of several of our workers.

Another "collateral damage," was the attempted suicide of the wife of another businessman whose belongings were seized by a sheriff under orders of a judge who had ruled that, because the man could not afford a lawyer, he did not deserve the right to appear before the judge and represent himself. The judge issued a summary judgment against him while he was in the hospital recovering from emergency heart surgery, saying that he was going to lose anyway, and it would be a waste of the court's time to allow him to appear and have his say.

None of this destruction would have been possible if Geithner had not sent bank regulators out with orders to get the banks out of construction and real estate loans by any means possible (See National City Bank board minutes), which they executed by telling bankers to stop funding those loans. The federal government gave TARP money to the banks, along with paying for the losses on the loans with federal insurance money by getting the banks to dummy up false allegations to make the loans look "bad."

To Obama, Geithner, et. al., the private construction industry was collateral damage and needed to be destroyed to save the banks. A study by the Federal Reserve of St, Louis pinpointed the loss, showing that 22% of all jobs lost were in direct construction jobs, but did not put a figure on the percentage of jobs lost in related industries that supply and serve construction. This is the real story of the Great Recession that we the middle class still suffer from. and this is the reason that the economy will not be coming back as long as justice is bought and laws written to give unlimited power to the banks.