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Are You Better Off Than Your Were Four Years Ago?
abc ^ | 9/3/2012 | staff

Posted on 09/03/2012 3:48:49 PM PDT by tobyhill

Over the weekend, President Obama’s top aides had trouble answering the political litmus test Ronald Reagan put forth to the country in 1980, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
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Medium Income down almost 10%. Gas Prices doubled. Health Insurance Cost up 70%. Unemployment up from 7.6% to now 8.3%. Debt to pass $16 trillion.
1 posted on 09/03/2012 3:48:52 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Yup. We are WORSE off!!!!!!!111

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/obamas-record-on-the-economy-and-housing-are-we-better-off-than-4-years-ago/


2 posted on 09/03/2012 3:49:45 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: tobyhill

In a job that I hate, but blessed to have it.


3 posted on 09/03/2012 3:50:52 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: tobyhill

Yes. I’m another day closer to that Clown Car of Morons being out of the White House.


4 posted on 09/03/2012 3:51:04 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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To: tobyhill

Struggling, can’t get Social Security disability, can’t fill the gas tank, wife has to work through a stroke, utility bills are ridiculous, eating hot dogs and macaroni, but otherwise just peachy!!


5 posted on 09/03/2012 3:53:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: tobyhill

I am, at least financially. But I’m not voting for Obama.


6 posted on 09/03/2012 3:54:06 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: tobyhill

Not better off at the gas pumps, not better off with taxes....Trust the government and media a lot less


7 posted on 09/03/2012 4:02:53 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: tobyhill
1283-No. 480-Yes.

The trouble the Democrats have is that if they answer this truthfully it will remind people this Administration has done nothing. If they lie people will know it's a lie.

Let's talk about abortion instead.

8 posted on 09/03/2012 4:03:09 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Sybeck1

Am in two jobs, both not bad but not that great but grateful to have. One is contract to maybe hire in a few months and the other is a part time tech gig on some weekends for a data mining crowd.


9 posted on 09/03/2012 4:04:26 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: tobyhill

no way.


10 posted on 09/03/2012 4:07:36 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: tobyhill

nope. worse.


11 posted on 09/03/2012 4:08:57 PM PDT by Republic (Keep uhbama desperate - seems to force slips of honesty from his angry interior)
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To: tobyhill

Is this a trick question?

If posed as a rhetorical statement, the objective answer is “no”. But if asked about how things are running down there at the center where consciousness dwells, the answer is, paradoxically, “yes”.

Because of the strife swirling about every day, the need to prepare for stormy weather has been imperative, and the non-essentials have been cut away. The easy way, just to buy on the credit card, and charge it off for sometime in the future, has been revealed as the trap that it is, and a vast consolidation was forced early. Financial reality also led to strategies for the future, like stockpiling some form of valuable store of value (like precious metals) and the acquisition of a firearm, for the first time in adult life. This also involved some rethinking of how the situation external to self and household should impact in the future, and the concept of “porcupine” ranks pretty high. Nobody tangles with a porcupine twice.

Perhaps nobody ever won playing defense. But defense means there is something to take into the next phase of the game.


12 posted on 09/03/2012 4:17:16 PM PDT by alloysteel (Are you better off than you were four years ago? Well, are you?)
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To: tobyhill
The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.
13 posted on 09/03/2012 4:19:29 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: tobyhill
Ha....good question....

and Obambi went from this :

to this, as we see him as a sandman, to be washed away in a Tsunami on Nov 6th,

Bereft of image, policies, agenda and votes.

15 posted on 09/03/2012 4:25:13 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: tobyhill

Even if everything were absolutely peachy, which it isn’t, why would I vote for nobama, the one man country-wrecking machine? I want to be LOTS better off four years from now, not just treading water.


16 posted on 09/03/2012 5:34:25 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: tobyhill

Chris Wallace on “FOX News Sunday” pulverized David Axelrod over this.


17 posted on 09/03/2012 5:37:57 PM PDT by oliviasdad
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Ask me again in ten weeks.

Thanks tobyhill.


18 posted on 09/03/2012 6:43:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Hmmm...In Nov 2008 paid $1.68 for a gallon of gas. Today I paid $3.83 a gallon. Since Nov 2008 I've driven 97,558 miles, on good days getting 16 mpg.

Yep! Using the moslem brother's "million-man-math", things are looking real good...

19 posted on 09/03/2012 8:19:54 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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