Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Two Years Ago?

Pajamas Media ^ | May 30, 2011 | AWR Hawkins

[marsh2]

I am much worse off financially. Increased cost of living (power, gas, heating fuel, home insurance, food, etc.) has pushed my bills for the basics up to match my paycheck. The decline of a very old car and repairs took out the savings. I have a relatively secure job for another 3 1/2 years, but pay has been frozen for last three years and will continue, and perhaps decrease over the next several years. I am in public service in a small rural county and get paid very little. (Less than I was paid in the private sector in the 1980s.)

Local government has laid off 40 some employees over the past three years and will be laying off at least another 35 this next fiscal year. At least I have a job.

[CzarChasm]

yes, despite the best efforts of congress, the president, and local officials

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes I am, but that’s not the pertinent question.

Is the country better off than it was 2 years ago?

[familyop]

How can an overly large government be sustained with revenues of little value and no large manufacturing base during this post-industrial age? Government at all levels is weakening now, in that many regulations can’t be often enforced. Here and there, desperate government offices are trying the last ditch tactic of making examples of individuals.

[When do we get liberated?]

I never saw the sense in basing your vote on such a myopic worldview. I am far, far better off than I was 2 years ago, but I don’t vote with my wallet. What benefits the country is not always best for my bank account.

Vote the commies out!!!!

[afnamvet]

In only one way....I own more guns and ammo.

[mad_as_he$$]

Holding pattern with slow degradation.

[mad_as_he$$]

I quiz libs from time to time about 0. Most they can come up with is 0care.

[FreeMaine]

I am an organic farmer in Maine, am I better off today than I was two eyars ago?

NO!

Was I better off 2 years agon than I was 6 years ago?

NO!

Was I better off 10 years ago than I was six years ago?

HELL NO!!!

[cranked]

The only idiots who think they are better off are those who are also the only ones driving around with a ‘Hope and Change’ bumper sticker still on their cars.... =.=

[M-cubed]

of course its a trap....lol...but a “Rat” has to stick his head up the unicorns butt to be sure....

[geologist]

It can't be sustained. If ones intention is to become a Dictator like Chavez or Castro, etc., then you have it all already, and the people are poor and hungry and own nothing ...

[geologist]

The crime rate along the border and the drugs coming into west Texas is out of control. The numbers of new people not being documented and what at one time were called wet backs is smothering us with the need for bigger schools, more teachers and hospitals with non paying emergency rooms which are used for headaches, colds, cut fingers and many non life threatening treatments. The hospital loses millions yearly. there is a need for low cost housing. There are no houses being built for under $1,000,000

Prefabs and mobile homes are the low cost housing. Problems, problems, problems... much crime ... bugularly, drunk driving, rapes, fights, domestic disputes, drugs, drugs, drugs, ... our jails are overly full and we have added to them twice(one is a whole new jail) in the last few years. God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.

[familyop]

You’re so right about the social problems, crime problems and costs. Many with government incomes see those problems as “industries.” Shame. But before long, they won’t have the revenues or available debt to pay for increasing and messing around with those problems.

There were some social and crime problems trickling down a little before the 1930s. The Great Depression cured a lot of that. Many better families circled their wagons, got rough, and took care of those ugly businesses while rejecting what socialites said was in style.