> ANYONE who claims they are better off today than seven years ago is either insane or works for the government (the two are not mutually exclusive).
I am better off. No thanks to the Obama Regime and the government.
I worked my butt off to get ahead during these 7 years. I watched my friends lose their jobs (some still don’t have jobs). I watched the interest on my savings go to near zero. I watched my 401K go into the toilet. I watched friends and relatives go into heavy debt.
But making my own luck and changing jobs (still private industry), I now make 4 times what I did 7 years ago, and the government taxes me double what it did 7 years ago (I really hate progressive tax rates that punish you for being a good earner).
So am I. But that's tempered by the knowledge that much of what I have gained is going to come at the eventual expense of my children and grandchildren.
Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my old age, but I can't shake the feeling that whatever prosperity we're experiencing right now is just a short term illusion that's going to have some miserable long-term consequences.
Obama and a complicit Congress tapped a vein to drain the life-blood from our progeny. I don't feel like celebrating because I played my own hand well enough to get some of it.
“I now make 4 times what I did 7 years ago, and the government taxes me double what it did 7 years ago (I really hate progressive tax rates that punish you for being a good earner).”
There we have it - taxes have gone UP.
Prices have gone UP. Food, clothing, everything has gone up.
This is not good for a nation where so many wages and jobs have gone down the toilet.