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Offline thundley4

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Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« on: March 22, 2011, 07:51:38 PM »
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:11 PM
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Are you better off than you were four years ago?   
   
This needs to be addressed as an issue, it got the second worst President in history elected and could get one that surpasses the awfulness of W elected.

4 years ago, hm, 4 years ago?  What happened then?  Oh yeah, I know, the DemonRats took control of congress and everything went to shit.

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MineralMan   (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:13 PM
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1. Yes. Very much better.   
   
Four years ago, I had no idea what my next step would be. After trying several paths, I found one that works. So, yes, things are better for me in 2011 than in 2007. Much better.

So you got off your lazy ass and got a job?

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Dappleganger   (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:19 PM
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3. Worse than 4 years ago. Worse than 10 years ago.
   
Worse than 15 years ago, actually.

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Little Star   (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:23 PM
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6. Worse off. Can't even hardly afford to go grocery shopping....
   
But those rich must have their tax breaks and we must have our wars, etc., etc.

Unless you're sucking the government teat, those shouldn't matter much.

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lutefisk   (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:25 PM
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8. Are you kidding- I'm a Wisconsin State Employee!

But just think how you are helping the working the WORKING tax payers in your state.

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nemo137 (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:27 PM
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9. I'm employed and no longer suicidal.
   
Yeah, I'm doing way better.

Good for you, bad for us.

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crazyjoe (702 posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:30 PM
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12. I was doing GREAT 4 years ago, and i still AM!!!!!

I didn't know  Joe Biden posted at the DUmp.

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Hissyspit   (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:36 PM
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16. Honestly?   
   
No.

Yet, you'll vote for more of that Hope & Change again, won't you?

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tblue   (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:37 PM
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18. Worse. House is worth less. Health ins has doubled
   
Discouraged about this country's future and don't know what will make it better.

Vote Conservative.

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genna   (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:39 PM
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20. No. The hope has left the building. I am tightly hanging onto the belief he is better than W

That isn't a belief, that's fantasy.

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xphile (86 posts)         Tue Mar-22-11 08:41 PM
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21. Not at all. I had a job 4 years ago.
   
Now I'm a student because I got laid off. It's only a matter of time until I blow through my savings and have to either live in my car or try to see if a relative will put me up.

Getting this degree is the only hope I have for the future and I still have a ways to go before that happens assuming I can find a job when I'm done.

So no I'm not better off than I was four years ago and as a 99er I know exactly how much of a **** the politicians give to my plight.

Nope not better off at all.



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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2011, 07:55:40 PM »
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xphile (86 posts)         Tue Mar-22-11 08:41 PM
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21. Not at all. I had a job 4 years ago. Now I'm a student because I got laid off. It's only a matter of time until I blow through my savings and have to either live in my car or try to see if a relative will put me up. Getting this degree is the only hope I have for the future and I still have a ways to go before that happens assuming I can find a job when I'm done. So no I'm not better off than I was four years ago and as a 99er I know exactly how much of a **** the politicians give to my plight. Nope not better off at all.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2011, 08:31:02 PM »
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2011, 08:33:50 PM »
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Bobbolink (86 posts)         Tue Mar-22-11 08:41 PM
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Mine is.  I got new wiper blades for the Buick a year ago.  Don't judge me, you bastards, I'm homeless!
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2011, 08:34:14 PM »
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 08:37:25 PM »
Interesting how people became less better off when the Dems took over Congress, that couldn't have anything to do with it? could it? :whistling:
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2011, 08:55:05 PM »
Unemployment doubled and then some, food and gasoline prices have risen, state taxes have gone up, health care costs have gone up, insurance prices have gone up, the deficit has gone up, the debt has gone up...and they're trying to find some way to claim that things are getting better.    :mental: :mental:
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2011, 08:57:12 PM »
To answer that question... nope.

I'm unemployed and struggling to make sure our bills are paid.  Never had this problem when Bush was in office.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2011, 10:22:59 AM »
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tblue   (1000+ posts)           Tue Mar-22-11 08:37 PM
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18. Worse. House is worth less. Health ins has doubled
   
Discouraged about this country's future and don't know what will make it better.


Don't tell me, you were stupid enough to pay 900K for an 1100 SF house and thought it would go even higher? Oh, wait, the loan was 5.2%  WHAT A DEAL.

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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2011, 10:26:32 AM »
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Bobbolink (86 posts)         Tue Mar-22-11 08:41 PM
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Mine is.  I got new wiper blades for the Buick a year ago.  Don't judge me, you bastards, I'm homeless!

Damn!  Bobo's just phoning these in anymore.  She ain't even trying. :rotf:

(BTW, good one TC! :II: )
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2011, 11:23:03 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on March 23, 2011, 10:22:59 AM

Don't tell me, you were stupid enough to pay 900K for an 1100 SF house and thought it would go even higher? Oh, wait, the loan was 5.2%  WHAT A DEAL.
That reminds me. Back during the Bush Prosperity, I used to watch those TV shows where people were buying houses, doing some half-assed renovations, and then immediately reselling them for fantastic prices. I'd like to see some reruns, along with the prices those same houses wold fetch today. I remember cramped little Sears catalog cottages selling for $600K-$700K out there in the Peoples' Republic. I'd also like to know what scams those house flippers have moved on to.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2011, 11:32:57 AM »
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lutefisk   (1000+ posts)             Tue Mar-22-11 08:25 PM

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8. Are you kidding- I'm a Wisconsin State Employee!


Hmmm.  Posted on a Tuesday ... at 8:25 am.  A state employee you say.

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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2011, 12:09:56 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on March 23, 2011, 11:32:57 AM
Hmmm.  Posted on a Tuesday ... at 8:25 am.  A state employee you say.

KC

PM.  I am pretty sure it was PM. 
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2011, 01:09:30 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on March 23, 2011, 12:09:56 PM
PM.  I am pretty sure it was PM. 

LOL,  I think you're right!  Oh well.  What the hell is that slacker doing on the computer when they could be out helping the good citizens of WI?  If he didn't work for the state he would still be at work.

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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2011, 01:13:24 PM »
I am, a bit...and I attribute it all to how choices I made worked out, and none of it to politicians of either party.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2011, 01:17:17 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on March 23, 2011, 01:09:30 PM
LOL,  I think you're right!  Oh well.  What the hell is that slacker doing on the computer when they could be out helping the good citizens of WI?  If he didn't work for the state he would still be at work.

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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2011, 03:57:37 PM »
Who wasn't better off 4 years ago?
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2011, 04:06:17 PM »
4 years ago I was 42.  I didn't have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 2 kids about to graduate high school.

Yeah, I was better off.

Heh.

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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2011, 04:40:50 PM »
The only people better off are public sector union employees.

Our seniors have not had a COLA for two years and we all know real inflation has been at 10% since the Obama regime gained power.

Real private unemployment is at 20+%.

State, county, and city governments are bankrupt.

Taxes are higher.

Record number of people on food stamps.

Record number of people in poverty.

Record number of bankruptcies, foreclosures, and defaults.

Health insurance is up an average 30% this year due to Obama care.

And we got all this while the federal donks deficit spent SIX TRILLION DOLLARS.

It is amazing what Nanzi Pelosi, Reid, and Obama have destroyed in four short years.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2011, 08:18:48 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on March 22, 2011, 08:55:05 PM
Unemployment doubled and then some, food and gasoline prices have risen, state taxes have gone up, health care costs have gone up, insurance prices have gone up, the deficit has gone up, the debt has gone up...and they're trying to find some way to claim that things are getting better.    :mental: :mental:
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2011, 09:58:06 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on March 23, 2011, 11:23:03 AM
That reminds me. Back during the Bush Prosperity, I used to watch those TV shows where people were buying houses, doing some half-assed renovations, and then immediately reselling them for fantastic prices. I'd like to see some reruns, along with the prices those same houses wold fetch today. I remember cramped little Sears catalog cottages selling for $600K-$700K out there in the Peoples' Republic. I'd also like to know what scams those house flippers have moved on to.


Most of them declared bankruptcy, or just abandoned the house. But, as we all know, it was those horrible Rethuglicans that caused the mortgage mess..........that and "greedy" bankers.   :whatever:


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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2011, 10:18:39 AM »
I always thought house-flipping sounded about as good an idea as becoming a professional crapshooter.
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Re: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2011, 10:55:01 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 24, 2011, 10:18:39 AM
I always thought house-flipping sounded about as good an idea as becoming a professional crapshooter.

See?  That's why you'd never make a good professional crapshooter/house flipper.  You think too damned much.  :-)
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