Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

[JohnnyRingo]

[nicktom]

1. No, but thanks for asking.

[nhc1978]

12. much better

much better.. I work on Wall Street and benefit from downsizing and corporate tax loopholes... of course, the country is falling down around me

[newyawker99]

17. Hi nhc1978!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[UdoKier]

2. Technically, yes.

Financially, I'm no better off. But otherwise, I've moved from a repuke-fascist infested sweatbox hellhole (Miami FL) to the most wonderful, progressive city in America (San Francisco) My kids get to go to MUCH better public schools, and there is so much to do, even for free. I am ecstatic every day to be here.

But none of the improvements in our life can be credited to Dumbya.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. a resounding NO

Net taxes up
Net revenues down


Bush has not been micro-business friendly.

[madrchsod]

4. fuck no...

went from 12.96 to 8.70..insurance went up over a 1.50 per hour...

[leftofthedial]

5. HELL NO!!

I've lost a career, about 60% of my net worth. Spent most of the bushturd's term unemployed or grossly underemployed.

[despairing optimist]

6. Of course I am. Low interest rates have helped me rebuild my home

in the mountains and my bunker downtown. Who needs health insurance when you can own the health care system? And I always have lots of work to do for my clients.

[KT2000]

7. Ummm...... no

just about to hit bottom, but thanks for asking.

[Dob Bole]

8. Yes. Four years ago Bush entered office, and now he's about to leave

nt

[noamnety]

9. not at all

Our family income has dropped about $40k per year. This week, for the first time ever, I asked the doctor not to prescribe the best medicine for my daughter because of the cost.

We aren't on the verge of losing our home or anything, but we're definitely worse off, and switching lifestyles as a result.

[DaveSZ]

10. "a repuke-fascist infested sweatbox hellhole (Miami FL) "

Isn't Miami-Dade county very Democratic?

[Heidi]

Yes, but sadly

it's becaue I live in Europe.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. I'd say it's a wash for me

I have less debt. My mortgage is the only thing I still owe money on.

My 401K is in the dumper however. I've been investing since the Reagan years and the stock market's been in the toilet under Bush

[evilqueen]

13. nope

income went down, prices went up

[pauliedangerously]

14. Well...

My income is just as good, but I could be facing a layoff in the next year. My mental health is another issue....

[Piperay]

15. Yes but only

because I had an inheritance and invested in property which has gone sky high here in CA. I don't give chimp one bit of credit for what someone else worked hard for and then left to me.

[kokomo]

16. The stock my parents held together during the Great Depression I lost....

under four years of Bush. Blue Chip stocks like Cinergy that had been in my family since the 1920's. So my retirement years are no longer "golden". My Aetna health insurance premium has been raised 50% in only the past year while copays also have risen, and the government cut my Social Security by $300 as I was making "too much" money from another pension plan....$600 a month! So now I have to get by on $1000 a month, TOTAL, no easy feat these days.