"Are you better off than you were 29 years ago?"

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/01/29/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

Bonus Quote of the Day

"Are you better off than you were 29 years ago?"

-- Rep John Yarmuth (D-KY), quoted by Greg Sargent, making the case against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. No. I'm 29 years older.

[Warpy]

2. Far better, financially speaking

because my dad died 7 years ago and left me enough to live on.

Otherwise, it would be a studio apartment in a worse part of town and nothing to live on but Social Security and food stamps.

I'd rather have my dad still here, though.

[Drale]

3. Yes

I was not alive yet 29 years ago so yes.

[panader0]

4. I don't remember my thirties....

[2naSalit]

5. No

I had a good enough income to support a divorced sister with a couple kids on my income then.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Nope! 29 years ago I had a beautiful house in mill Valley Ca. With

Two Ferrari's and a rice rocket in the garage. Now I have a 6 year old F150 and a modest house in Tucson. Don't get me wrong, I am not uncomfortable but I pretty much clawed my way through the last 29 years to get what I have now.