Are you better off than you were eight years ago?

Personally I am better off now. I worked my butt off to pay off both of our cars and earn my Master's Degree, which I am still paying off. We purchased our home 8 years ago at a low price. We have a son now after years of infertility and several pregnancy losses. But all of my personal success has little to do with politics. Financially I am worse off because I made the decision to teach part-time while my one and only son is small. But eventually I will return to full-time teaching.

If people take money and what they owe out of the equation than they ALL have to be.

YES

When they consider that money is only a number or a piece of paper the answer is YES.

If we let the banks fail the answer is still YES

Do you think people have smaller houses than they did 8 years ago? Less TVs or PCs Ipods, cell phones?

Get real, everyone has been living high on the hog let the markets correct themselves let the economy recover, let prices fall that would be best for the people.

It is the banks that would loose and the banks that took the risks on bad loans, Home prices would fall and people would buy them back at prices they could pay off and afford.

They would then have the money problem solved and not be in such great debt.

It is going to happen let it happen do not make it worse.

Do not let the bank control it or imprison the people in bad loans let the banks take the hit.

They KNOW they deserve it!!!

"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." -- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws."-- Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

"Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation...but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe

"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -- Henry Ford

Definitely! I have gotten a minimum of 10% pay increases every year. My credit card debt has gone down from almost $10K to $300. I did not buy a house that I could not afford so the only debt I owe is $300 on a credit card and a car payment on a brand new car.

I have been able to travel more in last 5 years than I have in the previous 11 years altogether.

I am a 48 year old computer tech that graduated high school but has no college education.

I dunno...I was 17 eight years ago and a senior in high school...having the time of my life but then again I have learned so much and met so many new people since then and I feel like I have grown so much as a person.

Let's see.. 8 years ago I was graduating high school and driving a used 93 Mustang. Today I'm the mother of a 2 year old, fixing to have another, married to a member of the National Guard who fought in Iraq and is heading back next year and who works for the county Task Force to get drugs off of the streets. I'm employed at a decent paying job who pays my insurance, paid the 5th payment on our new house we just built, and pay my bills on time every month. I don't have extra to put in savings.. but my bills get paid and my family is fed.. so I think we're doing alright. Life is what you make it.

8 years in the past, i develop into 10 years previous. i'm greater perfect off as in i'm luckily married with a job and don't ought to manage my mom on a daily basis. greater perfect by way of fact of a president, i think of not. my very very own age and ambition has almost each and every thing to do with it. i do in comparison to how issues in this us of a are yet i'm financially greater perfect off. (often by way of fact i'm able to legally have an entire time activity) So I do have self assurance I nicely vote Obama/Biden. This us of a does not choose anymore of the comparable.

NO NO NO

I make more money and see less of it

8 years ago, gas prices were all of 10% of the budget, not it is at least or more than that of food costs.

8 years ago, food prices were lower and health care was more affordable.

8 years ago the housing market was strong and a person making an income of 50,000.00/year would have never been able to buy a 350,000.00 home with an adjustable APR with a rate of 3.5% to start. Therefore not creating a home doomed to foreclose.

8 years ago, we were not spending trillions on a war that has strained our troops and sent us in debt to China in record amounts.

8 years ago a man named Bill left us with a surplus and a balanced budget for the next fiscal year.

8 years ago, I told my friends not to vote for a man named George because he talked as though he didn't know what he was doing.

8 years ago I was working in an Auto Shop and just starting college (22 years old). Computer Science degree offers a lot more money-wise than auto-mechanics - so, yes, I am.

Yes, but I can't give anyone credit for it except my wife, myself and the tax cuts that gave me a little extra money to help make it better.

Yes, I have a job and a new truck.

But then again 8 years ago I was 12 so...