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[tenzil]

Reagan asked it in '80; Obama has been paraphrasing it lately. By whatever standard you choose to measure your own economic situation, how do you compare to your own relatively recent history?

Poll the reagan question

Comments

[innocent_man]

I'm better off than I was four months ago because I'm making more money, but that's nothing to do with gub'mint. I got a raise for getting my master's and becoming a licensed SLP.

[kittylea]

Dave and I are doing better now than four years because he is no longer a student. However we are about the same as we were four months ago.

[cmdrhobbes]

I answered 'yes' to both because I have managed to stay employed. But I suspect people who would answer 'no' to this wouldn't be reading LiveJournal.

[spacecrime]

Yes and yes.

With the note that the improvements in my family's life have nothing to do with anything the government has done (beyond providing the basics of rule of law and national defense, both of which I'm very happy to have) and everything to do with us completely uprooting our lives, moving halfway across the country, and working damn hard to get the jobs, pay and educational opportunities we wanted.

[examorata]

Nothing has really changed for me in the past four months, because I have adopted a policy of not paying attention to my 401K statements for now. =)

I am better off financially than I was four years ago, but the current credit crisis has very, very fortunately not really touched me much. I do not own my own home and so far my workplace has not been affected.