There has been policy passed while Obama has been president that I view as dangerous to our nation and our future. But.... My life has actually slowly improved over the last 4 years. I attribute that to my own doing and give no credit to any policy passed by congress or Obama. An example is that I pay cash for everything and do not use credit cards, or take out loans for purchases. If I can not afford something right now, Then I do not bother with it. I work hard and earn my keep. I cut down on eating out and use that money I saved to compensate for higher gas prices and I do many other things that have helped imrove my overall life style and living standards. But Obama has done nothing to hamper my life style. I look at my neighbors and I do not see much change there either. I read time and time again that Obama is the worse president of all time and is destroying this nation. I am just not seeing it. Perhaps Its just not happening in my neighborhood. How has your life changed under Obama?
I have to pay more for gas. I see people i know struggling to find work. I will soon be taxed tremendously for a healthcare i am obligated to purchase. He engages in more wars than bush did, which i do not approve of and my congressman wasnt asked to start them. Ive lost more liberties. The guy is bush on steroids with an added bonus of rampant racism within this administration and Christiphobia.
Since I can't afford vacations I get to vicariously live them through looking at pictures of Michelle Obama going where I wish I could. In a way its like I'm there since I'm helping pay for her trips. I'm very thankful.
For the first time I can remember, I am worried about America especially since Obama wants to "fundamentally change" it.
America will be fine. Sometimes though you have to hit hard times to appreciate what this country stands for. Obama is that hard time.
I was doing ok until I lost my job in June. I have now returned to practice under a deal where another attorney pays my overhead in return for a cut of my fees. He thinks I am his employee, but I am actually self-employed since I have no salary I can count on. We will see if I can make money in this economy. I am hoping so, but things are still pretty bad in Las Vegas. We've been the hardest hit in unemployment and foreclosures. Its almost like we're making up for the boom times when Bush was President.
(1) The business I work for is not hiring due to the regulatory uncertainty. (2) Dodd-Frank has killed small businesses ability to access loans (3) Zero Bound Interest rates has killed earning on savings. (4) My home utility bills particularly electricity are more expensive (5) Gas Bills are rising
I'd say I'm actually doing better now than I was before, but as you said, it's because of my own efforts and not any policy from the government. My job is recession- and depression-proof. The only problem I have is fighting for hours, but that's because my manager sucks (as a manager. As a person he's great). Gas prices are a problem too, but I know there's little to nothing the President can do to affect those.
My parents, nearing retirement in a year or two, were worried about losing it all before they could head out; a lot of stress and a lot of their coworkers got laid off. Some still are waiting for the next round of lay-offs. But, my family is rather financially secure, I graduated, did a 2-year residency and now have a job; all in the last four years. That was likely to happen anyway, though, so that's not necessarily life changing under Obama. A great number of my classmates have not been as successful, though. Facebook went from them bragging to me feeling bad for them. It hasn't been good.
i can say that my business has gotten better in the last 2 years..Why?...because all the other businesses like mine folded up..i am the last one left within 50 miles..but its nothing i wanted or wished for..
gas prices go up and down each year. it did the same thing under Bush. it has nothing to do with Obama. Gas prices are still lower now they were were under Bush's ;last year.
Okay... I remember almost every day under Bush, some liberal would write letters to the editor about big bad Bush making his oil buddies rich with the cost of fuel. Now that Obama is President, suddenly the President doesn't really have anything to do with the price of gas. I remember that under most of Bush's administration, it took me $20 to fill up my tank; now $40 gets me a little more than half a tank. Yet the same liberals who complained about gas prices under Bush, even when they were $2.50 a gallon, don't bat an eye when they have to pay $4.25 a gallon under Obama. In fact you hear them say that high gas prices are good, because it gets people to buy electric cars. High gas prices under Bush - bad! Evil, greedy! Making oil companies rich! Bad, bad, bad! High gas prices under Obama - its all part of the plan. Lets increase taxes on oil companies! Who cares if gas prices go up because of it; we really should be paying $6 a gallon anyway.
The first time ? I started to worry when the religious right started to take over the GOP. I was really worried at the staggaring debt that was racked up by Reagan and Bush Sr. It looked like we had turned the corner under Clinton but then Bush Jr came along and the spending spree resumed. This was when I really started to worry and my fears were confirmed in 2008. Now I don't worry so much any more as I am resigned to the fact that due to the Bush admin we will have to default at some point in the near future. There is little that Obama or Romney (the political will is lacking on both sides) can do about this so there is no point in worrying about it. Just relax and enjoy the show.
Perhaps it was Obama saying that energy prices would increase during his tenure that makes people think that the sustained increase is not a natural market driven price. His monetary, energy, and regulatory practices inevitably result in higher commodity prices across the board.
My life has actually improved the last four years. Well aside from the student loan debt. That I could do without.
I was born under Kennedy. My grandparents finally bought a house, got a telephone and became stable because six of 10 people in the house were working. Under Lyndon Johnson's great society my mother was able to quit her job and move out, living alone with me in a three-room apartment with no car or telephone. We had two tense years with an uncle in Viet Nam. Under Nixon my mother returned to work and bought a car and telephone. Under Ford not much happened. Under Carter I took my first job (minimum wage) and started college with good work-study jobs, and financial aid, but I also became a Christian and pacifist so I didn't register when he brought back draft registration. Under Reagan I lost some benefits until I registered for the draft, so I graduated broke. Scrambling to make some money I took inappropriate jobs. As he left office however I was working lots of overtime and getting self-sufficient. I peaked under Bush Sr., buying a house with mother, but things started going badly at work. I tried to make it as a salesman but the recession of 1991-1992 hurt badly. Under Clinton I returned to work but rarely found full-time permanent work. I was fired from the two full-time permanent jobs I had in his second term but ended the administration with a healthy bank balance and many credit cards. Under Bush Jr. I married, bought a 26-room house and rental property, and helped my wife open a store. By the end of his term the houses were foreclosed, the store shut down, I was on probation for a crime I didn't commit, legally insane and again recently-fired. Under Obama I completed bankruptcy, bought a nice car which was recently repossessed and got fired three more times. On the other hand I'm finally in good standing with my remaining employer and have health insurance paid by the state. Boy do I miss Bush Sr.
Reagan added $1.5 trillion over 8 years. Bush Sr. added $1.2 trillion over 4 years. Barack Obama has added over $6 trillion ($6,000,000,000,000) in LESS than four years. I think you should re-evaluate how you judge the Presidents. The deficit as a percentage of GDP: George W. Bush 2001-2009: 2.7% of GDP Barack Obama 2009-2012: 8.9% of GDP O....kay.... ................ That's sad.
First off, I don't know where you live, but I've never had to pay $4.25 a gallon. $3.60 is the highest I've ever had to pay. Second, it doesn't matter who the President is - they have no power over gas prices. The "liberal" writing about Bush causing high gas prices was just as much of an idiot as the conservatives that now claim gas prices are Obama's fault.
