Compared to January 20, 2009, are you?

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

(This is a personal question, not a national or global question.)

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	Better off
	6 (50%)
	Worse off
	5 (42%)
	The same
	1 (8%)
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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. At the salary I was making in 2008,

thanks to being laid off, I've missed out on about $300k of salary since then.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Not an easy one for me to answer.

Worse off $$ but nothing to do with PBO. Lost my job around that time due to downsizing and the market hasn't been kind to my 401K.

Happier mentally because I am out of the corporate world and doing what I love.

[arcane1]

3. I'm overall better off, but it's not due to politics n/t

[k8conant]

4. Only better off because...

1) I filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
2) Managed to pay $50,000+ worth of medical insurance and bills.
3) Now eligible for Medicare
4) Husband getting raises and overtime


Still can't find a decent IT job and would like to have back the $30,000 in retirement accounts we wiped out.

[Massacure]

5. Not applicable.

I was in college on January 20, 2009.

[Stand and Fight]

6. Better off.

The president has done a great job. I think things will only continue to get better under the presidency of Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. If one of the Republicans gets in office, I fear for the economic well-being of the country. After all, every time we've had a major economic collapse -- the Great Depression or Recession -- it's been under the administration of a former Republican business man like George W. Bush or Herbert Hoover. Now just imagine a business man that's declared bankruptcy as much as Trump being president! Nightmarish, isn't it? For that reason I will enthusiastically support either Democratic candidate.

[doc03]

7. The recession forced me to retire a year early, these have been the

best 7 years of my life. The only down side is getting old. For the younger people that couldn't retire it has not been so good.

[etherealtruth]

8. I was stuck in a horrid job due to the economy (and my own fear r/t economy)

After the economy improved (and i was sure of the improvement) ... i found a new job making ~$25,000 more a year ... more money and better working conditions

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. My bank account's larger, I'm still in my own house, and I drive a slightly nicer car.

One of my kid's college plan is paid off and the other is almost done.

Not that there were times intervening between 2009 and now that weren't rather dicey, but all in all, yeah I'm better off.

[Downwinder]

10. There is no inflation and I just got a letter

that my Medigap is only going up $60 /month on 04/01/2016.

[AngryAmish]

11. I am retiring on my 48th birthday later this year.

What do you think?

[Bigredhunk]

12. Better Off

Not much has changed with the economy for real people. I blame repugs for obstruction, sitting on their hands, trying to make President Obama's 2-term presidency a failure. Why they don't called out for it by the media frustrates the hell out of me. Make the country better fuckwads!

The main thing is that I now have health care. I didn't before President Obama.

[noamnety]

13. Not sure how to answer this.

My salary has stagnated - not keeping up with the cost of inflation. But my savings have grown, in part because we spend a grand total of $1.60 per person per day on food, and unless there's snow/ice, I bike the 2.5 hour round trip to work so I don't have to pay for gas.