Yes, you are better off now than you were then.

[sealybobo]

And you democratic socialists should demand that those workers share that increased wealth with everyone else!

That is the philosophy of the left. Why do you need the government to do it for you?

No that's your weird understanding of reality.

 

[jknowgood]

I am better off, despite the Trump caused inflation.

I didn't realize Trump has been president for the past 3 1/2 years.

 

[jknowgood]

And you democratic socialists should demand that those workers share that increased wealth with everyone else!

That is the philosophy of the left. Why do you need the government to do it for you?

Lol, servers would disagree with you. People don't have the extra income they had. So they don't eat out as much or don't have the money to tip better.

 

[sealybobo]

I didn't realize Trump has been president for the past 3 1/2 years.

I have continued to work, make good money and put in to my 401K. My stocks are up.

If you aren't better off today than you were 4 years ago, how are you going to ever retire?

 

[jknowgood]

I have continued to work, make good money and put in to my 401K. My stocks are up.

If you aren't better off today than you were 4 years ago, how are you going to ever retire?

Probably will never retire.

 

[sealybobo]

Probably will never retire.

Republicans Confirm Their Plan To Let Social Security Go Insolvent​

 

[lafayette]

I didn't realize Trump has been president for the past 3 1/2 years.

He had been the president who screwed up the economy in his last year that it took almost four years to start coming back to normal.

 

[jknowgood]

Republicans Confirm Their Plan To Let Social Security Go Insolvent​

Republicans aren't going to do that. They all have family members that rely on it. The truth is so far, democrats are going to give it to the millions of illegals they are letting cross our border.

 

[jknowgood]

He had been the president who screwed up the economy in his last year that it took almost four years to start coming back to normal.

I thought Biden fixed it in his first year. Was he lying again?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Most working Americans are better off now than they were when the reign of Trumpery ended with a dismal 34% public approval.

With inflation easing, the wages of working-class Americans are finally moving into the plus column. Average hourly pay for production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up four-fifths of employees — hit $30.27 in August, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ​

According to my organization’s analysis, working-class Americans’ wages, adjusted for inflation, have just edged higher than they were on Election Day, 2020. The average working-class American can now answer “Yes” to the question, “Are you better off now than you were under Trump?”​

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If a person isn't better off now than right at the beginning of a crushing pandemic - then there is something wrong.
It ranges from disingenuous to just plain stupid to compare now to during the pandemic.

 

[schmidlap]

If a person isn't better off now than right at the beginning of a crushing pandemic - then there is something wrong.
It ranges from disingenuous to just plain stupid to compare now to during the pandemic.

The geezer constantly maintained that he had covid under control.

 

[Pappadave1]

The only people who are better off today than they were 4 or 5 years ago are illegal aliens.

 

[jotathought]

If everyone is better off now than they were then, why is there record-high credit card debt, increased consumer debt delinquencies, a sluggish housing market, and a record-high surge of layoffs with record-low hiring in August?

 

[lafayette]

I thought Biden fixed it in his first year. Was he lying again?

You have lost. Trump screwed it up, Biden fixed it.

 

[lafayette]

If everyone is better off now than they were then, why is there record-high credit card debt, increased consumer debt delinquencies, a sluggish housing market, and a record-high surge of layoffs with record-low hiring in August?

There is a robust economy with a soft land, inflation at 2.5%, UE at 4.2%, so forth. jotathought, stop delaying and go get the retraining.

 

[Orangecat]

Yes, you are better off now than you were then.​

 

[jotathought]

There is a robust economy with a soft land, inflation at 2.5%, UE at 4.2%, so forth. jotathought, stop delaying and go get the retraining.

A "robust economy", yet people can't pay their bills and use their credit cards at record levels for common goods and services such as utilities and groceries while paying higher prices for goods and services from record-high inflation in 40+ years and being laid off at record highs for this year.

Sounds like a sweet deal to me .. but that stock market is doing great!!

 

[protectionist]

You'll never see $600 a month. But aren't you making more now? Everyone else is. So now that prices are going down, you keep doing better and better. Interest rates just went down. That hurts me because I want over 5% interest on my cd's. You guys want lower interest to keep prices down.

What about your car insurance? Have you noticed them gouging you?

I saw it and PAID it, when Trump was president, before Biden came along and started busing and airlifting thousands of illegal aliens into cities, saturating rental housing markets, and driving prices up higher & faster than anyone has ever seen.

You seem to have a narrowminded perspective here. While my rent is up $414/mo (would have been a $600/mo increase if i had not moved).
My Social Security & VA pension payment have increased a relatively tiny amount. Since Biden came in, I have LOST money, and I am getting poorer with every year that goes by, and millions of Americans are in the same boat I'm in.

As for "car insurance" my car got repossessed 3 years ago, when my rent went waaay up, and I haven't had a car since. I dont have any CDs or any securities at all.
You are living in a different universe than I am.

My only hope of that Trump gets re-elected, and puts a stop to all this madness.

 

[westwall]

which is the case every single year

Not under Trump

 

[protectionist]

There is a robust economy with a soft land, inflation at 2.5%, UE at 4.2%, so forth. jotathought, stop delaying and go get the retraining.

2.5%, well golly gee, isn't that nice. It's almost DOUBLE the 1.4% it was when Trump left office, and through a number of Trump months, we had no inflation at all.

After housing rents and gas prices have gone up 100-200%, and remain sky high, ANY inflation (ie. prices still going up) is absolutely unacceptable.

Prices need to be brought DOWN, and a lot.