Take Inauguration Day for Obama as the yardstick. Have you done a lot better financially, a little better, stagnant, worse or a lot worse?
About the same. Stagnant doesn't seem to accurately describe my situation over the past 4 yrs, so I'll go with a little better
mine is probably a little worse. Bonuses smaller, pay is the same...haven't gotten a raise in the past 4 years. I mean its pretty stagnant for the most part. Even if I were to look for a new job, there's still a lot of competition out there and the pay is low. Side business is still about the same, but haven't had to put clients on payment plans like I did 2 years ago so I guess its better. Overall, I've simplified my life though so quality of life is a little better.
stagnant here too. But it has little to do with who is president, as much as it does my own personal motivation to get out of the job field I'm in.
Way better. Although to be honest, that's from factors that depend barely if at all upon who is president. barfo
A lot worse. I went from $30,000 of equity in my house to 40% upside down. Now, at some point in time I'll give it back and file bankruptcy. My 401K has underperformed. My retirement has gone from OK to very dark. And, Obamacare may very well unemploy me in 5 years or so. It hasn't been a very positive 4 years.
Way better; the company I work for kind of had a lurch for most of 2008, but since January of 2009, it has more than doubled in size from 20 to 50 people, and profit sharing has doubled as well... I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop though, because I entered the workforce full time in summer of 2000 and went through the tech bubble recession mostly unemployed, so I know this happy bubble could burst at any moment.
I say a little better, because I am hired full time now. But I am spending a lot more money due to buying a car and on gf. Also Obama isn't sending us to war anymore and my war profiteering is slowing down.
I'm much better off, but I'm lucky to be in an industry that wasn't impacted much by the financial crisis. Also, the company I'm with has been successful and my stock options are looking good right now. My 401(k) has recovered as well...although it wasn't easy convincing myself to continue to allocate to index funds while the market was tanking, I'm glad I did.
That's a good question. The answer is that I don't really know. How much of the housing crisis and lack of help for people like me is subject to debate. To be sure, some is. The stock market is pretty much the same- a good case could be made either way. As to my job, we shall see. If I lose it due to Obamacare, then I think it fair to lay the blame with the prez. But things like this are all subjective as to how much may be the result of left or right politics and programs- if at all. And since we have so many sheep here who lack the mental & intellectual capability to look at any issue and not see it in glowing terms of their political agendas, it's hardly worth starting down that trail. I mean, I could write the canned answers from both the lefty & righty sheep here and both would agree.
The Republican position is that Obama shouldn't have interfered. He should have let millions like BlazerProphet lose their houses, money, and credit ratings.
Millions did lose their houses, money, and credit ratings. Oddly, people in that boat aren't likely to have access to the internet to visit this site, perhaps.
Since you're going to get vaguely insulting, maybe you could enlighten us how your job could be loss directly caused by obamacare?
