Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Personally, yes, very much so. Very very very much. The world in general....I don't think so.

Less money, but better place to live and work I like better. Health is better, overall. I probably would have picked an option between absolutely and somewhat..

Nope.

You will not find many Germans who are better off with the Euro than with our DM...
We were NOT asked when a corrupt chancellor called Kohl sold Germany to foreign interests, thereby abolishing our currency.
When I said the same things years ago, however, people stared at me in disbelief. Today this is not the case any longer, but it is too late.
(To those who speak Italian: "Kohl" means "cavolo"!)

In some ways I am much better off and in other ways I much worse

Absolutely!
I have more education, more love for my husband and family, and we are much better off financially.
Bush's tax cut helped me pay for some of my education (and no, we aren't rich).

Yes,definitely.

Absolutely, I've learned that with the goal, one will gain motivation (& grades, if in school) and be driven to achieve that goal. I know...sounds REALLY simple, but realizing this, and experiencing it with my goal of being a teacher is probably the greatest occurrence in my life to date.

Yeah, 4 years ago I was just out of high school, just about two months into my first real job as a hostess at a seafood restaurant... giddy that I was working with older people, older hot guys, and got to go out with them all after work. I was a pretty pathetic thing. Little bitty me, smallest and youngest, going out for drinks with the older crew and hoping they wouldn't card me since I was 3 years too young for the bars.

The jury is still out on that one. It's too close to call.

No Doubt about it! I had rotten credit, lived with my parents, single, no kids, dead end job, and drove a Geo Metro!

Now I have a home, a family of my own, cool car, cool stuff, and I work in my own home... It's perfect.

Oh hell yes. Financially, mentally and just all round in general.

I am beter than I was 4 years ago, no doubt about it.

I wonder how many people will credit or blame the president for their current situation? Fact is, for the most part you are the master of your own future. Except for taxes, it shouldn't matter what Congress or the president do and it shouldn't affect your life.

Definitely

It depends on how you mean. In some ways I'm better, and in some ways I'm about the same. But in no way am I worse!

What the congress and the president do shouldn't affect our lives? It doesn't matter what they do?? That's the winner for the most out there statement of the day! You seem to be contradicting yourself a bit, since you're crediting the president for some positive changes in your life, but then going on to say we should be the masters of our own future....so taxes are the only things that matter?

Money-wise - I have more money in my bank accounts *but* most of it is in the form of loans which I'll have to pay back in a few years time.

Life-wise: Absolutely. University suits me down to the ground.

Today: I don't know what I was doing 4 years ago today, but probably having more fun than I am today. As long as it's not dysentry I've got....

In every way.

No - I'm just about to become a uni student!

Financially, no. I have lost just about everything in the last four years.
Mentally & emotionally, yes. I have gained just about everything in the last four years.

All around, though, I'm still fudgeed up in alot of ways. Not fudgeed up in alot of other ways. Geez, now I don't know. I'm all fudgeed up!

No but 4 years before that , we were in a real slump and we crawled out. It's been good and stable for exactly 4 years now.

Absolutely.

Woohoo!

Forgot.....I was only 9.

I know! Cheap beer and baked beans! Sounds like fun!

Somewhat...

yeah, i think I am. four years ago, i would still be in high school, and my job would have been selling beenie babies for a "below minimum wage" pay, and i would have been relativly speaking anti-social. the only downside is that i no longer have any close friends, am way over-loaded with work (partially due to my own fault), and I get depressed more often than before. but my life is getting more and more exiting and unpredicble every minute now, and I now sort of have a second job and soon might quit the first one.

yeah, to a large extent that is true. though the economy isnt exactly something in your hands. but also, the politians and the prez isnt exactlly all powerful over the econmomy either. though he might have been a bit soft on china for their deliberate slashing of their "dollar". weather or not that was the right decison is debateable.

also, i dont know if i agree with his tax break either (and no, i dont think only rich people benefit, and yes, i do realize that middle and even poor classes get cash back as well). though i currently dont have time to debate that with you right now, perhaps some other time.

Four years ago I was halfway through a three year graduate school regimen. I loathed the lifestyle of being a student. I am better off now as I am working and feel like my life is my own again!