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Are you better off today then you were 3 years ago?

Are you better off today then you were 3 years ago?


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I don't take big gambles, actually one of my Son-in-laws is my financial advisor........I might fire him soon.......(just kidding he has made me a lot of money in th nineties)

Anyone could have made a lot of money in the 90's. The DJIA basically quintupled over that decade. It takes someone extra "special" to have only broken even from 2009 to now, though.
 
Well, at the time of this post 80.22% of us are better off today than we were this time three years ago.

My bet is that the republicans won't be asking this question very much on the campaign trail.
 
Well, at the time of this post 80.22% of us are better off today than we were this time three years ago.

My bet is that the republicans won't be asking this question very much on the campaign trail.

The poll in DP does not reflect at all how people feel nationally when polled.........
 
Patch's Poll: Are You Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago? - Madison, CT Patch

Take our poll and add the reasons for your answer in the comments.

Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Yes (please explain in the comments)

34 (16%)

No (please explain in the comments)

145 (72%)

The same

22 (10%)

Total votes: 201

Are... you... being serious anymore? Just pretend for one second you're still a rational person who is looking at things from a perspective that is non-partisan. Are you REALLY using a poll where one guy deleting his browser cookies could have voted over and over again? I just voted and it gave me this:

This is not a scientific poll.
 
Are... you... being serious anymore? Just pretend for one second you're still a rational person who is looking at things from a perspective that is non-partisan. Are you REALLY using a poll where one guy deleting his browser cookies could have voted over and over again?

And we all know that some little pissant website for Madison, Connecticut is a representative sample of the United States voters. :roll:
 
What I find interesting is that most of those who are doing worse in this forum are right-leaning politically.
 
What I find interesting is that most of those who are doing worse in this forum are right-leaning politically.

I'm sure a lot of them are just saying that because they want to claim Obama made it worse. That's the only reason NP posted the poll in the first place, after all.
 
.........My stock portforlio is about where it was 3 years ago so I have only hold my own there..........
Hmmmm ....

DJIA: +65%
04.27.2009: 8,025
04.27.2012: 13,228

NASDAQ: +83%
04.27.2009: 1,679
04.27.2012: 3,069

S&P500: +64%
04.27.2009: 858
04.27.2012: 1,403​


If you're incapable of making money in the stock market over the last 3 years, you should fire whomever it is who manages your portfolio immediately.
 
I'm sure a lot of them are just saying that because they want to claim Obama made it worse. That's the only reason NP posted the poll in the first place, after all.
I suspect you're right. That's the reason online polls like this one are completely meaningless.
 
Hmmmm ....

DJIA: +65%
04.27.2009: 8,025
04.27.2012: 13,228

NASDAQ: +83%
04.27.2009: 1,679
04.27.2012: 3,069

S&P500: +64%
04.27.2009: 858
04.27.2012: 1,403​


If you're incapable of making money in the stock market over the last 3 years, you should fire whomever it is who manages your portfolio immediately.

But...but...but I thought only the 1% realized gains from an improving market. How does this improve the other 99%
 
April 2009, Pasch is still in college and the future is bright and exciting.

April 2012, Pasch has gone through two years of law school after his bachelor's degree getting him only slightly better than minimum wage. Pasch is way further in debt now, and is really hoping that he'll be able to find work once he has a graduate level degree, support himself, and pay off his loans.

I had a buddy graduate law school in 2008. He worked tables for a year and a half before a crappy law position opened up under a boss that was universally loathed. Good luck Pash.
 
Are... you... being serious anymore? Just pretend for one second you're still a rational person who is looking at things from a perspective that is non-partisan. Are you REALLY using a poll where one guy deleting his browser cookies could have voted over and over again? I just voted and it gave me this:

Here's a scientific poll from Bloomberg ...

Better off: 38%
Worse off: 36%
Same: 25%

http://images.businessweek.com/bloomberg/pdfs/0315_bloomberg_march_2012_poll.pdf
 
But...but...but I thought only the 1% realized gains from an improving market. How does this improve the other 99%
Can you point me to where the 99% have claimed they were excluded from making financial gains in the stock market?
 
Can you point me to where the 99% have claimed they were excluded from making financial gains in the stock market?

If you will please point out precisely where I stated they were 'excluded' from anything.
 
Yes, I'm better off than 3 years ago.

I'm a public school teacher whose pay has increased every year since I started working. I bought my house a couple years and and I'm on my way to paying off my student loans.

We should take some pay off you...HOW dare you be doing better today than 3 yrs ago as a working person...YOUR STEALING MY TAX MONEY...<smirk>
Good for you Josie...you earn it....no one gives you anything for free.

Oh and btw im doing better than I was 3 yrs ago also...and ive been retired since 1994...
 
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If you will please point out precisely where I stated they were 'excluded' from anything.
Then who is it that claims the 99% are excluded from making gains from the market?
 
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I had a buddy graduate law school in 2008. He worked tables for a year and a half before a crappy law position opened up under a boss that was universally loathed. Good luck Pash.

A degree is not a guarantee of employment. It's a piece of paper that says that you're theoretically qualified to work in a particular field, nothing more.
 
The poll in DP does not reflect at all how people feel nationally when polled.........

So?

Plus, you left out an option that is available for when those nationally are polled on a similar question, "the same" or "about the same". This could make a very big difference in your numbers (although it may not be the way you want).

It could also show that people on DP are doing better than the average person in the nation, on average. But why is that a big deal? Shouldn't you be happy that people you interact with are doing pretty good in a poor economy? Why would you feel it is necessary that every poll on here have similar results as national polls?

Plus, you have to also think that polls on DP will include people of other nationalities besides American, while national polls won't (if they're American based polls, then they are going to poll Americans, that's why they are our national polls).
 
If you are or not explain in what way.


No sir, I am not.


Prices have gone up 15-30% on almost everything, while almost nobody is getting raises. 3 years ago I got as much overtime as I wanted; now I can't even have two hours, they send me home early on Friday to keep from paying me time-anna-half.

At that I'm lucky to have a job.... I know lots of people who've spent much of the past 3 years out of work.
 
Well, at the time of this post 80.22% of us are better off today than we were this time three years ago.

My bet is that the republicans won't be asking this question very much on the campaign trail.

Democrats wouldn't want to ask us that question here either. In fact, they would be smart to not bother.
 
Democrats wouldn't want to ask us that question here either. In fact, they would be smart to not bother.

It depends on how the question is asked. Had NP asked "are you better off because of the policies of the Obama administration", the poll would have gone entirely differently. Most people are probably better off, just not because of Obama. I know that my success has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with anything Obama has done, in fact I might be even farther ahead than I am had he and his liberal policies not been in power. That's not what was asked though and I had to answer that yes, I am better off.
 
People here feel that the administration, and in particular, the EPA would inhibit the growth we are experiencing, and with some justification.

People here are also reacting against the boom in terms of a conservative impulse, because it is changing the makeup of our state.
 
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