If you people think this is a good economy....
The question wasn't whether or not we thought this was a good economy, it was are we, as individuals, doing better than we were 3 years ago. And it looks like the majority of people are doing better.
If you think that someone admitting that they are doing better than they were three years ago means they think that we are now in a good economy, then you are leaping to false conclusions.
This is because, despite what some people will try to claim, the economy
is doing
better than it was three years ago. As I noted earlier, the economy was
completely ****ed 3 years ago. Being better than
completely ****ed =/= good. It can mean partially ****ed, mostly ****ed, almost completely ****ed, slightly ****ed, or even just plain ****ed.
The economy is recovering. It doesn't care who the president is. He doesn't deserve credit for the economy, nor does he deserve blame for it. The president's actual effect on the economy is nowhere near what politicians and pundits would have us believe. It is great political fodder, but it's preying on the ignorance of the masses.
Any president would have seen an improvement in the economy over the last three years. It doesn't matter what party they belong to, nor does it matter whether or not they support certain policies. It would have been damn near impossible to
not see any improvement from where things were 3 years ago.
If one wants to make any partisan points about the recovery, they should limit those points to what is logical and rational: Has the recovery been helped or hindered by Obama's policies? Because at
most, that's all a president can have an effect on with regard to economic recoveries of this sort. They can hinder them, they can help them, or they can have little-to-no effect in any direction (That last option being the most likely scenario, by the way. Ignore the credit taking and blaming that comes from self-serving douchebag politicians. That's all bull**** they spew in order to get votes for themselves and their party and only an idiot would assume there was any truth to it without researching the ever-living **** out of the information first.)
Does overall improvement in the economy mean every individual is doing better? Of course not.
But I'm a "personal responsibility" type of guy, so I don't buy the "it's the
government's fault I'm not doing better right now" line of bull****. Not four years
after the market collapsed and the economy fell in the ****ter. It's not the government's job to save us from ourselves. If someone is not doing better now than they were three years ago, it is almost certainly
not the government's fault. More often that not, the lack of improvement over the last four years is the person's own damned fault. They either didn't adjust to a changing situation, failed to plan appropriately, or were just too damned stubborn to take responsibility for their own future.
Some people might be in worse situations than they were through no fault of their own, of course. Illness, injury, Natural disaster, etc. If the primary cause of their decline is something that really was an unpredictable event of some sort, then their misfortune isn't their own fault.
But for
most people doing worse now than they were three years ago, they just didn't do a damned thing to make sure they'd be doing better.