October 28th, 1980 – while debating Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan asked a simple question that made American voters realize that Carter had sold them a false bill of goods. That simple question helped turn the election in his favor. It has been thirty years, but the question is as pertinent today as then.
The current congress likes to leave out the pesky little fact that they’ve been in charge of the government’s purse strings since 2006. Today’s Democrats like to point their fingers at George W. Bush for everything that is wrong in America, but as many people have pointed out, Democrats are the ones that gained control of congress four years ago – right before the economy started to tank.
With the mid-term elections coming in November, it is time again to ask America… “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

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Exactly! nt
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NeoKong (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 8:35AM EDT (link)Foreclosures Rise; Repossessions Set Record
And just so voters know who to blame:
The economy is lost.
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jackhammer Thursday, September 16th at 11:37AM EDT (link)I take exception to your last line “the economy is lost.”
It is in trees nature to grow. It is in the nature of business people to find ways of making money, providing services and the like. It is ingrained in peoples DNA. It is there by heredity and tradition in this country, and nothing the government can do will take that away. Current programs might make people wary of taking risks or investing at the moment or the like, but sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, and trees grow, so too will the economy rebound. People make sure that happens.
It was a shot at Reid.
NeoKong (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 7:17PM EDT (link)His “the war is lost ” comment.
I know the economy will come back.
Just not in time to save Harry.
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jackhammer Friday, September 17th at 3:35AM EDT (link)Better off now? Gee, let me think
RedBeard Thursday, September 16th at 8:40AM EDT (link)Our business volume is suffering and we’ve had to lay people off, our property values are in the toilet, my grandkids’ futures are mortgaged to the hilt thanks to four years of an incompetent and downright vile Dem Congress…. I guess, after deep reflection, I’d have to say no, I’m not better off.
But then, the public union folks can say they are better off, so the Dems have that voter base going for them.
Where is that rolling eyes smiley? It’s needed a lot.
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Well
banzaibob (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 9:18AM EDT (link)There you go again.
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5 for banzaibob!!! -nt
TobyToons (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 9:41AM EDT (link)“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men… Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general… are generally obeyed as a matter of duty [and] assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.” -H.L. Menken
LOL, Banzaibob
frankieb (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 10:11AM EDT (link)I’ve wondered when this question would come up. The one I ask my unemployed lib relatives who shoved “the one” at us in 2008 is: Now what exactly could McCain/Palin have done that’s worse than BOzo is doing?
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Tell the WH brain trust to change the message.
johnt Thursday, September 16th at 10:09AM EDT (link)Axelrod & Emanuel. two real sharp dudes, had better reel the boobish, hallucinating, stuffed toy of an imitation, so called man, known in some circles as the president, and reprogram him.
The poor deluded jerk keeps talking incessantly about the “failed policies of the past”. Why not, he says what he is given to say by the two giant intellects above.
Facts get out, they circulate. Even a scummy media can’t hide them all. These three buffoons are looking ludicrous. Too bad they’re dangerous as well.
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Apparently congress...
kc98gt Thursday, September 16th at 10:22AM EDT (link)has absolutely nothing to do with the state of economy according to Democrats. During the latter years of the 90′s, it was Clinton, not Newt and the GOP congress, who lead this country through prosperous times. We see the same thing today. Deficits began balooning after the Democrats took congress, but this has nothing to do with Congress, but the President in charge according to their logic. Conveniently now when they had a supermajority in the legislative branch and control of the executive branch, it’s not their fault their policies don’t work, it’s Bush’
Good one! :-) -nt
bk (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 11:40AM EDT (link)True as this is
america1st (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 3:25PM EDT (link)I would use the term “two years ago” to focus attention on all the **** the dims have foisted on us while zero was at the helm & lash every dim candidate inescapably to that foundering folly. This is the very least they deserve, but I have no objection to the other sort of lashing, either !!
Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.
But it is something that the press has completely missed
bk (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 5:14AM EDT (link)When did Clinton become such a “great” president – balancing the budget and all that? After the Republicans took control of Congress.
When did things start to go downhill in the economy under Bush? After the Democrats took control of Congress.
I’d say the average person would recall that things were pretty good under Bush for a while, so pulling out this line in a non-presidential election year is perfect, especially given the endless “it’s all Bush’s fault” coming from the left.