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I read a news article today from a main stream news site (I forget which) that polled Americans asking if they were better off today than they were before Obama, and the majority said they weren't. I'm surprised.
I did a post here on GFY documenting how bad things were when the recession hit, taking photos of construction projects that just stopped half way through - We had two condo complexes with half built shells and a restaurant where they build the shell but eventually tore it down. Our town was growing and growing quickly - we were one of the fastest growing cities over a ten year period - and suddenly everything just stopped.
My street alone has exactly twenty houses on it, and at the height of the recession exactly half of them were empty and our neighborhood was a ghost town. It was strange. Now all of the houses are occupied except for two, one because they divorced and the other because he decided to buy a larger house for a lot less on the other side of town.
My wife was out of work for nearly two years, and now she's been working full time for the past year. I'm doing well too. Everyone I know locally has jobs and is happy.
I'm sorry, it doesn't matter who was in office. The only solution for this problem is time, and that's a fact. Some of the things Obama did might have helped, or maybe not so much. But this also isn't a four or eight year problem. This will take us ten years to get back to "normal". And even then, we'll never be the same again. We've changed and we are scared it might happen again.
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“The choice is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy.”
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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