USA Election Question... Are we better off than we were 4 years ago?

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spurgeonryan said:
Wars are about to end and have ended, stock is doing alright, unemployment is not too bad, there is a start on americas health standards, oil spill was handled well but katrina is still bein worked on. Debt is going down a bit this year, gas prices not too bad, etc.

It has not been great, but we are finally digging out of the hole bush and partly obama had put us in.

I just checked the Debt Clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/  This time last year I remember very vividly (because I first saw it during an internship last summer) that the overall debt was 14 trillion.  Now it's nearly 60 trillion.  And unemployment is still hovering around 8% http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 as it has for nearly all of Obama's presidency vs. Bush's 5%.  I am not a Bush supporter by any means, but people often over-exaggerate his faults as is the same for most presidents I suppose.