"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"

[Little-Acorn]

So asked President Ronald Reagan during his campaign for a second term in 1984. It was particularly apropos since he was running against the man who had been second-in-command of the previous Carter administration, with its double-digit inflation, unemployment, and interest rates approaching 20%. After Reagan's radical right turn in 1981 and massive tax-rate cuts, inflation was down, interest rates were falling, and unemployment was low enough to be considered "full employment".

Fast forward to 2010. This election is not a Presidential election, but it is a Congressional one. And it marks the four-year anniversary of 2006, when Democrats took over majorities in both houses of Congress. Spending, already too high after RINOs lost their way, spiked to unheard-of levels, and the national debt began increasing as it never had since WWII. The housing-finance-abuse time bomb, set by Democrats during the Carter administration, accelerated by leftist lawsuits against lenders, and protected by Democrat congresses and filibusters ever since, finally exploded in 2008, crashing the country's entire economy.

So it becomes relevat to ask, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago, when Democrats took over Congress?"

Reagan, after four years of his policies, asked that with pride, and the answer propelled him to one of the greatest landslide victories in history for his second term.

Now, after four years of a Democrat Congressional majoritiy's policies, are Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid asking the same thing as they seek to continue THEIR agenda?

No, they are not. Very pointedly, they are not.

In fact, we are hard-pressed to find ANY Dem congressman even mentioning the major legislative "achievements" of the last Congress: Socialized Health Care, Company bailouts, trillion-dollar deficits, lawsuits against states that try to protect their own borders from invaders, decisions to drop charges against thugs trying to intimidate voters, etc.

As you go to the polls to elect your Congressmen this Tuesday, ask yourself two things:

1.) "Am I better off today than I was four years ago?"

2.) "Is my COUNTRY better off today, than it was four years ago?"

Now, got vote to determine which Congressmen you want to keep in office.

And which ones you want to kick out.

[avatar4321]

Not because of the government.

[Pagan]

Actually, yes. Much, Much better, but like Avatar not due to the government.