My best pitch for becoming an Independent.

If you're worse off now perhaps you need a better financial advisor to manage your 401k and IRA.
If you have no investments, perhaps you're financially illiterate and the poor will always be poor.
By any objective measure, this is the greatest economy in the history of the world.

oh i'm my own financial advisor, so my finances are in great shape with an even rosier future. thanks for worrying, though. now, as your concerned close personal friend, what about the objective measures of inflation and the current costs of food, utilities, and healthcare? what about the widening us trade deficit and the 40 trillion dollar national debt?

Can you imagine what democrats and Republicans will do for the people after they see their votes going elsewhere? That will be something.

i can imagine it. but i haven't seen it.

The closest we got was Theodore Roosevelt second term, and they tried to kill him. That tells you all tou need to know.

JFK

Dems create a 100-year mess, and 1 pres. is supposed to fix it in 2 years.

were the Dems in charge for the last 100 years? i need to pay better attention.

The majority of the Time yes, Especially the HOUSE, the money.

well, people tend to vote for their taxes to be used in ways that directly help them.

So people care about the country over personal gain.

Everyone needs to eat and have a place to live.

most do but their never satisfied with what they have

perhaps that is the real magic behind the loaves and fishes.

Magic is an illusion, miracles are real.

Who is telling you that others and I are worse off? Are you psychic or do you have schizophrenia or something? I just retired comfortably at 57 in the Trump economy. I've never been doing better."

i'm so glad. you and i are doing great, but many people are not. for some reason, they're blaming Trump and his Congress.

I agree with you. Many people aren't doing well, and I empathize with them, but there are varying reasons why they've fallen into financial hardship - much of which, according to the data, stems from poor money management. The evidence supporting this is overwhelming.

Furthermore, when people make bad financial choices that lead to difficult circumstances, they rarely take responsibility - even when it lies squarely in their own lap. Instead, they tend blame others.

I'm not saying that's always the case, but it is true most of the time.

No. I was worse off under Bidenomics when gas was over $5 a gallon, I had to buy eggs off a farmer cuz they were $13 a dozen in stores and a bag of frozen chicken was $15 bucks.
When you guys post nonsense about the economy you're admitting you don't buy your own gas or groceries and someone else is taking care of you.
Like college kids living on campus or dudes living in their parents basement.
People who BUY their own know better.
People who don't believe Propaganda on Madcow.