World, Are You Better Off Now Than 8 Years Ago?

World, Are You Better Off Now Than 8 Years Ago?
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In 1980, Republican candidate for president, Ronald Reagan, famously asked the American people, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Pretty much everyone was fed up with then president Jimmy Carter by that time, his presidency being as bitter as the sour, feeble-minded, unprepared man who conned just enough people to become America's 39th president. That line along with the presidential debates acted as the, “OK, I can do it” comfort factor for voters to create the landslide that thankfully sent Carter back to his peanut farms.

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