{"id":2819,"date":"2004-09-24T01:49:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/are-you-better-off\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:14:33","slug":"are-you-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/are-you-better-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you better off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oemperor.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/are-we-better-off-well-my-last-post.html\" title=\"Are We Better Off?\">Ontario Emperor<\/a> pointed out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/AreYouBetterOff\/\" title=\"Are  You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?\">series of graphs from Buzzflash<\/a> highlighting some of the numbers behind how our country is doing. Not that surprising if you&#8217;ve been paying attention, but certainly interesting to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/_AreYouBetterOff_042104_unemployment.gif\" height=\"287\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Unemployment\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/_AreYouBetterOff_042104_jobcreation.gif\" height=\"317\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Job Creation\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/_AreYouBetterOff_042104_djia.gif\" height=\"277\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Stock Market\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/_AreYouBetterOff_042104_deficits.gif\" height=\"241\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Budget Surplus\/Deficit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The question, of course, is whether a Kerry presidency would have numbers close to what Clinton&#8217;s produced, and there&#8217;s really no way of knowing that at this stage in the game. I&#8217;d hate to see where these graphs end up after four more years of Bush, however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;Seedy Films&#8221; by Soft Cell from the album <em>Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret<\/em> (1981, 5:04).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Emperor pointed out a series of graphs from Buzzflash highlighting some of the numbers behind how our country is doing. Not that surprising if you&#8217;ve been paying attention, but certainly interesting to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}