Editor, 
 
 The Republicans, hoping that we have no memories, are trotting out 
 Reagan's "Are you better off now than you were four years ago" trope.
  
 Personally, I have to say yes.  

Four  years ago, under the Bush  Administration, the Dow was below 8000,
and the investments we intended to retire on had fallen by 30%.  Under
Obama, the Dow is over 13,000, and we are close to being made whole again. 

Four years ago we were at war with  Iraq, a country that had done nothing 
to harm us and which represented no  threat to us.  We have ended that war 
and are withdrawing our troops.
  
 Four years ago, the America automobile industry was on the ropes.  Romney 
 advised letting it go bankrupt.  Obama save it.
 
 So, despite four years of Republican obstructionism in which the  Democratic 
Party's jobs bills have been repeated filibustered and not even  been allowed to 
come to a vote, we're slowly digging ourselves out of the  hole we were left by
the last administration, and the Republicans are telling us that they want to go 
back to those same policies.   

No thank you.
 
 Rik Elswit

[Posted on The WELL by Rik Elswit.  Used here with his permission.]