Eleven Words to Think About

Actually, will Romney as that question of Obama: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
The answer is, of course, a resounding NO!

Eleven Words to Think About

by BURT FOLSOM on APRIL 19, 2012

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” That was the campaign mantra of Ronald Reagan when he ran for president against Jimmy Carter in 1980; and then again when Reagan ran for re-election in 1984. President Reagan believed that comparison was important in deciding whether his presidency had succeeded or failed. Since unemployment in 1984 was sharply down and since U.S. economic growth was much stronger, Reagan made his case for re-election with those eleven words–and he carried 49 of 50 states.

Will President Obama ask that question during his re-election? He has higher unemployment than when he took office, a $5,000,000,000,000 debt increase during his White House tenure, and gas prices that have more than doubled. His critics argue that if he had avoided a stimulus package–a tactic which has often failed in the past–and if he had encouraged more drilling for oil and more use of plentiful natural gas, then the U.S. economy might have done much better. President Obama, if he wants, can use those words to make his own case that his presidency has made some people better off.

Here are eleven more words that presidents should ask: “Is liberty better off today than it was four years ago?”

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