{"id":1392073,"date":"2022-03-21T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392073"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:14:57","slug":"nolte-only-20-say-theyre-better-off-now-than-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-only-20-say-theyre-better-off-now-than-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Only 20% Say They&#039;re Better Off Now Than a Year Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-only-20-say-theyre-better-off-now-than-a-year-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">When asked if they are better off now than they were a year ago, only 20 percent of adults said yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/issuesinsights.com\/2022\/03\/21\/ii-tipp-poll-are-you-better-off-today-than-a-year-ago-by-4-to-1-americans-say-no\/\">according<\/a> to an I&#038;I\/TIPP Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The full question asked was, \u201cGenerally speaking, is your family better off today than it was one year ago, worse off than it was one year ago, or about the same as it was a year ago?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Only 20 percent said they were \u201cbetter off,\u201d while 42 percent said \u201cworse off,\u201d and 36 percent said \u201cabout the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as Democrats, only 29 percent said they were better off, while 26 percent said worse.<\/p>\n<p>About the same with liberals \u2014 only 26 percent said they were better off, while 29 percent said worse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans and Independents had nearly identical responses. Only 11 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Independents said they were better off, while 56\u00a0 and 48 percent, respectively, said worse off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaken as a whole,\u201d the pollsters conclude, \u201cthat means 78% of Americans have seen no progress or improvement at all in their financial and economic lives since Biden took over in early 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pollster also asked respondents about their personal financial situation regarding emergency savings.<\/p>\n<p>Only 16 percent said they could live on their savings for six months or more, while 34 percent said they had no emergency savings. Everyone else said they could manage between one month (11 percent) and five months (two percent) on their savings.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> better now than a year ago?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the same span of time, more people died of the coronavirus under Biden than Trump\u2014and Biden had the vaccine!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re under age 55, you\u2019ve never seen inflation like we\u2019re experiencing today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019re under age 40, you\u2019ve never seen violent crime like we\u2019re seeing it today.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re under age 120, you\u2019ve never seen empty store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter what age you are \u2014 gas prices have never been higher than they are today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Men are stealing sports championships from women.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers are exposing prepubescent kids to gay porn.<\/p>\n<p>Mentally ill guys are sharing locker rooms with your daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Our southern border has been deliberately left wide open to sex traffickers, drug smugglers, and violent criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The stock market is in bear mode, Americans are being held hostage in Afghanistan, and the corporate media are so broken the <em>New York Times\u2019<\/em>s\u00a0Maggie Haberman is winning Pulitzers for spreading debunked conspiracy theories while that same media and Big Tech are censoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/18\/nolte-the-corporate-media-owe-emma-jo-morris-an-apology\/\">legitimate and consequential<\/a> scandals to protect His Fraudulency.<\/p>\n<p>The screeching left, and this includes the media, have turned a war that has nothing to do with us, a war thousands of miles away, into their latest moral panic.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I can\u2019t imagine what it would be like to obsess over the fate of the world while having a clear moral compass when it comes to injustice. Thanks to a working TV, I am not one of those people, but anyone who is must be going crazy these days. My advice to them, other than voting: focus on giving your family a good life and stop sweating what you have no control over. That starts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/12\/nolte-rural-trump-voters-already-live-in-the-safe-tolerant-utopia-leftists-claim-to-want\/\">moving to<\/a> MAGA Country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of voting, I cannot wait until November.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked if they are better off now than they were a year ago, only 20 percent of adults said yes, according to an I&#038;I\/TIPP Poll. 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