Of course I'm better off.
I work my ass off. Not just as an employee, but independently as well. I don't give a fuck about what the stock market is doing or who is occupying the White House at the moment, all I care about is *MY* acheivements and success.
And considering the Democrats want to steal massive amounts of my money to give it to undeserving pieces of shit who can't be bothered to work and the president isn't that important to the economy anyway (the tech boom/bust had nothing to do with anything, it was all Clinton and Bush
), I'm glad Bush is President.