This would be a perfect question for a Rasmussen Reports survey, especially ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
In 2022, the national debt was $30.8 trillion. Four years ago, it was $21.4 trillion. In four short years it increased by almost $10 trillion. It took America 230 years to accumulate $10 trillion in debt, and only 4 years to add another $10 trillion to the debt.
more than a four-fold increase in spending money we don’t have.
The current 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.18 percent as of the end of last month. Four years ago, it was 3.58 percent, half of the current rate.
the average sales price of houses sold in the U.S. for quarter 2 in 2023 was $495,000. Four years ago, it was $377,000, more than a $100,000 difference.
drug overdose deaths. In 2017, there were 61,000 such deaths. Four years later in 2021, the most recent data available, there were 98,000 overdose deaths, almost a 50 percent increase.
They asked a similar question a week ago, discovering that “52% of Likely U.S. voters think the U.S. economy has gotten worse since Biden became president.”
Debt is definitely worse than four years ago.
Before securing a mortgage, one must purchase a house.
U.S. credit card debt in the second quarter of 2023 was $1.03 trillion, an increase of about $150 billion compared to four years ago ($848 billion in the second quarter of 2019).
Drugs are tied to illegal immigration
Pew Research found that there were 1.7 million encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021. Four years ago, this number was only 304,000. That’s more than a five-fold increase over the past four years
What do Americans think? Is “better or worse” a question that will resonate with likely U.S. voters?
Rasmussen Reports asked that question last month, finding that only 34% think the country is heading in the right direction compared to 61% that believe the nation is headed down the wrong track.
gas is currently $3.84 per gallon compared to $2.62 four years ago, about a 27% increase. Four years ago, America was energy independent and now we are importing over 8 million barrels per day of petroleum.
with Food inflation currently 4.9% compared to 1.8% four years ago. That’s more than double in the past four years.