I know this much...
Before Biden I had more freedom to travel because gas prices were low, airlines hadn't yet become the onerous, expensive burden on a budget they are today, a Big Mac meal at Micky D's didn't cost $22, and going anywhere near our Southern border didn't necessarily require me toting a firearm the whole fucking time.
My net worth has gone up quite a bit, but that doesn't mitigate any of the above. The economy at the retail end of things sucks. Our nation is far less safe. The number of illegals in the country has more than doubled with Biden. Travel was far more accessible before Biden too. I can see the whole greentard thing Biden has pushed so hard as being an ongoing disaster that will continue beyond his leaving office. Four more years of that will doom the economy entirely.
So, no, things aren't better with Biden in office. The misery factor is much higher. I won't use the traditional
misery index here, but rather persistent and continuous polling that shows roughly 2 out of 3 Americans think things pretty much suck like a Hoover vacuum cleaner under Biden.
The simple answer is inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, which is showing the fastest rate of price increases in nearly 40 years. To see how much economic pain that is causing, it’s useful to look at another economic measure from that earlier era – the misery index.
The misery index was created by Arthur Okun, a top economic adviser to President Lyndon Johnson. It became more widely known in the 1970s and early 1980s. It adds together two measures of economic pain – the unemployment rate and the CPI’s measure of inflation – to create a single number. The lower the number, the happier consumers – and voters – were likely to be. The higher, the more unhappy.
Right now the measure stands at a level Americans haven’t consistently seen since the Great Recession and the years that followed.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/economy/misery-index/index.html
It isn't just inflation, it's also
regulation. Biden has tried to push the US into a "Green" economy. The results of that have been nothing short of disastrous. Yet, he, like the fool he is, persists in pushing this radical Leftist agenda down the public's throats, and they absolutely hate it.
