So income technically increases it is a sign of growth, but expenses increase more and it is chalked up to that is just the way of the world? Real adjusted median incomes (how good of a quality of life you can support) are down from 8 years ago. Financially more people are not able to sustain a better lifestyle than they would have been able to 8 years ago.
Doesn't change that my question was "how are we are better", not "why Obama isn't at fault for it". I even said that I didn't really think Obama was totally responsible for it. The reason for the unrest is irrelevant, I do not think we would have had nearly as much of it if Obama had never ran and/or McCain had won the 2008 election. And this isn't just normal social unrest, this is disruptive to the point of endangering the country by turning our elections into reality television shows only mildly related to actual issues.