There's a poll on the home page of the Valdosta Daily Times (scroll way down or search in the page for Poll).
It asks:
Do you think you are better off today than you were 4 years ago?
I ask: do those results seem right to you?
If you're in south Georgia, or if you have an opinion on the VDT's question, maybe you'd like to stop in at the VDT's home page.