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If George Bush and Alan Greenspan get their way, get ready to work until you're at least 70 - when you'll finally have the chance to draw full Social Security.

If November's election boiled down to the candidates' records on workers' rights, even the White House's most shameless spin doctors would have trouble making a case for George W. Bush.

Health care costs on President Bush's watch have skyrocketed, placing increased pressure on America's working families and leaving 45 million people uninsured.

The White House billed its tax cuts for the rich as a "Jobs and Growth Plan," and even now, despite all the cruel evidence to the contrary, President Bush hails it as a victory. "The economy is strong," he says like a broken record.

The question is being posed a lot these days, on both sides of the battle for president of the United States: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?