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In reply to the discussion: President Obama has done more to help the poor and middle class than any President since LBJ [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Not enough has been done to change the trajectory. That's not because President Obama's policies. To say so is a blatantly dishonest attempt to confuse correlation with causality.
President Obama managed to raise taxes on the wealthy with the ACA and with the recent tax deal. Until you give those developments a reasonable amount of time to kick in, you have no way of knowing whether or not those measures will help reverse the trend. Whenever people start getting subsidies and more Medicaid enrollment from the ACA, then you might see something. Whenever Congress uses additional revenue that will be provided by recent tax increases on the wealthy for infrastructure and real job creation, then you might see something. Whenever Congress actually accepts the President's proposals that slash subsidies for energy companies and then use that additional money to do some of the worthwhile things the President has asked them to do in regard to child education, then you might see something. The President has already proposed many things that would be of great help, but ITS ON CONGRESS TO PASS THEM, period.
You are pointing out numbers that we all know, that none of us deny nor ever denied. But you are attempting to tie them to things that President Obama has done without actually being able to show any proof or make any kind of real argument to support that premise.