President Obama has done more to help the poor and middle class than any President since LBJ

[ljm2002]

151. "Still, the links related to decades of inequality "...

..."have nothing to do with the President's policies."

OFFS. Okay let's go over this:

Link #1: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014400736

"Incomes rose more than 11 percent for the top 1 percent of earners during the economic recovery, but barely at all for everybody else, according to new data."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/business/economy/income-gains-after-recession-went-mostly-to-top-1.html

Link #2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022384139

Top 1% get 121% of income gains since 2009 (100% of new income + 21% from your old income)

A new paper by Emmanuel Saez (...) estimates that the income gains to the top 1% from 2009 to 2011 were 121% of all income increases. How did that happen? Incomes to the bottom 99% fell by 0.4%.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/yes-virginia-the-rich-continue-to-get-richer-the-1-got-121-of-income-gains-since-2009.html

Link #3: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021922334

U.S. corporate profits stronger than ever, workers' wages fallen to lowest-ever share of GDP (CNN)

Just four years after the worst shock to the economy since the Great Depression, U.S. corporate profits are stronger than ever.

(...) That took after-tax profits to their greatest percentage of GDP in history.

A separate government reading shows that total wages have now fallen to a record low of 43.5% of GDP. Until 1975, wages almost always accounted for at least half of GDP, and had been as high as 49% as recently as early 2001.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/03/news/economy/record-corporate-profits/

(this one you could reasonably argue is due to long term trends; however, the facts are that (a) corporate profits are at a record high % of GDP; (b) wages are at a record low % of GDP; and (c) both of these all-time record figures occurred on Obama's watch).

Link #4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022268073

U.S. Income Inequality Now Worse Than Many Latin American Countries

The share of income for the top 1 percent in the United States has grown more than any other Western country since 1960, according a paper by Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economists and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley published last year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/27/us-income-inequality-wors_n_2561123.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

(this one is definitely discussing long term trends; and while we know that the trend is accelerating -- see excerpts from the next link -- this article doesn't go there)

Link #5: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022200197

Ranks of working poor increasing

“Although many people are returning to work, they are often taking jobs with lower wages and less job security, compared with the middle class jobs they held before the downturn,” according to a report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project (...)

And 37 percent of the nation’s children — 23.5 million — were part of working poor families in 2011, the report said, up from 33 percent in 2007.

In 2011, the top fifth of working families had incomes that were 10.1 times greater than those in the bottom fifth of income earners. In 2007, the top fifth of working families earned 9.5 times those in the lowest fifth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ranks-of-working-poor-increasing/2013/01/15/8d1f51e2-59b9-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html

Emphasis mine, to highlight the time periods under discussion in each linked article.

That's just the first 5 links. They are all relevant to this discussion and 4 out of 5 are directly relevant to President Obama's time in office. You can't just dismiss this factual information. There is clear evidence that the President's policies have been, at the very least, ineffective in preventing an accelerating trend of income inequality in this country.