How could corporate profits under Obama be the worst when the stock market went up over 125%.

Declining middle class wages began to go up after Obama got us out of the Bush recession. Seems you forgot that recession we were in when Obama took office.

76 straight months we positive job growth while dealing with a congress that blocked everything he tried to do.

Republicans destroyed unions eliminated collective bargaining and drove down middle class wages.

I guess you forgot that when Obama took office we were at 7.9% unemployment and losing 800,000 jobs a month.

Dealing with Two wars unpaid for and the Bush tax cuts. All unpaid for I guess you forgot that.

Stock market at 6300, banks going into bankruptcy needed a $785 billion bailout called TARP unpaid for. Housing market upside down I guess you forgot that.

But it's simple for Trump supporters just ignore that recession like it never happened.

But Trump supporters like to ignore real facts

I enjoyed reading you're topic on the fading scent of the American dream.

So just to respond Corporate profits are actually on the rise. I have followed economist Joeseph Stieglitz and Luigi Zingles. I rarely post on these two because of the insults that I have received. But I do follow them and there writings.

But these two economist find the rise in corporate profits troubling for two reasons. First, higher profits as you say created greater economic in equality. Rising aggregate profits correspond to a decline in labor shares all to maintain these profits at the top.

Stock market up that means corporate profits up but they are choosing not to pay employees more. So Trump lowering corporate tax rates how will that equate into labor being paid more. How much more do they need to start paying higher labor rates.

If I take $2,000 and put that in the hands of the bottom 95% of wage earners economy explodes. If I take and put an additional $2 billion in the hands of the upper 1% wage earners all that does is increase the margins of income in-Equality.

But republicans choose to eliminate unions, repeal Davis Bacon act and totally remove collective bargaining.

If a democrat uses the statement of why are these corporate giants not sharing the wealth. You're called a socialist.

If you advocate unions and bring back collective bargaining you're called a Marxist

I really do wish you would entertain having a reasonable Debate on these issues. I found you're post very interesting to read.

Trumps explanation at yesterday's press conference with his new friend Mitch McConnell (THEY HATE EACH OTHER) was that it took Obama 2 years to pass the ACA. But wait a minute Trump on the campaign trail you said he already had a plan so it seems simple day #1 submit it to his republican lead Congress overnight his repeal and replace plan done complete. This is what he told you.

His biggest lie on the campaign trail is (I HAVE ALREADY) a plan that will give everybody in this country health insurance at a lot less cost than the ACA.

Not to mention 7 years of republican talking points that republicans had a better plan to repeal and replace. Well where is it. Why did 11 Fat, white rich racist republicans have to caucus by themselves for 4 weeks excluding democrats from the negotiations, if Trump and the republicans already had a plan. Then Trump tells his base it's because democrats obstructed the bill. Now does any common sense in a Trump supporters mind kick in and say wow a bill written in secret no Democrats in the room and that's classified as Obstruction. Please Trump supporters put the shoe on the other foot.

So now Trump takes action he eliminates $9 billion in subsidies for poor families and classifies it as a slush fund for the insurance agencies.

But not sure why Oil and Farm subsidies are not classified as a slush fund. So no subsidies for the poor. But last year Shell received $1.6 billion in subsidies and there profits were $26.8 billion. Exxon received a subsidy of $216 million and they had profits of $41 billion. Marathon Petroleum received $78 million in subsidies and they had profits of $2.6 billion. Coal, Oil, and gas companies lobbying funds of $1.8 billion that went directly to republicans.

Globally just in 2013 oil, gas, and coal received $550 billion in subsidies and that's 4 times the amount given to renewables and renewables over the last 10 years has created more new jobs than oil, gas, and coal.

But I could go further with these corporate giants such as the billions that Koch brothers get in subsidies and pay millions lobbying against renewables subsidies. And the massive profits they make and the tax loophole holes allowed to these corporate giants that control the Republican Party.

But the point I am making is Trump supporters love the fact that Trump wrote an unconstitutional EO eliminating $9 billion in subsidies for the poor to obtain healthcare but is only to happy to give commercial farmers, Oil, gas, and coal companies an average of $98 billion a year in subsidies to the most profitable companies in this country. But can't give $9 billions so the poor can get health Insurance. This EO will cause 7.1 million people to lose healthcare from the private sector but will cause billions in increases to our Medicaid program.

This is called Trump logic and Trump supporters somehow lack the common sense to understand what Trump is actually doing.