text: As has been pointed out, the income figures have risen significantly but are still not as high as in 2007. If you think about it, incomes were going down significantly from 2008 through about 2012, 2013. They flattened out about that time, not going down but not going up either. Republicans took control of the house in Jan. 2011 and began reducing the annual deficits. Harry Reid and the democrats in the senate then shut down almost all legislation, so almost nothing got done. Then republicans took control of the senate in Jan. 2015 and the amount of bipartisan legislation getting done increased significantly. It is also obvious that business confidence in the government has increased with republicans in charge of the congress, as the economic indicators have shown. Once again, republicans are responsible for improving economic numbers but will never be given proper credit. Just like the 4 years of surpluses that Bill Clinton took credit for.