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Trickle down (Original Post)
ashling
Feb 2014
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hvn_nbr_2
(6,481 posts)1. Perfectly illustrates something I've been saying for awhile now.
In 40 years of trickle-down, the only thing that has trickled down is the middle class trickling down into poverty.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)2. Trickle down is like golden showers.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)3. They all tell you it's just raining. (no text)
NBachers
(17,003 posts)4. Trickle up, no more trickle down
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. Stockman admitted this in 1981 already
and yet we pull the lever like Skinner's rats for more and more Reaganomics because the Other Guy's gunna gill the gays/let the gays survive
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)6. perfect illustration.