Trickle Down Economics is a Hoax: (new meme)

[roseBudd]

https://www.facebook.com/649431898439670/photos/a.672858129430380.1073741831.649431898439670/685321471517379/?type=1&theater

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[roseBudd]

1. Share it on Facebook, because everyone knows Trickle Down economics is a hoax

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2. follow the money

it is only rich people that ever bring it up.

[roseBudd]

3. If not for the apparatus of persuasion....

Bush speechwriter, David Frum:

http://nymag.com/news/politics/conservatives-david-frum-2011-11/index2.html

We used to say “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” Now we are all entitled to our own facts, and conservative media use this right to immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend information....

Fox News and Talk Radio
Extremism and conflict make for bad politics but great TV. Over the past two decades, conservatism has evolved from a political philosophy into a market segment. An industry has grown up to serve that segment—and its stars have become the true thought leaders of the conservative world. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel). As a commercial proposition, this model has worked brilliantly in the Obama era. As journalism, not so much. As a tool of political mobilization, it backfires, by inciting followers to the point at which they force leaders into confrontations where everybody loses, like the summertime showdown over the debt ceiling.

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

[roseBudd]

4. Copy and paste the link into your status update on Facebook

[Gothmog]

5. This is great

[roseBudd]

6. Thanks, according to Facebook, 80 people reached. Share!

[roseBudd]

7. And like the page. I have big plans