Wealth Redistribution? Who gains? Who loses?

[JDPriestly]

2. Precisely!! That's the Republican economic theory.

Give all the money to the rich. Let them sit on it or create products and services that provide them with lots of profit that they can sit on and feel huge about.

The picture of the banker with the big belly -- it may not be the physical portrait, but it is the psychological portrait. They need a huge cushion.

Meanwhile, our Main Street economies are suffering. I wonder what will happen to our traditional downtowns which are, maybe since the waning of the Middle Ages, the social and economic centers of our culture.

Our economic crisis is likely to hit us far more deeply than we realize. Education is being affected now. Culture is next. In fact it already costs an awful lot to buy a ticket to a concert or visit a museum if you think in terms of families with limited incomes -- a growing part of our population.