John Kenneth Galbraith on "trickle-down" economics

[welshTerrier2]

"if you feed the horse enough oats, the sparrow will survive on the highway."

[bahrbearian]

1. so "True"

[kentuck]

2. I thought he said....

"If the horses don't shit, the sparrows don't eat..." :)

[welshTerrier2]

3. not sure ...

the phrase i quoted was exactly as it appeared on page 3 of today's Boston Globe ...

there's probably all sorts of license taken in matters like this ...

[Sal Minella]

4. Poetic License......

Today the sparrows have oats to eat;
The reason for that of course is
Yesterday the President's men
Were feeding oats to their horses.

[meow2u3]

5. Holy Joe said something like that during the 2000 Convention

"...the best way to feed the birds is to give more oats to the horse."

Now, Joementum has embraced the very values he lampooned in 2000.

[OneBlueSky]

6. "That makes NO sense!" . . . (pause) . . . "Oh . . . never mind." . . .n/t

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[CPMaz]

7. In the interests of truth-in-advertising,

I suggest that 'trickle-down economics' be renamed as

"tinkle-down economics"

because the fruits of it are enjoyed mostly by those doing the tinkling (as opposed to those getting tinkled on).