The Real Trickle Down Effect. Great pic.

[madfloridian]

Found at Twitter
By Paul Mcclintock.

[WhiteTara]

1. That was graphic

and depressingly true.

[madfloridian]

2. Yeah, not very upbeat.

But sadly true.

[WhiteTara]

4. painfully so.

and I guess stinky true!

[madfloridian]

3. Remember Al Franken's Supply Side Jesus?

Wikipedia says its about the same as trickle down

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name "horse and sparrow theory." He wrote, "Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'" Galbraith claimed that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896.[14]

From Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them here is the cartoon.

http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2003/09/The-Gospel-Of-Supply-Side-Jesus.aspx

[JohnnyRingo]

7. You reminded me of how much I enjoyed that book.

I don't remember that cartoon, but it's been years.

Thanx for the link!

I know a couple conservative Catholics, and it would be terribly rude of me to email that strip to them..... just before Easter. Like Friday.

[Junkdrawer]

5. When you move from an industrial economy to a financial services economy....

trickle down is the major source of sustenance for the lower classes.

Imperialism sucks.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Think about what qualifies as middle class these days.

It seems the break is right around being able to own a smart phone.

It's gotten so people define what we call the middle class into smaller and smaller sub-divisions so they don't have to admit they're in the lower class. Nobody even uses that term anymore.

Actually, that bottom rung is probably a lot more crowded than the graph suggests, but point very well taken. Thanx for posting.

[madfloridian]

8. I agree the bottom rung is probably a lot more crowded.

[xchrom]

9. du rec.