If "trickle down" really worked, we'd be awash in good jobs.

[Scuba]

[HughBeaumont]

1. Hee hee . . . instead, we're awash in . . . .

[oldlib2]

2. It's a fallacy

created by the GOP to support their tax cuts for the wealthy.

[RiverLover]

3. Conservatives favor trickle-down, not necessarily just Republicans

Third Way Democrats support trickle-down. Maybe because they're fronting for the RW.

“The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America’s middle class,” Warren said in her fiery keynote address to an AFL-CIO conference on raising wages.

“Pretty much the whole Republican Party, and if we’re going to be honest, too many Democrats, are overly cozy with the financial industry and make decisions that benefit the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans while leaving others to struggle, she said....

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/elizabeth-warren-criticism-trickle-down-economics-114032.html

[2naSalit]

4. Yeah, like twenty five years ago that should have happened!

Most of these financial programs are presented with five, ten, twenty year life-spans/projections. Still not happening for us (for the wealthy, of course it is) so...

I hope that all this financial crap that is being exposed and rejected by the majority of humans rapidly becomes the catalyst for an overturning of the global oiligarchy of plutocrats who rule us and abuse us at every opportunity.

These clowns want global markets so they can have global control... would be a good thing if the global masses could coordinate a "turnover" if you will - and work together without the corporate trash obstructing any effort to save ourselves from the climate changes that now threaten our immediate future.

[MisterP]

5. they admitted this. in 1981

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/12/the-education-of-david-stockman/305760/?single_page=true

of course, what are we gonna do--not vote for the nicer Reaganaut?