That's It

[ItsjustMe]

[handmade34]

1. "That's it"

succinctly put!

why have so many been duped?

[elevator]

2. Nope. Unfortunately the top 20-25% get enough to keep them happy

and working to make sure that things never change.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Yes. Last night's 60 Minutes showed interviews of some voters in Ohio.

The Trump voters mostly regurgitated the Fox talking points, but one woman was at least honest when she said she supported Trump because her 401k was doing well and that’s what she cared about. So long as she personally is taken care of, she doesn’t concern herself with the wreckage for the rest of the country or even if there’s a country left after Trump.

[skydive forever]

7. I saw that

And her own grandmother died of Covid.

[marble falls]

10. 401k's won't be be worth a shit in a melt-down or runaway inflation.

[volstork]

13. "I got mine,

so fuck you!"

[Duppers]

17. Rethug mindset... I care only about me...

[czarjak]

3. Just like Jesus said...

More wealth for the wealthy.

[Mr. Ected]

4. I liken it to Halloween

This Halloween I gave all my Halloween candy to the richest kid in the neighborhood.

I'm sure that most of the candy will trickle down to the rest of the kids.

[TheRickles]

8. Good one!

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. That IS good.

I imagine they had to wait for school today to hold the candy redistribution event.

[ananda]

5. I call it Flood-Up Economics..

All the money goes one way, to the top 1%.

[SCantiGOP]

12. A rising tide

lifts all yachts

[dchill]

15. Succinct.

[marble falls]

9. It's good to have "the" talk with your children. Mine was "always question authority, even mine."

[Upthevibe]

11. ItsjustMe....

Yep. That's how is works (or didn't work).

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. My sister was no Paul Krugman.

But she did know a thing or two about economics, having done her Master's thesis on the formation and dynamics of the North Atlantic Triangle (Canada, UK and US), at Oxford, all on scholarship and bursary. She was a VERY diligent student.

During the Reagan administration, I once asked her what the educational spin on "trickle down" might be. She said that, in all her years at University, at no lecture, seminar or thesis prep, she had ever heard it uttered. She surmised that it was not considered a viable system, and her own examination of the subject had confirmed that.

I realize that some schools must teach it, but not in her experience.

[Celerity]

18. In an academic setting, it would have been called supply-side economics, and also

certian key underpinnings of it (with supply-side theory starting in the 1970's as a rebuttal to deal with the dominant Keynesian model's failure to predict stagflation) came from neoclassical macroeconomics, especially the postulations that came of the the so-called 'Chicago School' (Knight, Simons, Mints, Viner, etc, then onto Milton Friedman, Geirge Stigler, etc etc) starting in 1950's and continuing onward.

[Dem2]

19. Lol

[Blue Owl]

21. It's not raining... that's just piss on your leg...