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In reply to the discussion: "Elizabeth Warren Simplifies Thomas Piketty: 'Trickle Down Doesn't Work. Never Did'" [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)45. You only find dispair if you are invested to the concept of never ending growth....
Instead of a sustainable balance that meets the needs of life on this rock.
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applegrove
Apr 2014
OP
It doesn't really help the 1%, either. A prosperous economy would enrich them a lot more.
tclambert
Apr 2014
#9
I hate to disagree with her, but for those that introduced it, Trickle Down works
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#3
I have some pretty crazy stuff stuck in my brain (and a lot of good stuff forgotten) but
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#18
Never forget Zelda, ie Sheila Kuehl, current candidate for LA County Board of
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2014
#31
I had forgotten him. I do remember Ms. Weld tho. She was my second true love.
rhett o rick
Apr 2014
#60
"Data shows that the 1% own approximately the percentage of everything that they did in
bvar22
Apr 2014
#50
"The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps ... "
baldguy
Apr 2014
#8
For most Republicans that's the way it should be.. they totally don't understand the real problem.
DCBob
Apr 2014
#25
Truth Telling you won't hear from the TheTruth©, Inc. Thanks, Elizabeth Warren!
freshwest
Apr 2014
#11
Now as our people in poverty & middle class slip well below!, other '1st world' Nations' one would
Sunlei
Apr 2014
#17
Trickle down has always worked for the short term for a few up until the the start of wide spread
geretogo
Apr 2014
#32
You only find dispair if you are invested to the concept of never ending growth....
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2014
#45
What a godless, un-American commie! Doesn't this Liberal harpie know that giving money
Nanjing to Seoul
Apr 2014
#63