Question for the trickle down experts.

• Bush creates executive pay loophole. - Marmann
  • Question for the trickle down experts. - .........
    • How about that trickle up effect Obama's been touting....sm - sheesh
      • Ignoring the question is no answer. - ......
        • "Wealth distribution" LOL. Its really STEALING - from weatlhy to give handouts. Criminal.nm
          • O's plan is actually welfare. People who pay NO - taxes will get a check..-is shameful.nm
        • How would that be possible? - sm
          • Then how do you account for - (sm)
            • Reading comprehension does not matter - much here, huh?

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Just imagine how wonderful America's infrastructure could be if we weren't spending all that money in Iraq.   :-(

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003226851&zsection_id=2002107549&slug=fragile26&date=20060826

Closing all the mental institutions and putting the insane on the streets was atrocious - but - it got them off disability and welfare...after all...you had to have an address to get those benefits. More can be found at the following link:  http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0406a/reaganhomeless.html

Reagan's Homeless

by:  Peter Dreier

Reagan came to office in 1981 with what he viewed as a mandate to reduce federal spending. In reality, Reagan increased federal spending by dramatically increasing the military budget while slashing domestic programs for working class Americans, particularly the poor. The result was a bloated federal deficit that mortgaged the nation's future.

Reagan's fans give him credit for restoring the nation's prosperity. But whatever economic growth occurred during the Reagan years benefitted the already well-off. The income gap between the rich and everyone else in America widened. Wages for the average worker declined. The nation's homeownership rate fell. Despite boom times for the rich, during Reagan's two terms in the White House, the poverty rate in cities grew.

Reagan owed little to urban voters, big-city mayors, black or Hispanic leaders, or labor unions -- the major advocates for metropolitan concerns. His indifference to urban problems was legendary. Early in his presidency, at a White House reception, Reagan went up to the only black member of his Cabinet, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Samuel Pierce, and said: "How are you, Mr. Mayor? I'm glad to meet you. How are things in your city?"

Reagan not only failed to recognize his own HUD Secretary, he failed to deal with the growing corruption scandal at the agency. Indeed, during the Reagan years, HUD became a feeding trough for Republican campaign contributors. Fortunately for Reagan, the media didn't uncover the "HUD Scandal" until he left office. It resulted in the indictment and conviction of top Reagan administration officials for illegally targeting housing subsidies to politically connected developers.

I decided to Google this phrase and see what came up.  Not suprising the first on the list was from Rush Limbaugh.   I did find this too though and I couldn't agree more.  I have no idea who wrote it.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Trickle-Up-Poverty-and-the-by-Cameron-Salisbury-080923-947.html