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68. Think pirates - take what everyone else has, any means possible

Reply to Diremoon (Reply #65)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:14 AM

Apr 2014

To continue your ramming and sinking analogy! I liked your comment enough to quote it below.

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"Elizabeth Warren Simplifies Thomas Piketty: 'Trickle Down Doesn't Work. Never Did'" [View all] applegrove Apr 2014 OP

Neither do rich men. They let their money work for them Warpy Apr 2014 #1

+1 - the rich are too busy in their counting rooms to _work_ erronis Apr 2014 #29

+1000! nt adirondacker Apr 2014 #47

The tax cut fairy does not exist Gothmog Apr 2014 #2

Republicans don't believe that at all mindwalker_i Apr 2014 #4

It doesn't really help the 1%, either. A prosperous economy would enrich them a lot more. tclambert Apr 2014 #9

You nailed it with grabbing a bigger share.... Theyletmeeatcake2 Apr 2014 #30

That's a large part of it Nevernose Apr 2014 #33

Maybe it is true that they would prosper more Curmudgeoness Apr 2014 #38

None for you Diremoon Apr 2014 #65

Think pirates - take what everyone else has, any means possible csziggy Apr 2014 #68

Greed only grows stronger and more voracious the more you indulge it deutsey Apr 2014 #66

I hate to disagree with her, but for those that introduced it, Trickle Down works rhett o rick Apr 2014 #3

Agreed, it works really well. temporary311 Apr 2014 #5

George H W Bush called quarbis Apr 2014 #10

Right, and David Stockman dis-owned it thesquanderer Apr 2014 #14

+1 gulliver Apr 2014 #6

A Dobie Gillis reference! mac56 Apr 2014 #16

I have some pretty crazy stuff stuck in my brain (and a lot of good stuff forgotten) but rhett o rick Apr 2014 #18

One of the episodes had Maynard testifying in court. mac56 Apr 2014 #19

Ah yes, thank you for that. I do remember. I loved Maynard. I think that rhett o rick Apr 2014 #23

Never forget Zelda, ie Sheila Kuehl, current candidate for LA County Board of Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #31

Very cool. Isnt Amy on Big Bang similar to Zelda's character? nm rhett o rick Apr 2014 #34

Where's Milton Armitage The Wizard Apr 2014 #43

Warren Beatty? maddiemom Apr 2014 #48

yes The Wizard Apr 2014 #59

I had forgotten him. I do remember Ms. Weld tho. She was my second true love. rhett o rick Apr 2014 #60

Thalia Menninger The Wizard Apr 2014 #61

I could so associate with Dobie. nm rhett o rick Apr 2014 #62

"...a buck private with a good conduct medal..." or how was it? u maddiemom Apr 2014 #46

It's the rationale we're fighting, not the facts. DirkGently Apr 2014 #24

Yessir. Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 #58

No, it doesn't even work for them. See the sub-thread above this one csziggy Apr 2014 #67

Agree! alfredo Apr 2014 #69

Not when the Republicans do it, bvar22 Apr 2014 #7

+1 mmonk Apr 2014 #28

free trade was an FDR priority Progressive dog Apr 2014 #35

NOT the way it has been implemented over the last 30 years. bvar22 Apr 2014 #39

Data shows that the 1% own Progressive dog Apr 2014 #49

"Data shows that the 1% own approximately the percentage of everything that they did in bvar22 Apr 2014 #50

Huffington post interview with Progressive dog Apr 2014 #51

"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

The horse and sparrow theory alfredo Apr 2014 #70

K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Apr 2014 #12

Oh, it works. Just not like how Raygun told you it would ... Scuba Apr 2014 #13

The hopeful note in Pikkety's book lovemydog Apr 2014 #15

Part of the blame goes to my generation, the Baby Boomers. rhett o rick Apr 2014 #21

Then some whackos lovemydog Apr 2014 #26

Now as our people in poverty & middle class slip well below!, other '1st world' Nations' one would Sunlei Apr 2014 #17

The Rethugs just hate the attention this book is getting. DCBob Apr 2014 #20

The problem with "Trickle down does/doesn't work" is defining "works". Thor_MN Apr 2014 #22

What's their dodge? toby jo Apr 2014 #27

Trickle down has always worked for the short term for a few up until the the start of wide spread geretogo Apr 2014 #32

I have both Warren's book and Piketty's BlueEye Apr 2014 #36

Trickle up, no more trickle down NBachers Apr 2014 #37

it's surprising how few politicians are willing to say this. nt TheFrenchRazor Apr 2014 #40

Obama has said it 500 times, at least frazzled Apr 2014 #41

Thank you Ms Warren as trickle down has always been synonymous with azurnoir Apr 2014 #42

Trickle down The Wizard Apr 2014 #44

You only find dispair if you are invested to the concept of never ending growth.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2014 #45

What a concise summation Populist_Prole Apr 2014 #52

Right, to them, there is no "excess".... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2014 #53

Is that Rush Limpball's bathroom? Populist_Prole Apr 2014 #55

Mine is, "Those who rail the loudest about the work ethic,... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2014 #57

This message was self-deleted by its author Populist_Prole Apr 2014 #54

That, and the up-trickled moneyed elite is largely hereditary BelgianMadCow Apr 2014 #56

What a godless, un-American commie! Doesn't this Liberal harpie know that giving money Nanjing to Seoul Apr 2014 #63

Changing naritive HenryWallace Apr 2014 #64

Just 4 words intaglio Apr 2014 #71