Liberal trickle down economics.....WTF?

[inthebrain]

I'm surprised I haven't seen this come across in the news. I remember Reagan, Bush and Nixon being huge proponents of this. These bailouts pretty much amount to the same thing. Again it is proven that you can give these greedy pricks all the money you want they are not going to keep the workforce on the payroll.

It doesn't work. These guys are just gonna pocket the money.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Perspectives from DLC, Third Way & Blue Dog Neo-Liberals. n/t

[inthebrain]

2. I don't buy that it's the DLC

It's pretty much the whole party. Obama was supposed to be somethig "outside the DLC" and is turning out to be something very much inside of it. Anyways, it's Wall street and this party is too close to it for my tastes.

I find it absurd that we are spending all this money on GM just to eventaully reprivatize it. We've dumped billions of dollars on that company over the years that the tax payer pretty much owns it now. All that money is not winding up in the pockets of the workers.

It's really sad to this as well as the economic nationalism that many in the party are embracing. These corporations don't give a fuck about any of that.

[guitar man]

3. Stockholm Syndrome

I think we might be suffering from an "economic Stockholm Syndrome" after being held captive by Reaganomics for almost 30 years :(

[ThomCat]

4. That is worth considering. After all this time inundated and immersed

in unified neocon colleagues, lobbyists urging them to join in, and think tanks telling them well crafted lies about how wonderfully it all works how could they not begin to at least think about it after a while?

[guitar man]

5. exactly

This line of thinking has been thrust on the entire population of the country for so long, backed and financed by those with a vested interest in it, that it has somehow infected "mainstream" thinking to the point where it has become extremely difficult to root out. And as a result, anybody who opposes the "trickle down" meme (or whatever it's latest buzzword is) is easily attacked and ridiculed no matter how logical the argument they present. I'm afraid it's going to take an economic tragedy like we have never seen to jar the populace back to our collective senses. :(

[inthebrain]

6. You have that right now

Although this shit didn't fly years ago BEFORE the economic tragedy of the Great Depression.

Funny how this shit started to become acceptable AFTER it.

Our current economic crisis is worse than the Great Depression.

[guitar man]

7. I think you may be right

about current economc conditions being worse than the Great Depression, but we haven't really felt it yet...the worst is yet to come I'm afraid :(