It was Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results

[ck4829]

Case in point:

Reagan years: "Let's give tax cuts to the wealthy, they'll use it to create jobs and prosperity. They definitely won't use it to stash away in the Cayman Islands or spend it all on cocaine."

Bush years: "Let's give tax cuts to the wealthy, they'll use it to create jobs and prosperity. They definitely won't use it to stash away in the Cayman Islands or spend it all on cocaine. It'll work this time, we promise."

2010: "Even though, it costs billions of dollars, let's give tax cuts to the wealthy, they'll use it to create jobs and prosperity. They definitely won't use it to stash away in the Cayman Islands or spend it all on cocaine. I mean, come on. It's got to work eventually, right? Right?"

What else could explain why tax cuts for the wealthy aren't immediately shot down?

[JHB]

1. Of course it'll be different this time...

...the war's in a poppy growing area, not cocao.

Heroin, not coke.

[SharonAnn]

3. Cocoa is used for chocolate. Coca is used for cocaine.

[JHB]

8. Always got those two mixed up....

The source plants, that is, not the end products.

[RKP5637]

2. Agree!!! How often do the super-greedy share... n/t

[patrice]

4. What gets me about that: Who says the wealthy, even IF they did create jobs & prosperity, would crea

te the kinds of jobs that would be best for Americans?

I mean, didn't we see what kinds of jobs they created "for us" in the dot.com bust and the whole imminently exportable IT industry?

America seems to have forgotten that it once stood on the principle that work should allow people to develop their skills and aptitudes to their fullest and it should fulfill at least somewhat a closely held personal value.

That appears to be all gone now. It's get out there in the rat race and run for your life for whatever the wealthy will give you out of their noblese oblige.

THAT'S Slavery!

[unblock]

5. who said they're expecting different results?

they're raiding the treasury as is their specialty.

greed needs a fig leaf.

[valerief]

6. Ah, but they want the same results--Cayman cash and cocaine! nt

[RedCappedBandit]

7. Exactly. nt