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"Jeffrey C. Dege" <jdege@jdege.visi.com> wrote in message news:slrnc1tjh8.98d.jdege@jdege.visi.com...
: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:44:13 -0600, S. Smith <scott.smith@visi.com> wrote:
: >On 2 Feb 2004 18:25:01 GMT, Bert Hyman <bert@visi.com> wrote:
: >
: >>no@no.org (Bolwerk) wrote in
: >>news:pan.2004.02.02.18.17.46.640000@no.org:
: >>
: >>> Really? Does the money trickle down from the super-rich to everyone
: >>> else too? How does that happen?
: >>
: >>They spend it or invest it.
: >
: >That theory of "trickle-down economics" has never been
: >proven to work very well.
:
: It's the only thing that has ever proven to work.
:
: >In fact, if anything, it only serves
: >to create an even larger disparity between the very wealthy
: >and the working class...as has been proven over the years.
:
: And that increased disparity is an indication of a productive economy.
:
: It's the wealthy who suffer at the margins - their income rises more in
: times of prosperity, and declines more, in times of want.
:
: We have the least disparity in times of hardship.  And the poor, as
: always, suffer the most.

An egalitarian is someone who would rather everyone be equally poor
than unequally rich.  We have people on the Internet,  using computers
more powerful than the mightiest computers of my youth,  who talk
on CELL PHONES,  get CT's and MRI's when they are sick,
and spend all their time bitching about the rich.

In this country,  when working class people own their own homes,  own and drive
vehicles undreamed of for the vast majority of human experience,  do not
have to fear dying from a vast array of diseases humans are prey to,
where we have machines that can pry invisibly in our bodies,  where we
have,  for gosh sakes,  VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPIES,  it seems like
utter childish nonsense for some to complain not they they don't have enough,
but that some others might have more.

Dan Mercer

:
: When things get better, the poor do better, but the rich do better yet.
: And those who are driven by envy and spite, instead of by any rational
: sense of how the world works, complain bitterly.
:
: -- 
: I don't believe in conspiracy theories - I have too much faith in human
: stupidity.