Trickle down? What trickle down?
We should be swimming in trickle down RIGHT NOW. Wall Street is back, CEO salaries are though the roof again, and where is trickle down? Where is the wage growth? Where are the jobs? When does "Trickle Down" kick in? It doesn't because Trickle Down is a lie.
2 years ago I marched with Occupy Wall Street. Things haven't really changed much for 99% of us since then. The rich are still getting richer BECAUSE the rest of us are getting poorer, and yet the rich want to lecture the people who bailed them out for being lazy and not recognizing how awesome the super rich people we bailed out are. Half of our political establishment is hell bent on cut taxes for the rich, funding more wars and taking food stamps away from hungry American children, because Who Would Jesus Starve?
One side of our political establishment keeps dreaming up ways to make things worse for 99% of us because free markets FTW.
Since OWS began 2 years ago we've had several horrifying mass murders by crazed gunmen in America, we had a Presidential election where Mitt Romney told 47% of us to go to hell, we've had several GOP hostage situations where the GOP threatens to sabotage America in order to make Obama pass an agenda the GOP can NOT win elections on, and all the while the rest of us stagnate under rising costs of living and stagnant, shrinking wages while the 1% have it better than ever.
And so we march again.
And while these Wall Street jerks we bailed out lecture us about how lazy we are and how awesome Ayn Rand is, I ask the question to our wealthy overlords, "Are you trying to piss off the volcano?"
There are two America's. One is glued to Fox News. The other lives in reality.
And the America that lives in reality understands that the minimum wage MUST be raised. The America that lives in reality understands that you can't afford to live on $9 an hour. The America that lives in reality understands that we bailed out Wall Street and our kindness has been repaid with animosity, scorn and lectures about Ayn Rand's awesomeness.
Things have not changed enough.
So we march again. And again next year, and on and on.
If trickle down ISN'T bullshit where is it? Oh, we must meet more Wall Street demands first! Then it will like totally kick in, honestly. Just cut taxes for the rich to nothing, end all regulations and kiss Mitt Romney's feet and it will totally trickle down, conservatives swear. I call bullshit.
Tonight I am going on the Ed Schultz show. I will be dusting off my old Union Kepi and saying what comes to mind, but the heart of what is going on in America is simple, 99% of us are getting screwed so the wealthiest 1% can have it better than ever.
And Republicans are the problem.
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