While vocabularies have changed, tactics haven't. Bailouts have been aimed at rich corporations. Even the "Cash for Clunkers" wasn't designed to help people; it was crafted to sell cars and prop up the auto giants. The premise is that if the banks and corporations prosper, the economy will grow and bailout main street, even though most of the economy is based on small businesses and consumer spending.
Additionally, main street is about to be hit with another "trickle down." Now that corporations have been bailed out, both Timothy Geithner and Alan Greenspan have predicted that taxes will have to be increased to pay-down the federal deficit.
Hopefully, Americans won't go along with higher taxes, but they are going along with the premise. Most even believe that subsidizing insurance companies, health companies and rich doctors is the best way to provide affordable health care.
It must be said--no, screamed from the roof tops,
"Trickle down works only if you want wet socks!"
Dennis A. Carroll, 3 August 2009
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I am saddened by not being able to read your posts. I grew up in Montana and now live in Riverton, Wyo. I did an eight day elk hunt in the Gros Ventre wilderness this last fall and your stories really hit home....they truly fascinate me. I understood that you had been harassed by some wacky environmentalist. If there is any way for me to read you posts on elk hunting please let me know how to do it. Here is a site that has my elk hunting pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70388534@N00/2998342166/
Joel
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