Reply #14: "Trickle down" has always meant "pissed on" to me since the first time I heard the phrase [View All]

[Hekate]

Not elegant, to be sure, but Reagan and Bush the Elder had that affect on me.

This economy is only "good" for corporations and already-rich folks who have invested their money outside the US.

Everyone else is worried, and rightly so. 47 million Americans have no health care insurance despite being employed, and the rest of us know that we are one layoff or job change away from joining their ranks. Perhaps most people don't know for sure that a huge percentage of bankruptcies follow a catastrophic illness in the family -- but I think that deep down they suspect it, and it is true.

I can't marshall all those facts about the NYSE and the Dow, but I know kitchen-table economics.

Lou Dobbs -- our paleocon populist friend -- is absolutely right about the state of the middle class. Even those of us who are currently okay are worried.

Hekate