re: #109 Barefoot Grin

I always think of trickle-down as crumbs-down economics: let the rich have 90% of the cake and everyone else below hope that a few crumbs fall out of their mouths and hope they don’t get stuck to their shirts or fall in their laps.

In the 1890’s it was referred to as “horse and sparrow” economics (same system, different century).

As promoted then, you feed the horse (the rich) oats, and some of them would pass out with the horse apples so that the sparrows (the poor) could pick out remains.

This was a serious Republican argument, which also tells you what they think about poor people.