From the mind of critic: “If we believe that growth flows from the top down and not the bottom up, what evidence are we relying on to prove this assumption? Are we relying on generations of economic theory from Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith that says we’ll have infinite wealth when we take all the shackles off the economy? What proof do we have that the rich will provide more jobs, by spending their newly found wealth back into the economy? Have we seen examples of rich friends contributing to job growth, specifically because they’re already in an outrageously high financial position? Do these friends believe they’re not rich enough, and if they do receive more money, they can economically contribute like never before? Or are all the moneyed classes sucking up all the natural resources they can, because they can? Hypocrisy is a funny word, every human has aspects of it, just some more than others. What’s even funnier, is when people deflect criticism and blame for unseen nefarious reasons. Sometimes we twist facts, and sometimes we make up facts. Maybe we discover that for every dollar we give to the bottom of the income scale, 1.70 goes back into the economy. Maybe we find that the first thing people do who get money when they don’t have it, is go out and spend it. Maybe we find that rich people become rich because they don’t spend money back into the economy, and instead pay less taxes, which means less revenue into the government because the burden was put on people at the bottom who aren’t major campaign contributors. Maybe we discover that deficit hawks only exist on issues they view as not concerning them. Maybe we find that people are Democrats when they don’t have money, and become Republicans when they do. One we realize that greed exists at the top and the bottom, we’ll see that to stop the fraud, we must stop it everywhere, at all levels. If we actually want to fix issues instead of endlessly yakking about them, we’ll base our laws on statistics not slippery slopes. Growth flows from the bottom up like a potted plant, not from the top down like no plant ever” 🙂