Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 13, 2012

See! Reagan’s ‘Trickle Down’ Economics works!!

It’s quite a tiny trickle…

More like tinkle down economics.

So it is raining! That’s what they told me!

Those poor rich people. Oops, that’s an oxymoron. Tax them good!

Well, I’ll be darned – I’ve just seen proof that Trickle-Down works!

it’s thousands and millions for the rich. if it trickles down, it’s only a dollar or two!

Current in so many ways.

Soooo….’ol H. Hound is torqued because LD got a DOLLAR that he was owed for WORKING? And that money trickled down from his MASSIVE GOVERNMENT TAX RETURN for which he did…. WHAT? Or is it me??

…and that’s the way it works, folks…

This is a brilliant illustration of the Wall Street/GOP theory of “job creation”. But to be fair, Mitt Romney and his set also create jobs for Swiss bankers and at least a few folks in the Cayman Islands!

How many of us are willing to do the hard work of being born into wealth? The top 1% sure know a lot of each other’s names—why aren’t the poor robo-dialing their way into the vast hoards of capital? Lazy pikers!

Well, jimjammer, a dollar won’t buy a meal, it won’t buy a movie ticket, erc, etc. About the only thing a dollar will buy is a dream. Do you step on everyone’s dreams? Or just those of the working poor?

“Yet the above cartoon, along with most comments above, portray the rich as something that is bad and/or evil.”

Er, eh, no. The thrust (for me, natch) of Lucky Ducky in “Tricklin’ Down” is that the wealthy capitalist portrays the poor as lazy and worthless, and if so much as a dollar falls their way he is livid. As for “bad and/or evil” check the polls on that one: most poor/middle class Americans do not believe that the rich are inherently evil, it’s that their wealth has purchased a disproportionate amount of political power, the country be damned. Democracy will always have struggles, but tax cuts to the wealthiest while the country spends trillions on defense (and who has more to lose than the wealthy?) is balls-out madness.

The main reason why they do this is that they don’t understand economics, or how to manage their own money. If they did they woudl probably find a way out of poverty. I think a lot of people born into poverty just acquire the idea they can’t get out. Not their fault, as we all inherit and are taught our sense of where we fit in the system, but the lottery is just a glaringly obvious example of this.