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Ginger's avatar

Anne Lamott, in her book 'Help, Thanks, Wow' has a great take on a conversation between Job and God. Job asks God (in so many words), "Why did you do all this to me? I don't understand...." God responds, "Any snappy little explanation you might come up with will be horseshit; you just wouldn't understand." Job was a really rich guy, didn't really share his wealth outside of his ne'er-do-well kids (they were drinking and partying when the wind crushed them in their fancy tent) and probably got what he deserved. So, I guess the moral of the story is... any snappy explanation of 'voodoo economics' or whatever you want to call it is... Horseshit!

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Bob Johnson's avatar

Great reporting and writing. So, the rich right wingers have been looting us longer than I thought, but it figures. 1896 I didn't know about, 1929 everyone knows about it, but they don't call it the early trickle down. Throw in love of free trade and immigration and offshore banking and capitalist healthcare and unfunded wars and bank bailouts and interest on the national debt and much more also. Well over a hundred trillion has been taken from the American middle class in my opinion the last 125 years.

This group of greedy lying ungrateful insane regressive parasitic sadists (GLUIRPS), is why democracy in America and all over the world could end. The current GOP wants to give them even more money, which is totally obscene. No wonder so many truth seeking young people are depressed.

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