Romnesia -- and tricke-down government.

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Sun Oct 21 01:04:44 UTC 2012


"trickle-down government-to-government procedure", 1963: http://ow.ly/eDB5z
"trickle-down procurement policy", 1970: http://ow.ly/eDBaV
"trickle-down economics", 1949: http://ow.ly/eDB6M

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I think Romney said in the last debate=2C "trickle-down government doesn't =
> work".  That's the first I've heard that phrase.  It was always trickle dow=
> n economics in which the rich are made richer and they create jobs so the p=
> oor become richer.  Unless of course they put their money in the Caymans or=
> Swiss bank accounts like Romney did.

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