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stanchaz

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3. The rich need your help and understanding!
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:47 PM
Nov 2012

NO NO NO! You’ve got it all WRONG!!
The RICH ....absolutely.... need MORE tax cuts!
A few free cases of Absolut might ALSO be in order
...to ease the pain of all this constant bickering and criticism.
There REALLY seems to be some confusion here, ....a lack of clarity.

Perhaps I need to explain "TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS" again?
After all, it's things like this that keep Economics Professors like me in business! 
No problem. Except that I am without my graphs and charts. But here goes, anyway:
Basically , there are two parts to this ancient , time-tested theory. 
I’m sorry .....did I call this fact of life, this universal constant, this eternal truth..a MERE “theory”?
My mistake. It is much MORE than a theory. It is simply .....the way things are,
...the way things always will be, ...the way things MUST be!
Ah, Economics is beautiful, isn’t it?
Well, to get on: The FIRST part of tickle-down economics is the "TRICK"-le part. 
If we are going to make any progress, you must realize, you must understand, 
that this IS all a trick. An elaborate trick , yes, but still a trick.
A trick ...where the super-rich are the "trick-sters",  and you, my poor friends,
you are the "trick-ees". Do I make myself clear? Good, then we'll go on to the second part.
The SECOND part, dear students of the world, is the crucial "Trickle-DOWN" phase. 
That, my friends, simply means that the super-rich get to URINATE all over the rest of us
...and then laugh ...all the way to their off-shore banks and tax-shelters.
I hope that I have been helpful. Until next time.
- Professor America
P.S. In other words, my gullible little friends, the bottom line is this:
the ONLY acceptable looters in life are the super-rich.
Anybody else .... is subject to arrest, or worse.
Got that? Good, you’ll work out just fine. And my apologies for this tedious, long-winded explanation of the way things REALLY work. But after all - I AM an Economics Professor.

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