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[j.martin.pedersen]

On 12/07/10 06:55, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> 
> what is the left really about, in its core, is expanding the field of
> opportunity to all, and the democratized choice of any policy which affects
> any individual, while the right hope that the free rein to the elite,
> restricting decision-making to moneyed interests, and letting the top 1%
>  grab the lion's share of the social product, will magically and
> romantically 'trickle down' ..

Arhh, they don't actually believe or desire that, but offer it as a
pathetic excuse for looting the world (i.e. those who belive it are
plain stupid). It can be traced back to some pretty disgusting imagery:

"The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down
economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under
the name "horse and sparrow theory". He wrote, "Mr. David Stockman has
said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down
approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation
called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats,
some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'" Galbraith claimed
that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of
1896". - from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

The elite has always looked upon the poor as deserving of eating shit.