[sagar]

“...economic policies that favor the rich.”

When you favor the rich, a thousand poor can become rich.
When you favor the poor, a thousand rich will become poor.

The industrial revolution was not because a bunch of poor people got together, rather a bunch of capitalists who used their ingenuity to utilize the poor to turn low-value raw material and labor into high value-added products and services that not only benefit the rich, but also the very poor most of whom can become rich if they follow in the footsteps of their rich(er) peers.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I want someone to ask Obama the question, if top down economics do not work, what kind of economics do work and why haven’t they worked in the last 4 years.

[Sacajaweau]

About 50 years ago, a man (my boss at the time)told me "give a poor man a dollar and he'll spend it. Give a rich man a dollar and he'll turn it into two.

He died a millionaire.

I went on to put two young men through Clarkson and Syracuse U

The lesson...you get rich by working your butt off.