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A few years ago, I visited the Biltmore in Ashville, NC, advertised as "America's largest home!" It had a few MILLION cubic feet. 250 rooms. At least 40 bathrooms. A dining room so big that my entire house would easily fit inside, with room to spare.
The really interesting part, IMHO, was the immense contrast between the family and guest space (literally fit for royalty) and the servant's quarters--tiny cubes of rooms barely big enough to squeeze in a single bed and tiny dresser.
THAT'S the Conservative ideology in a nutshell. Concentrate the wealth in the hands of a small handful of wildly wealthy, with the rest of us scrambling for the crumbs, cramped in the tiny little rooms, and happy to be inside out of the cold. (Or so they think). The mythology that pulls in the Billy Bob's and Tommy Joe's (plumber or otherwise), even if they're not Wingnuts, is that elusive promise that THEY'LL get to be one of the anointed ones. So, they don't want the rich taxed, because they plan to get there themselves! Yeah, right. Delusional much?
SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS DOESN'T WORK. It has failed, Failed, FAILED, and deservedly so. That's why Bush tossed an "economic stimulus package" our way, in a pitiful effort to drive DEMAND, the true gauge of a successful economy.
Anything less than helping to create a vibrant, thriving middle class is doomed to failure.
