Originally Posted by
t.nie
I wouldn't necessarily call his Cabinet corrupt, but you gotta scratch your head and wonder how so many people buying this idea that Trump is changing things in Washington. All I see is a cabinet of the 1%ers of America and I see nothing that would make me think any of them are the least bit aware or concerned with the welfare of the other 99%.
I just see a whole gaggle of trickle down economic guys who believe that if people like them get extravagantly richer, the rest of the country benefits in some way.
Which, as Robert Reich, a senior economist in the Bill Clinton administration stated, is true.
I heard him do a presentation and he basically put it to the audience at the very beginning of his speech, would you embrace an economic strategy that benefitted the poorest by 5% if it meant the wealthiest benefitted by 80%? And the audience overwhelmingly voted "NO."
Then he said to them hang on a minute, you mean you would deny the poorest Americans a real increase in their overall wealth and prosperity of 5% and make them stay where they are if the richest got an 80% increase in their wealth too? Really? You would give the poor NOTHING before you would allow the wealthy to benefit greatly? Are you serious?
It was pretty interesting commentary from a "lefty liberal" economist. But he made a good point, that yes, Trickle Down does help the poorest by some measurable margin, but it does help the wealthiest disproporationately.
But apparently thats the only deal in town, because that is exactly what Trump has populated his cabinet with. People who believe they should reap the most rewards or our society and economic system, and as long as the middle class and poor get some crumbs, that's fair.