Trickle Down Economics: Romney Gives $50 to a Black Woman

by Yvette Carnell

If  anyone ever asks me why conservative strategies for economic empowerment don’t work, I’ll forward them the clip of Romney giving $50 dollars to a black woman. The woman, Ruth Williams, said she was praying for divine guidance as to how she would pay a late electric bill when she happened upon the Romney tour bus. (Here God is, again, working in all sorts of mysterious ways. The divine led this woman to Mitt instead of, say, a winning lottery ticket, but that’s a story for another day.)

Point being, the problem with ‘trickle down’ is that it leaves your worth and valuation 100 percent in the hands of  other human beings. In that sense, it’s more aligned with chattel slavery than a real, bona fide economic formula. And in such relinqueshments, a man who’s worth a cool couple hundred million may decide that he only has $50 bucks to spare. Even worse, he may decide that he doesn’t have any bucks to spare. It’s all left to his wise counsel. And these are the set-ups, the ones which place workers grovelling at the feet of barons of capital, that Republicans just love.

Common sense certainly isn’t common, but if it were, workers would look out for their own interests first, and go begging only as a last resort. Trickle down economics makes all working men and women beggars. ‘Alms for the poor’ anyone?
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Yvette Carnell is a former Capitol Hill and campaign staffer turned writer. She is currently an editor and contributor to Yourblackworld.