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Friday Humor: "Trickle Down"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/17/2012 17:03 -0400

Pretty much what the title says.

h/t Jon

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Sat, 02/18/2012 - 09:44 | 2172715 hamurobby

Existing Ideology usually gets streamrolled in a crisis.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:18 | 2171774 Lower Class Elite

If you don't fall for anything, you will stand for something.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:10 | 2171365 Dr. Engali

I think I need that on a coffee mug.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:12 | 2171376 mc_LDN

Anyone know the Fatboy Slim song Star 69. Its appropriate....

they Know What Is What
but They Don't Know What Is What
they Just Strut
what The Fuck?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:02 | 2171991 Cathartes Aura

+ 1 for ole Norman - who'd a thunk anyone could make a successful transition from a Housemartin?

Happy Hour lads!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_TMUJIWwyI

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:17 | 2171380 Mercury

Cheer up, Carter is finally serving his second term.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:15 | 2171384 francis_sawyer

But I ordered "shaken" not "stirred"...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:19 | 2171402 Howard

The only problem I have with this, is that trickle down does work if your not on a fiat system. Austrian economics.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:28 | 2171442 css1971

It's less up/down and more peer to peer.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:28 | 2171443 madcuban

Yup. Another poor Zh posting. I guess everyone is prone to fits of msm type lies.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:18 | 2171618 fuu

You should start your own site.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:29 | 2171653 NotApplicable

Not really.

If you recall the "Trickle Down Doctrine" was just another Keynesian gov. money-pumping scheme dressed up in free-market rhetoric.

The Austrian view is more of a bottom-up, "rising tide lifts all boats" wealth creation analogy.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:19 | 2171403 corndog

"They use force to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do"

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:23 | 2171417 ZippyBananaPants

Looks like Warren and Ronald are dropping ass and everyone else is standing around waiting to smell it!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:24 | 2171422 americanspirit

It's trickling down my leg. Is that funny?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:24 | 2171423 kaiserhoff

It's' been a rough year for those who believe in free markets, free speech, or even sentient life on earth. We could use a cup of cheer. What's more fun than a White Wedding?

From the High Society pages of The Washington Pist

Elsie and Samuel Frank (both mercifully deceased) wish to announce the betrothal of their
Son, (cough, snort, horse laugh) Barnett Nancy, to his long time butt buddy, Jim (hot & ready)
Fudgepacker. Ms. Fwank is the well known Madame of a gay brothel on Capitol Hill, and a
life long whore to the International Banking Cartel. Mr. Packer is a successful handyman
and Porta-Pottie purveyor in Bug Bite Me (old Indian name), Maine.

The Bwide-To-Be is of the Jewish faith (ROTFLMAO), while Fudge is a non-euclidean Druid.
Mixed marriages bring their own special challenges, but we should all hope that their shared
kink will help them rise above the petty bitching, pissing, moaning, back-biting, and
back-stabbing that are so frequently displayed in alternative relationships... yada, yada...
The couple are NOT planning a family (gotsidank).

Lest the reader fear that morality and sanity are gone with the wind, and that any shred
of common decency is, at best, a fading remembrance of things past, we should point out
that this union has been blessed and sanctified by: The North American Man/Boy Love
Association, Pan African Men and Sheep Together, The Sadomasochist Dyke Majority (quoi?),
and last and least, Al Franken.

It is rumored that the happy couple will wear matching pink party dresses (holy mother
of god!) OK, I know it's the Lezzies who are way too much alike, but do you doubt that
Bahney has a pink party dress? Music (sic) at the reception will feature Lady Gargoyle
accompanied by the Trannies on air guitar. Yes, I know the Trannies wouldn't recognize
a chord if one BIT THEM IN THE ASS, but this is the new minimalist music, minimalist as
in tone deaf, whiny, pathetic, public humiliation on stage where the music should be. It's
not for me. It's not for you, so get over it already. You can see how much progress I've
made;)

The writer has long held the opinion that nothing can help DC, except perchance, a
direct strike from a meteor. If there were any justice in the world... Nevertheless, when
Bahney and his mantourage finally depart, a great cheer will rise up from all who have paid
taxes, rent, or a mortgage, or worked for a living, or tried to watch the evening news without
puking.

In spite of all that is right and holy, the gay blades can look forward to a long and calm
retirement, because I have it on good authority that heaven has no interest in them,
and hell is afraid they will take over.

auf wiedersehen

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:28 | 2171445 dontgoforit

TOO FUNNY! LUV IT

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:41 | 2171500 CompassionateFascist

Tribal Sodom and Gomorrah. And it'll end just like it did first time around. Pillars of (radioactive) salt.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:37 | 2171480 non_anon

that trickle down were the elite pissing on the debt slaves

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:07 | 2171997 Cathartes Aura

it was "trickle down" for the RayGunites, and the "Big Bang" for Maggie's Farm.

I'm sure y'all can make a cute sexual reference there too. . .

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 22:01 | 2172096 non_anon

hmmm, how tempting

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:38 | 2171486 toady

Like my old man always said, Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining...

Trickle down my ass!

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 18:41 | 2173738 VisualCSharp

Wait... so your old man wanted you to trickle down his ass crack instead?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:44 | 2171513 1929agin

They are saying, "We have all been playing Uncle Ben "long positions" all the way to the last hour of trading today, and now, "Short" for the next week news..........

It just doesn't get any easier. hahaha , Call Benny Boy, Where's my drink?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:44 | 2171514 SAME AS IT EVER WAS

1000% PRICELESS!

"Now lets get going, I have reservations for dinner at a new 5 star restuarant, 'It costs $1,000 per person and the tab's on me', Cheerio Mate's"

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:45 | 2171517 Kristian

NO, no, no. Reagan said, 'we are going to bomb Iran'.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:51 | 2171532 smiler03

Awesomo 5000 or Funnybot?

The human robot is far funnier. Lame.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:52 | 2171534 Peter Pan

The only thing that is trickling down is debt. Did i say "trickling?"

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:54 | 2171539 DavosSherman

The douchebag who came up with that assinine idea is now a professor at UVA.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:54 | 2171543 phraseshifter

"They be-lie-ve us!"

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:56 | 2171549 non_anon

ha ha, the elites gift to debt slaves, a golden shower!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:58 | 2171554 Conax

A rising tide lifts all boats, they say.

When the tide goes out, we're busted up on the rocks but those big yachts in the bay are partying like this-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spvx4zvcFWk&feature=related

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:03 | 2171568 Bawneee Fwank

It trickles down my chin...bitchez!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:55 | 2171721 New_Meat

Word around here is that joe-joe-joe kennedy is after your seat.

Is duuuude gonna' b jealous? 'specially with the upCOMING nuptuals?

Inquiring minds wish to know.

- Ned

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:04 | 2171571 Narcolepzzzzzz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azrainman/2074221914/

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:12 | 2172006 Cathartes Aura

nice. maybe worth a caption contest thread of its own, page hits 'n' all. . .

I'll get the ball rolling: ala Carlin, "It's a big party, and YOU ain't in it"

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:06 | 2171577 swissaustrian

The guy in the front looks like Erich Honecker

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:16 | 2171611 Stuck on Zero

My favorite cartoon gives the real story:

When top level guys look down.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:25 | 2171623 Use of Weapons

Yes... if you're a slave.

Bottom > Top looks a whole lot different if you're a predator.

#muppetshow

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:18 | 2171619 wee-weed up

And now it's trickle-up poverty, bitchez! Um...Um...UM!!!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:19 | 2171620 HD

Says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:23 | 2171635 Use of Weapons

You're old. And out of date. And referencing something 20 years old. So... how's about you either get a clue, or fucking kill yourself?

You know. Like 76% of the American people feel about the "Republican Guard" that you have against Obama.

Your country is a joke. And that's coming from a country you're bombing the shit out of.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:54 | 2171720 HD

First of all, America is bombing lots of countries right now. It's a jobs program. Don't take it personally. Feel free to come to America and drive a cab...I'm a good tipper.

Second of all, I am not out of date. I'm hip, I'm cool, I'm a happenin' fool. I'm jive to what you young people are in to these days. I assure you, I too enjoy pet rocks, leg warmers and pac-man. And if that doesn't convince you, just ask all my friends down at the roller disco - and they will tell you I am anything but "out of date".

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:10 | 2171729 Use of Weapons

LOL.

So your response is: "The MIC is active atm, so I have a job"?

TROLOLOL.

You're fucked, totally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDH9Jq5AWkQ

Oh... and we pity the two old farts giving you a green. Sad... they don't see the geopolitical scene. And no, Hilary getting the World Bank leadership is only going to make things worse.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:14 | 2171768 Xkwisetly Paneful

THe geopolitical scene

World loves America=look the fuck out.

World hates America=normal.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:07 | 2171885 Use of Weapons

No, not really.

Can't believe that stupid morons in here give a +1 for "WOOO-HAA" jingoism,

Really? Seriously? This shit is fucking hilarious.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:21 | 2171907 Use of Weapons

You got a +5 for a Genesis song.

Seriously: That shit is my Grandfather's zone.

White old dudes are giving you a green 'cause they're fucking redundant.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 22:00 | 2172091 rqb1

Your the redundant one replying to your post

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:24 | 2171636 Flocking swans

We have tried 30+ years of this shit. Time to try something new.

Also, FUCK ronald reagun and all his ass-crack-licking-brown-nosed-brownshirts.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:44 | 2171687 New_Meat

Flock: are you German? Sounds like a serious obsession on your part. - Ned

{and decomposed necrophilia? duuude, u need serious help}

{{two legs bad, four legs good ;-) }

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:37 | 2171638 FrankThinkTank

Trickle up poverty is soooo much better...we've been flooded with that lately, and it's getting us where?

Ofcourse capital won't flow down in a FIAT economy...but the fiat inflation certainly stagnates in the lower/middle income brackets, forms nice cesspools.

I'll be waiting for that meme.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:34 | 2171669 Dermasolarapate...

Price hikes catch up to U.S. food makers

U.S. brand-name food makers raised prices throughout 2011 and it's starting to catch up to them. On Friday, General Mills (GIS) blamed "weak volume performance across U.S. retail food categories in December and January" for cutting their fiscal May 2012 outlook to between $2.53 and $2.55 a share from $2.59 to $2.61. General Mills didn't single out any particular brand in its statement, but it means shoppers haven't been buying enough of its packaged foods. On Friday, H.J. Heinz also highlighted the mind-set of U.S. consumers.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:38 | 2171677 Everybodys All ...

Give me Reagan any day over this administration. For me the joke is not so much about trickle down economics but rather the trickle down justice we're seeing out of Eric Holder and co.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:41 | 2171685 New_Meat

despair.com: http://www.despair.com/ should check this out.

WB7 is great, but can't slip by the corporate motivationalistaz. Dang, I wish he could, but, then, it would dilute the required impact.

- Ned

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:28 | 2171926 Sunshine n Lollipops

I like this one:

The bad news is robots can do your job now. The good news is we're now hiring robot repair technicians. The worse news is we're working on robot-fixing robots- and we do not anticipate any further good news.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:43 | 2171690 Quinvarius

What is totally funny about that is the wealth that is supposed to trickle down comes from the lower classes through inflation or taxes in the first place. If the government is giving out presents, they come from someone else. Trickle down is the most ignorant theory ever devised. It really means "I steal what is yours and maybe give you some back later".

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:01 | 2171707 Use of Weapons

Sigh.

Son, I am dissapoint. So many readers, so little intelligence.

The worst thing about reading the so-called 'intelligent investment' source of the USA et al, is how... fucking out of touch you are with your base. Here's a tip: spend 30-60 mins on Reddit, or Dig, or Metafilter or any number of internet 'amalgamation' sites.

Hint: Your youth is not only disparaging you, it fucking hates your slimy, willing-to-lie-for-a-profit-margin, lying guts. Not only that, but you've a serious percentage of this generation who are trained to instantly see through ALL the bullshit. I can sit in a room with lawyers, creeps and CEOS and within 10 minutes... I can drop that lying on its head.

Older generation: you're a fucking joke. And yes, I can get paid for just watching you lie... badly.... and advising against partaking in your bullshit.

The youth of today? Sadly... you lost them. Because, the new breed can see straight through your bollocks, and don't value it. Oh, sure... play the Radical Religion card, and you'll have some adherents... but the majority hate everything you stand for.

Jesus wept. If you weren't so clueless, you might have a chance. You're clueless, so here comes the whirlwind.

Religion: Yes, we don't care, and Yes, you're about to be raped over it.

#killalltheboomers

[edit: AWWWA... WAAAHHH]

Boomer retard junks me. Doesn't know how his economy is about to unfold. QQ. Hint: Fat people are a liability, you fucking Unicorn humping fools.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:39 | 2171829 eddiebe

Use of W., dude, chill. Assholes come in all ages, young or old or in the middle. Just make sure you are'nt one; that should keep you busy enough for a while. And since you are quoting Jesus, here is one: Pull the beam out of your own eyes before you worry about the sliver in someone elses.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:59 | 2172088 Alienated Serf

CHeck those sites, I think you will be impressed wit the youfs.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:42 | 2171838 DollarMenu

Thanks for the 'internet amalgamation sites' tip.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:58 | 2172085 Alienated Serf

U mad bro?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:51 | 2171709 Chupacabra-322

I never seen so many Pure Evil Vermin gathered together in one room. I'm surprised the room didn't burst into Flames.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:53 | 2171714 ThisIsBob

What? The guy who mixed those martinis didn't get a paycheck that week?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:56 | 2171725 zerozulu

One devil missing in the picture is Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:45 | 2171841 DollarMenu

He is in the other room getting head from Henry the K.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:07 | 2171751 danielvisionvic...

Friday Night video

Gold 1980 Vs. Today

Just posted a few hours ago

http://goldsilver.com/video/gold-1980-vs-today/

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:07 | 2171752 danielvisionvic...

Friday Night video

Gold 1980 Vs. Today

Just posted a few hours ago

http://goldsilver.com/video/gold-1980-vs-today/

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:12 | 2171763 Raskolnikoff

Trickle down works when you have an honest upper class with morals and integrity. But like our stand in line for free lower class, you also have the upper class in search of freebies. So, what's the biggest complaint of our elitists, why they hate those who follow religion and traditional values with zest. This explains alot about the current condition of our society and economy. Yeah, you don't believe in God, ok, but you simply must believe in a higher truth, one that demands respect and a lowering of personal demands to honor it. Without this MORALITY, capitalism hasn't a chance to enable, nothing in fact has a chance to enable true advancement. No one should be above this Sacred Morality, God is just a simple synopsis of this, and many would wish God dead as they would the laws of economics and debt. they want nothing less than freebies

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:16 | 2171769 Use of Weapons

Oh, please, shut the fuck up.

If you've not noticed, every single member of the GOP who voted for this "trickle down" and were on Reagan's team have admitted that it was a total FUCKING LIE. They were amused about it... and are on record for saying: "Yeah, TROLOLOL, it was a fucking hoot the poor people fell for it".

Oh, and the rest of your shit? Get a grip already. Money never "trickles down", you stupid cunt. Money follows the same rules as gravity: the larger the source, the larger the pull, the more the source grows.

Now grow up, educate yourself, or become a slave.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:18 | 2171775 Xkwisetly Paneful

No please stay stupid and pretend innovation is a right of mankind. The rest of the world has for 120yrs and voila look at how much tangible good and service can be had for paper.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:28 | 2171792 Use of Weapons

Oh, please, shut the fuck up.

Oh, and the rest of your shit? Get a grip already. Money never "trickles down", you stupid cunt. Grasp some real history: money has NEVER "flowed down" without some hard-core protesting, blood, monetary power giving political power, political interference from the ruling class due to loss of revenue, or ruling class feeling guilty. Money follows the same rules as gravity: the larger the source, the larger the pull, the more the source grows.

Now grow up, educate yourself, or become a slave. Jesus wept: ZH is like politics 101 for fucking ignorant twats.

Wait...

You interrupted my edit for this?

No please stay stupid and pretend innovation is a right of mankind. The rest of the world has for 120yrs and voila look at how much tangible good and service can be had for paper.

Sorry: your intellect is so small, I can't understand what you're trying to say there.

Right then: innovation is a "right of mankind". Yep, you're right: Religious zealots, Monarchs and Tyranny stifle innovation, you're right. That's why they need to be BURNT FROM THE ROOT of the US experience. Er, wait. 120 yrs? You're claiming that nothing of value has come from outside of the USA for the last 120 years....????

TROLOLOL..... YOU STUPID MOTHER FUCKER. THE NAZIS GOT YOU TO THE MOON YOU FUCKING TWAT

>> and God knows how many other inventions the non-USA made in the last 120 years... TROLORLOLLO... seriously... you'd be better off actually trying to figure out an invention in the last 120 years that WAS made in the USA. Hint: A British guy invented the internet, you twat. Oh, and Tesla invented electricity, not your patent-trolling-elephant-killing-patent troll of a hero, "Edison".

TROLOLOLOL.

/too much.

Come back when your IQ is >100, please. We're DYING of laughter over here.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:39 | 2171817 Xkwisetly Paneful

I am sorry , stupid pompous imbecile says what?

Mankind almost doubles lifespan in 100yrs despite the largest socio economic system in the world.

I read it on the internets so it must be true.

Innovation is a right of mankind that's why history is so full of the ruling elite sharing it with the masses.

Sorry: You are a delusional self loathing imbecile who's existence even two generations ago could not dream about and feel the need to broadcast it to the public.

Exist in the top .0000001% or some teeny fraction thereof all time humanity and yet still whining about it like a little biatch.

Yea you're a victim of complete and total drugging of the gene pool.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:38 | 2171825 Raskolnikoff

Reagan simply wanted the government out of the driver's seat. call it trickle down or whatever, but he was right, since Reagan, government has taken more control, and guess what, all the regulation and laws and tightening of control did not stop those who sought to hand out free mortgages and money to whatever class and it wound up perverting our capitalist system. Nothing is free in this world and man needs more humility about his fallen nature, the nature that gravitates towards sloath and the idea that biting a mere apple can give him total control, his nature is to lie to himself and others and if he blindly follows this nature, misery awaits him and his neighbors. Think about it, those who truly innovate come from the lower class, and it is the higher class that must respect them and provide a world of law and respect for such creativity, when that happens, everyone benefits. Without God and Morality, none of this respect and due humility is possible. Go ahead and float meaningless four letter words, everyone is frustrated, but do not demean anyone due to it, it is counterproductive.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:49 | 2171850 NotApplicable

Reagan likely believed all of that, but wasnt nearly as interested in its application once Bush shot him with a Hinckley.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:23 | 2172024 Money 4 Nothing

And just when did he arrive to that conclusion? When he as a Democrat or a Republican? Look Reagan wasn't a great President, he just emulates greatness on a percentage bases of bad to worse. He looks like the messiah now!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:33 | 2172038 Boxed Merlot

the regulation and laws and tightening of control did not stop those who sought to hand out free mortgages...

These stinkin mortgage instraments wouldn't have made it past the smell test had the demand for them not been so strong by government union retirement funds, calstrs, calpers, etc. These bloated cancers and their directors were determined to make "free" market returns on socialist wage garnering activities. In addition to exempting their membership from the social security program they not only accelerated its demise but threw the entire US economy into a tailspin we have yet to pull out of, and likely may not.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 22:00 | 2172064 Yes_Questions

all the regulation and laws and tightening of control did not stop those who sought to hand out free mortgages and money to whatever class and it wound up perverting our capitalist system.

It was the de-regulation of a Raygun successor that brought about the free mortgages and money (which comes from something more free than that money tree many a parent used to rail on and on about). The Government's alleged control needs to be put into perspective given the fact it is the Government itself that has been captured by the very institutions it once sought to control. This is because of the fact that innovation does come from the lower class and the higher class jealousy guards its own lot.

Once, it was up to the Fed and its IRS to assure workers were held in check, now its the captured Government.

Rant.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:59 | 2172090 SmoothCoolSmoke

Reagan wanted whatever made his buddies a shitload of money. If he had thought Gigantic Gov't was the answer he would have been for that. If you say "Oh no, Reagan wasn't for that!", then he was just a stooge who was used.

Sorry.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 21:41 | 2174071 littleenglander

+1 for the Gravity analogy.

Thinking about it makes a lot of sense on so many levels. It's not just the mass of money. The proximity makes an even bigger difference. As we all get pulled closer and closer the force increases by inverse square. We saw this as the suck up politicians were first to be subsumed, followed by the civil servants......

Eventually there will be a complete vacuum surrounding the black hole of compacted money with nothing left to feed it.

Last time I looked there was no real explanation as to why the universe is growing. If just left to gravity then it should be collapsing back together.

By that rationale their is a universal force equivalent to the Fed. I call it the Bernanke particle (like the Higgs Boson, only with more facial hair)

... (Can I submit this for a PhD I wonder)

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:13 | 2171767 zebra

and evaporate before the drop hits J6P's pocket.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:17 | 2171771 Zero Govt

Trickle Down does work...

...it doesn't when those monopolies, Govt and central banking, hoover up the proceeds

Take out the extortionate expense of waging war and waging the welfare State.. without those suckers you have a very sound economy

Govt : the biggest wealth destruction machine ever devised

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:23 | 2171790 Xkwisetly Paneful

Total failure, absent crass commercialization history shows the ruling elite gladly and often shared modern advancement with the slaves.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:14 | 2171897 Use of Weapons

Yeah...

That doesn't make any sense. Even when we translated it into Russian.

// Oh, look - we've a badass troll over here!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:31 | 2171932 Xkwisetly Paneful

No 100% wrong.

Human history shows that all advancement benefitted mankind,

hell even the ancient romans show the slaves had functioning aqueducts to bath and shower in.

// Oh, look-we've got the typical american hating eurotrashbot here!

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 10:00 | 2172726 hamurobby

Damn straight I want my slaves clean! I sure as hell dont want to smell them while they are feeding me or Im fucking them.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:13 | 2172783 hamurobby

Lets see, how does trickle down work for me in the auto industry? As my masters (oil corporations) make huge profits from rising fuel prices, they (car corporations) give me the option to buy a more smaller fuel efficient over complicated form of transportation that makes me even more beholden to their trickle down system! Heck they even let me buy repair insurance (insurance corporations) for said transportation. They know I cant afford to fix it if it breaks down, much less fix it myself, how nice of them! Trickle down indeed! Yes its a safer car (federale government mandates (for the good of the peoples)), safer because it has so much technology that no one really has to know how to drive it, short of keeping it between the lines and knowing where the brake pedal is. We (car corporations) will overbuild a car that cost too much so we can eliminate jobs such as the repair, parts and towing industry. Who needs labor! Except to assemble some the parts built worldwide in the country its to be sold in. The rest of the car should be built by robots (more corporate profits) so the world becomes an easier place! How did the roman empire end up?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:42 | 2171789 non_anon

oh yeah, Friday drunkeness begins, and i feel a trickle

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:43 | 2172054 non_anon

ha ha, i'm lit, Everclear 151

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:24 | 2171791 zerozulu

Trickle down does not work in a culture where respect is for the money, not for the people.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:25 | 2171796 PolishHammer

No post about Aleynikov acquittal?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:32 | 2171811 eddiebe

Here is a plumbers truism: Money flows uphill and shit runs downhill.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:33 | 2171815 Use of Weapons

Having looked at the junks in this thread, and given it to a PHD physicist from Oxford, and a mathematician PHD from Cambridge, and linking it with my PHD.

We've come to the conclusion that a large percentage of ZH readers are fucking muppets, and we're deeply amused by their US bias, stupidity and general gung-ho twatishness.

#winning!

??? Too fucking funny. +111 Greens for ignorant twats. >> We know how your politics works.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:46 | 2171844 Xkwisetly Paneful

Surrender noted.

Largely if not for the resident eurotrash, the self loathing americans and the radical islam pretending to be anglican-ZH would not exist.

ZZzzzzzz another self proclaimed PHD, not enough real ones in the world, the internet has created legions of pretend ones.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:15 | 2171884 Use of Weapons

Largely if not for the resident eurotrash, the self loathing americans and the radical islam pretending to be anglican-ZH would not exist.

Eurotrash: Nazis: built your rocket program, Islam: built modern medicine; Protestants: built the modern print / books medium

Fuck me... deluded or what? This is real?

Oh, and p.s.: we really do have PHDs, and we really do earn more in a week than your sorry ass! (sorry!)

p.s. Stop giving yourself a +1 green. We can all see it, and it's really sad

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:04 | 2171979 Xkwisetly Paneful

I vote down arrow on all my posts that I remember to.

Islam built modern medicine really? Why isn't there anything in the entire country medical borne of there?

Try again nitwit, from sanitization to actually treating it as a real science and not witchcraft that came from the US. Why do they call visiting patients, making the rounds? Because Johns Hopkins was round.

How could you be so wrong? I know eurotrash that's how where Bayer still makes most of it's money from aspirin.

Nazis built my rocket program? Another good one, try again. Without US manufacturers there was no Nazi rocket program.

and the protestants didn't even build modern print/books the chinese invented paper.

Don't they teach anything besides how to be a self loathing POS Eurotrash?

Oh and PS the day an academic moron of titanic proportions like you is more economically advantaged than me,

is the day I jump off the nearest bridge. So far you have been right about exactly ZERO,

but given the profession of living off the academic dole being right and wrong are loose concepts.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 10:17 | 2172738 The Old Man

"but given the profession of living off the academic dole being right and wrong are loose concepts."

Just ask Krugman and Bernanke. Sheepskin all the way.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:39 | 2171832 10044

buffet hasn't aged for 30 yrs

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:05 | 2171883 Dr.Vannostrand

That is what fresh childrens blood will do for you.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:30 | 2172034 Yes_Questions

That explains the baths.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:45 | 2171840 pmm009

I wonder if Condi would have laughed at the joke?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:47 | 2171845 Mr Lennon Hendrix

This picture was taken right before the Friday night White House circle jerk.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:24 | 2172026 Yes_Questions

and/or the pre-flight party before the Grove festivities.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:50 | 2171849 Bunga Bunga

You can't trickle down in a Ponzi scheme.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:57 | 2171867 bbq on whitehou...

"TARP: this is going to hurt banks more then it will you." Could also be the caption.

" Astarity is for the good of the country."

" Unemployment builds character."

" I just saved 1.6 billion on my Euro trade."

" Greece is not going to default."

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:07 | 2171887 ReligiousAtheist1

They do say "one is born everyday" and it seems in the last 30 years the entirely country was duped

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:17 | 2171901 PORTA PORTA

I have a much better one.

“Improving the public’s understanding of the central bank’s policy strategy reduceseconomic and …nancial uncertainty and helps households and …rms make more-informeddecisions. Moreover, clarity about goals and strategies can help anchor the public’slonger-term in‡ation expectations more …rmly and thereby bolsters the central bank’sability to respond forcefully to adverse shocks.” (Bernanke, 2010a).