Trickle Down

For at LEAST thirty years or so

Haven’t most of us grown very weary

As politicians have beaten us over

Our heads with their lousy trickle-down theory?

 

How have they managed to fool so many

And put us all in our current funk?

Research is showing--though we knew all along--

That the trickle-down theory’s a lot of bunk.

 

We’ve only seen the rich get richer

After years and years of deregulation.

And since the poor have just grown poorer,

Something is wrong with the whole situation.

 

We cannot depend on leaders like Paul Ryan

To solve this economic mess.

His plan puts the burden on less wealthy people,

And who benefits from it? I’ll give you one guess!

 

Some say a steep progressive taxation

Is one way to help us out of the slump.

But then there’s resistance from rich and powerful

Magnates such as the obnoxious D. Trump.

 

I’d like to know how the trickle-down theory

Became so popular and earned such renown.

What I have seen of it hasn’t been pretty:

I hate to say what is trickling down.

(4-24-14)