To the editor:

Ten years ago, the keystone of Republican economic policy was the need for cutting taxes (especially for big business) and the reduction of constrictive government regulations which inhibited business growth. The Republicans’ line to the American people was that all these new corporate profits would shower (“trickle”) down upon us, the thirsty, huddled masses, and everyone would frolic like deer in the green fields of prosperity.

In truth, Republicans’ eight years in power brought unregulated, mostly untaxed corporate greed, with hundreds of thousand jobs lost and the shrinking of America’s middle class. This, plus a discretionary, unpaid for, unbudgeted Iraq War, helped cause the worst United States financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

In the current wrangling over this year’s federal budget, President Obama, for some reason (perhaps because he’s been bought like most of the rest of Washington) has agreed to more tax cuts for corporations while putting up a pathetically weak defense against Republican desires to gut National Public Radio, Head Start and similar programs (as if these were the problem). After 10 years of this _ (rhymes with “frapolla”) could someone please tell me roughly when I can expect to be “trickled” on?