{"id":19275,"date":"2015-01-07T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2015-01-07T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T03:23:57","slug":"elizabeth-warren-delivers-scathing-speech-on-trickle-down-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/07\/elizabeth-warren-delivers-scathing-speech-on-trickle-down-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Delivers Scathing Speech On Trickle-Down Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/elizabeth-warren-trickle-down-economics-afl-cio-raise-the-wages\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren Delivers Scathing Speech On Trickle-Down Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Pretty much the whole Republican Party \u2013 and, if we\u2019re going to be honest, too many Democrats \u2013 talked about the evils of &#8216;big government&#8217; and called for deregulation,&#8221; Warren continued.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n&#8220;The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America&#8217;s middle class,&#8221; Warren said. &#8220;Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want a nice poster on this topic, see my previous post <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/05\/the-lesson-of-the-current-economic-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lesson Of The Current Economic Boom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the too many Democrats you could include President Obama and both Clintons, Bill and Hillary.\u00a0 Yet, somehow there are still Democrats who are pining fir Hillary Clinton to run for President.\u00a0 What would it take to get them to wake up?\u00a0 I keep trying everything I know to get them to see the reality.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-color:#000000;\"\/>\n<p>January 7, 2015<\/p>\n<p>See my subsequent post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/07\/sen-elizabeth-warren-at-the-afl-cio-raising-wages-summit\/\" title=\"Subsequent post\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren at the AFL-CIO Raising Wages Summit<\/a> to see the video of the speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has the article Elizabeth Warren Delivers Scathing Speech On Trickle-Down Economics. &#8220;Pretty much the whole Republican Party \u2013 and, if we\u2019re going to be honest, too many Democrats \u2013 talked about the evils of &#8216;big government&#8217; and called for deregulation,&#8221; Warren continued. . . . &#8220;The trickle-down experiment that began in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19297,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions\/19297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}