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Voodoo Economics

Remember TV evangelists Reverend Ike and Jimmy Baker and host of others asking for your money that would do nothing to improve one's life. In doing so one could live vicariously through these men of God by enriching them for common folk to look on in AW.  This is the religious version of "Trickle Down" economics proposed by Republicans and their patron saint Ronald Reagan. Enrich the top one percent and that wealth will trickle down to the 99%. Pope Francis essentially called "Trickle down" economics a fraud.  George H W Bush had a similar reflection of Reagans' "trickle down" when he called it "VOODOO ECONOMICS"!    P3

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