Trickle Up or Trickle Down?

[COUNT]

I know we all want the water to trickle downstream but I'm asking about economics. I know what I think but I'm curious about what the political buzzards have to say. I don't care about the specific policy of Reagan, Bush, Carter, Clinton, etc. but more about the theory in general. So, what do you guys think and what scholarly evidence do you have to support your opinions.

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[UserName]

Economics. Make economic sense out of promoting growth and urbanization in areas that just don't have the natural resources to support it. It's like sticking 1000 cows on an acre of land, you can import resources and make economic sense out of it, but no matter how you slice it, it stinks. So I think that to weigh the equation on economic grounds is to loose focus on a much larger picture. My question is why the states 'downstream' in the lower Colorado basin aren't more active in protecting the water that should be going their way from being piped across the Cont. Divide?

[gh]

Are you asking for marko and helio to write your economics report?

[COUNT]

Haha. No (notice there are no mentions of beer in the post) . Though I would love to hear what they have to say. Just kind of curious to see how people tend to polarize on the subject. I'm kind of surprised to see how little response there has been though, considering some of the flamewars these political threads have brought about.

[basil]

I have a liberal bent. My main view of economic policy is that you should enable people to predict so they can plan and you should provide incentive. If you make it easy for rich people to stay rich, you don't have much incentive.

I am really bothered that the rich are getting richer and the others are getting no better. The US is no longer the land of opportunity as it once was--the poor aren't working their way up any more. The poor don't see the opportunities. Teachers are less successful at showing that learning & work leads to serious opportunities.

[caspermike]

from some of the classes ive taken i fell asleep half way through but mostely i could stay up.

economy is like a river, my example is gore.
theres consequences first off= you're in steep granite walled canyon.

you have your river which gradually rises = the economy on rise

the longer it stays consistant the longer you can hit it up but after there's a big rise there's always a big fall.

the rest is fucking confusing we will say everything else is the rocks and you can figure it out from there

[BigD]

If that's the case, I'm throwing ends in Ginger

[caspermike]

EXACTELY THATS THE ECONOMY AT WORK WE ARE ALWAYS PAYING FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, WE ARE IN NATIONAL DEBT SO GINGER IS GOOD I WOULD COMPARE TIOLET BOWL TO THE WAR NEVER ENDING AND TUNNEL TO AGRICULTURE GOOD SOME TIMES BUT SOMETIMES ITS A LITTLE MEETY AND THE CONSEQUENCES AREN'T SO GOOD.!!!

AND APPLESAUCE PRETTY MUCH EXPLAINS THE OIL AND GAS IN WYOMING THE FUCKING ROCKS AT THE END ARE THE ONLY THING HOLDING IT UP AND THOSE ROCKS ARE CONSERVATIONALISTS

[TakemetotheRiver]

http://www.mountainbuzz.com/forums/f...-new-post.html
Although it deteriorated, the beginning of this thread is all about economics.