Chi Trib’s Rex Huppke has found something he likes pope-wise, even if he disguises it in a splurge of irony and faux detachment. He plays the naif — “Who, me?” — laying schmaltz on heavier than a high-school sophomore going for the prize.
There are some who doubt the efficacy of trickle-down economics [what Pope Francis condemned]. Those people, according to conservatives, are either communists or, apparently, the pope, whose exhortation insulted the memory of Reagan (patron saint of letting rich people keep their money) and REALLY upset Rush Limbaugh (patron saint of saying things loudly so nobody notices that they don’t make sense).
Thought I’d die laughing, Zelda. That man is SO funny. REALLY!!!
He gives a rundown on millenaristic theory and prediction having to do with the papacy and the world ending with a bang simultaneously, then provides an aw-shucks moment.
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Blithe Spirit 
Did the Pope really use the term, “trickle down”? That is an American, ideomatic expression. In America, Democrats use the term to make fun of a policy of free-market economics. It is not a term a serious economist would use. It is a rhetorical device not science or scholarship. What “trickles” down? Ford Motor Company makes a car. The customer buys the car. The Company get some money. What’s wrong with that? Why is that a bad policy for the government to protect? How else would a customer get a car? Well, according to Democrat economic theory, the Ford company could just give cars away. And, if they refused to give cars away, then, the IRS could threaten the company with audits and legal penalties and ultimately time in prison to force Ford to give up its cars. So, how is that just? In a free-market, a rival company could make cars and sell them at a better price. Better yet, the Democrat Party could make cars and sell them at a better price and pay their employees tons of money to show how morally superior and intellectually more sophisticated the leadership is. But, Democrats refuse to do that. They prefer harrasment and extortion in favor of productive and creative activity.
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