>>>"Trickle-down" -- 30 years later there is still no basis for this cheery pablum. In theory it sounds plausible. In fact the rich have gotten richer, much richer, and everyone else has gotten poorer. IMO we've been played for fools.
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>>I like trickle-down much better than Nobama's tinkle-on. We were better off under any of the presidents since Jimmy Carter left office than we have been under the Great Obfuscator. Gas was running around 1.80 a gallon when Bush left office....Oh well, as James Carville liked to say - It's the Economy Stupid! And it will be the same when Obama loses to whomever lines up against him.
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>Dream on. Are you going to give me a chance to win my steak dinner back? If you so you should probably have a better idea than the price of gas given inflation, or the thought that any American President has much control over it.

Yes, the president and the dems are partly responsible for high gas prices. The dems won't authorize drilling here and the prez is with them. He is also on tape (than you big dummy for putting it on tape) saying he wants $10.00 per gallon gas. As they say out west, "there ain't a cow in Texas" if the Rs don't hang that around his neck. And, the high gas prices are hurting Obama's peeps the most. I think they will vote against him too when they close the curtains. As a matter of fact, that would be a killer commercial - show a poor old black couple, driving a car that is falling apart, in the roughest part of town, with maybe $20.00 in their pocket. They pull in to the gas station and see gas is $10.00 a gallon. Balloon overhead has the big mouth saying yada, yada, yada, $10.00 a gallon ... maybe you should buy a new car.... Next we see them going to the voting booth, closing the curtain, balloon guy shows up again with a repeat performance. They shake their head and maybe mumble how disappointed they are and push the button with a big R out to the side! I think I should market this,except for the fact that it kinda forms itself.This next election should be interesting, particularly in light of the fact that polls are now showing a generic repub beating nobama.