Letter: ‘Trickle down’ doesn’t work

Wednesday, April 7, 2004 | 9:11 a.m.

There is no way that George W. Bush can understand the plight of the unemployed worker. He is the son of a millionaire and never had to worry about anything -- it was handed to him.

I was raised during President Herbert Hoover's Great Depression and watched my parents struggle to keep us clothed and fed. My father was a disabled World War I veteran, suffering the remainder of his life from mustard gas burns of his lungs. During the Depression, he first lost his business and then our home, but he stayed the course, finally finding work through the Works Progress Administration.

I can visualize the same thing happening in the homes of the some 8 million-plus unemployed people today. Every time I see a picture of George Bush, gloating over how great the economy is doing great, I want to regurgitate. Sure, those making more than $200,000 a year really benefited from his tax cuts, and they invested their windfall on Wall Street.

Let us face it, "trickle down economics" doesn't work for those on the down side.

RAYMOND HARBERT

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