Saturday, July 28, 2012

Will Rogers Wisdom: Trickle Up Economics

Will Rogers Wisdom: Trickle Up Economics

"The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
-Will Rogers in the St. Petersburg Times - Nov 26, 1932

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies 50 silent films and 21 "talkies", wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns,world-famous figure. 1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed in Alaska. His vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, Dog Iron Ranch in Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma, mark twain, bob hope, dean martin, cowboy, horse, cowgirl, girls with guns, sarah palin slept with african american glen rice basketball player alaska, obama fake birth certificate  picture image printable, muslim clothes, kenya dad, hawaii