Up The Down Escalator
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Up the down escalator is how I see it; and that frightens me a lot more than down the up escalator. It's about a Gatwick Airport experience, flying to North Africa. I found the gradient of the escalators at that airport too steep for my liking. Being acrophobic, I suffer serious giddiness at heights. But looking up a steep escalator frightens me less than looking down an escalator of similar gradient. Thus, I'd rather look up an escalator than look down one.
Looking down an escalator is trickle-down economics long preached by Uncle Sam. 'My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked.' These words were spoken on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, by the overlord of Bretton-Woods, of trickle-down land. From that base, trickle-down apostles have been evangelising it as the only path to national development and prosperity, the elixir and panacea for curing underdevelopment. Let's note, though, Kufuornomics practised it much human-faced.