We'll See

The New York Times

Nothing New Under The Sun

Why not let William Jennings Bryan, circa 1896, tell it like it is:

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.