Here's Gerson, loyally supporting his former boss again, the failed president George W. Bush, whose misadventures cost our nation ten trillion dollars.  Gerson says of GWB, "His appeal included the aggressive promotion of economic growth, expressed in support for broad tax cuts."  But those tax cuts didn't expand GDP growth, which had stalled along with economic activity.  For that matter, so-called "stimulative" tax cuts, sold to us as "trickle down economics" - meaning that great wealth granted to the already wealthy would result in a "trickling" of wealth down upon the heads of lesser men, women, and their families.  It didn't work under Reagan, whose VP GHW Bush called it "VooDoo Economics"; it didn't work under his son, and it won't work anytime in the future.  What it is is a money giveaway to billionaires.  Nothing more than that.

It really is obvious.  But so many people just beg for that "trickle down" that never rains on them.  They don't win the lottery either.