The Rising Tide

I had a passing thought about the operational platitude for Reaganomics that collided with another thought; the second one bounced off so I don't remember what it was, but consider the platitude:

The rising tide floats all boats.

Could it be that the platitude encapsulates useful truth, provided we realize that "rising tide" is meant to represent the standard of living of the working class, and "boats" represents the wealthy?

(Next time we'll consider whether "I'm from the government…" is the scariest sentence in the English language.)

Posted on January 18, 2008 at 20.18 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Briefly Noted, Reflections

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