Hi Terrence,
I’ve seen your work all over the internet, but it’s only today that I found the D&D thread and this blog – and I’ve got to say, I’m honestly shocked that the Economist isn’t all over you already (incidentally, ‘Trickle-Down Economics’ is actually my favourite editorial cartoon ever). Anyway, I saw on SA that you’re currently syndicated to a bunch of student papers in the States and I was wondering if New Zealand could hop on the bandwagon too.

We can’t really offer you anything in the way of money unfortunately, but I guess it’s another feather in your cap or bullet-point in your CV or whatever. Plus we’d be sure to credit you and send clippings of any work we publish. Keen?

Regards,
Rory MacKinnon
President 2008
Aotearoa Student Press Association

A perfect example of Bush’s idea of trickle down economics. The (AHEM) “riches” will just trickle to the less fortunate!

Terrence / dead-on take for trickle-down economics / nice work!

John Kenneth Galbraith said: “Trickle-down approach to economic policy—that an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: ‘If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'”
The sparrows, and the ordinary people, get mostly shit.

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