What big businesses forget is that if the people don't have JOBS, they can't BUY the products that the businesses are producing: cars/tennis shoes/televisions, etcet etcet etcet.

"Supply side economics
Will make us rich, they say.
We'll have to do our best
To stay alive until that day.
Alive until that day, my friend,
Alive until that day.
It'll trickle down, just stick around
Alive until that day-o

Put it on the ground, spread it all around
Dig it with a hoe. It will make your flowers grow."

Linn