President Obama Calls Republican Budget ‘Thinly-Veiled Social Darwinism,’ ‘A Prescription For Decline’: President Obama today used a speech before the Associated Press Luncheon to deliver a defense of the social safety net and government investment, while laying out the empirical case against supply-side economics. “You would think that after the results of this experiment in trickle-down economics were made painfully clear, the proponents of this theory might [...]/p