Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less ele… - John Kenneth Galbraith

"If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics)."

Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,

In practice, the individual or individuals at the top of these institutions are often there because, as happens regularly in great organizations, theirs was mentally the most predictable and, in consequence, bureaucratically the least inimical of the contending talent.