[lbo-talk] Jerry sez...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 11 08:21:48 PDT 2003


Max B. Sawicky wrote:


>Experts have always been involved in carrying
>out policy (bigger government means more such
>experts). Bigger government maybe means more
>complicated policy questions, hence greater
>need for experts in that vein too.

That's not the problem - it's that whole areas of policy - economic and foreign, to take two - are written out of political discourse and reserved for experts. No one doubts that it requires experts to handle the nuts & bolts, but the big questions are supposed to be decided democratically and they're not.

Doug



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