> 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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Let's hear a cheer for the accounting experts at the Pentagon.
Ian