[lbo-talk] Jerry sez...

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Aug 11 08:43:38 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:21 AM Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Jerry sez...


> 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



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