But you need to understand economics if you're going to help the economy - Bush didn't understand it (or figured he could use the mighty muscle of the govt to address housing "inequities"), and Obama understands even less.OK, but H G Wells said that "the Essence of Civilization is Specialization" meaning that civilization really develops when we don't have to be able to do everything ourselves any more. The President of the USA has access to the best specialists that money can buy. If you're saying that his choices of advisor are bad, I'm not competent to comment but that would be disappointing. Yeah I know about the accusations of Communist backers but I'm assuming that they share the same office as their buddies on the Death Panels.
Speaking of H G Wells: check out his thoughts about a "World Brain" in 1938. Sound familiar? ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
