Well It Looked Good On Paper
link Obama Adviser Returning to Chicago To Teach | NBC Chicago.
It pains me to do this, but to use the awkward narrative of the White House, if you lent someone your car and that person proceeded to smash it up almost right from the moment he touched the keys, would it make sense to take driving lessons from this guy? This is precisely what this story is all about. Unable to make the theories of the ivory tower work in real life, Obama’s chief economic advisor Austan Goolbee is essentially giving up and going back to teaching what is now obviously flawed theory to a generation of naive students. ???!!! Exactly what is it that he’ll be teaching? Unless it’s at the Opposite George University, why would anyone pay attention to his discredited notions?
This is all backwards. What should happen is that people who’ve managed to do useful things in life should then be allowed to go to universities and colleges to pass on the valuable knowledge they’ve achieved. Instead, we have the situation now where people with soft hands are put forth as experts to solve problems in real life in which they have no experience. How many swim teachers do you know have never been in the water and teach only by theory? Here’s an idea, long on irony: Why don’t we disallow people to participate in government at all unless or until they have real life experience outside of government work. In other words, no lifers. College lecturers and organizing mobs in the community don’t count. At the very least, this will eliminate the windbags who give elliptical answers in lieu of the simple yes or no to a question such as, “did you do it?”
If the socialist ideas favored by liberals worked so well, why isn’t there a SINGLE instance of such a system working well in the world? The policies being favored by the liberal left are so fundamentally flawed because they go against the very prinicples that made America and therefore most of western society successful. From a nation built on innovation, they want to turn it into a nation of regulation. In modern ‘free’ society, there is very little a person can do without having it regulated or taxed. Yet somehow, the cure all for that ails society is invariably more tax and more regulation. This is like the cure they used to prescribe for a sick person in the middle ages; bleed them.
In some ways, the socialist economists are safer while teaching in their academic ivory towers: at least there, students have to pay to listen to their ideas. Having them loose upon the real world in a government position, everyone pays.