| | Here is a simple, but sobering, observation of his from a recent article:
Barack Obama had no experience running even the most modest business, and personally paying the consequences of his mistakes, before becoming President of the United States.
http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/100420-sowell-limits-power.php
We can probably dig out lots of examples of former presidents with a similar lack of experience.
What is sobering is not the fact that he has no experience at all running even the most modest business. In my view of the proper role of the POTUS, that is hardly necessary.
What is sobering is, that in spite of that, this particular inexperienced president believes it is the function of any POTUS to 'run The Economy,' despite that glaring and monumental lack of experience.
It's not just the horror of plumbers attempting brain surgery. It's the incredulous act of asserting that it is even proper to try. They guy is a state plumber, Plumber in Chief even. An honorable job.
Not American Emperor. But, that is our fault, collectively, because we all but insist. Well, not exactly right: we collectively tolerate a process that all but insists on electing American Emperors.
Let's be honest: this is a confluence of interests. Business interests/the media benefit from selling the horse-race as a never ending national crises, the anointing of the next American Emperor. We no longer have biannual national elections, the national elections run constantly, 24/7/365, a constant treadmill of fodder for the folks selling soap and beer on cable. We tolerate, as part of our neglect of our own freedom, the sloppy marketing of national politics as a continuous crisis of 'leadership,' -- as if we were a nation of crippled dependents, unable to get out of bed unless the right Maximus Americus was getting up that morning in the White House to keep the state plumbing clean and well functioning. (Acknowledgment to Ayn Rand, We The Living, 'We need the plumbing, but we don't live for it.')
The activist/constructivists, Sowell's unconstrained Utopians, are only too glad to line up with that wish to fill dead airspace and sell the next American Emperor to constructively Run The Economy.
Many of us line up to do this exactly to ourselves, or at least, tolerate it.
regards,
Fred
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