A whole science could be based on this question. For example, I am always amused that the people who caused a problem are always the ones who are assembled when their advice has caused a disaster. Take our present financial disaster.

One thing about the polls is that they that people blame both sides for crisis.

So far so good.

Then we have emergency discussions between expert spokesmen. Here is the question no one asks:

“How does one BECOME an expert spokesman?”

One is chosen to be an expert spokesman by experts. In other words you have to be satisfactory to those who caused the crisis in the first place.

People have asked me who, in today’s politics, is nearest to my stand. I try to make them understand that the requirement for being a voice in today’s politics disqualifies one from being rational.

No one understands this. The fact that a person is recognized expert on the economy means that he has bobbed and weaved his way through all this unmitigated crap for decades. It is like asking Mrs. O’Leary to tell us, as a major figure in a historical fire, how to deal with fire safety.
she is a famous figure in the history oif fires, how one should deal with them.