This is an excellent article in todays paper where he questions the wisdom of picking so many bright young guys on the new economic team.

 

^ Wheres the article? Link?

 

Bright and young!

Link is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/...k%20Rich&st=cse

 

as he so rightly observed I'll gladly take raw unpolished intelligence over loyal obedient incompetence.
Given that no one has ever seen economic circumstances as the world now faces, it will take some serious brain power to get out of this mess.
And experience doesn't matter a whole lot when it's all brand new virgin territory.

 

Bill Buckley said he'd take the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book to run the government over 2,000 Harvard graduates. An alternate viewpoint?

 

^ I'll take someone with common sense anytime, there are plenty of functionally illiterate "smart" people.

 

We will see just how 'bright' these guys are soon enough.

 

Be sure to read the final paragraph. They aren't all the "best and brightest."

 

Frankly, I doubt it. The policies instituted in one regime don't seem to manifest themselves until years later, for better or worse. Look at Reagan's amnesty program, or how the mortgage crisis morphed and grew as time went along--one bad policy run amock can screw us for decades.

 

I'll take someone who can turn raw data into useful information. The government is beleagered by "data". I am always suspicious of the overly ambitious, the untested, the easily influenced, and those sharing a common agenda.