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Another Aussie here - Unfortunately Albo is caught surrounded by a MORONIC pack of economists. I'm an engineer and can easily rip the LNP's nuclear plan to shreds its so absurd I'd sack any engineer who backed it. It really is that bad. The problem is the ALPs renewable plan isn't much better. In its current guise it just can't work. Its not that we can't have a very high percentage of the nation on renewables but it can't be done how they are doing it. Chris Bowen needs to either get rid of his advisors or just resign and get out of the way. The real problem is NOBODY will give any of the engineers who can do something any time. Just last week there was yet another news story on energy and they had 3 experts on. 2 from Think Tanks and one from AEMO and all 3 are economists. I have been trying for 8 years to get through to some of these people on BOTH SIDES and EVERY DOOR is guarded by a squad of economists. Economists across the world have made an utter mess of energy, infrastructure in general, education and health care. That's why COVID hit parts of the world so hard and why things like Italian bridges collapse. They see everyone else as problems they have to manage but they have NO IDEA how to manage anything and even less knowledge in the things they try to manage. Everything they touch turns to crap. Energy is just the most obvious one here in Australia, but make not mistake we have insanely serious issues in water, other infrastructure and health care. ALL OF IT because of ECONOMISTS.
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In this case YES but its not necessarily true. The person everyone should listen to on this subject is the Scottish Political-Economist Mark Blyth who's at Brown U. in America. If you have the time there's a great lecture he gave on Global Trumpism (July 2019) here on YouTube hosted by McMaster U. in Canada. Yes it was given in 2019 but its just as pertinent right now as it was then. Its just some of the names have changed.
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@Vandel96 Mark Blyth coined the phrase. "Economists think everyone else are problems they have to manage! " Ronald Reagan famously said: "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." Right now that's become: "Economics isn't the problem. ECONOMISTS are the problem."
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It just amazing that ANYONE takes ANYTHING Bill Clinton says as having any substance at all. Just imagine if James Comey had kept quiet and Hilary had won. NOW IMAGINE how Trump and the GOP would have responded when the Russians released details of those emails. America would have been OVER by now.
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I don't think they are all out of touch but occasionally they overstep. Here's one of todays rippers. Alistair harped on about how much better it might have been if Hilary had one. UH UH. Just imagine if James Comey had kept quiet and Hilary had won. NOW IMAGINE how Trump and the GOP would have responded when the Russians released details of those emails. America would have been OVER by now.
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@1adamuk None of the politicians anywhere really get it. They all think they did a great job. It was the other person who screwed up.
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Just after Trump won Jessica Tarlov who does a podcast with Scott Galloway pointed out a an interview with someone who voted for Trump and they said something like "Yes we know Trump says crazy things, but crazy doesn't look down on me" and that goes straight to your point. Remember the scene when Obama chastised African American men for NOT supporting Kamala Harris - look how that worked out. As for Bill Clinton's remarks Just imagine if James Comey had kept quiet and Hilary had won. NOW IMAGINE how Trump and the GOP would have responded when the Russians released details of those emails. America would have been OVER by now.
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