On Jul 3, 7:01*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
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Thus far, both seem equally well-versed about economics...and about as
equally well-versed about economics as they are about the surface of
Pluto...one need look no further than their silly-assed statements about
their ideas about fuel tax holidays and taxing "big oil companies" as
ways to reduce gasoline prices in the US for evidence of same...

admittedly quite true.....gawd, I wish someone, sometime, running for
President would sell me on a pitch of::
" Look, I have common sense, and a reasonable lack of ideological zeal. I
can find, attract and hire talented wonks to actually figure out how to fix
some the crap going wrong around here. I'll try to do it without hosing you
in taxes for needless stuff, and work at explaining what we are doing and
thinking. I'm going to be an executive, not an all around know-it-all about
everything."
Wouldn't that be refreshing?
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

Yep, especially that "lack of ideological zeal(.)" bit. Maybe get us
back in touch with our national origins as children of the
Enlightenment who value empirisicm, experimentation, tolerance and the
scientific method. But then we would have to purge and root out a lot
of Hamiltonian Federalists and Randists who have done so much damage
to our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the Bill of
Rights.

Dave