[TheRealThing]

The news shows are chocked full of financial omniscients this morning. All of them speaking in categorical factualities where it comes to tariffs and such. Of course, the thing that gives me pause is the fact that these are the same experts who presided over the 'new normal' of 1% growth over the past 16 years. These are the same guys who owing to their own failings, were incapable of doing a thing to stem the American industrial downturn. But now magically, despite their flawed record of leadership, the economic mantle of majesty has somehow been conferred upon them anyway, and they are now become the reigning and infallible experts. All of a sudden Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan know everything there is to know about finance.

Let's just not mention that they had not the first thing to do with the financial surge of 2017. Or that Paul Ryan obligingly went against all that he is so sure about today, to fund the failed policy and programs of the Obama Administration. Or that McConnell cooperated with the Obama Administration to gut the military, and to pursue Romper Room foreign policy. The same foreign policies which contributed so mightily in overburdening 'the people,' with the inequitable and unfair trade imbalances that presently have us in such a strangle hold. Imbalances they all still insist are beneficial BTW.

And let's at least be honest about US economic history here. After WW2 America dominated world industry, banking, and the production of goods. We produced everything here, and became the by far the world's premier superpower. Then came the resurgence of liberal thinking, and the enormous transfer of wealth. In which basically, we rebuilt the planet and made China the premier superpower. Meanwhile, from one end of the Ohio River Valley to the other lay the shuttered ruins of industry.

Liberal thinking, supposedly over concerns about the environment, had rich oil reserves under moratorium for decades. And while we abandon the use of coal over dubious concerns about the environment, ineffective and unreliable wind turbines kill millions of birds annually, many of them eagles and other great birds of prey. But from the bleeding heart libs? not a peep. Over concerns for the endangered Snail darter, liberals successfully caused precious irrigation water for California's critically important farming regions to be diverted instead, to the sea. I don't hear a lot about skyrocketing vegetable costs though, nor the scarcity of fresh produce. Meanwhile, farmers cannot so much as move a rock without the approval of the EPA, and the list of all things stupid is way too long to list in a post. I applaud the man who at least has the courage to go against a going wisdom which has cost America so much.