When the experts are not experts anymore

You can tell that it is nearing the end of the month because we get the obligatory story that has good economic news and how the “experts” were surprised. I know others have talked about it a great deal but I would like to know when do we decide that these aren’t experts and get someone that actually knows what they are talking about.

The MSM is so hung up on dragging down an otherwise great economy that they will stop at nothing to try and present good news as bad. This happens in other areas as well, look at Iraq, the experts there said that you can never have democracy there. They believe that some people apparently don’t deserve freedom. The same was said about Afghanistan, of course reality and history tell us different. Both countries now have young democracies, their populations vote in greater numbers than our own. This would be great if it were unprecedented but it’s not, as President Bush pointed out in St. Louis the other day, similar experts said the same thing about Japan after WWII. We know now that they were wrong, many said that Germany couldn’t be a unified democracy either, and while it took another 40+ years to destroy the Soviet Union, Germany has achieved what was thought to be impossible.

So the next time you watch the news and they put up some “expert” to discuss whatever the topic of disaster is at that moment remember that these experts are wrong most of the time.