Trust the "Experts"

Look How That Has Worked Out For Us All

This past Sunday morning, a quiet morning, with intermittent rain, and high winds, an argument broke out on the family text thread. I was sitting at the computer, reading the laundry list of news sites I always read, and watching Youtube videos, when I noticed the nearby phone blinking. By the time I entered the fray there were over sixteen texts.

Of course the eldest, the son, started it all. he always does. Since he was little, he always had a way of stirring up his three little sisters. He began by trumpeting conservative values, family values, and claiming that only one Party stood for a return to traditional values.

The youngest, a daughter and true firebrand was fighting back vigorously, saying something to the effect that a man who was married but who loved “grabbing them by the ….” wasn’t her idea of the “family values” candidate. She may have also mentioned Stormy Daniels.

Beyond text twenty, or it could have been text twenty-five I had lost count, the argument switched from family values to the economy, with tariffs as the main theme.

The daughter was citing some economist saying how much tariffs would damage our economy, that this study by the tax foundation said it would decrease the output and employment and have a net negative effect on the economy.

I just had to chime in and say that since NAFTA was implemented in 1992 we’ve seen the largest transfer of wealth upward from the middle class to the one percent in our history. I mentioned that we’ve tried their form of “globalism”, and it seems to be resulting in the one percent absorbing all the money at the expense of all others.

The youngest argued that I refused to listen to “experts”.

And there it is.

The elite, the college educated amongst us, want to trust “the experts”. All my children have a college degree, some have advanced degrees. An un-credentialed individual such as myself, with but three years of college before dropping out, but with forty-plus years of lived life experience in the workplace, and running my own business for years on end, well, excuse us all, but my lack of degree and formal training renders my opinion moot.

At least to all the “college educated” in the family. I mean, have you heard dad speak? With that low class Baltimore accent? Thank God he moved us all up and out from where he grew up, I mean, we might all sound like him!

Don’t trust dad, he didn’t even graduate college, trust the “experts”!

Wasn’t it that world renowned “expert”, Yale graduate, Harvard teacher, faculty member at the London School of Economics Janet Yellen who said “this inflation is transitory”?

Pardon me, are you referring to that extremely educated “expert”?

I mean, Ms. Yellen has degrees and pedigree, and a wealth of credentials. But that didn’t stop her from being wrong, wrong, wrong on inflation, or our economy over the past four years. And not just wrong mind you, 180 degrees wrong. As wrong as she could be.

Or could you be referring to columnist and economist Paul Krugman of the August “New York Times”, who has written a lifetime of front page columns there and to my knowledge has never been right, even once. Oh look, he was a professor at MIT and was also at the London School of Economics. And he has been a big supporter of the current global economics, which is how he won his Nobel Prize in economics, by extolling the extreme virtues of a global economy, and how it benefits the consumer by giving us all a wider and greater diversity of goods and services.

Pay no attention to the fact that the same move towards a global economy has stripped the middle class bare and rewarded the one percent. The same one percent who awarded good old Paul a Nobel, and keeps him gainfully employed at that rag that is supposedly the “Nation’s paper of record”.

Paul appears to be a man who understands who butters his bread so to speak.

And isn’t it wonderful, as you cope with ridiculous inflation that makes everything in life unaffordable, that you can visit your local Wal Mart and have such a variety of absolute junk and garbage to buy? The same Wal Mart that put all of Main Street in your town out-of-business undercutting prices and destroying quality permanently?

Because that conveyor belt oversized muffin you are buying in that oversized pack at Wal Mart is so much better than the one they baked down on Main Street, with real ingredients. The Main Street muffins had no added chemicals or preservatives, and no added artificial blueberry and color. Who wants fresh baked when factory baked with fake ingredients only costs seventy percent as much?

Oh wait, eating the processed junk they sell at Wal Mart is making your family overweight? Add some Ozempic to the shopping list, that’ll take care of that.

And besides, aren’t you so happy for both Paul Krugman with his Nobel prize for extolling the virtues of a global economy, and the Wal Mart family of Waltons who now have a combined wealth of close to four hundred billion dollars? For providing to you, Mr. and Mrs. middle and low class America, a wide variety of junk on demand?

They don’t have to eat factory baked, those Waltons, goodness no. They can afford a live-in, who cooks all their meals. Fresh. With fresh ingredients. See how that works?

I was just reading Peachy Keenan, a renowned writer of note, and she was lamenting the break down of two home appliances at once, a washing machine, and dishwasher.

They make them cheap and disposable now, overseas. You need a new one about every seven years or so. Of course when I met my wife her mother was still using the Chambers Stove they’d had for forty years plus, and my bet is the damn thing is still working. You can find them on sale online still. Antiques that were built “for a lifetime”. Not like today’s brands. They break, you throw them away and buy new.

But look how affordable these white goods are made overseas.

But back to the “experts”.

Would the “experts” the elite and educated money class tell us to obey, would that be a Dr. Fauci, who said if you get the shot you won’t get the Covid disease, and you won’t transmit the Covid disease? You’ll be saving grandma. And the same Dr. Fauci who said to wear a mask, when later he had to admit they had no efficacy? At all?

The same Dr. Fauci who told us all to stand six feet apart, absent any “science” behind the recommendation? Or were you referring to Dr. Birx, who asked for “two weeks to flatten the curve”, along with Rochelle Walensky, the other “expert” in the field of medicine. Both of whom lied straight faced to the American People, “for our own good”.

Excuse me, but are those the “experts” you are asking us all to rely on?

The same Dr. Fauci who appears to have funded “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, by laundering our tax money through the Eco Health Alliance and his good friend Dr. Peter Daszak, who used the funds to fund bat research at the Wuhan Institute, the same Wuhan Institute where the virus escaped causing a world-wide pandemic. Those “experts”, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Daszak, fully credentialed both.

I may be a college drop-out and all, and I have no formal medical training at all, but it does appear to me that a case could be made that the two “experts” are responsible for the killing of millions by playing around and splicing virus’ from the wild so that they are easier to transmit to humans. Now of course they’d argue that this research will lead to cures now for future outbreaks. But then the argument could be made that creating new diseases that don’t yet exist, and doing so on purpose, is a risk we shouldn’t be taking.

We did it their way, the “experts” way, and millions died from the Covid outbreak.

But hey, I’m no “expert”.

I tried to major in Pimlico when I attended Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland on a full ride scholarship, that demonstrates just how much of an idiot I am. Hey, I still contend there is no better place to be on a beautiful Spring day than the owners balcony seats at the finish line of Pimlico drinking a big vanilla milk shake and holding winning exacta tickets on the race being run in front of your eyes. I’ll treasure those memories forever, way more than some worthless sheepskin from a Jesuit shithole.

Ask me sometime to tell you about being a “commuter student” at Loyola and how warm and wonderful the look you’d get from the dormitory residents who boarded at the college. I imagine my view looking at them was the same look the roach has as it sees the underside of your shoe hover overhead, just before it comes down to render you dead and useless. The boarders had no use for the poor, unworthy local commuting students. If Loyola was “India”, we commuters were the “untouchables”.

A much better feeling over at Pimlico, sitting in the owners box, being the college kid, the semi-educated, amongst the sea of lower phylum below in the grand stands. Giving them the look I got from those boarding students. Hey, shit runs downhill. And look at that, I didn’t have to be a plumbing “expert” to know that.

A cynical man might look around at the way things have transpired over the last forty years and think, “hey, it seems to me from afar, that those who penned a column, or paper, in support of the narrative of the monied class learned that it would create a flow of funds. And those who went against the grain, who argued against globalism, or even doing “gain of research” research, well, they had their funding cut off.

The same for global warming. Pen a study in support of global warming and the big money grab we see to fund the fight against global warming, and you get research funds. Pen a study that claims there is no global warming, and the money flow dries up.

Looking at things from that perspective, the cynical perspective, gives pause to consider just how “real” and trustworthy the opinions of the “experts” being funded.

Suddenly you don’t trust the highly credentialed Janet Yellen.

Suddenly you lose respect for Paul Krugman’s Nobel. The same way you might question the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama, when he hand’t accomplished anything yet at all, and who went on to drone kill an American overseas. And start new conflicts, and fund old conflicts. Doesn’t sound very “peaceful” at all.

But Obama did stock his cabinet, and all his financial officials from Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. Yes, he surely did that.

A cynical individual might think that all of today’s “experts” gained “expert” status by parroting the status quo, by promoting a system that rewards the rich, who, in turn, reward the “experts” for supporting the system that keeps them rich.

A little circle of corruption that keeps the band playing as we all lay somnambulant on the Titanic in a quiet slumber.

Until such time as listening to all those “experts” leads to one big crash.

In a world where fat, ugly, little over-credentialed Janet Yellen can be wrong, wrong, wrong and keep both her job, and status, I’ll stay over here on the sidelines.

With no college degree, no credentials, just a pocketful of memories from watching thoroughbreds race on bright Spring days.

Which I can tell you is worth more than any advice from Janet Yellen, Paul Krugman, Dr. Fauci, or any of your so-called “experts”.