Intellectuals don't know everything

I do not understand how you can add 35 million more people to health insurance and be able to save money. If I add two more people to my family and include them on my health insurance I will be able to have more money at the end of the month to save. this type of thinking is typical of the intellectuals in our government.

Intellectuals come from very prestigious universities and only talk to their peers. We have about 400 helping our president to administer and I would guess 85 percent have been on entitlement programs.

Major economic decisions are likewise crucially dependent on the kind of mundane knowledge that intellectuals might disdain to consider to be knowledge in the sense in which they habitually use the word. They have often overlooked the crucial fact that the population at large may have vastly more total knowledge than the elites. They are convinced of their own superior knowledge and virtue, which is a formula for disaster.

Many intellectuals seem unwilling to concede that the man on the scene at the time could reach accurate conclusions about the particular situation he encountered or observed. The intellectuals far removed in space and time could be mistaken when reaching conclusions based on their own shared preconceptions.

Reason often comes at the expense of experience, allowing them to have sweeping confidence about things in which they have little or no knowledge or experience. This is why we are in such a mess in this country,

Dr. Conrad Mazeski

Mount Prospect