Reply #17: Do you understand, say, quantum physics?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

How would you begin to enter a discussion regarding the oversight of a quantum physics program if you have no idea what the principles of the theories being discussed are?

Same thing holds true for this - at this level of economics, how can the vast majority of us even begin to talk about it without understanding what's really at stake?

I don't think we can. And I don't dispute your point - but the only way around that is to put forth an initiative specifically to get us more experts. Furthermore, at some point, the people do need to trust their elected officials and the people they put in place - there is just no way possible that we the people can ever serve as a true oversight for anything, much less matters of this extreme complication. I trust Obama - do you not?