Science, government, policy, statism, populism-right and LEFT, truth......

.....Bravo and I were walking into the government offices of this little ocean hamlet, VERY ham. On our way to pay confiscatory taxes---money on its way to much redundancy and waste. Who hasn't seen this? Government employee road work crew, surrounding sewer trench, digging done by oversized backhoe, really only two or three humans needed---one on backhoe, and hand shovelers. Over half a dozen standing/sitting about hole in road, --smoking, joking ---all with paychecks, and government PENSIONS. Crew chief, assistant to crew chief, ad hoc- protempere- adjunct- deputy under secretary to crew chiefs, and so on. Pensions in the dreaded private sector? Don't hold your breaths. Onward we two, and private firm house painters at real work. Merely two souls, busy as bees. Pensions? ---what are those? Same with next few craftperson crews. So, we reach Tax office, at around 10:30, all "workers" gone home, sign on door, "closing at noon, due to storm". No storm within 500 miles. On way home, passed dozens of private businesses, with no "storm early release" notices anywhere in sight. Busy workers. Whence the lack of trust in government, and the phrase, "good enough for government work"'. And suspicion of science, especially as pandering pols wastefully turn it into policy. Using, what?, why OPM of course.The growing dichotomy. Folks on right who produce, create jobs and pay taxes, others on the leftie end of big government pander largesse. Trump Vs. Bernie types. Populism, on the right and LEFT. Of course, as with self loathing, privilege guilt, virtue broadcasting, ---lefties can (constitutionally) only focus with hate speech on the former---only to admit to the latter with a gun held to the head. Science?, on which I've tried to blog to clarify it's essence and real roles/limitations. Well, just remember that Karl Marx himself, son of wealth, ur- communist, proto source of so much human suffering---prefered to combine the terms to describe his and Lenin's craft. "Scientific Economics". Sort of has a nice ring to it, no? Great for public big government policy, as history clearly shows.