[SandRat]

Expert = Has Been Under Pressure.

[Cyber Liberty]

Obastardcare is a perfect example of this. The law itself is ~2000 pages, which is long enough, but the regulations (written by unnammed. unfaced bureaucrats) are already 10’s of thousands of pages long and growing.

[GenXteacher]

“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. “

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of Great Britain

[facedown]

Right out of Hayek.

[Huaynero]

An expert is like a eunuch in a harem - someone who knows all about it but can’t do anything about it. - Dean Acheson

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Head Start, a $7 billion program that a study conducted by its own bureaucracy ... has found nearly worthless

I remember how conservatives who opposed big expansions of Head Start under Democratic presidents were given the flamethrower treatment as closet racists and child-hating knuckledraggers.