I occasionally watch The Five on Fox.  Recently, the discussion concerned Trump’s effort to return manufacturing jobs to the United States, and Dana Perino opined that perhaps what is needed is a federal job training program for workers. Lots of nodding conservative heads around the table. For a liberal fantasy. Because government has no more idea what new and emerging technologies to train people for than it knows what genetic characterization will emerge in the next strain of influenza.  And going back in time, we see that governments had no clue which stirrups would emerge to revolutionize horse handling, no clue how fore and aft ship rigging would emerge and revolutionize shipping, no clue about the emergence of steam engine, heavier than air flight, the computer, or the latte. And only yesterday – not the slightest clue about the emergence of Donald Trump. Because while they might work in the palaces taxpayer money hath wrought, they...(Read Full Post)