In a session at the House of Commons last December, England's Prime Minister Gordon Brown goofs about saving the world....errr the banks. (source: Telegraph).
Anyway this just an example of F. Hayek's 'Fatal Conceit', or the overweening belief of one's omniscience. A good quote from Thomas Sowell, ``Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others-- regardless of what the facts may be. Politicians get away with this to the extent that we gullibly accept their words and look to them as political messiahs."
