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Well, he does have the right qualifications
For those playing at home, you can take part in an online chat later today about Social Security reform with Charles P. Blahous, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Chuck comes with a background that is ideally suited to economic policy:
Blahous received a Ph.D. in computational quantum chemistry from the University of California/Berkeley in 1989. He received his undergraduate degree, also in chemistry, from Princeton University in 1985.
Sounds like just the guy you want in there. Rumor has it he wanted to be an architect.
spencer said,
January 11, 2005 at 20:34
Rumor has it he wanted to be an architect.
No, actually, he just wanted to pretend to be an architect.
Scott said,
January 11, 2005 at 22:07
But he has pretended to be a marine biologist!
Anonymous said,
January 12, 2005 at 0:55
Were that he had become one. Most architects I know have a sound understanding of economics, as the property market, development and thus their employment link so strongly into the fluctuation of the economy. Not to mention understanding borrowing, budgets and management.
Unstable Isotope said,
January 12, 2005 at 2:39
As a chemist, I must object. A Ph.D. in chemistry from Berkeley is quite prestigious, and the skills you learn in analytical thinking would be very useful in a job like that. If he believes Social Security is in crisis, he’s a complete wanker, though.
Yosef said,
January 12, 2005 at 19:15
If only he had become an importer/exporter of been in latex, he might understand more about economics.
Tom said,
January 12, 2005 at 21:28
He wanted to pretend to be an architect because he wasn’t up to pretending to be a city planner.
matilda said,
January 12, 2005 at 22:22
Actually, he is an algae pretending to be a fungi who was forced into pretending to be a chemist. Only, no one has caught on to this yet and a serious miscasting is going on as he is made into an economist.
Which begs the question – are all rightwingnut economists really fungi under that masquerade?
FlipYrWhig said,
January 12, 2005 at 23:37
Those are just his formal credentials. I believe he studied independently under Drs. Vandelay and Van Nostrand.
Yosef said,
January 13, 2005 at 16:34
And isn’t he somehow involved in that Kramerica company?
bryan said,
January 20, 2005 at 22:07
You didn’t even mention his work in the emerging field of baseball studies! (I’m not kidding, it’s in the next paragraph of the White House bio).