Steve's barking why are economic sidebars important?

Economics should be easy.
You start with a seed.
I believe that the seed being the desire and the ability to pay for that desire.
The water and the nutrients are products that are wanted and the ability to produce those products.( Money, Factories, Ideas, Land for Agriculture, etc).
The sun light one can equate to money going into the product and one can even say the oxygen is the money made from the product.

Sidebars or what is the best way for growing (the economy).
 One can easily use statics and  what has been used before.
They can be a good source if they were honest. I believe them but like President Reagan use to say trust but verify.
Now I watch (sometimes as I hold my nose) Television economic commentators say thing like how we need a better educated work force in the sciences ( maybe true). How the government is screwing up the economy, or just the opposite, the government isn't doing enough. Sometimes I even hear the same people making say too much government interference, not enough is being done. What the government does or doesn't do is important as long as you remember the first paragraph.

I  like to read  economic articles and blogs as long as they don't mention a third party, that is generally a turn off unless it is written in jest.