{"id":23096,"date":"2017-03-05T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23096"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:41:58","slug":"23096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23096","title":{"rendered":"A Mess 30 Years in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Mess 30 Years in the Making\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Promises of Slop<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe have assembled a best-in-class team of policy advisors to drive President Trump\u2019s bold plan for job creation and economic growth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor to President Trump<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The art and science of spending other people\u2019s money is not an occupation suited to just anyone.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s a skill reserved for the professional world-improver.\u00a0 To be successful, one must act with a zealous devotion to uplifting the down and out, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s chief economic advisor Gary Cohn \u2013 as some observers have noted, he represents\u00a0one of the factions<\/em>\u00a0in the wider circle of economic advisors (there are many advisors who are not members of an official body such as the Council of Economic Advisors, but reportedly have the president\u2019s ear). This is considered problematic, or rather confusing, on the grounds that in some cases the views of these advisors appear to be diametrically opposed. The question is whose views will eventually prevail. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Photo credit: Kena Betancur \/ AFP \/ APA<\/p>\n

Lawyers, bankers, economists, and government philosophers with fancy resumes, who attended fancy schools.\u00a0 These are the devoted fellows who comprise President Trump\u2019s\u00a0team<\/a>\u00a0of economic policy advisors.\u00a0 Moreover, these are the chosen associates who are charged with bringing Trump\u2019s economic vision to fruition.\u00a0 Are they up to the task?<\/p>\n

Only time will tell.\u00a0 But, already, it is quite evident that Trump\u2019s economic policy advisors have their work cut out for them.\u00a0 During Trump\u2019s speech to Congress on Tuesday night, he called for more jobs, more education, more military, and more affordable health insurance.<\/p>\n

By all accounts the speech sounded delightful.\u00a0 Promises were made to spread the government\u2019s slop far and wide.\u00a0 Trump pledged offerings that just about anyone and everyone \u2013 with the exception of grumpy face Bernie Sanders \u2013 could stand behind and applaud.<\/p>\n

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A Mess 30 Years in the Making\u00a0 Promises of Slop \u201cWe have assembled a best-in-class team of policy advisors to drive President Trump\u2019s bold plan for job creation and economic growth.\u201d \u2013 Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor to President Trump The art and science of spending other people\u2019s money is not an occupation suited to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[5728,10189,7844,242,14949,11763],"class_list":["post-23096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-acting-man","tag-big-government","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-policy","tag-gary-cohn","tag-mn-gordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23099,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096\/revisions\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}