Posted on 08/11/2018 5:57:10 AM PDT by Dahoser
I'm reading "Patriot's History of the United States" by our very own "LS" and just read the section on Andrew Jackson's inauguration. So many citizens crowded into the White House with their muddy boots (many of them looking for jobs) that the White House staffers had to eventually drag kegs of whiskey into the front lawn to get them outside.
Meanwhile, Jackson himself snuck out the back window to head to a steak house so he could celebrate his inauguration with friends.
Sounds like something Trump would have done!
The physical location of the president doesn’t matter.
Anywhere he is, he has access to secure communications to get information and to discuss things with his people. So he is able to perform his work.
He doing most of the heavy lifting himself. He deserves a huge vacatiin.
{“Had a very good phone call with @EmmanuelMacron, President of France,” he tweeted Friday, describing it as just one of “many other calls and conversations,” including a dinner with Apple’s Tim Cook.
...He’s hosted several donor events, including a dinner for “Protect the House,” a fundraising committee led by Vice President Mike Pence and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that raises money for Republican House candidates.
On Tuesday evening, he welcomed more than a dozen CEOs, their spouses and staffers for an animated dinner that included frank discussions of trade, immigration and other issues.
...Trump does meet with staff and has been speaking by phone with Pence, his secretary of state, his national security adviser and congressional leaders.}
From their article - doesn’t sound like much of a vacation to me.
as soon as you see Jill Colvin in the byline, switch off.
“Lies aren’t defeated by repeating the lie. Lies are defeated by repeating the truth”
Beautifully said and bears repeating!
Prime example: “Also, there are fewer staff to try to keep him upbeat and, with some luck, away from the television.”
Never having had a course entitled “Moral Philosophy,” I wouldn’t know. I would be interested if you would elucidate further.
That has to be one of the gayest golf pics, ever.
Smith was educated and taught at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
At that time economics was Moral Philosophy, at least at Edinburgh. Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 (Smith supported the Revolution). It explained the benefits of Free Trade and the problems with tariffs and that wealth was produced by importing as well as exporting. This book sounded the Death Knell for Mercantilism, the prior economic theory, a theory which was extremely political and based on the idea that the ideal was to export as much as possible and import as little as possible.
Economics was after the first half of the 1700s was called “Political Economy”, a more accurate name than just “Economics” in my opinion. The dominant school to Smith prior was the Physiocratic.
It splintered into what we know as modern Economics with several other sub-divisions towards the end of the 1800s
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