Observations: The QandO Podcast for 17 Feb 17

The Trump Press Conference sent the media into a tizzy, whereupon the AP Printed a negative story on Trump that immediately turned out to be untrue. The Media are nothing more than partisan cheerleaders. Americans just love them some opium. They’d like more jobs, too. An attempt at a lengthy discussion of monetary policy was brutally crushed. We can’t seem to do big things in this country any more, especially infrastructure projects. Mainly, the Federal government is why. Why is nationalism such a dirty word among the elites? Mainly because they don’t have to live with the consequences. Elites never do.
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