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		<title>By: melvin polatnick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[melvin polatnick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing the national debt would be money well spent if it was used to reward young felons that will accept a vasectomy. An incentive of five thousand dollars would be fair and welcome by youngsters with no place to go but down.  Millions of young felons who chose to have the vasectomy could use the cash and have no concern with bringing innocent children into their tough world. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Increasing the national debt would be money well spent if it was used to reward young felons that will accept a vasectomy. An incentive of five thousand dollars would be fair and welcome by youngsters with no place to go but down.  Millions of young felons who chose to have the vasectomy could use the cash and have no concern with bringing innocent children into their tough world. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The debt ceiling is the last &quot;war&quot; the GOP should fight...&quot;  
 
Perhaps.  
  
 &quot;By yes, &quot;holding hostage&quot; the country over the debt ceiling, they simply risk further degrading America&#039;s bond status.&quot;  
  
No, they risk everything to gain very little. They&#039;ll be blamed unless they can ensure the economy recovers in a way that can clearly show they were correct. How is that going to happen with so many lying leftists still around to take credit for any uptick and blame Republicans as they have already?  
  
Holding hostage over debt ceiling? With rhetoric like that you lose credibility. The hostage holders are those who want to wreck the nation with unprecedented spending and changes to any laws or agreements that don&#039;t serve their radical agendas.  
  
 &quot;The left is allergic to cutting spending, and the right is allergic to cutting Defense spending, AND wants to REDUCE taxes.&quot;  
  
Oh my. You see the problem, but you don&#039;t see the problem.  
  
 &quot;You know how we know Trickle Down Economics doesnt&#039; work? Because we&#039;ve been doing it since 1980! It is the siren call of &quot;you can have it all; low taxes and a booming economy.&quot;&quot;  
  
How in the heck could you determine that? By the number of lazy bums you count at anarchist rallies? The problem is NOT &quot;low taxes,&quot; it&#039;s revenue lower than spending. Increasing tax rates is just as likely to decrease revenue as increasing it. People respond dynamically to taxes and other economic factors. Can you absorb that?  
  
Balance means bottom line. You must have adequate REVENUE for your spending. Fixating on rates shows a complete lack of knowledge about economics and even basic accounting.  
  
National security is not a luxury. It&#039;s like claiming that having armed guards at a bank is a luxury that must always be reduced, no matter what else. We just never need to discuss it. There may be times when defense budgets could be cut. Now is not one of them. Those moments have not existed during my lifetime. But I will be the first to raise my hand if the world suddenly changes so dramatically. I was raised by leftists, so I know where these ideas come from, and it&#039;s not from the real world of facts. It&#039;s wishful thinking based on ideas that for the most part were planted by agents of communists.  
  
Right now we have China, Russia and Islamic terrorists who are employed by OPEC nations. We have a president who thinks shrinking American hegemony will cause all those fine people to love us and turn their guns to farm equipment. That is the most delusional thing I can think of. Even if they wanted to, they couldn&#039;t do that for fear of one another and we&#039;ll end up being someone&#039;s colony under Sharia law or something nearly as bad, and learning to speak Chinese is not that easy for most Westerners.  
  
&quot;No you can&#039;t, unless you define &quot;economy&quot; merely by corporate profits.&quot;  
  
What is that supposed to mean? If your business grows, don&#039;t ever incorporate because Noam Chomsky says they are evil by their very existence.  Profits come after paying salaries. It&#039;s not so bad when businesses make money. They employ people.   
 
&quot;We desperately need some balance to save what&#039;s left of the middle class. You worry about &quot;communism&quot;? So do I: so let&#039;s save the middle class.&quot;  
  
Most conservatives are middle class and all of their doctrines support the middle class. They just don&#039;t generally rely on deception and fantasy (like attacking rich people to appeal to constituent envy) when trying to raise support for their agendas. Democrats sound more concerned because they promise you pie-in-the-sky and blame conservatives when they fail. It&#039;s the worst thing about our 2-party system. Conservatives were honest the whole time and look guilty to the ignorant and disappointed losers, as if they didn&#039;t even try to build that square circle we need so badly. Does it move you at all to know the level of deception employed by the Soviets, and the level of penetration they made in to leftist organizations? If their discernment is so bad, why do you trust any of their rhetoric when it&#039;s so obvious to most of us how false it is?  
  
What can I expect from someone who&#039;s so convinced that it&#039;s all about tax rates and cutting defense spending. Who cares if you now have to pay jizya and or taxes for access to sea routes we once patrolled? Cutting defense spending is a worthy end goal with no possible pitfalls. War is so passe anyway and the USA is the only one that ever starts it. 0&#039;Bama must be right. He is our president after all. We must obey our caliph. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;The debt ceiling is the last &quot;war&quot; the GOP should fight&#8230;&quot;  </p>
<p>Perhaps.  </p>
<p> &quot;By yes, &quot;holding hostage&quot; the country over the debt ceiling, they simply risk further degrading America&#039;s bond status.&quot;  </p>
<p>No, they risk everything to gain very little. They&#039;ll be blamed unless they can ensure the economy recovers in a way that can clearly show they were correct. How is that going to happen with so many lying leftists still around to take credit for any uptick and blame Republicans as they have already?  </p>
<p>Holding hostage over debt ceiling? With rhetoric like that you lose credibility. The hostage holders are those who want to wreck the nation with unprecedented spending and changes to any laws or agreements that don&#039;t serve their radical agendas.  </p>
<p> &quot;The left is allergic to cutting spending, and the right is allergic to cutting Defense spending, AND wants to REDUCE taxes.&quot;  </p>
<p>Oh my. You see the problem, but you don&#039;t see the problem.  </p>
<p> &quot;You know how we know Trickle Down Economics doesnt&#039; work? Because we&#039;ve been doing it since 1980! It is the siren call of &quot;you can have it all; low taxes and a booming economy.&quot;&quot;  </p>
<p>How in the heck could you determine that? By the number of lazy bums you count at anarchist rallies? The problem is NOT &quot;low taxes,&quot; it&#039;s revenue lower than spending. Increasing tax rates is just as likely to decrease revenue as increasing it. People respond dynamically to taxes and other economic factors. Can you absorb that?  </p>
<p>Balance means bottom line. You must have adequate REVENUE for your spending. Fixating on rates shows a complete lack of knowledge about economics and even basic accounting.  </p>
<p>National security is not a luxury. It&#039;s like claiming that having armed guards at a bank is a luxury that must always be reduced, no matter what else. We just never need to discuss it. There may be times when defense budgets could be cut. Now is not one of them. Those moments have not existed during my lifetime. But I will be the first to raise my hand if the world suddenly changes so dramatically. I was raised by leftists, so I know where these ideas come from, and it&#039;s not from the real world of facts. It&#039;s wishful thinking based on ideas that for the most part were planted by agents of communists.  </p>
<p>Right now we have China, Russia and Islamic terrorists who are employed by OPEC nations. We have a president who thinks shrinking American hegemony will cause all those fine people to love us and turn their guns to farm equipment. That is the most delusional thing I can think of. Even if they wanted to, they couldn&#039;t do that for fear of one another and we&#039;ll end up being someone&#039;s colony under Sharia law or something nearly as bad, and learning to speak Chinese is not that easy for most Westerners.  </p>
<p>&quot;No you can&#039;t, unless you define &quot;economy&quot; merely by corporate profits.&quot;  </p>
<p>What is that supposed to mean? If your business grows, don&#039;t ever incorporate because Noam Chomsky says they are evil by their very existence.  Profits come after paying salaries. It&#039;s not so bad when businesses make money. They employ people.   </p>
<p>&quot;We desperately need some balance to save what&#039;s left of the middle class. You worry about &quot;communism&quot;? So do I: so let&#039;s save the middle class.&quot;  </p>
<p>Most conservatives are middle class and all of their doctrines support the middle class. They just don&#039;t generally rely on deception and fantasy (like attacking rich people to appeal to constituent envy) when trying to raise support for their agendas. Democrats sound more concerned because they promise you pie-in-the-sky and blame conservatives when they fail. It&#039;s the worst thing about our 2-party system. Conservatives were honest the whole time and look guilty to the ignorant and disappointed losers, as if they didn&#039;t even try to build that square circle we need so badly. Does it move you at all to know the level of deception employed by the Soviets, and the level of penetration they made in to leftist organizations? If their discernment is so bad, why do you trust any of their rhetoric when it&#039;s so obvious to most of us how false it is?  </p>
<p>What can I expect from someone who&#039;s so convinced that it&#039;s all about tax rates and cutting defense spending. Who cares if you now have to pay jizya and or taxes for access to sea routes we once patrolled? Cutting defense spending is a worthy end goal with no possible pitfalls. War is so passe anyway and the USA is the only one that ever starts it. 0&#039;Bama must be right. He is our president after all. We must obey our caliph. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;If Obama was an agent of a foreign enemy would it be possible for him to cause more damage to our nation than he is currently doing?&quot; 
 
 
Nope. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;If Obama was an agent of a foreign enemy would it be possible for him to cause more damage to our nation than he is currently doing?&quot; </p>
<p>Nope. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Obama is purposely trying to make us go bankrupt and fail so he can make a deal with his Islamic Supremacist brothers (Saudis...richest people on the planet) to &quot;bail us out&quot; with Islamic Sharia Law Finance Compliant money.&quot; 
 
I hadn&#039;t thought of that, but it&#039;s just crazy enough to be plausible these days. Sharia compliant means a portion of earnings go to jihad. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Obama is purposely trying to make us go bankrupt and fail so he can make a deal with his Islamic Supremacist brothers (Saudis&#8230;richest people on the planet) to &quot;bail us out&quot; with Islamic Sharia Law Finance Compliant money.&quot; </p>
<p>I hadn&#039;t thought of that, but it&#039;s just crazy enough to be plausible these days. Sharia compliant means a portion of earnings go to jihad. </p>
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		<title>By: karrah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my classmate&#039;s aunt makes $66 hourly on the laptop. She has been out of a job for 10 months but last month her pay check was $14908 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here.......... Bit40.ℂOℳ ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my classmate&#039;s aunt makes $66 hourly on the laptop. She has been out of a job for 10 months but last month her pay check was $14908 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Bit40.ℂOℳ </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WilliamJamesWard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax payer supported income and government gifting provide the monies for the majority of 
Americans to survive with the least effort. No one likes poverty and instead of stimulating 
people to work and be creative the government shoves a free meal in the voters face and 
says there is more where this came from. Unfortunately those tax payers who foot the bill 
are disappearing and the fall is on the way with a result that may make mere poverty 
look good...........................................William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tax payer supported income and government gifting provide the monies for the majority of<br />
Americans to survive with the least effort. No one likes poverty and instead of stimulating<br />
people to work and be creative the government shoves a free meal in the voters face and<br />
says there is more where this came from. Unfortunately those tax payers who foot the bill<br />
are disappearing and the fall is on the way with a result that may make mere poverty<br />
look good&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.William </p>
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		<title>By: Elliott Alhadeff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elliott Alhadeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was wrong.  We do have solutions, as this comment illustrates.  What we need is the mechanism to execute them.  (We&#039;re beginning to focus on solutions for solutions....)  How do we revive the influence of the Tea Party?  How do we hold accountable our elected representatives?  How do we eliminate the destructive influence of unions?  How do we enforce Constitutional limitations?  How do we ...   You get the picture.  We all know the problems.  We need to focus on a discussion of the mechanism to correct them.  Representative democracy is not working. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wrong.  We do have solutions, as this comment illustrates.  What we need is the mechanism to execute them.  (We&#039;re beginning to focus on solutions for solutions&#8230;.)  How do we revive the influence of the Tea Party?  How do we hold accountable our elected representatives?  How do we eliminate the destructive influence of unions?  How do we enforce Constitutional limitations?  How do we &#8230;   You get the picture.  We all know the problems.  We need to focus on a discussion of the mechanism to correct them.  Representative democracy is not working. </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise those taxes that don&#039;t hurt economic growth (we boomed when upper income taxes were extraordinarily high), cut Defense, raise the retirement age by a year, tweak Medicare, cut stupid social program but save good ones, cut corporate welfare, get the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Europe while we&#039;re at it, and fix the tax code.  These are the recommendations of the Bowles Simpson Commission and it makes everyone sacrifice.  
 
We can&#039;t agree over what to eat for lunch.  Do you think we could accomplish any of the above while we have this &quot;Obama is an Islamic Devil&quot; psychopathic GOP in town?   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raise those taxes that don&#039;t hurt economic growth (we boomed when upper income taxes were extraordinarily high), cut Defense, raise the retirement age by a year, tweak Medicare, cut stupid social program but save good ones, cut corporate welfare, get the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Europe while we&#039;re at it, and fix the tax code.  These are the recommendations of the Bowles Simpson Commission and it makes everyone sacrifice.  </p>
<p>We can&#039;t agree over what to eat for lunch.  Do you think we could accomplish any of the above while we have this &quot;Obama is an Islamic Devil&quot; psychopathic GOP in town?   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debt ceiling is the last &quot;war&quot; the GOP should fight (why are they approach everything like a &quot;war&quot;?).  By yes, &quot;holding hostage&quot; the country over the debt ceiling, they simply risk further degrading America&#039;s bond status.   
 
Neither the right OR left is serious about fixing the debt.  The left is allergic to cutting spending, and the right is allergic to cutting Defense spending, AND wants to REDUCE taxes.  You know how we know Trickle Down Economics doesnt&#039; work?  Because we&#039;ve been doing it since 1980!  It is the siren call of &quot;you can have it all; low taxes and a booming economy.&quot;   
 
No you can&#039;t, unless you define &quot;economy&quot; merely by corporate profits.  We desperately need some balance to save what&#039;s left of the middle class.  You worry about &quot;communism&quot;? So do I: so let&#039;s save the middle class.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The debt ceiling is the last &quot;war&quot; the GOP should fight (why are they approach everything like a &quot;war&quot;?).  By yes, &quot;holding hostage&quot; the country over the debt ceiling, they simply risk further degrading America&#039;s bond status.   </p>
<p>Neither the right OR left is serious about fixing the debt.  The left is allergic to cutting spending, and the right is allergic to cutting Defense spending, AND wants to REDUCE taxes.  You know how we know Trickle Down Economics doesnt&#039; work?  Because we&#039;ve been doing it since 1980!  It is the siren call of &quot;you can have it all; low taxes and a booming economy.&quot;   </p>
<p>No you can&#039;t, unless you define &quot;economy&quot; merely by corporate profits.  We desperately need some balance to save what&#039;s left of the middle class.  You worry about &quot;communism&quot;? So do I: so let&#039;s save the middle class.   </p>
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		<title>By: Jack O&#039;neil</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack O&#039;neil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that they&#039;ve finished further bankrupting the country, they can get onto eviscerating the 2nd Amendment. If Obama was an agent of a foreign enemy would it be possible for him to cause more damage to our nation than he is currently doing? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that they&#039;ve finished further bankrupting the country, they can get onto eviscerating the 2nd Amendment. If Obama was an agent of a foreign enemy would it be possible for him to cause more damage to our nation than he is currently doing? </p>
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		<title>By: Jack O&#039;neil</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack O&#039;neil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty funny when the Speaker of the House gets out maneuvered and embarrassed by a guy who could not pass a background check to clean cages at the Washington D.C. Zoo. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pretty funny when the Speaker of the House gets out maneuvered and embarrassed by a guy who could not pass a background check to clean cages at the Washington D.C. Zoo. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s your liberal pal Jim C&#039;s $.02: 
 
Fundamentally, conservatives are right about the big picture: too much spending, not enough money, too much power concentrated in Washington, tax code absurdly labyrinthine, too many laws on the books. 
 
You guys need to convince the American public that there can be security without Medicare and Social Security (and to a lesser degree, the amount of defense spending). The problem is, we&#039;ve seen that our investor class is not nearly as brilliant as they want us to think, and that Adam Smith&#039;s invisible hand is a myth--people acting in their own self-interest does not necessarily benefit the interest of their nation. 
 
I read you guys all the time, and it convinces me that an overhaul to the education system in this country is imperative, and democrats aren&#039;t going to offer it. The agrarian calendar is meaningless. Not everybody needs a college education, but everyone needs job training. The concept of high school should be revisited. Encouraging entrepreneurship and professional/vocational independence should be a priority. Teacher&#039;s salaries should probably be compressed. I think a Republican could deliver this reform and it could very well usher in a renaissance. 
 
 
 ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#039;s your liberal pal Jim C&#039;s $.02: </p>
<p>Fundamentally, conservatives are right about the big picture: too much spending, not enough money, too much power concentrated in Washington, tax code absurdly labyrinthine, too many laws on the books. </p>
<p>You guys need to convince the American public that there can be security without Medicare and Social Security (and to a lesser degree, the amount of defense spending). The problem is, we&#039;ve seen that our investor class is not nearly as brilliant as they want us to think, and that Adam Smith&#039;s invisible hand is a myth&#8211;people acting in their own self-interest does not necessarily benefit the interest of their nation. </p>
<p>I read you guys all the time, and it convinces me that an overhaul to the education system in this country is imperative, and democrats aren&#039;t going to offer it. The agrarian calendar is meaningless. Not everybody needs a college education, but everyone needs job training. The concept of high school should be revisited. Encouraging entrepreneurship and professional/vocational independence should be a priority. Teacher&#039;s salaries should probably be compressed. I think a Republican could deliver this reform and it could very well usher in a renaissance. </p>
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		<title>By: Capt_Z1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when we keep electing a jackass Government.  Everyone keeps calling for term limits.  We already have term limits.  It isd called the ballot box.  However a majority of Americans voted for &quot;What is in it for me&quot; instead of what is good for the Majority. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what happens when we keep electing a jackass Government.  Everyone keeps calling for term limits.  We already have term limits.  It isd called the ballot box.  However a majority of Americans voted for &quot;What is in it for me&quot; instead of what is good for the Majority. </p>
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		<title>By: Reese</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104630</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reese]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is purposely trying to make us go bankrupt and fail so he can make a deal with his Islamic Supremacist brothers (Saudis...richest people on the planet) to &quot;bail us out&quot; with Islamic Sharia Law Finance Compliant money.  The stupid American public will all clamor to get the money and won&#039;t even think about the fact that they are signing on to SUBMIT TO ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM and SHARIA LAW in order to get the money.  It fits with Bible prophecy.  Islam = Antichrist system.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is purposely trying to make us go bankrupt and fail so he can make a deal with his Islamic Supremacist brothers (Saudis&#8230;richest people on the planet) to &quot;bail us out&quot; with Islamic Sharia Law Finance Compliant money.  The stupid American public will all clamor to get the money and won&#039;t even think about the fact that they are signing on to SUBMIT TO ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM and SHARIA LAW in order to get the money.  It fits with Bible prophecy.  Islam = Antichrist system.   </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mlcblog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate this, but what you are saying smacks of reality.  Still, I believe we have to see whether there&#039;s a way to fight it.  Maybe we can. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate this, but what you are saying smacks of reality.  Still, I believe we have to see whether there&#039;s a way to fight it.  Maybe we can. </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104605</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mlcblog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans desperately need to educate Americans.  This is the key. 
 
Nicely written article. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republicans desperately need to educate Americans.  This is the key. </p>
<p>Nicely written article. </p>
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		<title>By: Tom Caldwell</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104488</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Caldwell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is why the Founding Fathers condemned Democracy as unfit for a free people.  That is why they went to the trouble of inventing a new system of government, a &quot;system never before in existence, never before even conceived by the mind of man.&quot;  By definition, a doctrine and system of government in which the governing power is limited by rules of enforceable law, and in which the concentration of power is prevented by a system of checks and balances, to protect the rights of the individual.&quot;  That is the doctrine of Constitutionalism.  In the 1920s and 1930s Russians went to a great deal of effort to promote the idea that the US was a democracy.  Then it would be just a battle for power over the collective.  The US was a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, not a Republic, but a Constitutional Republic.  Use it or lose it. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is why the Founding Fathers condemned Democracy as unfit for a free people.  That is why they went to the trouble of inventing a new system of government, a &quot;system never before in existence, never before even conceived by the mind of man.&quot;  By definition, a doctrine and system of government in which the governing power is limited by rules of enforceable law, and in which the concentration of power is prevented by a system of checks and balances, to protect the rights of the individual.&quot;  That is the doctrine of Constitutionalism.  In the 1920s and 1930s Russians went to a great deal of effort to promote the idea that the US was a democracy.  Then it would be just a battle for power over the collective.  The US was a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, not a Republic, but a Constitutional Republic.  Use it or lose it. </p>
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		<title>By: @paulvmarks</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104091</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[@paulvmarks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is much too late for words - even if words are going to be allowed for much longer (for example Fox News is no longer on s radio, Progressives at work). 
 
95 million Americans CAN NOT pay for 85 million government dependents and employees (and maintain themsleves and their families). 
 
It is OVER people - there is not going to be any reform, de facto bankruptcy will happen. WAKE UP. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is much too late for words &#8211; even if words are going to be allowed for much longer (for example Fox News is no longer on s radio, Progressives at work). </p>
<p>95 million Americans CAN NOT pay for 85 million government dependents and employees (and maintain themsleves and their families). </p>
<p>It is OVER people &#8211; there is not going to be any reform, de facto bankruptcy will happen. WAKE UP. </p>
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		<title>By: AnOrdinaryMan</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104044</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AnOrdinaryMan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Then the Republicans in Congress have ONE choice--walk out, adjourn. The government will shut down, and the Republicans will recover a measure of self-respect, and will show the nation that, at least THEY are serious about facing fiscal Armageddon.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>   Then the Republicans in Congress have ONE choice&#8211;walk out, adjourn. The government will shut down, and the Republicans will recover a measure of self-respect, and will show the nation that, at least THEY are serious about facing fiscal Armageddon.  </p>
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		<title>By: Headed4TheHills</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/taking-up-the-debt-ceiling-war/comment-page-1/#comment-4104019</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headed4TheHills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Dawn Moore, a Spam-monger. Please desist in your febrile attempts to turn us all to Yoga. Take your wares elsewhere, Dawn, and peddle them there. How about a nice Liberal Progressive website? I&#039;m sure the granola-eating Socio-Communist Liberal Progressives would love to here you spin tales of the benefits of Yoga. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, Dawn Moore, a Spam-monger. Please desist in your febrile attempts to turn us all to Yoga. Take your wares elsewhere, Dawn, and peddle them there. How about a nice Liberal Progressive website? I&#039;m sure the granola-eating Socio-Communist Liberal Progressives would love to here you spin tales of the benefits of Yoga. </p>
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