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		<title>By: klystronfm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[$200 million, he mumbles back... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>$200 million, he mumbles back&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: klystronfm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left has always been bad at math????!!!! 
 
uh, what were the cost estimates again, for the Iraq invasion?  Pull your head from the vacuum -wait for the &#039;pop&#039;- and then try again. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The left has always been bad at math????!!!! </p>
<p>uh, what were the cost estimates again, for the Iraq invasion?  Pull your head from the vacuum -wait for the &#039;pop&#039;- and then try again. </p>
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		<title>By: klystronfm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too right, look at this: 
 &quot;About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.&quot; 
 
Tax breaks targeted to benefit specific corporations could also be considered a form of welfare. Tax loopholes force other businesses and individual taxpayers without the same political clout to pick up the slack and sacrifice a greater share of their hard-earned money to decrease the financial burden on these corporations. However, to simplify matters, we&#8217;ve only included financial handouts to companies in our working definition of corporate welfare. 
 
Whenever corporate welfare is presented to voters, it always sounds like a pretty reasonable, well-intended idea. Politicians say that they&#8217;re stimulating the economy or helping struggling industries or creating jobs or funding important research. But when you steal money from the paychecks of working people, you hurt the economy by reducing their ability to buy the things they want or need. This decrease in demand damages other industries and puts people out of work. 
 
Most of the pigs at the government trough are among the biggest companies in America, including the Big 3 automakers, Boeing, Archer Daniels Midland, and now-bankrupt Enron. 
 
Try to ensure you know what you are talking about, John. 
  &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/cor...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too right, look at this:<br />
 &quot;About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.&quot; </p>
<p>Tax breaks targeted to benefit specific corporations could also be considered a form of welfare. Tax loopholes force other businesses and individual taxpayers without the same political clout to pick up the slack and sacrifice a greater share of their hard-earned money to decrease the financial burden on these corporations. However, to simplify matters, we&rsquo;ve only included financial handouts to companies in our working definition of corporate welfare. </p>
<p>Whenever corporate welfare is presented to voters, it always sounds like a pretty reasonable, well-intended idea. Politicians say that they&rsquo;re stimulating the economy or helping struggling industries or creating jobs or funding important research. But when you steal money from the paychecks of working people, you hurt the economy by reducing their ability to buy the things they want or need. This decrease in demand damages other industries and puts people out of work. </p>
<p>Most of the pigs at the government trough are among the biggest companies in America, including the Big 3 automakers, Boeing, Archer Daniels Midland, and now-bankrupt Enron. </p>
<p>Try to ensure you know what you are talking about, John.<br />
  <a href="http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/cor" rel="nofollow">http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/cor</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gangs you cite are most definitely a factor in the crime rate , and we have failed to adress them properly .. Yes it has gotten out of hand in Chicago , LA , and even in small midwestern towns .  The law needs to catch up to reality , a 13 year old can pull a trigger just as well as a 30 yr old . Looking at rap sheets can tell us one thing , a single person can be a one man crime wave in a neighborhood . Multiply that by a gang and then you have a serious problem . Add to that , illegals who are part of those gangs and it gets worse.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The gangs you cite are most definitely a factor in the crime rate , and we have failed to adress them properly .. Yes it has gotten out of hand in Chicago , LA , and even in small midwestern towns .  The law needs to catch up to reality , a 13 year old can pull a trigger just as well as a 30 yr old . Looking at rap sheets can tell us one thing , a single person can be a one man crime wave in a neighborhood . Multiply that by a gang and then you have a serious problem . Add to that , illegals who are part of those gangs and it gets worse.  </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not at all Daniel , I believe that the crime rate has nothing to do with the rich , the poor or the minimum wage. I do not believe the Rich by getting richer supply more jobs .The rich are not in the buisiness of creating jobs . Nor do I think whether or not the rich get taxed at a higher rate will eliminate jobs . Demand is driven by the amount of money people have in their hands to spend , middle or lower class , they all need and desire basically the same things .  Increasing the minimum wage will expand the amount of people  who have the money to spend , and yes there will be some employers who will not hire , but they will be far outweighed by those who do , and that by increases in demand .  I agree ...it must be domestic , if we are to get jobs back . 
 If we were to use standards of 1968 ,then the minimum wage should be $11.50 . Since then , although productivity has steadily increased the gaines made by middle and lower class full time laborers have decreased .A living wage is a starting point . ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not at all Daniel , I believe that the crime rate has nothing to do with the rich , the poor or the minimum wage. I do not believe the Rich by getting richer supply more jobs .The rich are not in the buisiness of creating jobs . Nor do I think whether or not the rich get taxed at a higher rate will eliminate jobs . Demand is driven by the amount of money people have in their hands to spend , middle or lower class , they all need and desire basically the same things .  Increasing the minimum wage will expand the amount of people  who have the money to spend , and yes there will be some employers who will not hire , but they will be far outweighed by those who do , and that by increases in demand .  I agree &#8230;it must be domestic , if we are to get jobs back .<br />
 If we were to use standards of 1968 ,then the minimum wage should be $11.50 . Since then , although productivity has steadily increased the gaines made by middle and lower class full time laborers have decreased .A living wage is a starting point . </p>
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		<title>By: cxt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left has always been bad at math/econ. Wages have very little to do with crime in genera and violoent crimein specific. 
 
The Left also has a VERY short memory. Was watch a show the other day and they had on a professor that has written a book about the number of people in jail for drug crimes---specifically about the number of minorities jailed under the War On Drugs. She seemed utterly unaware that minorty leaders were the ones pushing for heavy jail time for drugs during the crack epidemic. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Left has always been bad at math/econ. Wages have very little to do with crime in genera and violoent crimein specific. </p>
<p>The Left also has a VERY short memory. Was watch a show the other day and they had on a professor that has written a book about the number of people in jail for drug crimes&#8212;specifically about the number of minorities jailed under the War On Drugs. She seemed utterly unaware that minorty leaders were the ones pushing for heavy jail time for drugs during the crack epidemic. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minimum wage has been raised, in both federal and state legislation, many times over the years.  
 
Have the earlIer raises of the minimum wage resulted in a decrease of crime?  
 
QED. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The minimum wage has been raised, in both federal and state legislation, many times over the years.  </p>
<p>Have the earlIer raises of the minimum wage resulted in a decrease of crime?  </p>
<p>QED. </p>
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		<title>By: John C. Davidson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the jobs the Liberfals promote rely on someone else&#039;s weath to pay for them. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of the jobs the Liberfals promote rely on someone else&#039;s weath to pay for them. </p>
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		<title>By: dickymo johnston</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#039;s phrase is &quot;non sequitur.&quot;  Jobs are not created by increased demand but by people doing something productive, being rewarded, and then exchanging the compensation for that reward with others. It&#039;s the difference between Keynesian economics and Say&#039;s law. Investment creates jobs and, when productive, a higher standard of living. We demonize the successful job creators, rely on government spending, which pols always call &quot;investment&quot; now, and wonder why our economy is so dismal. A higher &quot;minimum wage,&quot; which increases costs, won&#039;t lead to more hiring. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#039;s phrase is &quot;non sequitur.&quot;  Jobs are not created by increased demand but by people doing something productive, being rewarded, and then exchanging the compensation for that reward with others. It&#039;s the difference between Keynesian economics and Say&#039;s law. Investment creates jobs and, when productive, a higher standard of living. We demonize the successful job creators, rely on government spending, which pols always call &quot;investment&quot; now, and wonder why our economy is so dismal. A higher &quot;minimum wage,&quot; which increases costs, won&#039;t lead to more hiring. </p>
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		<title>By: AdinaK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garbage in is garbage out. In plain English, stats are fungible. The left uses them as if they are disposable tissues, but they mean nothing. The more employers are forced to cough up, the less jobs created. The left answers all ills with squeezing businesses, and they double dip when their coffers need filling. 
 
In any case, if anyone believes that a few bucks more, here and there, will keep someone with criminal proclivities from crime, then there is nothing left to argue. Leftist dogma is immutable, it leaps tall buildings too - &lt;a href=&quot;http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma-the-same-world-over-freedom-loving-people-beware-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-32-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma...&lt;/a&gt; 
 
Adina Kutnicki, Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Garbage in is garbage out. In plain English, stats are fungible. The left uses them as if they are disposable tissues, but they mean nothing. The more employers are forced to cough up, the less jobs created. The left answers all ills with squeezing businesses, and they double dip when their coffers need filling. </p>
<p>In any case, if anyone believes that a few bucks more, here and there, will keep someone with criminal proclivities from crime, then there is nothing left to argue. Leftist dogma is immutable, it leaps tall buildings too &#8211; <a href="http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma-the-same-world-over-freedom-loving-people-beware-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-32-2/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma" rel="nofollow">http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma</a>&#8230; </p>
<p>Adina Kutnicki, Israel <a href="http://adinakutnicki.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://adinakutnicki.com/about/</a> </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minimum wage obviously is related to unemployment since it&#039;s a business cost. Hospital costs are an expense. 
 
It&#039;s not just revolving door justice, though that&#039;s part of it. Gangs use younger members to commit crimes because they know their sentences will be limited. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minimum wage obviously is related to unemployment since it&#039;s a business cost. Hospital costs are an expense. </p>
<p>It&#039;s not just revolving door justice, though that&#039;s part of it. Gangs use younger members to commit crimes because they know their sentences will be limited. </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;So I guess by your rationale , if the rich are making more money ....crime will go down ?&quot; 
 
Not really. I don&#039;t accept the leftist premise that crime is purely a creature of economics. And if I did accept that premise, then the issue would not be the rich making money. 
 
&quot;, jobs are created by increased demand , and that by more expendable income in the hands of people making a LIVING WAGE &quot; 
 
They can be, but it&#039;s a bit more complicated than that. Demand is driven by an expanding middle class. For the middle class to expand, it has to have a place to start from and a place to go. And its demand for products has to be primarily domestic. Otherwise it&#039;s just the King of Spain all over again. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;So I guess by your rationale , if the rich are making more money &#8230;.crime will go down ?&quot; </p>
<p>Not really. I don&#039;t accept the leftist premise that crime is purely a creature of economics. And if I did accept that premise, then the issue would not be the rich making money. </p>
<p>&quot;, jobs are created by increased demand , and that by more expendable income in the hands of people making a LIVING WAGE &quot; </p>
<p>They can be, but it&#039;s a bit more complicated than that. Demand is driven by an expanding middle class. For the middle class to expand, it has to have a place to start from and a place to go. And its demand for products has to be primarily domestic. Otherwise it&#039;s just the King of Spain all over again. </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever  &quot;left wing think tanks &quot; you are quoting , have arguments just as faulted as your assumptions .  When I first started working , minimum wage was $1.40 an hour and a new Chevy cost $2800.  Funny minimum wage has nothing to do with hospital costs going up 30% every three years , just as unemployment has nothing to do with minimum wage . 
 Don&#039;t be as dumb as those lefties in believing this tripe .  I agree with you on the cause of the violence you cited ....and that&#039;s our fault ...we have revolving door justice .How is it a criminal with a rap sheet of 30 or 40 arrests is still on the streets ?  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whatever  &quot;left wing think tanks &quot; you are quoting , have arguments just as faulted as your assumptions .  When I first started working , minimum wage was $1.40 an hour and a new Chevy cost $2800.  Funny minimum wage has nothing to do with hospital costs going up 30% every three years , just as unemployment has nothing to do with minimum wage .<br />
 Don&#039;t be as dumb as those lefties in believing this tripe .  I agree with you on the cause of the violence you cited &#8230;.and that&#039;s our fault &#8230;we have revolving door justice .How is it a criminal with a rap sheet of 30 or 40 arrests is still on the streets ?  </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except that your perception of &quot;the rich&quot; is incorrect...a lot of small business owners that provide the majority of jobs are not in fact hiding rolls of 100&#039;s in their socks or in a jar on their dresser. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except that your perception of &quot;the rich&quot; is incorrect&#8230;a lot of small business owners that provide the majority of jobs are not in fact hiding rolls of 100&#039;s in their socks or in a jar on their dresser. </p>
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		<title>By: slider 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Picture Daniel , so appropo to this really pure proganda article .  So I guess by your rationale , if the rich are making more money ....crime will  go down ?  Funny I always thought that jobs are not created by the rich , jobs are created by increased demand , and that by more expendable income in the hands of people  making a LIVING WAGE .  
   The rich have been doing very well these last 5 or 6 years and that&#039;s a fact .....so where are tyhe jobs that  &quot; the rich create &quot;. 
 
You know daniel when I gloss down the list of articles and Titles ,before I see the authors , I am able to pick yours correctly 7 or 8 times out of ten  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Picture Daniel , so appropo to this really pure proganda article .  So I guess by your rationale , if the rich are making more money &#8230;.crime will  go down ?  Funny I always thought that jobs are not created by the rich , jobs are created by increased demand , and that by more expendable income in the hands of people  making a LIVING WAGE .<br />
   The rich have been doing very well these last 5 or 6 years and that&#039;s a fact &#8230;..so where are tyhe jobs that  &quot; the rich create &quot;. </p>
<p>You know daniel when I gloss down the list of articles and Titles ,before I see the authors , I am able to pick yours correctly 7 or 8 times out of ten  </p>
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