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		<title>By: A Z</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/porter-stansberry/usa-the-next-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-5326439</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The small business would be news to me although the WSJ did run the some positive stories on it.

I might have let the corruption of the oil &amp; gas industry cloud my view.

But Putin is part of the corruption I think.  He wants to control the oil industry.  Some of the governments prosecutions were to seize  control from oil owners, who were not tight with the government.   That process was completed last decade.

Also Russia moved BP out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The small business would be news to me although the WSJ did run the some positive stories on it.</p>
<p>I might have let the corruption of the oil &amp; gas industry cloud my view.</p>
<p>But Putin is part of the corruption I think.  He wants to control the oil industry.  Some of the governments prosecutions were to seize  control from oil owners, who were not tight with the government.   That process was completed last decade.</p>
<p>Also Russia moved BP out.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pssst dumbazz, no matter how many times you effing commi&#039;s try communism, it always ends up a very bloody affair with a stack of dead bodies. No thanks, I&#039;ll stay with the capitalistic system, but your effing hero Obummer is driving it off the cliff, with your shouts of encouragement.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pssst dumbazz, no matter how many times you effing commi&#8217;s try communism, it always ends up a very bloody affair with a stack of dead bodies. No thanks, I&#8217;ll stay with the capitalistic system, but your effing hero Obummer is driving it off the cliff, with your shouts of encouragement.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The major growth is in the small business sector and that is really starting to thrive, yes corruption in the gas and oil sector is bad but ole Putin is keeping it semi under control.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The major growth is in the small business sector and that is really starting to thrive, yes corruption in the gas and oil sector is bad but ole Putin is keeping it semi under control.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/porter-stansberry/usa-the-next-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-5326421</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of corruption over ownership of large companies in Russia.  It looks like an oligarchy.

Russia economy is starting to really slow.  Outside of oil there is no growth.

Yes, Putin is playing Obama for a chump. I have said it myself before.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a lot of corruption over ownership of large companies in Russia.  It looks like an oligarchy.</p>
<p>Russia economy is starting to really slow.  Outside of oil there is no growth.</p>
<p>Yes, Putin is playing Obama for a chump. I have said it myself before.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pssst, time for you to offshore my friend.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pssst, time for you to offshore my friend.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your waving your libtarded red credentials again. What a dumbazz! Maybe your lesbian life partner will let you wear the strapon for once, tonight.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your waving your libtarded red credentials again. What a dumbazz! Maybe your lesbian life partner will let you wear the strapon for once, tonight.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to burst your bubble but, Russia and the Ukraine for that matter are heading head first into capitalism at a unprecedented rate, is there mafia corruption? Sure there is, but when this country is heading the opposite way head first into communism, who woulda ever thunk it to support and defend ole Putin, who has his country and it&#039;s interest first and foremost and is playing Obummer like the chump he is.   When this house of cards comes tumbling down, I do hope the American public holds all of these leftist traitors to account for the misery that befall us.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to burst your bubble but, Russia and the Ukraine for that matter are heading head first into capitalism at a unprecedented rate, is there mafia corruption? Sure there is, but when this country is heading the opposite way head first into communism, who woulda ever thunk it to support and defend ole Putin, who has his country and it&#8217;s interest first and foremost and is playing Obummer like the chump he is.   When this house of cards comes tumbling down, I do hope the American public holds all of these leftist traitors to account for the misery that befall us.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Lynda!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Lynda!</p>
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		<title>By: lyndaaquarius</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[lyndaaquarius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[well said and so concise. thanks.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well said and so concise. thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You mentioned several causes.  Anyone cause might not be sufficient.  But if you 3 or more out of seven would be sufficient for a decline.  

It is just too many insults to the system,  which is why you need leaders and not feel good stuff.

We have a margin for error we have a cushion but not such a large one that we can take 1/2 a century for failed democrat policies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mentioned several causes.  Anyone cause might not be sufficient.  But if you 3 or more out of seven would be sufficient for a decline.  </p>
<p>It is just too many insults to the system,  which is why you need leaders and not feel good stuff.</p>
<p>We have a margin for error we have a cushion but not such a large one that we can take 1/2 a century for failed democrat policies.</p>
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		<title>By: mac</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting. I&#039;m an Irish-American, blue-collar political independant.
I was one of those paratroopers Johnson sent into Detroit (it was two battalions of paratroopers by the way-- one each from the 101st and the 82nd Airborne Divisions; that&#039;s the difference between 2,000 vs 30,00 troops)..  After grad school, I worked in Michigan and was frequently in Detroit. -- even back in the mid 70&#039;s that city was well into its decline.  Nothing involving something as complex as the decline of the American industrial cities is so simple as to be defined as a sole cause.  I&#039;m willing to buy that the social welfare schemes of the times were monumental failures and that great gobs of money was squandered to no appreciable avail. The collapse of the American auto industry had something to do with white and capital flight, as well as global competition and the unions helping to kill the goose that laid the golden egg by raising the cost of American labor. Every aspect of our society unwittingly conspired to wreck the 20th Century American model economy.
I don&#039;t think that Communists, leftists or African-Americans in general are to blame for the sea change that affected Industrial America. At this point, I&#039;m just not buying that it was just black people and the Commies that wrecked Detroit -- and by extension all of America.  We are in decline -- and I think there are no convenient scapegoats.  I&#039;m still interested, still listening --- and still proudly independent.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting. I&#8217;m an Irish-American, blue-collar political independant.<br />
I was one of those paratroopers Johnson sent into Detroit (it was two battalions of paratroopers by the way&#8211; one each from the 101st and the 82nd Airborne Divisions; that&#8217;s the difference between 2,000 vs 30,00 troops)..  After grad school, I worked in Michigan and was frequently in Detroit. &#8212; even back in the mid 70&#8242;s that city was well into its decline.  Nothing involving something as complex as the decline of the American industrial cities is so simple as to be defined as a sole cause.  I&#8217;m willing to buy that the social welfare schemes of the times were monumental failures and that great gobs of money was squandered to no appreciable avail. The collapse of the American auto industry had something to do with white and capital flight, as well as global competition and the unions helping to kill the goose that laid the golden egg by raising the cost of American labor. Every aspect of our society unwittingly conspired to wreck the 20th Century American model economy.<br />
I don&#8217;t think that Communists, leftists or African-Americans in general are to blame for the sea change that affected Industrial America. At this point, I&#8217;m just not buying that it was just black people and the Commies that wrecked Detroit &#8212; and by extension all of America.  We are in decline &#8212; and I think there are no convenient scapegoats.  I&#8217;m still interested, still listening &#8212; and still proudly independent.</p>
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		<title>By: Patriot077</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patriot077]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Reaganite? My hind foot!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Reaganite? My hind foot!</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Left is either completely insane or willfully attempting to destroy this nation. In either case, they are succeeding. Lenin used the poor peasants to achieve his revolution, Mao did the same in China, and the Democrat Progressives have been using the &#039;poor&#039;, &#039;minorities&#039; and &#039;illegal aliens&#039; to do the same in this country. Those who had wealth and property in Russian and China lost everything and never knew what hit them when Vlad and Mao won their revolutions. I wonder how many wealthy people in this country will end up losing everything without ever knowing what happened or how it happened. Being rich is not the same as being aware!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American Left is either completely insane or willfully attempting to destroy this nation. In either case, they are succeeding. Lenin used the poor peasants to achieve his revolution, Mao did the same in China, and the Democrat Progressives have been using the &#8216;poor&#8217;, &#8216;minorities&#8217; and &#8216;illegal aliens&#8217; to do the same in this country. Those who had wealth and property in Russian and China lost everything and never knew what hit them when Vlad and Mao won their revolutions. I wonder how many wealthy people in this country will end up losing everything without ever knowing what happened or how it happened. Being rich is not the same as being aware!</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true though.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s true though.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Porter has some well turned phrases and speaks some truth, but I think I can find the truth elsewhere without the hype or having to  overpay for it. 

Porter was sued  by the SEC and the SEC won.

However, both the NYT and WSJ agreed it was a nuisance suit without basis. Think about it both the NYT and WSJ agreed!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Porter has some well turned phrases and speaks some truth, but I think I can find the truth elsewhere without the hype or having to  overpay for it. </p>
<p>Porter was sued  by the SEC and the SEC won.</p>
<p>However, both the NYT and WSJ agreed it was a nuisance suit without basis. Think about it both the NYT and WSJ agreed!</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ll check that out.  Thank you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll check that out.  Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EB:  &quot;One of the purposes of good government is to keep the markets free. Another is to ensure the citizenry is &quot;actually&quot; free to engage in those markets. It&#039;s why we have laws against monopolies.”

From my perspective, that’s a slightly outmoded view of anti-trust law.  If all competition and consumption was domestic, perhaps it would be necessary to regulate the size of competitors to make sure than none got too big or too strong so as to be able to unfairly dominate the others and thereby stifle effective competition. 


But we now have an increasingly interconnected world market where entire nations compete with each other, and economies of scale and skill are essential for winning in the international marketplace.  Samsung is a great example of a company that has arisen from nowhere to dominate the world handset market, and our so-called giants of Apple and Microsoft are getting hammered.  It’s a new day out there, and in order to be effective in the global competition of the 21st Century, national governments will need to cooperate with domestic industries in order to have any chance of winning. 


The following is a link to a summary of that idea presented last year by Dr. Rob Atkinson, in connection with his new book, “Innovation Economics:  The Race for Global Advantage.&quot;  If you haven’t already read the book, the video will be well worth your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EB:  &#8220;One of the purposes of good government is to keep the markets free. Another is to ensure the citizenry is &#8220;actually&#8221; free to engage in those markets. It&#8217;s why we have laws against monopolies.”</p>
<p>From my perspective, that’s a slightly outmoded view of anti-trust law.  If all competition and consumption was domestic, perhaps it would be necessary to regulate the size of competitors to make sure than none got too big or too strong so as to be able to unfairly dominate the others and thereby stifle effective competition. </p>
<p>But we now have an increasingly interconnected world market where entire nations compete with each other, and economies of scale and skill are essential for winning in the international marketplace.  Samsung is a great example of a company that has arisen from nowhere to dominate the world handset market, and our so-called giants of Apple and Microsoft are getting hammered.  It’s a new day out there, and in order to be effective in the global competition of the 21st Century, national governments will need to cooperate with domestic industries in order to have any chance of winning. </p>
<p>The following is a link to a summary of that idea presented last year by Dr. Rob Atkinson, in connection with his new book, “Innovation Economics:  The Race for Global Advantage.&#8221;  If you haven’t already read the book, the video will be well worth your time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY</a></p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are much closer right now to the Gilded Age than probably any other time in our history.  Wall Street didn&#039;t bring us to the edge of the economic abyss a few years ago because we had overbearing government.  
One of the purposes of good government is to keep the markets free. Another is to ensure the citizenry is &quot;actually&quot; free to engage in those markets.  It&#039;s why we have laws against monopolies, for instance.  It is pretty heavy handed for government to disallow a single corporation to corner and own an entire market, but by being impure in this way, more people are free to actually engage in that market.   
I would say a better way to understand the American experiment is to recognize the on-going tension between negative liberty vs. positive liberty.  Since we live in an inherently unequal and imperfect world, a society where we simply remove government as an obstacle will quickly devolve into a chaotic Hobbsian nightmare.  Adding too much &quot;positive liberty,&quot; to enable too much, on the other hand, creates tyranny.  
The balance we need to strike is between these two poles in order to create the circumstances for the most individuals to enjoy their own liberty and thrive as they see fit.
As for &quot;authentic America culture,&quot; we have been so good at guarding against over enabling that we seem to have even given up the notion of owing one another anything at all.  The growing gap between the haves and have nots, and the shrinking of the middle class is a terrible threat to popular self government.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are much closer right now to the Gilded Age than probably any other time in our history.  Wall Street didn&#8217;t bring us to the edge of the economic abyss a few years ago because we had overbearing government.<br />
One of the purposes of good government is to keep the markets free. Another is to ensure the citizenry is &#8220;actually&#8221; free to engage in those markets.  It&#8217;s why we have laws against monopolies, for instance.  It is pretty heavy handed for government to disallow a single corporation to corner and own an entire market, but by being impure in this way, more people are free to actually engage in that market.<br />
I would say a better way to understand the American experiment is to recognize the on-going tension between negative liberty vs. positive liberty.  Since we live in an inherently unequal and imperfect world, a society where we simply remove government as an obstacle will quickly devolve into a chaotic Hobbsian nightmare.  Adding too much &#8220;positive liberty,&#8221; to enable too much, on the other hand, creates tyranny.<br />
The balance we need to strike is between these two poles in order to create the circumstances for the most individuals to enjoy their own liberty and thrive as they see fit.<br />
As for &#8220;authentic America culture,&#8221; we have been so good at guarding against over enabling that we seem to have even given up the notion of owing one another anything at all.  The growing gap between the haves and have nots, and the shrinking of the middle class is a terrible threat to popular self government.</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim, it&#039;s obvious that you wouldn&#039;t even be able to marshall an argument based on empirical evidence, even if you had such evidence at your disposal.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim, it&#8217;s obvious that you wouldn&#8217;t even be able to marshall an argument based on empirical evidence, even if you had such evidence at your disposal.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EB:  &quot;What&#039;s an &quot;authentic American culture&quot;? How do you define that?”


Authentic American culture is one inspired by the ideas of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations, both put to paper in the same year, 1776.  In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson defines Americans for all time as a people who believe in the universality of human rights, i.e.  &quot;that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith articulated the idea that nations grow wealthy by the process of free market competition and laissez-faire economics.  The two ideas create a synergistic dynamic that is full of tension and energy, but one which is not inherently unworkable, and the purpose of good government is to keep them in perfect harmonic trim.  When either one is allowed to dominate the other one, there will be problems.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EB:  &#8220;What&#8217;s an &#8220;authentic American culture&#8221;? How do you define that?”</p>
<p>Authentic American culture is one inspired by the ideas of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations, both put to paper in the same year, 1776.  In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson defines Americans for all time as a people who believe in the universality of human rights, i.e.  &#8220;that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith articulated the idea that nations grow wealthy by the process of free market competition and laissez-faire economics.  The two ideas create a synergistic dynamic that is full of tension and energy, but one which is not inherently unworkable, and the purpose of good government is to keep them in perfect harmonic trim.  When either one is allowed to dominate the other one, there will be problems.</p>
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