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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all conservatives argued the issues, as you do here, I doubt our country would be so divided. That is not to absolve my &quot;tribe&quot; of its own shrillness. 
 
As I&#039;ve said before, you may not need SS or Medicare, but you are perfectly entitled to them because you have paid for them. However, many more depend on these programs. 
 
Raising the age eligibility strikes me as reasonable and as far as I know that is still a possibility that is on the table. 
 
Another possibility is extending Medicare to all ages. That is not what I would endorse, but it presents an alternative solution. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If all conservatives argued the issues, as you do here, I doubt our country would be so divided. That is not to absolve my &quot;tribe&quot; of its own shrillness. </p>
<p>As I&#039;ve said before, you may not need SS or Medicare, but you are perfectly entitled to them because you have paid for them. However, many more depend on these programs. </p>
<p>Raising the age eligibility strikes me as reasonable and as far as I know that is still a possibility that is on the table. </p>
<p>Another possibility is extending Medicare to all ages. That is not what I would endorse, but it presents an alternative solution. </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks! ]]></description>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well you&#039;re right of course about taking what is offered under the law, then complaining about it being wrong, but of course again we all do that with one social allocation or the other, don&#039;t we? Conservatives may be the most obvious but they&#039;re hardly the only ones.  
 
My particular aspect of &quot;neediness&quot; is that I&#039;m on Medicare and drawing Social Security. One argument that I COULD make is that I&#039;ve contributed large amounts of money to Social Security annually since I was about 14 or thereabouts and that the money I&#039;m getting is my own Social Security taxes coming back to the person they rightfully belong to, but given the U.S. Supreme Court decision on who actually OWNS our Social Security money in the case of Nestor v. Flemming, I&#039;m not that naive.  
 
And on the subject of Social Security, by the way, how the hell does the IRS get away with taxing that money as income? They already long since took the ability of that money to draw interest if it had been invested, and now they tax the return of taxes as income. Beats me all hollow.  
 
Then, after taking our FICA taxes, they browbeat us about how we&#039;re all living longer and will use up all that we paid before we die.  Well, it would be good if when they tell us how greedy we are, they told us how much we would have if we&#039;d been able to invest the amount we paid in investments and earn interest on it for 40 or 50 years and on top of that, tell us why they  don&#039;t have the stones to raise the age for eligibility for Medicare and Social Security Old Age bennies.  They&#039;re such fakes and cowards.  I despise them all. 
 
I have no excuse for the Medicare thing, anymore than Hayduke has an excuse for throwing his beer cans out of the car onto the highway. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well you&#039;re right of course about taking what is offered under the law, then complaining about it being wrong, but of course again we all do that with one social allocation or the other, don&#039;t we? Conservatives may be the most obvious but they&#039;re hardly the only ones.  </p>
<p>My particular aspect of &quot;neediness&quot; is that I&#039;m on Medicare and drawing Social Security. One argument that I COULD make is that I&#039;ve contributed large amounts of money to Social Security annually since I was about 14 or thereabouts and that the money I&#039;m getting is my own Social Security taxes coming back to the person they rightfully belong to, but given the U.S. Supreme Court decision on who actually OWNS our Social Security money in the case of Nestor v. Flemming, I&#039;m not that naive.  </p>
<p>And on the subject of Social Security, by the way, how the hell does the IRS get away with taxing that money as income? They already long since took the ability of that money to draw interest if it had been invested, and now they tax the return of taxes as income. Beats me all hollow.  </p>
<p>Then, after taking our FICA taxes, they browbeat us about how we&#039;re all living longer and will use up all that we paid before we die.  Well, it would be good if when they tell us how greedy we are, they told us how much we would have if we&#039;d been able to invest the amount we paid in investments and earn interest on it for 40 or 50 years and on top of that, tell us why they  don&#039;t have the stones to raise the age for eligibility for Medicare and Social Security Old Age bennies.  They&#039;re such fakes and cowards.  I despise them all. </p>
<p>I have no excuse for the Medicare thing, anymore than Hayduke has an excuse for throwing his beer cans out of the car onto the highway. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are actually one of the few conservatives, here, who actually thinks for himself and doesn&#039;t allow others to do it for them.  
 
But you certainly wouldn&#039;t be the first conservative to jump on the &quot;entitlement train,&quot; take advantage of it, and then rail against it. Paul Ryan is famous for talking about how gov&#039;t benefits allowed HIM the freedom to pursue his dream--and then call everyone ELSE &quot;takers.&quot;  
 
And I don&#039;t know about you, but there&#039;s plenty here who are oh-so touchingly concerned about a Benghazi coverup, where four people died in the line of service...but not about how the Iraq War got pitched. Not about who was in charge of the country when Sept. 11 occurred. They make pretentious statements about Obama&#039;s non-existent &quot;gun grabs&quot; and pay lip service to freedom, but the Patriot Act? Sure, why not! What principles? Hey, my party&#039;s in charge! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are actually one of the few conservatives, here, who actually thinks for himself and doesn&#039;t allow others to do it for them.  </p>
<p>But you certainly wouldn&#039;t be the first conservative to jump on the &quot;entitlement train,&quot; take advantage of it, and then rail against it. Paul Ryan is famous for talking about how gov&#039;t benefits allowed HIM the freedom to pursue his dream&#8211;and then call everyone ELSE &quot;takers.&quot;  </p>
<p>And I don&#039;t know about you, but there&#039;s plenty here who are oh-so touchingly concerned about a Benghazi coverup, where four people died in the line of service&#8230;but not about how the Iraq War got pitched. Not about who was in charge of the country when Sept. 11 occurred. They make pretentious statements about Obama&#039;s non-existent &quot;gun grabs&quot; and pay lip service to freedom, but the Patriot Act? Sure, why not! What principles? Hey, my party&#039;s in charge! </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, I pout and filibuster all I can these days. As long as I don&#039;t have to watch TV&#039;s endless adolescent love affair with Barack Obama as if he&#039;s Justin Bieber, and the right wingers squirming as they contemplate another Obamaesque four years.  
 
I figure if we&#039;re going to live in a society where the distributive justice mantra is going to be &quot;from each according to his ability to each according to his needs,&quot; I&#039;m going to be among the earliest of the needy.  It&#039;s the rational thing to do in Obama World. 
 
That way, like Hayduke throwing his beer cans out of his Jeep in an effort to precipitate environmental crisis ASAP, I figure I can do my small part to cause the collapse of Obama-ism in as short a time as possible.  
 
Call me selfish and shortsighted if you must. I see myself as acting with clear eyes and mind. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I admit it, I pout and filibuster all I can these days. As long as I don&#039;t have to watch TV&#039;s endless adolescent love affair with Barack Obama as if he&#039;s Justin Bieber, and the right wingers squirming as they contemplate another Obamaesque four years.  </p>
<p>I figure if we&#039;re going to live in a society where the distributive justice mantra is going to be &quot;from each according to his ability to each according to his needs,&quot; I&#039;m going to be among the earliest of the needy.  It&#039;s the rational thing to do in Obama World. </p>
<p>That way, like Hayduke throwing his beer cans out of his Jeep in an effort to precipitate environmental crisis ASAP, I figure I can do my small part to cause the collapse of Obama-ism in as short a time as possible.  </p>
<p>Call me selfish and shortsighted if you must. I see myself as acting with clear eyes and mind. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s just another general epithet which has become meaningless on this site like &quot;communist.&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s just another general epithet which has become meaningless on this site like &quot;communist.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your support, Ghostwriter.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your support, Ghostwriter.   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, get a map. I talked about &quot;Western Europe.&quot;  Greece is in fact in Southern Europe.  Oh a quick pointer to save you time:  Europe is that big land mass above Africa.   
 
Secondly, I didn&#039;t say that Western Europe is &quot;doing well&quot;, but that &quot;we are now behind most of Western Europe in terms of upward mobility.&quot;  The US has rightly admired itself for its citizens&#039; ability to move up in financial status, but we&#039;ve been falling behind for a long, long time, not simply since Obama came around four years ago. 
 
Here is a link whichs lays out these hard facts.  Sorry to show you that America isn&#039;t Number 1! in everything.  If we were a European nation, we&#039;d be eighth in terms of upward mobility: 
  &lt;a href=&quot;http://business.time.com/2012/01/05/the-loss-of-upward-mobility-in-the-u-s/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://business.time.com/2012/01/05/the-loss-of-u...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, get a map. I talked about &quot;Western Europe.&quot;  Greece is in fact in Southern Europe.  Oh a quick pointer to save you time:  Europe is that big land mass above Africa.   </p>
<p>Secondly, I didn&#039;t say that Western Europe is &quot;doing well&quot;, but that &quot;we are now behind most of Western Europe in terms of upward mobility.&quot;  The US has rightly admired itself for its citizens&#039; ability to move up in financial status, but we&#039;ve been falling behind for a long, long time, not simply since Obama came around four years ago. </p>
<p>Here is a link whichs lays out these hard facts.  Sorry to show you that America isn&#039;t Number 1! in everything.  If we were a European nation, we&#039;d be eighth in terms of upward mobility:<br />
  <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/01/05/the-loss-of-upward-mobility-in-the-u-s/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://business.time.com/2012/01/05/the-loss-of-u" rel="nofollow">http://business.time.com/2012/01/05/the-loss-of-u</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Go back to Media Matters or the Daily Cos and quit polluting this website with your propaganda.&quot; 
 
In other words, &quot;I can&#039;t tolerate being challenged by a well expressed idea with which I disagree.  All dissent must be shut down, every idea that doesn&#039;t toe the line must be crushed.  I&#039;m terrified of thinking or considering that I may not have all answers.&quot; 
 
Fear, fear, fear, fear.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Go back to Media Matters or the Daily Cos and quit polluting this website with your propaganda.&quot; </p>
<p>In other words, &quot;I can&#039;t tolerate being challenged by a well expressed idea with which I disagree.  All dissent must be shut down, every idea that doesn&#039;t toe the line must be crushed.  I&#039;m terrified of thinking or considering that I may not have all answers.&quot; </p>
<p>Fear, fear, fear, fear.   </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t vote for Obama. I voted for the other guy,EarlyBird. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#039;t vote for Obama. I voted for the other guy,EarlyBird. </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry,EarlyBird,but Europe isn&#039;t doing well right now. Places like Greece have sky-high debts. Is that what you want for America,EarlyBird? Sky-high debts? 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry,EarlyBird,but Europe isn&#039;t doing well right now. Places like Greece have sky-high debts. Is that what you want for America,EarlyBird? Sky-high debts? </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly, Jim. Obama is sort of an old school liberal Republican when you place him in history, not some dangerous something we&#039;ve never seen before.   
 
You&#039;ll notice that the rump end of any very successful movement, like today&#039;s right wing, never really appreciates how successful its movement has been.  For better and for worse, the US is utterly soaking in Reaganism.  It was the most complete transformation of US politics probably in history, in as much as it has completely set the tone in foreign, fiscal, monetary and social policy, but perhaps importantly personal attitudes, for the past 30+ years.  Reagan won.   
 
Unfortunately, those &quot;principles&quot; have become a religion.  We have moved SO far to the right that the slightest adjustments back to pre-Reagan normalcy looks like &quot;communism!&quot; to nuts on this board.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly, Jim. Obama is sort of an old school liberal Republican when you place him in history, not some dangerous something we&#039;ve never seen before.   </p>
<p>You&#039;ll notice that the rump end of any very successful movement, like today&#039;s right wing, never really appreciates how successful its movement has been.  For better and for worse, the US is utterly soaking in Reaganism.  It was the most complete transformation of US politics probably in history, in as much as it has completely set the tone in foreign, fiscal, monetary and social policy, but perhaps importantly personal attitudes, for the past 30+ years.  Reagan won.   </p>
<p>Unfortunately, those &quot;principles&quot; have become a religion.  We have moved SO far to the right that the slightest adjustments back to pre-Reagan normalcy looks like &quot;communism!&quot; to nuts on this board.   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny.  You remind me of a guy they were interviewing in the Midwest during the election.  He was a white male forklift operator making a bit above minimum wage in some big box store and he was practically in tears, crying, &quot;I just want the government off my back!&quot;  It was hysterical.   
 
HOW is government on his &quot;back&quot;?!  He wasn&#039;t a businessman getting taxed and regulated to death. He was a virtually un-taxed (given his income rate) blue collar guy who had paved roads, schools to send his kids, emergency health, paramedics and police at his disposal, reliable sewage and electricity infrastructure - all either wholly or massively subsidized by the government - and you&#039;d think he was being enslaved.  Why?  Because Obama was in the White House, and he&#039;s been told that he&#039;s a &quot;communist.&quot;  God, the stupidity!  This guy is exactly who Obama&#039;s big government ideas would help the most! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny.  You remind me of a guy they were interviewing in the Midwest during the election.  He was a white male forklift operator making a bit above minimum wage in some big box store and he was practically in tears, crying, &quot;I just want the government off my back!&quot;  It was hysterical.   </p>
<p>HOW is government on his &quot;back&quot;?!  He wasn&#039;t a businessman getting taxed and regulated to death. He was a virtually un-taxed (given his income rate) blue collar guy who had paved roads, schools to send his kids, emergency health, paramedics and police at his disposal, reliable sewage and electricity infrastructure &#8211; all either wholly or massively subsidized by the government &#8211; and you&#039;d think he was being enslaved.  Why?  Because Obama was in the White House, and he&#039;s been told that he&#039;s a &quot;communist.&quot;  God, the stupidity!  This guy is exactly who Obama&#039;s big government ideas would help the most! </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tagalog, what exactly makes Obama a &quot;monarchist&quot;?  Really, please explain what you mean by that.  Did he get into power via a coup d&#039; tat?  Did he enact martial law?  Has he taken over power extra-Constitutionally? Does he sit in a throne?    
 
Really, what makes him a &quot;monarchist&quot;?  Have you really thought that through, or is it just another general epithet which has become meaningless on this site like &quot;communist&quot;?   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tagalog, what exactly makes Obama a &quot;monarchist&quot;?  Really, please explain what you mean by that.  Did he get into power via a coup d&#039; tat?  Did he enact martial law?  Has he taken over power extra-Constitutionally? Does he sit in a throne?    </p>
<p>Really, what makes him a &quot;monarchist&quot;?  Have you really thought that through, or is it just another general epithet which has become meaningless on this site like &quot;communist&quot;?   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/obamas-startling-second-inaugural-admission/comment-page-1/#comment-4188068</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The political right fails to grasp one crucial fact: Namely, that the Gimmedat Party of Looters and their henchmen in the &quot;impartial&quot; Malevolent Socialist Media have determined that The Affirmative Action Hire in Chief is Too Black To Fail&#8482;. Together, they&#039;ll see to it that the Blight Bringer&#039;s pathetic &quot;presidency&quot; is flogged as a smashing success, no matter what it takes...&quot; 
 
Gosh, I wonder why the Republican Party can&#039;t seem to win the White House?   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;The political right fails to grasp one crucial fact: Namely, that the Gimmedat Party of Looters and their henchmen in the &quot;impartial&quot; Malevolent Socialist Media have determined that The Affirmative Action Hire in Chief is Too Black To Fail&trade;. Together, they&#039;ll see to it that the Blight Bringer&#039;s pathetic &quot;presidency&quot; is flogged as a smashing success, no matter what it takes&#8230;&quot; </p>
<p>Gosh, I wonder why the Republican Party can&#039;t seem to win the White House?   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Very few inaugural addresses are memorable or stirring.  JFK&#039;s, Lincoln&#039;s second...what others do we remember off hand as being great?  Most are about laying out one&#039;s agenda for the term.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Very few inaugural addresses are memorable or stirring.  JFK&#039;s, Lincoln&#039;s second&#8230;what others do we remember off hand as being great?  Most are about laying out one&#039;s agenda for the term.   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romney, with all of his faults, was a serious, pragmatic and competent manager-leader.  He was too good for his party.   
 
The Republican base has becomes so ridiculously extreme, that he had to contort himself into a &quot;severe conservative&quot; just to get the nomination.  By the time he got it and moved to the middle and became himself, the &quot;real Romney&quot; looked plastic and the fake, nomination-getting Romney looked like a loon.   
 
Obama most definitely won by default.  Romney can blame the nutjobs who&#039;ve taken over the GOP, many of them here on this site.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Romney, with all of his faults, was a serious, pragmatic and competent manager-leader.  He was too good for his party.   </p>
<p>The Republican base has becomes so ridiculously extreme, that he had to contort himself into a &quot;severe conservative&quot; just to get the nomination.  By the time he got it and moved to the middle and became himself, the &quot;real Romney&quot; looked plastic and the fake, nomination-getting Romney looked like a loon.   </p>
<p>Obama most definitely won by default.  Romney can blame the nutjobs who&#039;ve taken over the GOP, many of them here on this site.   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/obamas-startling-second-inaugural-admission/comment-page-1/#comment-4187997</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s the problem:  the Republican Party plays Santa Claus too, but to corporations and wealthy individuals.  Simply cutting taxes on the highest earners does NOT lift all boats.  We know that because we&#039;ve been doing that for the past 30 years.    
 
Newsflash everybody:  The right wing won!  The Reagan Revolution was fully enacted.  We&#039;ve been living it.  As a result of his trickle down economics - which I too used to be a believer of - wherein politicians said, &quot;You can have low taxes AND serviceable government AND prosperity!&quot; we are now behind most of Western Europe in terms of upward mobility.  The rich are fewer but much, much richer, the middle class poorer and much smaller, our kids are less educated, our government less capable, our companies less competitive, our infrastructure crumbling.   
 
&quot;Lower taxes, reduced spending, fewer regulations&quot; is not always the answer to greater prosperity and freedom for all.  Reagan was a man for his time, but not all times.  His economic theory said, &quot;You can have it all!&quot;  and it&#039;s as much of a lie as the left&#039;s which says &quot;Government can do it all!&quot;   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#039;s the problem:  the Republican Party plays Santa Claus too, but to corporations and wealthy individuals.  Simply cutting taxes on the highest earners does NOT lift all boats.  We know that because we&#039;ve been doing that for the past 30 years.    </p>
<p>Newsflash everybody:  The right wing won!  The Reagan Revolution was fully enacted.  We&#039;ve been living it.  As a result of his trickle down economics &#8211; which I too used to be a believer of &#8211; wherein politicians said, &quot;You can have low taxes AND serviceable government AND prosperity!&quot; we are now behind most of Western Europe in terms of upward mobility.  The rich are fewer but much, much richer, the middle class poorer and much smaller, our kids are less educated, our government less capable, our companies less competitive, our infrastructure crumbling.   </p>
<p>&quot;Lower taxes, reduced spending, fewer regulations&quot; is not always the answer to greater prosperity and freedom for all.  Reagan was a man for his time, but not all times.  His economic theory said, &quot;You can have it all!&quot;  and it&#039;s as much of a lie as the left&#039;s which says &quot;Government can do it all!&quot;   </p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/obamas-startling-second-inaugural-admission/comment-page-1/#comment-4187955</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tapson writes as if there was some obvious magic bullet the president could have used, which he refused to.  He also doesn&#039;t give enough credit to the fact that the Stimulus has turned us around, however slowly, and that corporations (you know, those entities which &quot;communist&quot; Obama supposedly hates?) have never enjoyed bigger profits.   
 
The question is:  what would the economy look like a.) by doing nothing, or b.) enacting a Stimulus by another name, i.e., a massive tax break which would have had the very same effect on the economy and the same effect on the debt? 
 
Any president coming in at 2008 would have had an extremely difficult time on his hands.  Remember too, the choice was between Obama, or McCain/Palin (shudder).   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tapson writes as if there was some obvious magic bullet the president could have used, which he refused to.  He also doesn&#039;t give enough credit to the fact that the Stimulus has turned us around, however slowly, and that corporations (you know, those entities which &quot;communist&quot; Obama supposedly hates?) have never enjoyed bigger profits.   </p>
<p>The question is:  what would the economy look like a.) by doing nothing, or b.) enacting a Stimulus by another name, i.e., a massive tax break which would have had the very same effect on the economy and the same effect on the debt? </p>
<p>Any president coming in at 2008 would have had an extremely difficult time on his hands.  Remember too, the choice was between Obama, or McCain/Palin (shudder).   </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at tax rates under Eisenhower. Look at government spending. Look at domestic spending and programs. What&#039;s Obama&#039;s biggest achievement?  A health care plan devised by the Heritage Foundation and attempted by Richard Nixon. 
 
Get your head out of the right wing media&#039;s @ss and evaluate it for yourself instead of being told what to think day in and day out. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at tax rates under Eisenhower. Look at government spending. Look at domestic spending and programs. What&#039;s Obama&#039;s biggest achievement?  A health care plan devised by the Heritage Foundation and attempted by Richard Nixon. </p>
<p>Get your head out of the right wing media&#039;s @ss and evaluate it for yourself instead of being told what to think day in and day out. </p>
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