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		<title>By: Hoppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice allocation but Truly I did not know anything about real state of the Union but the allocation you did here simply makes me glad and knowable about this issue. Thanks  
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice allocation but Truly I did not know anything about real state of the Union but the allocation you did here simply makes me glad and knowable about this issue. Thanks  </p>
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		<title>By: wsk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the by, the penalties for not providing healthcare gradually increase over time  until it will be a wash for the company. Then the real lay-offs will occur. There will be a lot of small companoes with 49 employees, and a lot of workers that are employed 29 hours per week. Business owners are not stupid. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the by, the penalties for not providing healthcare gradually increase over time  until it will be a wash for the company. Then the real lay-offs will occur. There will be a lot of small companoes with 49 employees, and a lot of workers that are employed 29 hours per week. Business owners are not stupid. </p>
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		<title>By: wsk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you margaret Thatcher.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you margaret Thatcher.  </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos on your lovely sarcasm.  For real. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kudos on your lovely sarcasm.  For real. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t know, maybe the enormous margins pharmas make on their products will come down, and  they&#039;ll have to re-route the huge $$ they spend on marketing back to research. But who knows; pretty soon, we may essentially be prescribing stuff to ourselves. 
 
Actually I think you&#039;re just scratching the surface of the fallout, some of it good and some of it bad. One thing short-term it will do is make people much saavier consumers of healthcare and make billing a lot more transparent. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t know, maybe the enormous margins pharmas make on their products will come down, and  they&#039;ll have to re-route the huge $$ they spend on marketing back to research. But who knows; pretty soon, we may essentially be prescribing stuff to ourselves. </p>
<p>Actually I think you&#039;re just scratching the surface of the fallout, some of it good and some of it bad. One thing short-term it will do is make people much saavier consumers of healthcare and make billing a lot more transparent. </p>
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		<title>By: George Marcina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State of the Union as seen not from the White House but from our little Brick House. 

Dear Mr. President,

Few days ago I watched your State of the Union speech and I though that maybe, perhaps, you will be interested in how the Union looks not from the White House but from our house, our little Brick House.

The difference between what you and I see is, not surprisingly, large. But before I talk about the differences let me tell you where I agree with you. 
I was glad that you issued the order to kill Bin Laden. Actually, when I heard about it, I lifted a glass of cheap red wine to your health. Well done Sir!  I also agree that we need to get out of Afghanistan. We spent way too much blood and money in that God forsaken place. And I agree that this is still an exceptional country full of very capable and hard working people who deserve better leadership.  
I think the State of the Union sucks.  
Four years into your Presidency we still have 20 plus million unemployed and forty plus millions people on food stamps. This is a shame!  Especially when I hear from you practically once a month how you are working to get more jobs, that jobs are your number one priority, etc., etc. Its time for a change. Its time for Leadership. Its time to stop talking, its time to take steps to make our economy more competitive in this global economy. Its time to recognize government doesn’t create wealth and jobs. Its time to stop encumbering the wealth creating process with more taxes and regulations. Its time to stop legislations and rules that take more money from the American wealth creating machine, time to stop moving it to those who redistribute it and those who simply consume it.   
Just before I sat down to write you I went to buy gas. I paid almost four bucks. This too is a shame, especially since you could help it tomorrow. I challenge you to sign approval for the Keystone pipeline. Make the operators to put a dime for every gallon that flows through it into a lock box for emergencies. In case something goes wrong we will be ready for remediation and recovery. But let’s stop procrastinating. Time to help all citizens with one simple stroke of your pen. 
Our debt and yearly deficits are also a shame. Mr. President most of us citizens know about budgets, we know we can’t borrow more than we can repay, we know if we don’t nasty things will happen. We know how to say no, we can’t afford it. We’ve done it many times in our lives. We know it’s not pleasant but we also know it has to be done.  Time for you to start saying NO! Time for you to present a budget and demand cuts, real cuts before we, the whole nation, end up like the neighbors down the street who bought a house too expensive for their income.  
I want to challenge you to cut a dollar from every hundred the Government, you are a head of, spends today. Real cuts in actual spending, not the Washington game of cutting growth and crying as if that was the end of the world. We know the government spends too much on too many needless programs. We know, that if you really wanted, we could cut a dollar from every 100 we spend. We know it can be done, we’ve done it ourselves and most of us more than once.    
Actually I want to challenge you to cut two bucks out of every hundred you spend. And I want to challenge you to spend the second dollar on job creation. Spend it on giving tax credits for industrial (not governmental or academic) research and development, for capital investments designed to increase employment, for creating new businesses, for bringing home money careful people keep in off shore banks.  Spend it on going into business,as a minority partner, with those whose record show they can make create wealth, they can create jobs, they can compete with the Chinese or the Germans, with anybody! 
I want to challenge you to provide a real leadership in Education. We, as a nation, are spending more and more on education every year. Given a chance every politician will talk splendidly how he /she is for giving more money for schools. And what do we get for that? Are we, as a nation, leading the world? Are our kids educated better and better? We, the citizens, know that is not so. Spending more money on a process that is ineffective is a waste. It’s time for reform. We know what needs to be done - introduce competition!  Be a real leader Mr. President, don’t enlarge the system as is, change it, free us to send our children to school of our choice!  
Hope you had a good time in Florida and are all rested and ready to work. And, of course, I hope you will spend a few minutes thinking about my thoughts on how to make life in these United States better in the near future. 
  
Citizen G.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>State of the Union as seen not from the White House but from our little Brick House. </p>
<p>Dear Mr. President,</p>
<p>Few days ago I watched your State of the Union speech and I though that maybe, perhaps, you will be interested in how the Union looks not from the White House but from our house, our little Brick House.</p>
<p>The difference between what you and I see is, not surprisingly, large. But before I talk about the differences let me tell you where I agree with you.<br />
I was glad that you issued the order to kill Bin Laden. Actually, when I heard about it, I lifted a glass of cheap red wine to your health. Well done Sir!  I also agree that we need to get out of Afghanistan. We spent way too much blood and money in that God forsaken place. And I agree that this is still an exceptional country full of very capable and hard working people who deserve better leadership.<br />
I think the State of the Union sucks.<br />
Four years into your Presidency we still have 20 plus million unemployed and forty plus millions people on food stamps. This is a shame!  Especially when I hear from you practically once a month how you are working to get more jobs, that jobs are your number one priority, etc., etc. Its time for a change. Its time for Leadership. Its time to stop talking, its time to take steps to make our economy more competitive in this global economy. Its time to recognize government doesn’t create wealth and jobs. Its time to stop encumbering the wealth creating process with more taxes and regulations. Its time to stop legislations and rules that take more money from the American wealth creating machine, time to stop moving it to those who redistribute it and those who simply consume it.<br />
Just before I sat down to write you I went to buy gas. I paid almost four bucks. This too is a shame, especially since you could help it tomorrow. I challenge you to sign approval for the Keystone pipeline. Make the operators to put a dime for every gallon that flows through it into a lock box for emergencies. In case something goes wrong we will be ready for remediation and recovery. But let’s stop procrastinating. Time to help all citizens with one simple stroke of your pen.<br />
Our debt and yearly deficits are also a shame. Mr. President most of us citizens know about budgets, we know we can’t borrow more than we can repay, we know if we don’t nasty things will happen. We know how to say no, we can’t afford it. We’ve done it many times in our lives. We know it’s not pleasant but we also know it has to be done.  Time for you to start saying NO! Time for you to present a budget and demand cuts, real cuts before we, the whole nation, end up like the neighbors down the street who bought a house too expensive for their income.<br />
I want to challenge you to cut a dollar from every hundred the Government, you are a head of, spends today. Real cuts in actual spending, not the Washington game of cutting growth and crying as if that was the end of the world. We know the government spends too much on too many needless programs. We know, that if you really wanted, we could cut a dollar from every 100 we spend. We know it can be done, we’ve done it ourselves and most of us more than once.<br />
Actually I want to challenge you to cut two bucks out of every hundred you spend. And I want to challenge you to spend the second dollar on job creation. Spend it on giving tax credits for industrial (not governmental or academic) research and development, for capital investments designed to increase employment, for creating new businesses, for bringing home money careful people keep in off shore banks.  Spend it on going into business,as a minority partner, with those whose record show they can make create wealth, they can create jobs, they can compete with the Chinese or the Germans, with anybody!<br />
I want to challenge you to provide a real leadership in Education. We, as a nation, are spending more and more on education every year. Given a chance every politician will talk splendidly how he /she is for giving more money for schools. And what do we get for that? Are we, as a nation, leading the world? Are our kids educated better and better? We, the citizens, know that is not so. Spending more money on a process that is ineffective is a waste. It’s time for reform. We know what needs to be done &#8211; introduce competition!  Be a real leader Mr. President, don’t enlarge the system as is, change it, free us to send our children to school of our choice!<br />
Hope you had a good time in Florida and are all rested and ready to work. And, of course, I hope you will spend a few minutes thinking about my thoughts on how to make life in these United States better in the near future. </p>
<p>Citizen G.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Blumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7.8 percent unemployment. 14.4% U-6 unemployment. No GDP growth last quarter.____If that&#039;s &quot;improving,&quot; I don&#039;t want to see your definition of &quot;decline.&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>7.8 percent unemployment. 14.4% U-6 unemployment. No GDP growth last quarter.____If that&#039;s &quot;improving,&quot; I don&#039;t want to see your definition of &quot;decline.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: whisky</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[whisky]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#039;s eminently predictable that insurance companies are going to be adversely affected when the &quot;no pre-existing condition&quot; provisions of Obamacare kick in this year. In fact, I daresay that unless the no pre-existing condition language is widely ignored by the government in administering Obamacare, that will spell the end of private health-care insurance companies. It will be possible for people to opt out of having health insurance at all until they actually get sick. In fact, they would be foolish not to do just that.  
 
Obamacare cost controls will interfere with research and development, which will have a negative impact on pharmaceutical companies. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it&#039;s eminently predictable that insurance companies are going to be adversely affected when the &quot;no pre-existing condition&quot; provisions of Obamacare kick in this year. In fact, I daresay that unless the no pre-existing condition language is widely ignored by the government in administering Obamacare, that will spell the end of private health-care insurance companies. It will be possible for people to opt out of having health insurance at all until they actually get sick. In fact, they would be foolish not to do just that.  </p>
<p>Obamacare cost controls will interfere with research and development, which will have a negative impact on pharmaceutical companies. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt it; the two quotations say different things. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I doubt it; the two quotations say different things. </p>
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		<title>By: NGH</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NGH]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Completely and emphatically agree with your sentiments, but before you call others cretins please spell the word correctly!  (Unless you are upset with someone from Crete.) ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Completely and emphatically agree with your sentiments, but before you call others cretins please spell the word correctly!  (Unless you are upset with someone from Crete.) </p>
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		<title>By: sablegsd</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You mean fugly beard in a business arrangement, right? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mean fugly beard in a business arrangement, right? </p>
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		<title>By: sablegsd</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He knows.  And he&#039;s happy about it.  Everything is going just as planned.  Wait till his muslim brothers bring nukes and or chemical weapons over what used to be our border.  That he supplied.  Anybody ever find out about that mysterious construction at the WH? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He knows.  And he&#039;s happy about it.  Everything is going just as planned.  Wait till his muslim brothers bring nukes and or chemical weapons over what used to be our border.  That he supplied.  Anybody ever find out about that mysterious construction at the WH? </p>
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		<title>By: trickyblain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[trickyblain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street at it&#039;s highest point since 2008. I bought a house in November 2011, and (according to an appraiser) it&#039;s now -- a bit more than a year later -- worth almost 100k more than I paid for it. Outside the hyperbolic Bubble of Doom and Despair, things are actually improving. Sorry. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wall Street at it&#039;s highest point since 2008. I bought a house in November 2011, and (according to an appraiser) it&#039;s now &#8212; a bit more than a year later &#8212; worth almost 100k more than I paid for it. Outside the hyperbolic Bubble of Doom and Despair, things are actually improving. Sorry. </p>
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		<title>By: maletarget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I lost my job and charged everything to my credit cards for a while everything would be going great.  The economy should be booming considering the trillions of debt added by Obama.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I lost my job and charged everything to my credit cards for a while everything would be going great.  The economy should be booming considering the trillions of debt added by Obama.  </p>
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		<title>By: cynthia curran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cynthia curran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Additionally, the jobs that are being obtained are going overwhelmingly to workers who are 55 and older, where employment (again, largely part-time) has grown by 4 million during the past four years. Employment for everyone else during that same period has decreased by almost 3 million. The overall labor force participation rate is back to where it was during the early 1980s, an era when a much higher percentage of spouses voluntarily stayed home to raise their children. If this is true, why do we still have illegal aliens under 50 working in fastfood. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Additionally, the jobs that are being obtained are going overwhelmingly to workers who are 55 and older, where employment (again, largely part-time) has grown by 4 million during the past four years. Employment for everyone else during that same period has decreased by almost 3 million. The overall labor force participation rate is back to where it was during the early 1980s, an era when a much higher percentage of spouses voluntarily stayed home to raise their children. If this is true, why do we still have illegal aliens under 50 working in fastfood. </p>
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		<title>By: BLJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama could care less about real health care reform. He is concerned with only one thing. Power. (His ugly wife is grabbing the money for them).  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama could care less about real health care reform. He is concerned with only one thing. Power. (His ugly wife is grabbing the money for them).  </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many if not most employers are going to take the penalty for not providing healthcare, give their employees stipends, and say &quot;Here, go find yourself some insurance.&quot; And still save themselves $4000-$5000 per employee.     
     
You can blame Obama for a bunch of stuff.  I might even agree with some of it.     
     
But blaming him for trying to do something about healthcare after 40-plus years of kicking it down the road is probably not in your best interest. Costs were projected to skyrocket whether Obama or Romney or Sarah Palin was in the White House. Both providers and patients are going to take a hit. We&#039;re all about to become a lot more educated about our health care choices.    
     
But who is not going to take a hit? Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. And whoever they&#039;ve bought for Congress. You don&#039;t have to believe me, but do please pay attention to it. And stay healthy! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many if not most employers are going to take the penalty for not providing healthcare, give their employees stipends, and say &quot;Here, go find yourself some insurance.&quot; And still save themselves $4000-$5000 per employee.     </p>
<p>You can blame Obama for a bunch of stuff.  I might even agree with some of it.     </p>
<p>But blaming him for trying to do something about healthcare after 40-plus years of kicking it down the road is probably not in your best interest. Costs were projected to skyrocket whether Obama or Romney or Sarah Palin was in the White House. Both providers and patients are going to take a hit. We&#039;re all about to become a lot more educated about our health care choices.    </p>
<p>But who is not going to take a hit? Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. And whoever they&#039;ve bought for Congress. You don&#039;t have to believe me, but do please pay attention to it. And stay healthy! </p>
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		<title>By: LindaRivera</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. 
 
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.  
 
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. 
 
 He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.&#8221; 
― Marcus Tullius Cicero ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&ldquo;A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. </p>
<p>But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.  </p>
<p>For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. </p>
<p> He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.&rdquo;<br />
― Marcus Tullius Cicero </p>
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		<title>By: BLJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 4 years this cretan has went a long way to destroying this once great nation. He needs to be kicked out of office, the sooner the better. I hold the MSM and the idiots who voted for him twice responsible as well.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 4 years this cretan has went a long way to destroying this once great nation. He needs to be kicked out of office, the sooner the better. I hold the MSM and the idiots who voted for him twice responsible as well.  </p>
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