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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of creating jobs Obama created Obamacare which will make jobs even more scarce. Talk about economic illiteracy! The Jimmy Carter years were terrible but the Obama years are an unmitigated disaster (false statistics notwithstanding).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instead of creating jobs Obama created Obamacare which will make jobs even more scarce. Talk about economic illiteracy! The Jimmy Carter years were terrible but the Obama years are an unmitigated disaster (false statistics notwithstanding).</p>
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		<title>By: rogerinflorida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US has major fundamental problems that neither party is govt. is prepared to address. Essentially what has happened is that the engine of growth and prosperity has been loaded down with costs, obligations and regulations to the point that it has broken down.
The solution is to enact policies that will encourage business, private enterprise and WORK!
The income, corporation and capital gains taxes should all be scrapped and replaced with a 20% value added (consumption) tax.
Federal Govt. spending has to be reduced to match tax revenue, so every dept. has to cut back or be elimated entirely, and that includes the military; we have two armies, two navies and five air forces, no waste or duplication there!
SNAP, as an emergency nutrition program should be just that, go to your local SS office and pick up a box of emergency food supplies; flour, dried milk, dried egg, cooking oil and tinned vegetables, NO CASH!
The employer health care mandate has to be eliminated, we either institute single payer or make every individual personally responsible for their own HC coverage. 
Do those things and after a short period of pain the economy will boom as never before.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US has major fundamental problems that neither party is govt. is prepared to address. Essentially what has happened is that the engine of growth and prosperity has been loaded down with costs, obligations and regulations to the point that it has broken down.<br />
The solution is to enact policies that will encourage business, private enterprise and WORK!<br />
The income, corporation and capital gains taxes should all be scrapped and replaced with a 20% value added (consumption) tax.<br />
Federal Govt. spending has to be reduced to match tax revenue, so every dept. has to cut back or be elimated entirely, and that includes the military; we have two armies, two navies and five air forces, no waste or duplication there!<br />
SNAP, as an emergency nutrition program should be just that, go to your local SS office and pick up a box of emergency food supplies; flour, dried milk, dried egg, cooking oil and tinned vegetables, NO CASH!<br />
The employer health care mandate has to be eliminated, we either institute single payer or make every individual personally responsible for their own HC coverage.<br />
Do those things and after a short period of pain the economy will boom as never before.</p>
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		<title>By: Zehnhund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The comparison between our longterm problems and our short term problems is one of the former enabling the latter.
Granted that with the situation brought about by WWII where the U.S. was almost literally the only surviving economy without the need to completely rebuild essential infrastructure and with the power of our capitalist/ free-market style economy, we took the number one position and never looked back. Human nature has flaws and those flaws can manifest individually and en masse. After 64 years of the strengthening of our economy being shadowed by the weakening of our society, much of both with the same intent, those currently in power are blatantly ready, willing and able to take advantage of the situation created for them by their predecessors.
  With the devotion of what is all but a real zombie horde, the Leftist have taken over the controls and set about their centuries long dream of finally ending the scourge of free people engaging in free markets able to freely speak truth to power. The most astounding aspect of this cataclysmic event is that in no small measure it was the apathy, denial and disconnect of their moral and political adversaries that further enabled and empowered their ability to infiltrate and effect each and every aspect of life required to weaken the foundation of our country and set a course that could and would one day end up in a perfect storm of ability, intent and position. With our education system sufficiently degraded, our moral foundation all but outlawed, people taught to regard emotion over intellect, an endless invasion of market and economy destroying invaders and an economic collapse, Obama, his handlers and fellow travelers have found themselves the recipients of at least a century of toil by often nameless and faceless workers having spent their lives in anonymity for &quot;the cause&quot; and now at the goal line.
  Some amount of responsibility lies with all of us of middle-age and older and our elders and their elders. At present, the same apathy, denial, disconnect add infighting and pettiness is yet further enabling the onslaught with virtually no visible confrontation from the opposition.
  The core facts, figures and information must be repeatedly repeated day and night. Nothing but facts. We may not win every battle but our goal should be winning the war with as many of the rescued converts as we need.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>  The comparison between our longterm problems and our short term problems is one of the former enabling the latter.<br />
Granted that with the situation brought about by WWII where the U.S. was almost literally the only surviving economy without the need to completely rebuild essential infrastructure and with the power of our capitalist/ free-market style economy, we took the number one position and never looked back. Human nature has flaws and those flaws can manifest individually and en masse. After 64 years of the strengthening of our economy being shadowed by the weakening of our society, much of both with the same intent, those currently in power are blatantly ready, willing and able to take advantage of the situation created for them by their predecessors.<br />
  With the devotion of what is all but a real zombie horde, the Leftist have taken over the controls and set about their centuries long dream of finally ending the scourge of free people engaging in free markets able to freely speak truth to power. The most astounding aspect of this cataclysmic event is that in no small measure it was the apathy, denial and disconnect of their moral and political adversaries that further enabled and empowered their ability to infiltrate and effect each and every aspect of life required to weaken the foundation of our country and set a course that could and would one day end up in a perfect storm of ability, intent and position. With our education system sufficiently degraded, our moral foundation all but outlawed, people taught to regard emotion over intellect, an endless invasion of market and economy destroying invaders and an economic collapse, Obama, his handlers and fellow travelers have found themselves the recipients of at least a century of toil by often nameless and faceless workers having spent their lives in anonymity for &#8220;the cause&#8221; and now at the goal line.<br />
  Some amount of responsibility lies with all of us of middle-age and older and our elders and their elders. At present, the same apathy, denial, disconnect add infighting and pettiness is yet further enabling the onslaught with virtually no visible confrontation from the opposition.<br />
  The core facts, figures and information must be repeatedly repeated day and night. Nothing but facts. We may not win every battle but our goal should be winning the war with as many of the rescued converts as we need.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody needs to create a ruckus, because one is already happening...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody needs to create a ruckus, because one is already happening&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: jackcb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, Anon, it&#039;s people like you who are sickening!  And it&#039;s because of people like you, who tolerate the fraud that continues to be countenanced. I shall never forget a few years ago, when one could still discern when someone was using food stamps, seeing a well dressed elderly couple using their&#039;s.  When I left the store, they were loading their packages into a late model Cadillac.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, Anon, it&#8217;s people like you who are sickening!  And it&#8217;s because of people like you, who tolerate the fraud that continues to be countenanced. I shall never forget a few years ago, when one could still discern when someone was using food stamps, seeing a well dressed elderly couple using their&#8217;s.  When I left the store, they were loading their packages into a late model Cadillac.</p>
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		<title>By: T-Rex</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-Rex]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You got that right, veeper.  $85 billion a month pumped in to the economy by just moving some numbers on a ledger. Wall Street and the big banks are doing just fine with all that money that costs them practically nothing to borrow. Meanwhile, my wages have been stagnate or losing ground for years. I have to finance my home heating oil, only buy enough gas to get where I&#039;m going that day, shudder when I get my electric bill and just get plain pissed when it costs $50 bucks to fill one of those plastic bags at the grocery store. The &quot;value&quot; of everything is based on our biggest &quot;commodity&quot;; worthless federal reserve notes. The only people making out are those who deal in them. The rest of us are screwed. It is a house of cards and, as usual, the dealer always wins.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got that right, veeper.  $85 billion a month pumped in to the economy by just moving some numbers on a ledger. Wall Street and the big banks are doing just fine with all that money that costs them practically nothing to borrow. Meanwhile, my wages have been stagnate or losing ground for years. I have to finance my home heating oil, only buy enough gas to get where I&#8217;m going that day, shudder when I get my electric bill and just get plain pissed when it costs $50 bucks to fill one of those plastic bags at the grocery store. The &#8220;value&#8221; of everything is based on our biggest &#8220;commodity&#8221;; worthless federal reserve notes. The only people making out are those who deal in them. The rest of us are screwed. It is a house of cards and, as usual, the dealer always wins.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For one thing, the unemployment rate is a meaningless criterion - borderline fraudilent at that the way the feds are using it anyway - because when people drop out from the work force for good, they&#039;re not even factoring in the calculations. Real unemployment rate is way above 20%, for example:

 http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/02/04/fridays_unemployment_report_our_economic_nightmare_continues_100126.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For one thing, the unemployment rate is a meaningless criterion &#8211; borderline fraudilent at that the way the feds are using it anyway &#8211; because when people drop out from the work force for good, they&#8217;re not even factoring in the calculations. Real unemployment rate is way above 20%, for example:</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/02/04/fridays_unemployment_report_our_economic_nightmare_continues_100126.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/02/04/fridays_unemployment_report_our_economic_nightmare_continues_100126.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[recession leading to more crime...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>recession leading to more crime&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rdlake</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rdlake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how you want to spin your case, Social Service parasites are just that. They&#039;ve been seduced by the free stuff invented by the DemocRats who have been handing it out since its founder Lyndon Johnson. Theres too many organizations that draw fro the public trough to kill this golden goose. The race baiting pimps, self righteous, hypocritical Left who profess to care about the poor with other people&#039;s tax money, the SNAP credit card sponsoring companies, academia brain washing the youth &amp; their victimhood &amp; how they&#039;re entitled to more. We presently live in an age of &#039;bail outs&#039;. Fifty years &amp; numerous generations of this behavior make it impossible to reverse course.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No matter how you want to spin your case, Social Service parasites are just that. They&#8217;ve been seduced by the free stuff invented by the DemocRats who have been handing it out since its founder Lyndon Johnson. Theres too many organizations that draw fro the public trough to kill this golden goose. The race baiting pimps, self righteous, hypocritical Left who profess to care about the poor with other people&#8217;s tax money, the SNAP credit card sponsoring companies, academia brain washing the youth &amp; their victimhood &amp; how they&#8217;re entitled to more. We presently live in an age of &#8216;bail outs&#8217;. Fifty years &amp; numerous generations of this behavior make it impossible to reverse course.</p>
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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America has been living on a false economy created by government programs for YEARS.....


America&#039;s prosperity is a direct result of government giving money to people that don&#039;t have any so they can spend it to create more buying, selling, supplying....


take away government freebie programs, welfare and other such handouts....


and.....america will immediately go into a depression that would make the &quot;Great Depression&quot; look like a bump in the road.....


America&#039;s entire economy is a house of cards built from a false economy....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America has been living on a false economy created by government programs for YEARS&#8230;..</p>
<p>America&#8217;s prosperity is a direct result of government giving money to people that don&#8217;t have any so they can spend it to create more buying, selling, supplying&#8230;.</p>
<p>take away government freebie programs, welfare and other such handouts&#8230;.</p>
<p>and&#8230;..america will immediately go into a depression that would make the &#8220;Great Depression&#8221; look like a bump in the road&#8230;..</p>
<p>America&#8217;s entire economy is a house of cards built from a false economy&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OH MY GOD......


Only one in five HOUSEHOLDS......


that is sooooo much better.......yep.....we&#039;re doing just great.....


Anon....being in denial is just willful ignorance.......]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OH MY GOD&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Only one in five HOUSEHOLDS&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>that is sooooo much better&#8230;&#8230;.yep&#8230;..we&#8217;re doing just great&#8230;..</p>
<p>Anon&#8230;.being in denial is just willful ignorance&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: DrNeelix</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DrNeelix]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry oldtimer there is no recovery,people are dropping out of the work force,or taking disablility,because they can&#039;t find a job.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry oldtimer there is no recovery,people are dropping out of the work force,or taking disablility,because they can&#8217;t find a job.</p>
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		<title>By: jhp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anon - If you read one more paragraph you would have gotten the number of INDIVIDUALS receiving SNAP.

And it’s not just households that have seen a huge jump in the SNAP participation rate. The monthly average for individual users of the program has also increased dramatically, as an additional 1,027,012 participants pushed the total number of individual users from 46,609,072 to 47,636,084 over the same time period. Since 2009, the number of individuals using the SNAP program has increased by 42.2 percent.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon &#8211; If you read one more paragraph you would have gotten the number of INDIVIDUALS receiving SNAP.</p>
<p>And it’s not just households that have seen a huge jump in the SNAP participation rate. The monthly average for individual users of the program has also increased dramatically, as an additional 1,027,012 participants pushed the total number of individual users from 46,609,072 to 47,636,084 over the same time period. Since 2009, the number of individuals using the SNAP program has increased by 42.2 percent.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so is this writer stupid or just TRYING to create a ruckus? Because the data clearly says that one in five HOUSEHOLDS is on SNAP, not one in five Americans. A household could consist of one person, or it could consist of two, or five, or seven, or ten people. And since the majority of SNAP recipients are children, most households have at least two (or more) people in it. Get your facts straight and report them correctly. &quot;Journalists&quot; like Mr. Ahlert make me sick.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, so is this writer stupid or just TRYING to create a ruckus? Because the data clearly says that one in five HOUSEHOLDS is on SNAP, not one in five Americans. A household could consist of one person, or it could consist of two, or five, or seven, or ten people. And since the majority of SNAP recipients are children, most households have at least two (or more) people in it. Get your facts straight and report them correctly. &#8220;Journalists&#8221; like Mr. Ahlert make me sick.</p>
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		<title>By: oldtimer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[oldtimer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m confused. If unemployment is down and the economy is in recovery, why is there a need to extend unemployment benefits?  More part time, low paying jobs, because all the good ones were exported, may have contributed to the rise in food stamp usage.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m confused. If unemployment is down and the economy is in recovery, why is there a need to extend unemployment benefits?  More part time, low paying jobs, because all the good ones were exported, may have contributed to the rise in food stamp usage.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would hate to see what happens if the food stamp program collapses...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would hate to see what happens if the food stamp program collapses&#8230;</p>
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