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		<title>By: charles</title>
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		<dc:creator>charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>List of Departments we should get rid of. 
Department of Education
Department of Labor
FDA
Department of Transportation 
Privatize Social Security
Privatize medicaid and medicare through investments in renewable energy like Nuclear and Solar to get revenues 
Privatize welfare through same system 
Department of Energy
Acorn
Department of Agriculture 
HHS 
The office of personal management 
Department of Commerce 
Office of Personal Management 
The EPA Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Put more into 

Border Security 
Department of Defense 
Veterans benefits "yet you still can put money into private accounts invested into energy, but you still can put a lot into them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>List of Departments we should get rid of.<br />
Department of Education<br />
Department of Labor<br />
FDA<br />
Department of Transportation<br />
Privatize Social Security<br />
Privatize medicaid and medicare through investments in renewable energy like Nuclear and Solar to get revenues<br />
Privatize welfare through same system<br />
Department of Energy<br />
Acorn<br />
Department of Agriculture<br />
HHS<br />
The office of personal management<br />
Department of Commerce<br />
Office of Personal Management<br />
The EPA Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Put more into </p>
<p>Border Security<br />
Department of Defense<br />
Veterans benefits &#8220;yet you still can put money into private accounts invested into energy, but you still can put a lot into them.</p>
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		<title>By: JW from Newark</title>
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		<dc:creator>JW from Newark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ronald Reagan was the worst president of my life and at 75 I'm old enough to know what I'm saying. Who is that idiot who says jobs were good. Pure baloney it was longest period of unemployment I can remember. Remember "Ronald Reagan must love poor people he is creating so many of them."  

George W. was a clone of Reagan who implemented many of Reagan's policies...and we now know just how bad Reagan's voodoo economics was for this country. Trickle down doesn't. Conservative philosophy has been around since before Herbert Hoover it is nothing more than the rich keeping themselves on top by disenfranchising the poor.

If anyone is expert at turning this into a fascist country I would say it is the Conservative Republican wing nuts. We've had plenty of snake oil rammed down our throats during the last 8 years. Like a war that has cost us trillions to catch bin Laden only the idiot tried to carry out that mission in the wrong country. 

Sorry you lost, but why should those who won consider the rantings of a bunch of wing-nuts legitimate. We've heard their rants before. We need health care reform and we have needed it for a very long time...and we need it NOW!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronald Reagan was the worst president of my life and at 75 I&#8217;m old enough to know what I&#8217;m saying. Who is that idiot who says jobs were good. Pure baloney it was longest period of unemployment I can remember. Remember &#8220;Ronald Reagan must love poor people he is creating so many of them.&#8221;  </p>
<p>George W. was a clone of Reagan who implemented many of Reagan&#8217;s policies&#8230;and we now know just how bad Reagan&#8217;s voodoo economics was for this country. Trickle down doesn&#8217;t. Conservative philosophy has been around since before Herbert Hoover it is nothing more than the rich keeping themselves on top by disenfranchising the poor.</p>
<p>If anyone is expert at turning this into a fascist country I would say it is the Conservative Republican wing nuts. We&#8217;ve had plenty of snake oil rammed down our throats during the last 8 years. Like a war that has cost us trillions to catch bin Laden only the idiot tried to carry out that mission in the wrong country. </p>
<p>Sorry you lost, but why should those who won consider the rantings of a bunch of wing-nuts legitimate. We&#8217;ve heard their rants before. We need health care reform and we have needed it for a very long time&#8230;and we need it NOW!</p>
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		<title>By: mannning</title>
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		<dc:creator>mannning</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Selling Snake Oil to the Public&lt;/b&gt; 

I am still mad about various Democratic sources calling town hall protesters un-American, rude, or simply numbskulls.  That, after all, is what they themselves are showing themselves to be, with their leftist agenda to turn America into wasteland.  Why a wasteland?
  
As things stand, we will have a national debt of at least 17.5 trillion dollars in 2019 because of their profligate spending and commitments to spend this year and for the next 9 or 10 years. This is over 3 trillion dollars more than our entire GNP in 2008.  Just how can we pay that sum back? No rational plan to reduce the debt has been put forward, only legislation that is certain to raise it by trillions!

It is no wonder that ordinary America citizens are very upset at their representatives for trying to foster this abomination off on us and on our children’s children, and maybe even another generation.  There is little need to debate the fine tuning of various propositions, all of which raise the debt level even more.  Thus the protesters are simply shooting the messengers from this spendthrift Congress and President.  No one believes the President’s assertion that Obama Care will be revenue neutral, either, unless it is to cut services the citizens feel necessary.
 
Citizens also perceive that these town hall types of sessions are merely a cover for the administration’s real plan, which is virtually hidden in 1,000 pages of gobbledygook, and impenetrable to the common reader. Thus, various possibilities, such as paying for the health care of Illegal immigrants, or the start of advisory panels on death options, have seized the public’s imagination, and no declarations to the contrary from Obama are believed anymore.

Then, too, with a Democratic majority in both houses and the presidency, people realize that their opinions have been submerged under the thrust of leftists to pass their own agenda, and to hell with public opinion.  “Bi-partisan” support in Congress has withered under the take-it-or-leave-it positions of Democrats.

So, why should enraged citizens be quiet and respectful of their representatives, when they have not even been shown the respect of being presented with a sensible draft of a bill to peruse, feel that they are being sold out by snake oil salesmen, and are being asked to give Congress a blank check? 

No conservative I know gives government a blank check, especially not the government of Obama's czarist crowd.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Selling Snake Oil to the Public</b> </p>
<p>I am still mad about various Democratic sources calling town hall protesters un-American, rude, or simply numbskulls.  That, after all, is what they themselves are showing themselves to be, with their leftist agenda to turn America into wasteland.  Why a wasteland?</p>
<p>As things stand, we will have a national debt of at least 17.5 trillion dollars in 2019 because of their profligate spending and commitments to spend this year and for the next 9 or 10 years. This is over 3 trillion dollars more than our entire GNP in 2008.  Just how can we pay that sum back? No rational plan to reduce the debt has been put forward, only legislation that is certain to raise it by trillions!</p>
<p>It is no wonder that ordinary America citizens are very upset at their representatives for trying to foster this abomination off on us and on our children’s children, and maybe even another generation.  There is little need to debate the fine tuning of various propositions, all of which raise the debt level even more.  Thus the protesters are simply shooting the messengers from this spendthrift Congress and President.  No one believes the President’s assertion that Obama Care will be revenue neutral, either, unless it is to cut services the citizens feel necessary.</p>
<p>Citizens also perceive that these town hall types of sessions are merely a cover for the administration’s real plan, which is virtually hidden in 1,000 pages of gobbledygook, and impenetrable to the common reader. Thus, various possibilities, such as paying for the health care of Illegal immigrants, or the start of advisory panels on death options, have seized the public’s imagination, and no declarations to the contrary from Obama are believed anymore.</p>
<p>Then, too, with a Democratic majority in both houses and the presidency, people realize that their opinions have been submerged under the thrust of leftists to pass their own agenda, and to hell with public opinion.  “Bi-partisan” support in Congress has withered under the take-it-or-leave-it positions of Democrats.</p>
<p>So, why should enraged citizens be quiet and respectful of their representatives, when they have not even been shown the respect of being presented with a sensible draft of a bill to peruse, feel that they are being sold out by snake oil salesmen, and are being asked to give Congress a blank check? </p>
<p>No conservative I know gives government a blank check, especially not the government of Obama&#8217;s czarist crowd.</p>
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		<title>By: charles</title>
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		<dc:creator>charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael:

         Listen under Reagan the economy was good and we collapsed the Soviets. Now he wanted to do things which would of balanced like getting rid of the Department of Education and a serious of other government programs and agencies. If it wasn't for that democratic house he would of done it. Now here's the thing I'm very angry with Bush, but under him we had a 400 billion dollar deficit and taxes were low. Now under under the messiah were likely to have a 2 trillion dollar deficit and are taxes are going to be raised. Also under Carter we still had a deficit, taxes were high, and we had 52 hostages in Iran. Also obama is raising taxes on the middle class, because just look at crap and trade. Also in the year 2012 if he wins reelection he'll say I'm going to increase taxes on the middle class.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael:</p>
<p>         Listen under Reagan the economy was good and we collapsed the Soviets. Now he wanted to do things which would of balanced like getting rid of the Department of Education and a serious of other government programs and agencies. If it wasn&#8217;t for that democratic house he would of done it. Now here&#8217;s the thing I&#8217;m very angry with Bush, but under him we had a 400 billion dollar deficit and taxes were low. Now under under the messiah were likely to have a 2 trillion dollar deficit and are taxes are going to be raised. Also under Carter we still had a deficit, taxes were high, and we had 52 hostages in Iran. Also obama is raising taxes on the middle class, because just look at crap and trade. Also in the year 2012 if he wins reelection he&#8217;ll say I&#8217;m going to increase taxes on the middle class.</p>
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		<title>By: Pug</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;3. “Thousands of missiles?” Holy Jesus what a maroon! What planet did that occur on?&lt;/i&gt;

He's right.  It does appear to have occurred on the planet Earth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>3. “Thousands of missiles?” Holy Jesus what a maroon! What planet did that occur on?</i></p>
<p>He&#8217;s right.  It does appear to have occurred on the planet Earth.</p>
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		<title>By: sota</title>
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		<dc:creator>sota</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Chuck Tucson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chuck Tucson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick said:
&lt;blockquote&gt;3. “Thousands of missiles?” Holy Jesus what a maroon! What planet did that occur on?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Earth.

According to The New York Times, the United States supplied the following arms to Iran:

* August 20, 1985. 96 TOW anti-tank missiles
* September 14, 1985. 408 more TOWs
* November 24, 1985. 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
* February 17, 1986. 500 TOWs
* February 27, 1986. 500 TOWs
* May 24, 1986. 508 TOWs, 240 Hawk spare parts
* August 4, 1986. More Hawk spares
* October 28, 1986. 500 TOWs

Total: 2,530 Missiles + spare parts. 

http://tinyurl.com/nsnxoh</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rick said:</p>
<blockquote><p>3. “Thousands of missiles?” Holy Jesus what a maroon! What planet did that occur on?</p></blockquote>
<p>Earth.</p>
<p>According to The New York Times, the United States supplied the following arms to Iran:</p>
<p>* August 20, 1985. 96 TOW anti-tank missiles<br />
* September 14, 1985. 408 more TOWs<br />
* November 24, 1985. 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles<br />
* February 17, 1986. 500 TOWs<br />
* February 27, 1986. 500 TOWs<br />
* May 24, 1986. 508 TOWs, 240 Hawk spare parts<br />
* August 4, 1986. More Hawk spares<br />
* October 28, 1986. 500 TOWs</p>
<p>Total: 2,530 Missiles + spare parts. </p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nsnxoh" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/nsnxoh</a></p>
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		<title>By: Davebo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Davebo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You want to drastically reduce the size of the federal government?

Eliminate Medicare.   It's Medicare that is making reform unavoidable.  It's costs are spiraling out of control and something has to be done or it will bankrupt this country within 20 years.

So either figure out a way to make it more affordable, or eliminate it.

I guarantee you if the GOP makes a proposal to eliminate it a lot of the shouters will hail it, and in say 30 years the GOP might be able to win back 1 or 2 of the House seats it will have lost due to the proposal.

Good luck with that.

Really!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You want to drastically reduce the size of the federal government?</p>
<p>Eliminate Medicare.   It&#8217;s Medicare that is making reform unavoidable.  It&#8217;s costs are spiraling out of control and something has to be done or it will bankrupt this country within 20 years.</p>
<p>So either figure out a way to make it more affordable, or eliminate it.</p>
<p>I guarantee you if the GOP makes a proposal to eliminate it a lot of the shouters will hail it, and in say 30 years the GOP might be able to win back 1 or 2 of the House seats it will have lost due to the proposal.</p>
<p>Good luck with that.</p>
<p>Really!</p>
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		<title>By: funny man</title>
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		<dc:creator>funny man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>now to get everyone, left and right, to lighten up a bit; read this about the upcoming German election. Wish we had some more fun like that.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,641787,00.html

Come to think of it we have, $90,000 in a freezer, walking the Appalachian trail..

Ok, back to Reagan and FDR</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>now to get everyone, left and right, to lighten up a bit; read this about the upcoming German election. Wish we had some more fun like that.<br />
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,641787,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,641787,00.html</a></p>
<p>Come to think of it we have, $90,000 in a freezer, walking the Appalachian trail..</p>
<p>Ok, back to Reagan and FDR</p>
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		<title>By: funny man</title>
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		<dc:creator>funny man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the question still is 'how can the United States stay competitive with more collectivist societies'. It is true that Europe has found a slightly different solutions with its own merits and faults. I think the employer based health care was a little of a historic artifact but one that now does put the US economy at a disadvantage e.g. car industry. Anyway, this will obviously not be easy but there are ways to reduce costs and increase coverage. 
In contrast, this constant demonizing, hyperventilating attack on the 'other side' really does nothing to make us a stronger nation; well maybe that is just my collectivist German upbringing getting the better of me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the question still is &#8216;how can the United States stay competitive with more collectivist societies&#8217;. It is true that Europe has found a slightly different solutions with its own merits and faults. I think the employer based health care was a little of a historic artifact but one that now does put the US economy at a disadvantage e.g. car industry. Anyway, this will obviously not be easy but there are ways to reduce costs and increase coverage.<br />
In contrast, this constant demonizing, hyperventilating attack on the &#8216;other side&#8217; really does nothing to make us a stronger nation; well maybe that is just my collectivist German upbringing getting the better of me.</p>
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