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        <title><![CDATA[Jacking Prices]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11540-77590]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Just another excuse to jack up prices. Do those fools not realise Americians have less money..Elect more rich people, they don't have to live on a budget like the rest of us. You can bet the ones rasing taxes arn't paying them and are getting richer every day...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[acyron]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:09:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'd rather see them get jobs.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is appalling that the US Postal service places a preference on hiring family members of existing employees over hiring veterans.Most states also fail to give veterans hiring preference when filling vacancies.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:19:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[are vets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[were the hell was all this help in the 60's and 70's. oh  thats right we were baby killers go live on the street]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sarai1313@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:15:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Road Toll Break?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have to heartily agree with the post above.  Just like a Republican governor, flash in the pan, &quot;look at me&quot;.  The suggestion clearly shows the care nothing for the Vets...just looking good right before an election]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackoff johnson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:31:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is not an effective way to honor our veterans]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All due respect to our veterans, but this is a silly program. If you want to honor our veterans monetarily, why not just give them money to spend as they please? Instead we're offering them incentives specifically to increase congestion, increase pollution, sacrifice their own health by spending more time in their cars, and spend more of their own money on gas/maintenance/etc. Especially for a state and governor so dead-set against social engineering this just reeks of it.Frankly this is as much a giveaway to oil interests as it is to veterans. If they want to honor veterans, instead of passing up this toll revenue they should just collect it from everyone--including veterans--and then spend the appropriate percentage of that revenue on something that's actually good for veterans, like housing aid, job training, medical care, really just about anything other than this. It'd probably require less additional bureaucracy too, compared to what you'd need to do to distinguish veteran drivers from everyone else.And just as a small side note, what about disabled vets who can't drive? I guess Texas just doesn't honor them quite as much.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[shanedphillips]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:20:43 -0700</pubDate>
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