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        <title><![CDATA[We've been right here.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11834-79427]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Obama is just the logical progression of Bush policy.  Little is different.  Even Obama admits it when he says that he is unable to &quot;Change Washington from the inside&quot;.  If he wins come November, it will simply be Bush's 4th term.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:29:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just keep your blinders on.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11834-79369]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Where have you been for the last 12 years?Your selective memory is amazing....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[harrim47]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:48:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ok]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11834-79184]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Another excuse for Obama and Progressives running the nation into the ground as hard as they can so they can &quot;fundamentally transform&quot; it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DarthTater]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:03:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Absolutely.  Where have you been for the last 9 years?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As some of us like to say, Paul Krugman has predicted 9 out of the last 1 recessions.The media and like-minded pundits were aggressively cheering for a downturn since 2003.  They finally got one in 2008.  It's not all that hard, really; just a case of convincing enough people that even though they and everyone around them might be doing okay, somebody somewhere else they they don't know may not be.Now, trying to do the same for a boom (as they've been trying for the last 3 years now; &quot;Recovery Summer III&quot; wasn't any better than I or II) is much more difficult.  It's much more difficult to convince people that things are looking up when everybody is or personally knows someone who is unemployed, underemployed, or has just given up.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:06:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please, spare me.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11834-79092]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's the Nature of Capitalism to boom and bust. Even though Glass-Stegal was wonderfully helpful (until voted out so we could enjoy our recent economic collapse) we are faced with having millions of jobs shipped over seas by Godfull Red Blooded American Capitalists to Godless Communist China that are gone forever. The stock market is completely gamed by computers making split second massive buy/sell orders (it is gambling anyways) for the high stakes crowd. There are no surprises here. We are screwed - buy our betters (bettors).Read up on, Richard Wolff, an economics professor.There is no prophecy self-fulfilling or otherwise; let's no blame the victims (us.).Cheers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[affordablecomputerguy@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:27:23 -0700</pubDate>
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