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        <title><![CDATA[It is not &quot;just business&quot;]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-85492]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It is not &quot;just business&quot; to cheat the game -- meaning cheating taxpayers and the public -- by lying and fixing the rules. That is a lame, lame, lame excuse that flawed individuals have been using for decades to cover their bad behavior. If you cannot be an honest business person, stay out of business. The reason the nation is in this sorry fix is because Wall Street people fixed the game on housing, then walked away with millions, each, in bonuses as a reward for tanking their corporations and the nation. There is nothing to be admired in such individuals. Obama's biggest malfunction has been his failure to prosecute people in the financial sector for bad behavior. You may have noticed that the American people are running on a shorter fuse. Stay tuned. There is comeuppance in the wings waiting to take the stage.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BCHillway]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:12:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wonderful.  Share a website with you ,  ( www.likesurprise.com/ )  Believe]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81998]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Wonderful.Share a website with you ,( www.likesurprise.com/ )Believe you will love it.We accept any form of payment.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[heshun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:00:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some good points...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81992]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...but it always bothers me when people compare our telecommunications structure to Europe.  Their population density is much higher and the amount of ground to cover to reach a high percentage of citizens is much less.  That stuff is just naturally more expensive in the U.S. just because of the way the country is put together.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sandmich]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:21:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You mean...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81925]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...break up the institutions that actually provide the goods and services we want and need?No, I suggest breaking up the rent-seeking monopolies that produce little, and yet consume vastly first.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:09:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[competition]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81906]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[let's start by breaking up wal-mart....then the banks...then communication....then utilities....before the mega rich bankrupt the u.s. like russia so they can carve it all up for themselves....i think it's time for a revolution............]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kjterz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:49:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not RomneyCare.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81778]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[ObamaCare is modeled after the current version of Massachusetts health care.As implemented in 2009 when Obama tried to copy it, the Massachusetts health care law had changed significantly during the Deval Patrick administration after it was signed by Romney in 2006.Patrick and the democrat dominated state legislature packed on dozens of mandates and provisions that Romney had opposed because the state could not afford them.The Obama administration poured billions in stimulus money into Massachusetts to keep the health care system afloat.  In 2012 the stimulus money is gone and the state health care bureaucracy is in chaos.  Even with billions in federal help the state has been behind on reimbursements to care providers since 2010.  The ramifications of that have been far reaching.Massachusetts now has 40,000 less doctors than it did in 2006.  Some have left the state.  Many, like mine, retired after being fed up with losing money trying to run a small practice.A 6 facility non-profit hospital chain in the state nearly closed its doors in 2010 because of late state reimbursements.   With state regulators approval it was finally bought out by a for profit investment group.  The state immediately started making payments to the hospitals because the investment group had the pockets deep enough the sue the state for payment.4 community hospitals are owed a combined $150 million in late payments since 2010.  They have been on the brink of closure while the Patrick administration fights their class action suit.Before Patrick took over my health insurance rates had gone up about 5% a year.  Since 2007 my rates increases have averaged 25% per year.I have seen your health care future and it is ugly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:36:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sadly I doubt anyone in the US will be jailed.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81793]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Because Congress and Presidents in a decades long Bipartisan effort made everything that was done to create the finacial mess LEGAL to do.Many of them broke NO LAWS.We should set a great example for the future.  Jail all of the politicians involved.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:16:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You nailed it.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81783]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Too many people think SS is this big pile of money sitting there.Congress and Presidents, from both parties, have been raiding it for decades.It is full of IOUs that are coming due soon.  At that point it will crush the federal budget.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:12:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spot on]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81733]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Also these immortal &quot;persons' tend to have millions and billions to influence their interests too. Last time I checked I didn't have any &quot;free&quot; money to send to a politician let alone buy lunch.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[robertfoleyjr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:50:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Accountability for your actions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The people who run the corporations should be held accountable, they should be targeted, and have to feel the pressure of their actions every day. Instead they are rewarded for their actions and all of us, and our children's children have to pay for their actions.I'm not a violent man, but if I were I'd start with this list.http://www.wealthdaily.com/report/culprits-of-the-financial-crisis/375]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[robertfoleyjr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:26:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Actually they did....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nail on the head!  I've never figured out why all of the Dodd/Frank stuff receives no mention in the media..even when it was fresh.Another effect of the &quot;Too Big To Fail&quot; is that the smaller banks in the rest of the country outside of New England that didn't get involved with the scam, did honest business, etc.. are now taking it in the shorts for the TBTF's..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GregGold]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:44:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Really?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81675]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[My health care costs (insurance and care itself) has gone up over 40% since Obama took office.  He promised I'd be paying $2,500/yr less by the end of his first term.  Instead, I'm paying over $4,000/yr more.  Where do I go to get my $6,500/year back?How many jobs are disappearing because people like me are not spending that money elsewhere in the economy?Yeah, it's a total success, only as long as you're clueless as to the costs, or lucky enough to have someone paying them so you can remain clueless.Fortunately, in 2014 I can quit buying insurance altogether, since pre-existing conditions will not prevent me from re-purchasing it should someone in my family really get sick.  This will make sense, because the &quot;penalty&quot;, &quot;tax&quot;, or whatever they are calling to today will be a small fraction of what insurance actually costs.  The money I will be saving will more than cover any incidents in the meantime.  It will be like getting a $10,000/yr raise, something else that hasn't happened under the Obama economy.How well do you think that work out for what is left of the insurance industry when the remaining healthy people opt out leaving only the sick to pay for it?Again, ObamaCare was designed to destroy the insurance industry, and it ultimately will.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:05:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too early to call ObamaCare a mess.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81632]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'll happily contribute to paying for your health care as long at you contribute to mine.  A single payer system is the way to go.I think it's too early to call ObamaCare a mess.  It won't be fully implemented until 2014.  There are many Democrats that would prefer a single payer system but there are enough who don't, Max Baucus for instance, that don't want one to make it impossible to pass.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:41:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And it didn't matter, did it?  The Democrats owned Congress.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81500]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[They get to own the stain.Also, ObamaCare is an unworkable mess, designed specifically to destroy what is left of the private system so that they can implement what they've always wanted all along, a &quot;single payer&quot; system.Personally, I'd prefer that.  Then I will be able to retire in my 50s just like they do in Greece, and let the rest of you pay for my health care for a change.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:44:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Really?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81499]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[We are becoming Greece; a democracy where the majority of people are completely dependent upon the government for their income, and will always vote for more benefits and less taxes to pay for them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:39:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An &quot;investment&quot;?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81522]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[What kind of &quot;investment&quot; is it that is forced by law, and has a guaranteed negative rate of return?At least Madoff's victims had an opportunity to opt out.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:37:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That odd...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81521]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...since almost every monopoly I can think of is, in fact, established and maintained by government.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:34:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Big talk indeed...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81512]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...from a citizen of a country that gets to remain wealthy as a haven for those who hide their wealth from the Progressives he so admires.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:33:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Right]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81505]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[At a meeting of Congressional Republican leaders and other high level Republicans on the afternoon of Obama's inauguration the made a decision to oppose anything Obama proposed regardless of whether they thought it was worthwhile or not.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his number one priority was to make Obama a one term President.  That's close to treasonous if you ask me.I'm certainly not a Romney supporter but I don't know for sure if I'm voting for Obama either.As far as ObamaCare goes I don't like it much but it's better than what we had before.  It doesn't go far enough.  All of the other developed countries with universal health care spend around half as much per person on medical care while getting substantially as good or better results than we do in the US.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:11:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dearth of Journalists]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12148-81470]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Journalists are disappearing because the only thing they know how to report is the &quot;BUSH LIED&quot; mantra of their leftwing liberal editors thus mainstream newspapers and media are going bankrupt. The first to get laid off are the journalists.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[randall.wilkinson@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:38:38 -0700</pubDate>
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