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		<title>We create plenty of jobs  — just not  in America</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/11/we-create-plenty-of-jobs-%e2%80%94-just-not-in-america-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think a recession deeper and more damaging to millions of nonwealthy Americans than any downturn in 80 years would reverse our runaway reliance on imported goods, at least for the duration. That would be a logical thing to think but unfortunately it&#8217;s not happening, as these numbers via AmericanEconomicAlert.org make clear (emphasis ours). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enough of worshiping false free-market god</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/06/enough-of-worshiping-false-free-market-god/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/06/enough-of-worshiping-false-free-market-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just after eight years in which unconstitutional means to un-American ends were peddled as consummate patriotism, we’re in a period in which criminal greed is ferociously defended and hair of the rabid dog that bit our economy is touted as the best cure for what ails us.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Job numbers point up economy&#8217;s longterm ills</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite dismal job-creation numbers for June, it&#8217;s probably premature to say the U.S. economy is slipping into the second decline of a double dip recession. What&#8217;s abundantly clear, though, is that America&#8217;s hollowed-out, seriously eroded economy is hard put to create sufficient jobs even when there is no recession. Experts say the economy must create [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Republicans kick million people who are down  in fiendish bid for their own political gain</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/25/republicans-kick-million-people-who-are-down-in-fiendish-bid-for-their-own-political-gain/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/25/republicans-kick-million-people-who-are-down-in-fiendish-bid-for-their-own-political-gain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the cynical, politically selfish example set earlier this year by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., senators of the Party of No, joined by DINO Sen. Ben Nelson, Neb., killed a desperately needed extension of unemployment benefits Thursday. As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., points out, Republicans complained the $30 billion jobless pay extension for people out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>What you see in Barton is what you get</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/18/what-you-see-in-barton-is-what-you-get/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/18/what-you-see-in-barton-is-what-you-get/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters paying attention yesterday got a perfect object lesson in what our damaged democracy increasingly spawns, nurtures and turns power over to, in the form of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, apologizing to BP America, creator of America&#8217;s all-time worst environmental disaster. Many in Congress from both parties, the president and media were surprised, even shocked, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dems can and should resist impulse to worsen economy, election chances</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/08/dems-can-and-should-resist-impulse-to-worsen-economy-election-chances/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/08/dems-can-and-should-resist-impulse-to-worsen-economy-election-chances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might be a lot of whining, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the deficit now, but if you want to see some industrial-strength payback come election day, just cut 30 million people off unemployment and other help while the economy still has no jobs, even lousy jobs, for most of them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Derivatives gambling should be illegal</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/26/derivatives-gambling-should-be-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/26/derivatives-gambling-should-be-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that in a weak moment you agree to lend a relative with a mixed record for keeping his word $500, on his promise to repay the loan with 10 percent interest in six months. Other family members start ribbing you about your questionable judgment, whereupon you challenge them to put their money where their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Idle hands too often end up holding guns</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/29/idle-hands-too-often-end-up-holding-guns/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/29/idle-hands-too-often-end-up-holding-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal authorities arrested eight of nine members of a Michigan anti-government extremist group, the Hutaree Militia, over the weekend, bringing the ninth in today, to face indictments on sedition and weapons charges. The group is suspected of planning to kill a police officer and then use IED&#8217;s to kill people in the deceased&#8217;s funeral caravan [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Middle class has a choice to make:  fight for what&#8217;s right or go under</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/19/middle-class-has-a-choice-to-make-fight-for-whats-right-or-go-under/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/19/middle-class-has-a-choice-to-make-fight-for-whats-right-or-go-under/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While other nations such as Japan, China and Germany have been busy providing universal health care, advanced worker training and enhanced job security, building high-speed rail networks and modern infrastructure, the U.S. has excelled at producing more super-rich individuals, pushing the definition of super wealth into the stratosphere.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama to Wall St. bankers: I feel your pain</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/10/obama-to-wall-st-bankers-i-feel-your-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/10/obama-to-wall-st-bankers-i-feel-your-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering what&#8217;s in store for desperately needed reform of the financial industry that wrecked the U.S. economy, dealt a body blow to the world economy and threw millions out of jobs, homes, businesses and savings, the answer is: probably going down the same rat hole as health care reform. The handwriting isn&#8217;t on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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