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	<title>The Blog of a Secular Conservative &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>This Week In The News</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/weekly-news/this-week-in-the-news-09-18-09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/weekly-news/this-week-in-the-news-09-18-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third installment of my new weekly news round up column and – not surprisingly – the third week in a row that the health care reform debate and Cheating Charlie Rangel take center stage.]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In The News</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/weekly-news/this-week-in-the-news-09-09-04/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/weekly-news/this-week-in-the-news-09-09-04/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This, the first week of September 2009, as the news outlets are covering it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Houston Tax Day Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/pictures-of-the-houston-tax-day-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/pictures-of-the-houston-tax-day-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Day Protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.secularconservative.net/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A huge collection of photos taken at the Houston Tax Day Tea Party protests.]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Game</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/the-debt-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/the-debt-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Debt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.secularconservative.net/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's play a game.  Try to come up with ways to pay off the $11 trillion national debt.  Here's some figures to get us started: last year the national budget was $2,650 billion dollars.  We spent $412 billion of that paying JUST INTEREST.  The debt has increased by more than 20% since January.  

And... go!]]></description>
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		<title>There Are No Words</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/there-are-no-words-2009-bail-ou/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/there-are-no-words-2009-bail-ou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.secularconservative.net/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic crisis currently gripping our country has been the top political issue in this country for months now.  My blog is a political blog.  Noticeably absent from it has been the top political issue in the country.  Why?  Because words can't describe how angry, disappointed, and disgusted I am with the handling of it all.

Believe me, I've tried.  There are many half-written posts on the subject.  A starting paragraph followed by a rant followed by broken sentences that simply couldn't be folded in coherently – not that my rants are terribly coherent to begin with.  It almost makes me feel like I've somehow failed as a blogger.  I'm normally a very articulate person.  I'd like to at least think that I'm a rational, reasonable, persuasive person.  

But every time I think of what the government has done on this my mind just fucking asplodes.]]></description>
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		<title>Support Free Trade</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/support-free-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/support-free-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free trade isn't the horrible job killer that the doom-sayers claim it is.  Free trade increases demand for American goods, decreases the cost of living in America, and makes world a better place for everyone.  While I doubt that any of the free trade agreements sitting in Congress right now will be passed in the next four years, we need to fight against the erosion of our current agreements by the Obama administration.  Support America.  Support prosperity.  Support capitalism.  Support free trade.]]></description>
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		<title>Failure Is Good</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/capitalism-whyfailure-is-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/capitalism-whyfailure-is-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bail Outs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The basic equation of capitalism is with risk comes reward.  Without risk, capitalism doesn't work.  We need risk.  We need failure.  We need to expect failure.  We need to accept failure.  We need to let failure happen. ]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Rage</title>
		<link>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/if-our-bail-out-dollars-were-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularconservative.net/fiscal-policy/if-our-bail-out-dollars-were-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.secularconservative.net/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the big city most of my life.  I was fortunate that my parents decided to enroll me in the Boy Scouts, so I was one of the lucky kids who got to get away from the skyline a couple days a month and get out into the country.  When I wasn't distracted by the hysterics of thirty pre-teen kids with minimal adult supervision, I occasionally looked up into the sky and got to see <i>actual</i> stars.  Not the usual one or two peaking through the street lights, but true, majestic, beautiful, breathtaking, all encompassing stars. ]]></description>
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