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		<title>Stupid is as Stupid does&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/06/02/stupid-is-as-stupid-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check down below on this blog to a post I wrote a month or so ago about Econ 101 &#8211; if you want LESS of something TAX it.  It worked on cigarrette taxing, and many other things. Now a member of the Obama Administration is admitting that people could avoid tax penalties by earning less income. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/16/more-on-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dame M. Thatcher said famously, &#8220;The problem with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people&#8217;s money.&#8221; California is deciding now if they should raise taxes or lay off 19,000 school teachers. (teachers are an unfortunate but easy target of budget shortfalls) Referencing this data (some details below) California is already the 49th WORST [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you want less of it &#8211; tax it.</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/11/if-you-want-less-of-it-tax-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois just passed a tax that will lose them money not gain it. They are taxing affiliates of Amazon over 6%. Before now internet acquisitions were not taxed in Illinois. &#8220;Illinois has about 9,000 affiliates, said Rebecca Madigan, director of an affiliate trade group called the Performance Marketing Association. She said the Illinois affiliates generated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe it&#8217;s just me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/02/25/maybe-its-just-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually write at least a January 1 blog post but never got around TUIT. Dr. Miller-Meeks is still in the confirmation stages of becoming the Director of Iowa Public Health. I think she&#8217;ll do a great job and is actually made for this job. I applaud both her and Governor Branstad for taking drastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (IA-79) 2010 Veteran&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/11/14/rep-jeff-kaufmann-ia-79-2010-veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A message from Representative Jeff Kaufmann (IA-79)                       Representing parts of Muscatine, Cedar and Johnson Counties in Iowa. Last week I participated in an outstanding Veterans Day service at the Tipton Middle School. The brief video “We Fought For You” was shown and it is the best presentation of the meaning of this day that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not the Economy it&#8217;s the Policies</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/14/its-not-the-economy-its-the-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be wringing their hands over the weak economy.  The price of gas goes up with every oil spill or pipe line break and Economists hover over jobs reports and love to tell us the stock market is rising. When will the cycle of bad economic trends break?  I&#8217;m not understanding why it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Loebsack&#8217;s World&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/13/in-loebsacks-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Representative Loebsack&#8217;s world, his &#8220;representation&#8221; of IA-02 seems to have started just a few months ago when Dr. Miller-Meeks charged out of the Republican primary with an over whelming victory.  But hey, we haven&#8217;t heard from him except for some very pretty (expensive) franked (I paid for it) mail, and now a TV ad showing smiling people at a Town Hall (that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if We Win?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/01/what-if-we-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November elections seem like a long time from now but also seem to be right around the corner and we&#8217;re not ready; we haven&#8217;t done all we could to ensure victory.  With the reports of a 10 point lead for a generic Republican over a generic Democrat &#8211; a tsunami seems inevitable, but projecting victory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to November</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/17/looking-to-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us in Muscatine will be spending our summer and fall finding as many independent votes for MMM as we can.  Muscatine County Republicans voted overwhelmingly for MMM (almost 70% of the votes in a 4 candidate race) but Muscatine is almost equaly divided R / I / D &#8211; maybe slanted I at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explanation of Derivative Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/15/explanation-of-derivative-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(posted on the internet &#8211; this is not my original writing) Your economics lesson of the day&#8230;&#8230;   Explanation of Derivative Markets: Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deeper Recessions, smaller recoveries</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/03/28/deeper-recessions-smaller-recoveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The talk of more and more Recession possibilities in the future and smaller recoveries reflect a dying economy. China is even giving us good advice &#8211; stop building entitlement programs and attack your DEBT! Can I be depressing enough to say I don&#8217;t even think we&#8217;re in a recovery. I think the world changed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Leaders?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/02/07/where-are-the-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My whole world seems to stop on Super Bowl afternoon &#8211; so I&#8217;m catching up on a few organizational things including some blogging.  I&#8217;m watching the pre-game and may interject some comments. Fun to watch the playoffs when I don&#8217;t care who wins.  What a finish to the season if WhO DaT NaTioN gets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 2010?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/01/01/happy-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m down to one bowl game yet tonight, so I thought I would blog for a while.  I&#8217;m waiting with much anticipation for the Iowa Georgia Tech game on Tuesday, and am glad Iowa plays on a night where there is only one game.  They will acquit themselves well, will have national coverage and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>call me crazy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/09/13/call-me-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to article on Obama&#8217;s proposed changes why overhaul?  &#8220;sweeping regulatory changes&#8221; &#8230;   it wasn&#8217;t enough to try to control 17% of the national economy with a health care bill&#8230;  (and I would like someone to study how much of HR3200 is really health care&#8230; ) I have a huge problem that most if not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/08/23/health-care-misinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERE is a Link to the full text of an August Press Presidential Conference on Health Care. [my comments] Each and every day in this country, Americans are grappling with health care premiums that are growing three times the rate of wages and insurance company policies that limit coverage and raise out-of-pocket costs. Thousands are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Loebsack Are You Listening?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/08/22/mr-loebsack-are-you-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muscatine Town Hall was today and reports from the Louisa County Town Hall were the same as ours &#8211; it was &#8220;tame&#8221;. When I arrived at the Muscatine venue 90 minutes early I was pleased the auditorium was open, was not looking forward to standing in line. For the first 30 minutes even as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panic vs Optimism</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/07/16/panic-vs-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been absolutely stunning (and not in a good way) how this current administration has had their way, passing legislation that has headed this country in a very dangerous path. - passing trillion dollar legislative bills with the majority of those voting admitting they have not read them - the administration urges these changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes on the Ball&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/07/08/eyes-on-the-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[why does it seem like we&#8217;re heading into trouble here with American Companies Google, FACEBOOK and Microsoft feverishly fighting for technical superiority when cyber terrorism is very much on the rise&#8230; what&#8217;s important here folks. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/ http://trendmicro.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&#038;item=727&#038;WT.mc_id=2008HP_News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7990997.stm http://perens.com/works/articles/MorganHill/]]></description>
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		<title>The Declaration of Independence</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/07/04/the-declaration-of-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence (Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776) The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Offsets: the new scam?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/07/04/carbon-offsets-the-new-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge Funds, Sub Prime Mortgage bundling, now Carbon Offsets. We&#8217;ve been heading for the disaster we&#8217;re living in now &#8211; ever since we started the WAR on POVERTY 45 years ago &#8211; (which we&#8217;ve never made a dent in, by the way)&#8230;. http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_sndgs01.html All I really need to understand is George Soros was an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/05/15/behind-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BTW here is a picture of my newest acquisition. On another subject, some people can call this spin, but it&#8217;s so off the charts it&#8217;s hard not to call it simply &#8211; lying &#8211; at a very high government level. Read more: &#8220;President of the American Hospital Association says the White House misstated deal &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News U can use 04/02/09</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/04/02/news-u-can-use-040209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a debate on whether there are votes to carry Federal Tax issue in the Iowa House.  We shall see. The US House has actually denied the President his wish to increase taxes on wealthy people who contribute to charities in a large way == read more here - it was unanimous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hope-n-change</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/18/hope-n-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/18/hope-n-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this wasn&#8217;t the change I was hopin&#8217; for. . Some of Gitmo&#8217;s residents could be released in the US ACORN helping with the census? oh, but not to worry. now that Gregg (R) turn down the commerce job, the new guy (D) says the census will move back from the WH to Commerce. Whew! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bail-out bull-sh!t</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/18/bail-out-bull-sht/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/18/bail-out-bull-sht/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 20 update &#8211; Powerlineblog wrote a great defense of the bonuses.  No one will hear the logic when all the rhetoric is so loud. AIG, like GM, should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy. In bankruptcy, it could have wound down its financial products division just as it is doing now. Bankruptcy would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos and More&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/15/videos-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/15/videos-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a good (low resolution but still a big file) that compare&#8217;s W&#8217;s visit with a military base and &#8220;Barry&#8221; (President Obama&#8217;s) recent visit to a military base. bush-barry-low-res If you have trouble playing .mp4 files download this plug in LINK more good videos here.]]></description>
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		<title>yesterday and today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/12/1027/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/12/1027/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To great guffaws, Abe told the gang: “So, I says to Barack, I says, I knew me an Abe Lincoln once, &#8230; and you ain’t him.” Andy Thomas is the artist of this great piece titled Grand Old Gang. His site can be found at: www.presidentart.com +++++ and click on the poster (below) to visit one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>world turned upside down</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/10/world-turned-upside-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/10/world-turned-upside-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/?p=1013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the President gave a DVD movie set to his first foreign visitor. Sounds pretty odd and not very Presidential. If the set was one that could not run on European equipment &#8211; I know they are different &#8211; that would be embarrassing. The &#8220;excuse&#8221; given for that and various other issues is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My sentiments exactly!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/09/my-sentiments-exactly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/09/my-sentiments-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama and Gordon Brown see &#8216;opportunity&#8217;, we really do have a crisis The Left is threatening our freedom by using the downturn to bolster the power of the state, says Janet Daley. Link The story so far: some capitalists behaved very badly. While this was going on, the socialists didn&#8217;t ask questions because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke &amp; Mirror Promises</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/26/smoke-mirror-promises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/26/smoke-mirror-promises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National / World Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama says he&#8217;s going to balance the budget based on 2 Trillion dollars in savings over the next 10 years. However, the money is NOT coming from reduction in traditional spending; he&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s coming from taking what we spend in IRAQ today &#8211; projecting it until 2019 and cutting that spending &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W Didn&#8217;t Do it</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/24/w-didnt-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/24/w-didnt-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National / World Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/?p=957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You MUST get past the water torture of MSM babble Barry is Great, Barry is Great&#8230; and get down to facts you can substantiate. One of my favorite sayings is &#8220;those who don&#8217;t understand history are doomed to repeat it&#8221;. Not enough people study history these sorry days&#8230; your first reading assignment is THIS and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Imploading</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/24/iowa-imploading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/24/iowa-imploading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I promised my next post to be about the economy and W, but I can&#8217;t stand this. Dig this. An Iowa Senate Committee just passed a bill to the Senate that is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen in politics. They calmly 8-7 (2 Dems voted no) passed a bill out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 &#8211; are we ready?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/22/2009-are-we-ready/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/22/2009-are-we-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is the Iowa Spring Game? Will we have one with the turf change? ok back to politics. This is certainly not the way I expected 2009 to roll out, but I cannot say I&#8217;m surprised. I mean, who of you thought the price of housing would continue to rise forever and 0% down made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just when you thought you&#8217;ve heard everything&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/26/just-when-you-thought-youve-heard-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/26/just-when-you-thought-youve-heard-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing&#8230;. simply amazing. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-att0123.artjan25,0,5747793,print.story The State of Connecticut has discovered a method of preventing job layoffs. Blumenthal Wants Connecticut Regulators To Block AT&#38;T Job Cuts &#8211; The Hartford Courant &#8220;AT&#38;T (T) said last month that it would pare its Connecticut workforce, which totals about 6,800, by 400 jobs and transfer another 60 jobs to Michigan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter from A Boss</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/19/a-letter-from-a-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/19/a-letter-from-a-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest.  Most of the additional growth we have seen now and for an extended period of time come from Boss&#8217;s like the one noted in this fictional letter attributed to Neal Boortz.  So what is the government doing?  Helping huge companies stay a float with bad business practices and screwing those who are really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heavy Heart with Mixed Feelings about the Inauguration</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/18/a-heavy-heart-with-mixed-feelings-about-the-inauguration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/18/a-heavy-heart-with-mixed-feelings-about-the-inauguration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libra Girl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, certainly one can not miss all the coverage and hoopla about the upcoming Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday, Jan. 20th, 2009. I&#8217;ve barely responded to PF&#8217;s topics nor have I written a new one myself since the election because I been so upset about how wrong I figured people&#8217;s thinking and how wrong I was about people&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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