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		<title>A Thinking Point</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a socialized health industry is bad, why is a socialized police, fire, and rescue industry good?]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Do?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking point: What is the purpose of a society&#8217;s economy?]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Points</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;RightNetwork launches on television, web and mobile in the summer of 2010. Mission: To entertain, engage and enlighten Americans who are looking for content that reflects and reinforces their perspective and worldview.&#8221; Wow. Check out that mission statement. &#8220;&#8230;content that &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2010/04/22/thinking-points/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does a country have a right to restrict who can come and live there? Or, conversely, does a country have an obligation to accept everyone who wants to come and live there?]]></description>
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		<title>Brown&#8217;s Law of Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any mature political system, no matter what it&#8217;s particular mechanisms, is based on increasing the wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coward: A person who shrinks from or avoids danger, pain, or difficulty Remember that word. It defines 21st Century America. All of our politics, the security state that we are in the process of welcoming, are all based on fear, &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2010/11/11/thinking-point-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #6</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the citizens of a democracy have the right to know what their government is doing in their name (and with their money)?]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #7: What You Pay For Is What You Get</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What we, as a society, want from our domestic security apparatus (the TSA, Homeland Security, the armed forces, etc) is for them to keep us safe, to let us feel secure. The security apparatus, however, is rewarded when we feel &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2010/12/19/thinking-point-7-what-you-pay-for-is-what-you-get/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #8: A Modest Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, US imports totaled just under $2 trillion. A 2% tariff on imports would generate about $40 billion in revenue. That would be sufficient to give each of the 13.3 million unemployed Americans a $1500 worker retraining grant. Make &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2011/12/11/thinking-point-8-a-modest-proposal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Point #8:  Two Way Street?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it is morally right and acceptable for the rich to break the law, and make new laws, to take money away from the poor, how is it not morally right and acceptable for the poor to break the law, &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2011/12/23/thinking-point-8-two-way-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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