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		<title>After The Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of fuss about the recent election here in The United States. The Democrats, of course, are smug. The Republicans, well, some (not all, but some) are in a positive frenzy of angst, predicting the end &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/11/12/after-the-counting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Non-Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just sent this to President Obama (or rather, of course, whichever staffer gets to read these things): Regarding the auto-industry bail out. As a long-time General Motors stockholder, I would like to say PLEASE STOP. General Motors are Chrysler &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2009/03/26/auto-non-industry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Leaky Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pretty standard course of action these days that when the US economy gets in trouble, the government starts ladling out &#8216;stimulus&#8217; money. This &#8216;stimulus&#8217; (whether in the form of direct payments, tax breaks, or low interest rates) is &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2010/07/25/the-leaky-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>Like I Said</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty much what I&#8217;ve been saying for a while now.]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My local Congressthing, Kenny Marchant, was unwise enough to send me a flyer with a small survey attached. I thought it did not adequately cover the issues, or allow a sufficient range of responses, so I wrote him a letter &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2011/12/16/an-open-letter-to-congress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Thomas makes some good points, but he misuses a couple of words. A &#8216;fusillade&#8217; refers to small arms (a &#8216;fusil&#8217; was a musket), not artillery. He means &#8216;cannonade.&#8217; He also uses the term &#8216;anticommunitarian moral opacity&#8217; as a euphemism &#8230; <a href="http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2011/12/30/the-big-lie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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