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		<title>What Newt is&#8230; and is Not</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/12/what-newt-is-and-is-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mea culpa, I misspoke, my bad – I stand corrected. In past commentaries, I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has indeed gotten very wealthy by taking big bucks from such special interest outfits as IBM, Astra Zeneca, Microsoft, and Seimens in exchange for helping them get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooty-Toot-Toot, Here Comes the Newt!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/21/rooty-toot-toot-here-comes-the-newt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/21/rooty-toot-toot-here-comes-the-newt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[O joy – the generous gods of political commentary love me! The poli-gods have delivered a magnificent gift for me: Newt. yes, Newt Gingrich is back! Just three months ago, the presidential campaign of this corrupt, super-bloated ego-on-legs had imploded, and commentators like me lost a sure-fire source of goofy material. Lo and behold, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/15/crash-tax-wall-street-reparations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/15/crash-tax-wall-street-reparations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans bailed out Wall Street, handing it a Marshall Plan for reconstruction after its bad bets blew up the world economy.  Now, three years later, happy days are here again for the Wall Street banksters. But the American middle class continues to suffer high unemployment, record foreclosures and rising poverty. So it’s time for Wall Street to pay reparations. It’s time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.]]></description>
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		<title>This is Not America: SWAT Team Evicts Grandmother, Community Fights Back</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/03/this-is-not-america-swat-team-evicts-grandmother-community-fights-back/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/03/this-is-not-america-swat-team-evicts-grandmother-community-fights-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Van Jones Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress And Marianne Manilov Co-founder and Co-Director of The Engage Network Day after day, the media and government ignore an ongoing national tragedy: a tsunami of foreclosures is still sweeping millions of Americans out of their homes. As many as three million American families this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Republicans should cut their own pay</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/21/toyota-republicans-should-cut-their-own-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President President Bush took to the TV Friday to announce that he wouldn’t walk past the financial crash of America’s Big Three automakers and do nothing to save their lives. Refusing resuscitation, Bush said, would be irresponsible during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A week earlier, 31 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s choice: destruction or construction</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/11/americas-choice-destruction-or-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/11/americas-choice-destruction-or-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Main Street Recovery Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[America the Beautiful]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[        By Leo W. Gerard International President From sea to shining sea, America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one’s interminable and internationally contagious. She did it by choosing over the past 30 years to establish an economy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Jeep; Save the Nation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/05/save-the-jeep-save-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/05/save-the-jeep-save-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President In 1941, car manufacturer Willys-Overland demonstrated the strength and sturdiness of its new Army scout vehicle – the Jeep &#8212; to Congress by driving it up the U.S. Capitol steps. Invented and manufactured in the USA, the Jeep would become an icon of American ingenuity, durability and mechanical ability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deregulation defrauded Americans of security and freedom</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/18/deregulation-defrauded-americans-of-security-and-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/07/18/deregulation-defrauded-americans-of-security-and-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President 21st century slavery The Government Accountability Office reported to Congress this week that, under the Bush administration, the Labor Department determined that what amounted to a 21st century case of slavery was just fine with the U.S. government. A Labor Department investigator told the slave, a night attendant at [...]]]></description>
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