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		<title>March to Stop the Freeloaders</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/01/march-to-stop-the-freeloaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan S. Blinder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reckless Wall Street banksters get taxpayer-funded bailouts. Billionaires get tax breaks. Corporations like GE and Bank of America pay absolutely no federal income taxes. But workers don’t get those breaks. As a result, it’s workers footing the bill for the government services that enrich the rich. It’s time patriots stood up to the ultra-wealthy and corporate freeloaders. Join Monday’s We Are One rallies. These demonstrations across the country by religious groups, social justice organizations and labor unions will illustrate that the middle class is mad as hell and not going to take trickster economics anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>To survive, Americans must assert themselves as economic patriots</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/29/to-survive-americans-must-assert-themselves-as-economic-patriots/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/29/to-survive-americans-must-assert-themselves-as-economic-patriots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[$700 billion bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President For a brief moment, when Congress authorized that $700 billion bailout for the Wall Street wise guys whose recklessness caused the financial crisis that we’re all suffering, federal officials actually considered giving part of the money to foreign banks. Really. They quickly backed away from using American tax dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s midnight regulations value profits more than people</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/29/bushs-midnight-regulations-value-profits-more-than-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/29/bushs-midnight-regulations-value-profits-more-than-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President The nation’s most unpopular president – a head of state even more reviled than the one who resigned in disgrace – is cunningly planning revenge. The legacy of George W. Bush’s final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We told you so</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/14/we-told-you-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Author of &#8220;The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt&#8221; Please, forgive me for saying it. I know it&#8217;s a tad annoying, but it has to be said to America&#8217;s ruling class in this humble column space. Because if it&#8217;s not said here you can bet it won&#8217;t be said anywhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America has the second lowest business taxes in the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/22/america-has-the-second-lowest-business-taxes-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/22/america-has-the-second-lowest-business-taxes-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Author of &#8220;The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt&#8221; Last week, I appeared on Fox News to discuss Barack Obama&#8217;s tax proposals. You can watch the clip here &#8211; and make sure to watch the end where Fox News tries to drown me out with music.   Not surprisingly, the [...]]]></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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