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		<title>Elizabeth Warren on The Daily  Show with Jon Stewart</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/elizabeth-warren-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c Elizabeth Warren www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook U.S. Senate Candidate and financial expert Elizabeth Warren explores the consequences of America&#8217;s changing investment priorities and where the money goes.]]></description>
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		<title>CNN: Alliance Members Lobby to Protect Social Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/23/cnn-alliance-members-lobby-to-protect-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/23/cnn-alliance-members-lobby-to-protect-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN&#8217;s Lisa Sylvester follows two Maryland Alliance for Retired Americans retirees who are walking the beat on Capitol Hill to protect Social Security and take on big business lobbyists.]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Rebels Quickly Tamed</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/29/tea-party-rebels-quickly-tamed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/29/tea-party-rebels-quickly-tamed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Hightower Author, radio commentator, America’s number one populist They came they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived than the corporate lobbying corps came to visit, saw what these supposed [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/01/march-to-stop-the-freeloaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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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>Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/28/out-of-whack-budget-whackers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/28/out-of-whack-budget-whackers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Hightower Author, radio commentator, America’s number one populist Let&#8217;s play a game called &#8220;Washington Budget Whackers Go Wacky!&#8221; Unfortunately, though, it&#8217;s not a game. Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation&#8217;s public programs in a political contest to show which of them is the scroogiest of all. For example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only $4.2 Billion to Buy This Election?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/29/only-4-2-billion-to-buy-this-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley This, from the Washington Post&#8216;s conservative pundit George Will: Total spending by parties, campaigns and issue-advocacy groups concerning every office from county clerks to U.S. senators may reach a record $4.2 billion in this two-year cycle. That is about what Americans spend in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/02/wall-street-and-legalized-loan-sharks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Don McNay Award winning financial columnist and structured settlement guru  &#8220;I don&#8217;t give a damn about my bad reputation.&#8221; -Joan Jett  In my childhood, Northern Kentucky was a hot spot for organized crime. In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes and gamblers, the profession they looked down on was loan sharking. Loan sharks preyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Deep Is D.C. Corruption? So Deep That When Obama Tries to Clean It Up, Lobbyists Publicly Spaz</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/13/how-deep-is-d-c-corruption-so-deep-that-when-obama-tries-to-clean-it-up-lobbyists-publicly-spaz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Sirota  By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s more outrageous and disgusting: The fact that lobbyists have been permitted to serve on the federal advisory boards that oversee policies affecting their clients, the fact that that has been occurring with almost no Establishment outcry for years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Beck Isn&#8217;t Blocking Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/08/glenn-beck-isn%e2%80%99t-blocking-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/08/glenn-beck-isn%e2%80%99t-blocking-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future Glenn Beck has captured national attention with his caustic poison. The aging right-wing troubadours &#8212; Rush Limbaugh and Bill O&#8217;Reilly &#8212; still rouse the wingnuts and enforce discipline among Republican legislators. They&#8217;ve peddled the fantasies about ACORN and the all-powerful poverty lobby, and launched a search-and-destroy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasies of Green Shoots</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/08/fantasies-of-green-shoots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect There is a huge reality gap between the happy talk about green shoots, banks passing stress tests, the rise in unemployment slowing &#8212; and what&#8217;s happening out in the real economy, especially if you take a close look at banking and housing, ground zero of [...]]]></description>
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