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		<title>The Battle Is Squared, and Why We Need Budget Jujitsu</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/19/the-battle-is-squared-and-why-we-need-budget-jujitsu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Technically, the federal government has now reached the limit of its capacity to borrow money. Raising the debt ceiling used to be a technical adjustment, made almost automatically. Now it&#8217;s a political football. Democrats should never have agreed to linking it to an agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the &#8220;Middle Ground&#8221; of the Great Budget Debate</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/30/beware-the-middle-ground-of-the-great-budget-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/30/beware-the-middle-ground-of-the-great-budget-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley How debates are framed is critical because the &#8220;center&#8221; or &#8220;middle ground&#8221; is supposedly halfway between the two extremes. We continue to hear that the Great Budget Debate has two sides: The president and the Democrats want to cut the budget deficit mainly by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Real Proposal (and Why It’s Risky)</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/20/president-obamas-real-proposal-and-why-it%e2%80%99s-risky/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/20/president-obamas-real-proposal-and-why-it%e2%80%99s-risky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4 trillion over ten years. The president says his new plan will cut $4 trillion over twelve years. Let&#8217;s get real. Ten or twelve-year budgets are baloney. It&#8217;s hard enough to forecast budgets a year or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/18/obama-returns-to-his-moral-vision-democrats-read-carefully/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/18/obama-returns-to-his-moral-vision-democrats-read-carefully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By George Lakoff Author, “The Political Mind,” “Moral Politics,” “Don’t Think of an Elephant!” Last week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the president&#8217;s speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech went well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Tiny Jobs Ideas for Main Street, A Big Spending Freeze for Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/26/obama%e2%80%99s-tiny-jobs-ideas-for-main-street-a-big-spending-freeze-for-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/26/obama%e2%80%99s-tiny-jobs-ideas-for-main-street-a-big-spending-freeze-for-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley President Obama today offered a set of proposals for helping America&#8217;s troubled middle class. All are sensible and worthwhile. But none will bring jobs back. And Americans could be forgiven for wondering how the President plans to enact any of these ideas anyway, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insane Republicans reveal an insane budget plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/06/insane-republicans-reveal-an-insane-budget-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/06/insane-republicans-reveal-an-insane-budget-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Cesca Author of One Nation Under Fear It only makes sense that a party currently being wagged by fringe crazy people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann would release its alternative budget on April Fools&#8217; Day. Not only does the Republican plan freeze discretionary spending for five years in the midst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget deficits and blow up dolls: It&#8217;s the economy stupid!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/03/budget-deficits-and-blow-up-dolls-its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/03/budget-deficits-and-blow-up-dolls-its-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research In the movie Lars and the Real Girl, the main character imagines that a female blow-up doll is his fiancé. To humor Lars, his brother and sister-in-law go along with the charade. Over the course of the movie, more people are drawn into the circle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning deficits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/26/learning-deficits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/26/learning-deficits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America&#8217;s Future Will Obama&#8217;s transformative budget survive? As his press conference last night illustrated, it runs a serious risk of drowning in a swamp of cant. The budget is getting strafed by politicians in both parties for its deficits and debt. (the deficit is the annual shortfall between revenue [...]]]></description>
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