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	<title>Comments on: Democrats Slam Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney for &#8216;Martini Lifestyle&#8217; Ahead of Iowa Debate</title>
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		<title>By: jazzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>jazzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This post is trying to tie Romey and Gingrich to wealthy people are you kidding me.  Obama&#039;s has collected billions from unions, pacs, special interest.  His closet allies are the super rich, Buffet, Gates, Immet and the facebook kid the Hollywood elite and these democrats are really going down this road!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post is trying to tie Romey and Gingrich to wealthy people are you kidding me.  Obama&#8217;s has collected billions from unions, pacs, special interest.  His closet allies are the super rich, Buffet, Gates, Immet and the facebook kid the Hollywood elite and these democrats are really going down this road!</p>
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		<title>By: blip</title>
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		<dc:creator>blip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;“Trickle down economics” sure does work better than trickle up unemployment and poverty.&quot;

Trickle down economics turned out to be trickle up unemployment and poverty.  But, apparently, your ideological blindness renders you incapable of doing the math.

You think our current economic woes are the result of leftist, utopian pipe dreams...  yeesh.  Gimme summa that PCP you&#039;re smokin&#039;, because it left your brain half broken, or maybe you&#039;ve just misspoken. No, wait, I think you&#039;re surely jokin&#039;.  Nobody in their right mind, not even Sam Eagle, believes that anyone but capitalists repealed Glass-Steagall.  They promised us gold as they laughed from above, and the GOP said it was just some tough love.  To inspire the peons to get up on top, as they unzipped their zippers and let the drips drop.  Pennies from Heaven or so the songs says, but it&#039;s just trickle down theory raining gold on our heads.  Gold you can&#039;t spend, because it&#039;s locked in their banks.  We do the work, and they get the thanks.  And if we ask for a raise, they call it class war.  But we just want a scoreboard to reflect the real score.  Sorry I took off, went off on a tear.  But if you fart in my car, you will hear me swear.  And I&#039;ll open the windows and let in some air.  And when the stink blows away, we can say that we&#039;re square.  

But you can&#039;t belch those lies in the public domain, without people thinking you&#039;re smoking cocaine.  This last 40 years, we&#039;ve seen wages decline, while productivity itself has consistently climbed.  We gave tax cuts to the job creators.  We&#039;ve cut regulation and cut regulators.  We&#039;ve cut down so low, we&#039;ve got nowhere to go, and now you want us to deepen and deepen the hole?  Then to blame Obama for what you promised to do?  You talk like you know, but you haven&#039;t a clue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;“Trickle down economics” sure does work better than trickle up unemployment and poverty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trickle down economics turned out to be trickle up unemployment and poverty.  But, apparently, your ideological blindness renders you incapable of doing the math.</p>
<p>You think our current economic woes are the result of leftist, utopian pipe dreams&#8230;  yeesh.  Gimme summa that PCP you&#8217;re smokin&#8217;, because it left your brain half broken, or maybe you&#8217;ve just misspoken. No, wait, I think you&#8217;re surely jokin&#8217;.  Nobody in their right mind, not even Sam Eagle, believes that anyone but capitalists repealed Glass-Steagall.  They promised us gold as they laughed from above, and the GOP said it was just some tough love.  To inspire the peons to get up on top, as they unzipped their zippers and let the drips drop.  Pennies from Heaven or so the songs says, but it&#8217;s just trickle down theory raining gold on our heads.  Gold you can&#8217;t spend, because it&#8217;s locked in their banks.  We do the work, and they get the thanks.  And if we ask for a raise, they call it class war.  But we just want a scoreboard to reflect the real score.  Sorry I took off, went off on a tear.  But if you fart in my car, you will hear me swear.  And I&#8217;ll open the windows and let in some air.  And when the stink blows away, we can say that we&#8217;re square.  </p>
<p>But you can&#8217;t belch those lies in the public domain, without people thinking you&#8217;re smoking cocaine.  This last 40 years, we&#8217;ve seen wages decline, while productivity itself has consistently climbed.  We gave tax cuts to the job creators.  We&#8217;ve cut regulation and cut regulators.  We&#8217;ve cut down so low, we&#8217;ve got nowhere to go, and now you want us to deepen and deepen the hole?  Then to blame Obama for what you promised to do?  You talk like you know, but you haven&#8217;t a clue.</p>
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		<title>By: LexingtonLady</title>
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		<dc:creator>LexingtonLady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I am a somewhat overweight and very bored housewife with a cause.
In short, i can’t lose.
Just sayin….yet again, lol!&quot;
POSTED BY: KIMBERLY
OK, thanks for that.  Now we know the truth of your sad and special case.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I am a somewhat overweight and very bored housewife with a cause.<br />
In short, i can’t lose.<br />
Just sayin….yet again, lol!&#8221;<br />
POSTED BY: KIMBERLY<br />
OK, thanks for that.  Now we know the truth of your sad and special case.</p>
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		<title>By: Kimberly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a somewhat overweight and very bored housewife with a cause.
In short, i can&#039;t lose.
Just sayin….yet again, lol!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a somewhat overweight and very bored housewife with a cause.<br />
In short, i can&#8217;t lose.<br />
Just sayin….yet again, lol!</p>
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		<title>By: Kimberly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama may suck, but others might suck more.
Food for thought, uh...duh.
Just sayin….yet again,  lol!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama may suck, but others might suck more.<br />
Food for thought, uh&#8230;duh.<br />
Just sayin….yet again,  lol!</p>
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		<title>By: Carol</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another wordy blip on the screen, lol.  &quot;Trickle down economics&quot; sure does work better than trickle up unemployment and poverty.  It also works better than  tossing money away because of dogmatic ideological blindness and to achieve political payoffs to buddies and donors, as in Solyndra.

&quot;You need to step out of your 1950s, red scare, dreamworld&quot;.  Few people I have seen who live in that conveniently claimed world, but many are living in the false hope of a laughably phony leftist &quot;utopia&quot;, where the government creates and guarantees everyone the same dull mediocrity.  Not for me, and not for most of America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another wordy blip on the screen, lol.  &#8220;Trickle down economics&#8221; sure does work better than trickle up unemployment and poverty.  It also works better than  tossing money away because of dogmatic ideological blindness and to achieve political payoffs to buddies and donors, as in Solyndra.</p>
<p>&#8220;You need to step out of your 1950s, red scare, dreamworld&#8221;.  Few people I have seen who live in that conveniently claimed world, but many are living in the false hope of a laughably phony leftist &#8220;utopia&#8221;, where the government creates and guarantees everyone the same dull mediocrity.  Not for me, and not for most of America.</p>
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		<title>By: blip</title>
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		<dc:creator>blip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, you know what a &quot;useful idiot&quot;...  anyone in the US who isn&#039;t rich, but supports trickle down economics.

The simple fact:  Trickle down economics has consistently hurt the middle class.  

You might not have realized, because the banks were giving you a second mortgage on your home, the credit card companies were offsetting your losses with high interest loans, and households with one working parent now need two incomes and fewer children to get by.

But let&#039;s face it, America.  The bankers have taken away our children&#039;s parents.  Taken children away from families.  Taken our earning away from us.  And, now they are taking our homes.  Next up, they want to take away our retirement savings.  And all this time, their wealth grows exponentially.

You know why?  Because &quot;useful idiots&quot; have been brainwashed into thinking it&#039;s class warfare to notice this grand larceny.  

You&#039;ll try to argue with me and swear up and down that it isn&#039;t true.  But you just can&#039;t argue with the numbers.  Imagine that....  our enormous middle class, quickly being robbed into poverty.  And you sit there pleading that the robbers are in the right, that they need more time, that they need better tools, and that the police should protect their hoard of loot as they make their getwaway.  

You need to step out of your 1950s, red scare, dreamworld.....  the people who are out of jobs aren&#039;t useful idiots!  They are your neighbors.  They have had their future stolen from them...  and we all played a part in it by believing in &quot;Trickle Down Economics&quot; like it was divinely inspired.  You should be helping them, instead of calling them communists.  We need to change the law and start supporting the people that actually do the work in this country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, you know what a &#8220;useful idiot&#8221;&#8230;  anyone in the US who isn&#8217;t rich, but supports trickle down economics.</p>
<p>The simple fact:  Trickle down economics has consistently hurt the middle class.  </p>
<p>You might not have realized, because the banks were giving you a second mortgage on your home, the credit card companies were offsetting your losses with high interest loans, and households with one working parent now need two incomes and fewer children to get by.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s face it, America.  The bankers have taken away our children&#8217;s parents.  Taken children away from families.  Taken our earning away from us.  And, now they are taking our homes.  Next up, they want to take away our retirement savings.  And all this time, their wealth grows exponentially.</p>
<p>You know why?  Because &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; have been brainwashed into thinking it&#8217;s class warfare to notice this grand larceny.  </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll try to argue with me and swear up and down that it isn&#8217;t true.  But you just can&#8217;t argue with the numbers.  Imagine that&#8230;.  our enormous middle class, quickly being robbed into poverty.  And you sit there pleading that the robbers are in the right, that they need more time, that they need better tools, and that the police should protect their hoard of loot as they make their getwaway.  </p>
<p>You need to step out of your 1950s, red scare, dreamworld&#8230;..  the people who are out of jobs aren&#8217;t useful idiots!  They are your neighbors.  They have had their future stolen from them&#8230;  and we all played a part in it by believing in &#8220;Trickle Down Economics&#8221; like it was divinely inspired.  You should be helping them, instead of calling them communists.  We need to change the law and start supporting the people that actually do the work in this country.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Gandhi

RON PAUL 2012 !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Gandhi</p>
<p>RON PAUL 2012 !</p>
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		<title>By: Susan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Posted by: Kimberly &#124; December 9, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

No wonder communists coined the term &quot;useful idiot&quot; to describe liberals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posted by: Kimberly | December 9, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm</p>
<p>No wonder communists coined the term &#8220;useful idiot&#8221; to describe liberals.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Romney can&#039;t belong to the Martini party, he doesn&#039;t even drink alcohol.</description>
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