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	<title>Comments on: In Ratings on Economic Interests the 2012 Battle Lines are Drawn</title>
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		<title>By: Freedom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Freedom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like anyone believes the ABC/NBC/CBS polls.

Does anyone up there know that the Catholic Church is suing the President Obama? Anyone up there know the 9th Circuit Court is on a big spending spree, anyone know about the Treaties the President wants to sign giving away our freedoms and liberties, anyone up there know about Fast &amp; Furious, how about the $6 million dollar grant to the University of Chicago with ties to both Obama&#039;s and Valerie Jarrett,  how about the $20 million he wants to spend to advertise Obamacare when we don&#039;t even know if it&#039;s Constitutional yet, is there anyone up there in the news media that is a true journalist or all of you just up there to get the President reelected?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like anyone believes the ABC/NBC/CBS polls.</p>
<p>Does anyone up there know that the Catholic Church is suing the President Obama? Anyone up there know the 9th Circuit Court is on a big spending spree, anyone know about the Treaties the President wants to sign giving away our freedoms and liberties, anyone up there know about Fast &amp; Furious, how about the $6 million dollar grant to the University of Chicago with ties to both Obama&#8217;s and Valerie Jarrett,  how about the $20 million he wants to spend to advertise Obamacare when we don&#8217;t even know if it&#8217;s Constitutional yet, is there anyone up there in the news media that is a true journalist or all of you just up there to get the President reelected?</p>
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		<title>By: newcountryman</title>
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		<dc:creator>newcountryman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m making a list of Obama campaign donors/businesses contributors, so if he does win, I&#039;ll know where the money will be going until 2016. Make the system work for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m making a list of Obama campaign donors/businesses contributors, so if he does win, I&#8217;ll know where the money will be going until 2016. Make the system work for you.</p>
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		<title>By: R Todd</title>
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		<dc:creator>R Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All this single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go! This is the problem with our country. It shouldn&#039;t be about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and it&#039;s citizens.

Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they&#039;re supposed to represent, by allowing the &quot;out-sourcing&quot; floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide. (Under Clinton jobs to China, Under Bush I &amp; II influx of illegals or cheap easily abused labor into the US and jobs to Mexico/NAFTA)   

Our leaders are elected by the Citizens of  the United States of America to represent the interests of those citizens and the country itself.  They are NOT elected by the Global Market Place or foreign citizens! 

We need whoever wins the next election to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. They&#039;ve got to give us somebody who will stand up for the American people.

We need to bring manufacturing back to the United States of America and both parties are ignoring tariffs as a way to level the playing field, raise money and bring jobs back home. Let&#039;s guess why. Oh that&#039;s right, tariff is a dirty word. Hum, maybe it’s that our so called leaders (political leaders) are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

I guess we should keep letting Corp Boards, Wall Street, CEOs and Foreign Lobbyists promote sending US jobs to countries where they work for slave wages, no benefits, no OSHA safety standards or no real environment regulations. How&#039;s that been working for us?

The so called “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field. Companies may have made higher profits by &quot;out sourcing&quot;, but they&#039;ve been putting middle class Americans who are a good part of the world’s customer base out of work. I’m not a lefty or member of any union. I run a business that employs over 20 people and produces products that are purchased by customers that do manufacturing and packaging. I’m just an average Joe, but I&#039;ve been saying this for more than 10 years now. If I can see it, so can our so called leaders (political leaders) who are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

We need to add tariffs that are proportionate to the inequities in wages and regulations in the country where the goods were produced and or where we’re importing them from. We could then use the money raised by these tariffs to help companies build state of the art manufacturing plants here in the USA, which would create more jobs here at home for US citizens, which would then in turn increase our income tax revenue.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US not only gives jobs to the US citizens who would be working in those manufacturing facilities, but to the people that would be working in the businesses that would spring up all around them. This should also include the safe harvesting, production and distribution of our own natural energy here in the USA, rather than paying for fuel from countries where they hate us. Let’s keep that money and those jobs here in the US.

These so-called “free trade agreements” have to go. It was obvious when they were passing these agreements as to what was going to happen and sure enough it did. Our leaders had to have known this as well when they were passing these bills. It’s just common sense. 

We also need to bring customer support services back to the United States of America and staff them with employees who are US Citizens.

The “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field! The whole idea of the tariffs is so we can pay our factory workers a decent wage and not be blown out by these other countries where they don’t play by the same rules.

We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we&#039;ll still have jobs and a future for our children.

The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect American industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All this single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go! This is the problem with our country. It shouldn&#8217;t be about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and it&#8217;s citizens.</p>
<p>Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they&#8217;re supposed to represent, by allowing the &#8220;out-sourcing&#8221; floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide. (Under Clinton jobs to China, Under Bush I &amp; II influx of illegals or cheap easily abused labor into the US and jobs to Mexico/NAFTA)   </p>
<p>Our leaders are elected by the Citizens of  the United States of America to represent the interests of those citizens and the country itself.  They are NOT elected by the Global Market Place or foreign citizens! </p>
<p>We need whoever wins the next election to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. They&#8217;ve got to give us somebody who will stand up for the American people.</p>
<p>We need to bring manufacturing back to the United States of America and both parties are ignoring tariffs as a way to level the playing field, raise money and bring jobs back home. Let&#8217;s guess why. Oh that&#8217;s right, tariff is a dirty word. Hum, maybe it’s that our so called leaders (political leaders) are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.</p>
<p>I guess we should keep letting Corp Boards, Wall Street, CEOs and Foreign Lobbyists promote sending US jobs to countries where they work for slave wages, no benefits, no OSHA safety standards or no real environment regulations. How&#8217;s that been working for us?</p>
<p>The so called “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field. Companies may have made higher profits by &#8220;out sourcing&#8221;, but they&#8217;ve been putting middle class Americans who are a good part of the world’s customer base out of work. I’m not a lefty or member of any union. I run a business that employs over 20 people and produces products that are purchased by customers that do manufacturing and packaging. I’m just an average Joe, but I&#8217;ve been saying this for more than 10 years now. If I can see it, so can our so called leaders (political leaders) who are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.</p>
<p>We need to add tariffs that are proportionate to the inequities in wages and regulations in the country where the goods were produced and or where we’re importing them from. We could then use the money raised by these tariffs to help companies build state of the art manufacturing plants here in the USA, which would create more jobs here at home for US citizens, which would then in turn increase our income tax revenue.</p>
<p>Bringing manufacturing back to the US not only gives jobs to the US citizens who would be working in those manufacturing facilities, but to the people that would be working in the businesses that would spring up all around them. This should also include the safe harvesting, production and distribution of our own natural energy here in the USA, rather than paying for fuel from countries where they hate us. Let’s keep that money and those jobs here in the US.</p>
<p>These so-called “free trade agreements” have to go. It was obvious when they were passing these agreements as to what was going to happen and sure enough it did. Our leaders had to have known this as well when they were passing these bills. It’s just common sense. </p>
<p>We also need to bring customer support services back to the United States of America and staff them with employees who are US Citizens.</p>
<p>The “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field! The whole idea of the tariffs is so we can pay our factory workers a decent wage and not be blown out by these other countries where they don’t play by the same rules.</p>
<p>We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we&#8217;ll still have jobs and a future for our children.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect American industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.</p>
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