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		<title>Tea Party Idiots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if the people going these &#8220;tea parties&#8221; know what the Boston Tea Party was all about? Either they have no clue or  don&#8217;t have the creative prowess to come up with an original name for their event. I believe civics class taught me that taxation without representation was the driving force [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=334&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capital One&#8217;s Arrogance Towards It&#8217;s Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting letters from credit card companies lately saying that my borrowing rate is going up. WAY UP. I&#8217;ve never been late on a  credit card payment, I have never borrowed more than 30% of my credit limit and at least 11 out of 12 months in the year I pay off my credit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=332&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a problem with ethics in business, and it&#8217;s spread over the global economy. Putting the blame on Wall Street is easy, but it&#8217;s only a part of the problem. We as consumers have to share the blame. We&#8217;ve gotten so comfortable with our &#8220;stuff&#8221; and have been so blinded by advertising, keeping up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=330&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Rick Warren Pick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s pick of evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his swearing in is creating some controversy with idealogues in the gay and hard liberal sectors. Though I  strongly disagree with many of pastor Warren&#8217;s philosophies on gay and women&#8217;s rights , he is one of the few mega-church evangelicals to break [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=326&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Culture of Bernard Madoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day we are reading about another &#8220;bad apple&#8221; in the investment business. Bernard Madoff has moved the bar of ethics and greed even lower. How can it be that one man can defraud investors, many of them supposedly very knowledgeable and skilled, of over 50 billion dollars in a ponzi scheme. Even I thought that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=324&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Era of Corruption</title>
		<link>http://averageuscitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/the-era-of-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that corruption and cheating have become a way of life in America. Corruption has and will always exist, but lately every facet of our lives seem to be affected by greed and hubris. Over the last 20 or 30 years, we seem to accept it as the way of the world. Hopefully the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=321&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Automotive Industry Bailout Pre-Conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of talk about bailing out the US Auto Industry. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are all sinking faster than the Titanic and are begging for a bailout. The US Auto industry started sinking in the 70&#8242;s and the complete incompetence of the corporate leadership and their marketing department&#8217;s iron grip on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=319&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Matter With People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t really imagine why anyone would really want to run for political office, especially a national one. I&#8217;m also always amazed at how blind a considerable amount of people are to the back stabbing and snake oil salesmanship that goes on to win votes. It&#8217;s incredible how people will vote against their own best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=315&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Is In&#8230;What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://averageuscitizen.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/obama-is-inwhats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long road, but the election is over and Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. Now it&#8217;s time for the return trip to make this country whole again. This one is all uphill and it&#8217;s going to take a lot of thought, a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=313&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today I Witnessed History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know who is going to win this election. I think that it&#8217;s going to be a lot closer than the predictions, but in my 54 years, the only election I remember being so exciting was when I was a very young boy and my parents voted for Kennedy. This election has been full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averageuscitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4342353&amp;post=310&amp;subd=averageuscitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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