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		<title>Elitism, Oligarchy and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/elitism-oligarchy-and-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from a dailykos blogger/contributor 0n 10/20/08
One of the things that always amazed and bothered me was that the overwhelming majority of people who rose to the top of and were most successful at the schools that I attended and companies that I worked for were themselves the children of powerful and successful parents. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=216&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Hates the Gooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I hate the gooks,&#8221; McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. &#8220;I will hate them as long as I live.&#8221;
Yes. I know he was held captive by the North Vietnamese. He himself admits he has hatred inside him. This could also be why he is so angry. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=215&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FPL to raise electric bills</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/fpl-to-raise-electric-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our electric bills are going up in August and again in 2009. How do these people expect us to live? We have a lot of senior citizens in Florida on social security. Seems they do not give a damn about us. Is this increase in electric bills and in gasoline prices going to be reflected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=212&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Views</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It does not appear that we can rely on government to solve our problems. If there is going to be a solution, I think it is going to have to come from the grassroots. The price of gasoline is outrageous. I think this was all planned a long time ago by Bush, Cheney and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=211&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secrecy in the Bush Administration &#8211; Another Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Daily Kos June 15, 2008
The dirty secret about the Bush administration negotiations with Nouri al Maliki&#8217;s government for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) is that they hinge upon secrecy. Begun in earnest in March, all the details have been kept secret from the US Congress, the Iraqi Parliament, and the public in both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=210&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Solutions</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/practical-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have any ideas that will help the middle class? I believe in the intrinsic value of education, however, I also think we need to be practical and take into consideration the realities of today&#8217;s economy. Kids should attend college but I think they should carefully consider their major area of study. Unless you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=209&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance Companies Cancel Sick Patients</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/health-insurance-companies-cancel-sick-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 9, 2007 
One of the state&#8217;s largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.
Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided paying $35.5 million in medical expenses by rescinding about 1,600 policies between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=208&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Class: What Can We Do?</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/the-middle-class-what-can-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think there must be some things we can do. How many of us started out in the middle class in the 60&#8217;s only to find ourselves struggling to make ends meet these days? Sometimes things happen to cause changes in our lives&#8230;things like divorce. After a divorce, many women lose their middle income status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=207&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Class</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/the-middle-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a middle class household in New Jersey in the 60&#8217;s. We were neither rich nor poor, but fairly comfortable. Today, I am not alone in my concern that my children will not have the same middle income standard of living. What is the reason for this? Well, for one thing it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=206&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Sanders Immigration Bill Amendment</title>
		<link>http://suzi106.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/bernie-sanders-immigration-bill-amendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, I want to speak about an amendment that I will be offering with Senator Grassley to the Immigration Reform Bill, Amendment 1332.
This amendment has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the Programmers Guild and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
But, before I speak about the amendment, I want to focus on what is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzi106.wordpress.com&blog=382058&post=205&subd=suzi106&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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