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	<title>Comments on: Plutocracy Reborn: U.S. Wealth Inequality Gap Largest since 1928</title>
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		<title>By: Tony N</title>
		<link>http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/04/12/plutocracy-reborn-wealth-inequality-gap-largest-since-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-281646</link>
		<dc:creator>Tony N</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can we say a Romney Presidency would make the Perfect International Plutocracy ever seen before in world History ???

 What could happen with this kind of Power consolidated into the Executive Branch of Government that Controls the Worlds Trade Currency and the Power of Pardons associated  with the formalization of the Multi-National Corporate and Financial Hedge Funds of the private sector economy ??? 
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/10/fanatic-presidential-candidate-romney-voted-for-population-control/   

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/01/mitt-romney-is-cfrs-door-to-de-population-fascists-leaders-obama-usa-harper-canada-streamlines-population-control-with-monsanto-genetically-modified-plant-seeds-which-is-linked-to-organ-fai/   

Would Mitt Romney agree with the UN Agenda 21 protocols ???? 
Rep. Herger is Wrong About Agenda 21
BY HENRY LAMB

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/02/04/rep-herger-is-wrong-about-agenda-21/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can we say a Romney Presidency would make the Perfect International Plutocracy ever seen before in world History ???</p>
<p> What could happen with this kind of Power consolidated into the Executive Branch of Government that Controls the Worlds Trade Currency and the Power of Pardons associated  with the formalization of the Multi-National Corporate and Financial Hedge Funds of the private sector economy ???<br />
<a href="http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/10/fanatic-presidential-candidate-romney-voted-for-population-control/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/10/fanatic-presidential-candidate-romney-voted-for-population-control/</a>   </p>
<p><a href="http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/01/mitt-romney-is-cfrs-door-to-de-population-fascists-leaders-obama-usa-harper-canada-streamlines-population-control-with-monsanto-genetically-modified-plant-seeds-which-is-linked-to-organ-fai/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/01/01/mitt-romney-is-cfrs-door-to-de-population-fascists-leaders-obama-usa-harper-canada-streamlines-population-control-with-monsanto-genetically-modified-plant-seeds-which-is-linked-to-organ-fai/</a>   </p>
<p>Would Mitt Romney agree with the UN Agenda 21 protocols ????<br />
Rep. Herger is Wrong About Agenda 21<br />
BY HENRY LAMB</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/02/04/rep-herger-is-wrong-about-agenda-21/" rel="nofollow">http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/02/04/rep-herger-is-wrong-about-agenda-21/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Cooperatives are the Answer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cooperatives are the Answer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] depression that has already devastated millions of families; and answers for a way out of this horrendous mess sometimes seem few and far between. However, one of the bright rays of light shining through this [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] depression that has already devastated millions of families; and answers for a way out of this horrendous mess sometimes seem few and far between. However, one of the bright rays of light shining through this [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Voter Suppression Far More Common than 32,299 UFO Sightings</title>
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		<dc:creator>Voter Suppression Far More Common than 32,299 UFO Sightings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] hoards of undocumented immigrants and others are voting illegally is a myth constructed by wealthy plutocratic interests to suppress voting rights; much in the same way that the fallacious concept of [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] hoards of undocumented immigrants and others are voting illegally is a myth constructed by wealthy plutocratic interests to suppress voting rights; much in the same way that the fallacious concept of [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Bertolt Brecht &#124; Temporary Placeholder</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bertolt Brecht &#124; Temporary Placeholder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] similarities to Brecht&#8217;s own times are not merely topical. Consider the following observation from Robert [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] similarities to Brecht&#8217;s own times are not merely topical. Consider the following observation from Robert [...]</p>
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		<title>By: jeff.1089</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeff.1089</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@drhubbell (continued)

There was no cosmic law or mandate from god that we had to start coming out of the Great Depression starting in 1932.  In fact, the Great Depression was caused by Warren Harding&#039;s Team based on policies enacted in the early 1920&#039;s.  Because we were on a gold standard, the consequences were far quicker to roll out back then, but the same dynamics have been playing out over the last 30 years (40 years if you look at it from a union perspective). In 1932, Hoover was planning to pass a regressive tax to provide missing revenue needed to fill revenue holes and support the limited social programs he was adding.  A massive letter writing campaign resulted, and one of those letters must have given him some insight to economics, because he turned around and turned that into the most progressive tax change in the last century.  1932 was also when Glass Steagal was passed, and there were other areas of national policy moving in a progressive direction. The result?  Ask Eric Cantor what you expect when you raise the top tax bracket from 25% to 65% while simultaneously becoming more union friendly and putting limitations on big business and he will tell you there is no doubt.  An already weak economy will tank!  Ask Rep Boehner and he will tell you the same thing.  The tea partiers profess publicly to believe that as well.  Not one of the Republicans that you hear about on a daily basis would even admit publicly where their donors can hear them that it is *possible* that this could be associated with a return to growth.  And yet, when you look at what happened, you saw a change from two-digit shrinkage to two-digit growth (By far and away the biggest such change over the last century - For comparison, since Reagan took office we have not once gone above 5% growth; 1980 is the dividing line for that)! This is a gross mis-stewardship of their offices on par with that of an airline pilot that tells you you should pull up hard immediately if your engine stalls.  Politics is the only profession where professionals are not expected to know nor rewarded for knowing the consequences of their actions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@drhubbell (continued)</p>
<p>There was no cosmic law or mandate from god that we had to start coming out of the Great Depression starting in 1932.  In fact, the Great Depression was caused by Warren Harding&#8217;s Team based on policies enacted in the early 1920&#8242;s.  Because we were on a gold standard, the consequences were far quicker to roll out back then, but the same dynamics have been playing out over the last 30 years (40 years if you look at it from a union perspective). In 1932, Hoover was planning to pass a regressive tax to provide missing revenue needed to fill revenue holes and support the limited social programs he was adding.  A massive letter writing campaign resulted, and one of those letters must have given him some insight to economics, because he turned around and turned that into the most progressive tax change in the last century.  1932 was also when Glass Steagal was passed, and there were other areas of national policy moving in a progressive direction. The result?  Ask Eric Cantor what you expect when you raise the top tax bracket from 25% to 65% while simultaneously becoming more union friendly and putting limitations on big business and he will tell you there is no doubt.  An already weak economy will tank!  Ask Rep Boehner and he will tell you the same thing.  The tea partiers profess publicly to believe that as well.  Not one of the Republicans that you hear about on a daily basis would even admit publicly where their donors can hear them that it is *possible* that this could be associated with a return to growth.  And yet, when you look at what happened, you saw a change from two-digit shrinkage to two-digit growth (By far and away the biggest such change over the last century &#8211; For comparison, since Reagan took office we have not once gone above 5% growth; 1980 is the dividing line for that)! This is a gross mis-stewardship of their offices on par with that of an airline pilot that tells you you should pull up hard immediately if your engine stalls.  Politics is the only profession where professionals are not expected to know nor rewarded for knowing the consequences of their actions.</p>
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		<title>By: jeff.1089</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeff.1089</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a myth propagated by market fundamentalists. People in the US are having to work far harder to have the basic necessities of life then they were in, for example, 1950. The myth refers to the fact that production is not a zero-sum game, but in all actuality, the *dollars* that chase that consumption *is* a zero-sum game if you ignore money expansion, which is set up to disproportionately favor the rich.  So production capabilities can march forward, but actual production volumes will shrink steadily as more and more *dollars* leave the hands of those that consume. What you are overlooking is, capital investment is not what generates a better VCR, IPOD, or Plasma TV.  *Profits* are what create better goods and services.  And the profits will never be there unless you have a middle class to sell to.  Third party capital investment can potentially impact this by increasing funding for marginal ideas, but unless there is an unusual capital shortage in the existing channels, trying to improve the economy this way is at best trying to boil the ocean by hoping that enough of the spillover from the various asset bubbles supply side economics creates (eg. 1920s, 1980-2010), and at worst it is sucking the life out of the demand side of the equation, and no-one will produce for a market that doesn&#039;t exist no matter *how* much capital is behind them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a myth propagated by market fundamentalists. People in the US are having to work far harder to have the basic necessities of life then they were in, for example, 1950. The myth refers to the fact that production is not a zero-sum game, but in all actuality, the *dollars* that chase that consumption *is* a zero-sum game if you ignore money expansion, which is set up to disproportionately favor the rich.  So production capabilities can march forward, but actual production volumes will shrink steadily as more and more *dollars* leave the hands of those that consume. What you are overlooking is, capital investment is not what generates a better VCR, IPOD, or Plasma TV.  *Profits* are what create better goods and services.  And the profits will never be there unless you have a middle class to sell to.  Third party capital investment can potentially impact this by increasing funding for marginal ideas, but unless there is an unusual capital shortage in the existing channels, trying to improve the economy this way is at best trying to boil the ocean by hoping that enough of the spillover from the various asset bubbles supply side economics creates (eg. 1920s, 1980-2010), and at worst it is sucking the life out of the demand side of the equation, and no-one will produce for a market that doesn&#8217;t exist no matter *how* much capital is behind them.</p>
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		<title>By: drhubbell</title>
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		<dc:creator>drhubbell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People on ALL levels of income are better off now than they were in 1929. Re the wealth gap: The Liberals say they would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That way one will never create the wealth for a better country. Most agree we need to remove all tax breaks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People on ALL levels of income are better off now than they were in 1929. Re the wealth gap: The Liberals say they would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That way one will never create the wealth for a better country. Most agree we need to remove all tax breaks.</p>
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		<title>By: Wealth Gap Map Shows Road to Next Great Depression</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wealth Gap Map Shows Road to Next Great Depression</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] distribution map graphic hit me in the gut this morning. It very clearly conveys the enormous income disparity geographically and visually. The simple map really helps one to grasp just how monumental the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] distribution map graphic hit me in the gut this morning. It very clearly conveys the enormous income disparity geographically and visually. The simple map really helps one to grasp just how monumental the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel Maddow and Gene Robinson Talk Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel Maddow and Gene Robinson Talk Occupy Wall Street</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] represents. It seems to be about the dollars, and the figures are terrible, y&#8217;know how the wealth has become so concentrated in so few; but the emotional content of it to me seems like people are mourning the fact that we [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] represents. It seems to be about the dollars, and the figures are terrible, y&#8217;know how the wealth has become so concentrated in so few; but the emotional content of it to me seems like people are mourning the fact that we [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Neighborhood Activists Call for Chase Bank Boycott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neighborhood Activists Call for Chase Bank Boycott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] (please see &#8220;One Bank to Rule Us All&#8221;), they have been expanding faster than even the enormous wealth inequality gap in this country. On Mission Street in the city there are actually two different Chase banks only [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] (please see &#8220;One Bank to Rule Us All&#8221;), they have been expanding faster than even the enormous wealth inequality gap in this country. On Mission Street in the city there are actually two different Chase banks only [...]</p>
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