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		<title>President to Wall Street:  Come to the light (Video &amp; Transcript)</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/04/president-to-wall-street-come-to-the-light-video-transcript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 22, 2010 Remarks by the President on Wall Street Reform Cooper Union, New York, New York 11:50 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Everybody, please have a seat.  Thank you very much.  Well, thank you.  It is good to be back.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) admits that the Stimulus worked</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/01/conservative-think-tank-american-enterprise-institute-aei-admits-that-the-stimulus-worked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So whenever you hear a Republican politician or tea partier say that the stimulus failed point them to this article where conservative think tank AEI admitted that the stimulus boosted the economy by 4%. The real economy also responded to the massive stimulus but remained heavily dependent on it. In the United States, growth during the second half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Weekly Address:  Good News on the Economy -11/2/09 (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Over 43,000 Americans lost their jobs Yesterday&#8230;.anyone want to play politics?</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/01/over-43000-americans-lost-their-jobs-yesterdayanyone-want-to-play-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caterpillar, Sprint, Home Depot, IBM, United Airlines, Texas Instruments, General Motors, Pfizer, cut over 43,000 jobs yesterday.  Yet the GOP is playing politics with respect to the latest stimulus package.  The GOP has not presented any better ideas besides the Bush tax cuts that helped put us in this situation in the first place.  This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It took a Democrat to get us out of the Economic crisis of 1992, it will take a Democrat to get us out of the Economic crisis of 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/10/it-took-a-democrat-to-get-us-out-of-the-economic-crisis-of-1992-it-will-take-a-democrat-to-get-us-out-of-the-economic-crisis-of-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1992 George Bush Sr. ran against William Jefferson Clinton when it was &#8220;the economy stupid.&#8221;  The last market crash was during the Reagan administration in 1987 when market indexes dropped 43% in seven days.  George Bush 41 also left the nation in a recession when he left office in 1992.  It took democrat Bill Clinton to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LAST Debate Night! Obama should Expect McCain to throw the Kitchen sink at him Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of tonight&#8217;s debate is the economy, the economy, the economy.  Not exactly Sen. McCain&#8217;s strong point.  Thus Sen. Obama should be prepared for Sen. McCain to raise several distractions.  This is McCain&#8217;s last stand and he is desperate to change the subject.  Therefore, as far as the McCain campaign is concerned, nothing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain&#8230;.the campaign that you are running is Offensive to the American people</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/10/john-mccainthe-campaign-that-you-are-running-is-offensive-to-the-american-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our economy is in horrendous shape and Sen. John McCain thinks that the American people haven&#8217;t noticed?  Yesterday, the dow plunged almost 700 points, the NASDAQ dropped 95 points, ands the S&#38;P dropped 75 points, but what is the McCain campaign focused on?  Baseless inflammatory accusations against Sen. Barack Obama.  Where is your plan Sen. McCain?  Where is your plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy, Economy, Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/10/economy-economy-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as the McCain campaign is trying to change the subject by personally attacking Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s character the economy issue is not going away.   At one point yesterday the market dropped 800 points.  People do not care about William Ayers, they care about their sinking 401K.  When the McCain campaign announced last weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Gramm (future McCain Administration Treasury Secretary?), the man behind this economic meltdown</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/09/possible-future-mccain-administration-treasury-secretary-phil-gramm-the-man-behind-the-this-economic-meltdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is former Senator and McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm who is primarily responsible for the law that caused this economic meltdown.  Chair of the Senate Banking Committee at the time and acting under cover of darkness, then Sen. Phil Gramm pushed through a bill titled the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA).  Gramm did so right after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal: John McCain does a &#8220;sex change operation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/07/wall-street-journal-john-mccain-does-a-sex-change-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger evaluates John McCain&#8217;s tax policy and responds, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a flip-flop. It&#8217;s a sex-change operation.&#8221; The columnist goes on to ask the question of whether McCain is losing his way. Henninger writes : What I&#8217;m asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Plan For the Economy (full text)</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/07/obamas-plan-for-the-economy-full-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights of Obama&#8217;s economic plan: &#8211; A $50B stimulus package &#8211;Tax cut for the 90 percent of Americans making less than $250,000 a year &#8211; A $1K tax rebate for 95 percent of workers and their families &#8211; Eliminate income taxes entirely for seniors making less than $50K &#8211; A $4K college tax credit &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain&#8217;s plan for the Economy (full text)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain Speech on the Economy  Thank you very much. I appreciate the hospitality of the National Federation of Independent Business. And I am honored to be in the company of so many men and women who represent the best of American enterprise. I have never run a small, struggling enterprise &#8212; unless you count [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama voiced His Concerns regarding the Housing Crisis in a Letter to Bernanke a year Ago</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/03/obama-voiced-his-concerns-regarding-the-housing-crisis-in-a-letter-to-bernanke-a-year-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 22, 2007 The Honorable Ben Bernanke Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20551 The Honorable Henry Paulson Secretary U.S. Department of Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson, There is grave concern in low-income communities about [...]]]></description>
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