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	<title>The Swamp Report &#187; Obama</title>
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	<description>Political, Economic, and Finance related commentary. J.D. Swampfox Associates report on battles for prosperity against the &#34;Tarleton&#34; of big government.</description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll all be equal: at least equally broke</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/well-all-be-equal-at-least-equally-broke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/well-all-be-equal-at-least-equally-broke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Frezza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Frezza&#8217;s complete column is reproduced here &#8211; but, please visit his site. How can the American people be so stupid&#8230;.indeed. The Dawn of a New Age In the United States By Bill Frezza Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, after a tumultuous year of political theater, the Age of Obama has dawned. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fat cat bankers on wall street&#8221; is just Obama BS</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fat-cat-bankers-on-wall-street-is-just-obama-bs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fat-cat-bankers-on-wall-street-is-just-obama-bs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blodgett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end of the world threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat cat bankers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tech Ticker is very cynical on the Obama Administration.  So too is the American public &#8211; as evidenced by the recent poll numbers.  The excuse to spend until the world ends was that we need to avoid the end of the world.  So now we have a choice: end of the world? or&#8230;end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed Health Care Bill Will Fund Immunization Police</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/proposed-health-care-bill-will-fund-immunization-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/proposed-health-care-bill-will-fund-immunization-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immunization Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the official summary of bill that has been put together by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee (emphasis added): Authorizes a demonstration program to improve immunization coverage. Under this program, CDC will provide grants to states to improve immunization coverage of children, adolescents, and adults through the use of evidence-based interventions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howie Rich: Obama&#8217;s deliberate undoing of Clinton&#8217;s welfare reform</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/howie-rich-obamas-deliberate-undoing-of-clintons-welfare-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/howie-rich-obamas-deliberate-undoing-of-clintons-welfare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependency on government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Swamp Report usually focuses on the financial matters and trends particularly as related to government policy.  Building a larger welfare class may seem like a good way to build a base of dependent voters, but in the long run, the government debt needed to fund such vote buying is unsustainable and will backfire.  President Clinton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JPM, MS and GS throw down the gauntlet: &#8220;We will not allow the market to go down&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/jpm-ms-and-gs-throw-down-the-gauntlet-we-will-not-allow-the-market-to-go-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/jpm-ms-and-gs-throw-down-the-gauntlet-we-will-not-allow-the-market-to-go-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there ANY group or groups who can collectively overcome the floor price on the S&#38;P established by the big banks with financing from the FED? Is there ANY group with deep enough pockets to take control of the American economy away from them? Are you getting this Austan Goolsbee? These people need to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy O knows what&#8217;s best for you</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/daddy-o-knows-whats-best-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/daddy-o-knows-whats-best-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavioral economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NPR talks about the government&#8217;s crafting laws to encourage behavior it thinks is best for you. &#8220;Does the word paternalistic come up in this?&#8221;  You can listen in here.]]></description>
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		<title>Be Afraid?</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/be-afraid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/be-afraid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delveraging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worst is yet to come]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Tech Ticker (ht Rolfe Winkler)&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;the whole concept of the economy finding its footing was &#8220;preposterous&#8221; to begin with, says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz &#38; Associates.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re in a complete mess and the consumer is smart enough to know it,&#8221; says Davidowitz, whose firm does consulting for the retail industry. &#8220;If the consumer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McGovern and the employee free choice act</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/mcgovern-and-the-employee-free-choice-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/mcgovern-and-the-employee-free-choice-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[employee free choice act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[George McGovern has opposed the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) because it it would eliminate secret ballots in union organizing elections and, he adds in this WSJ piece, because it requires compulsory arbitration: &#8220;This feature would give the government the power to step into labor disputes where employers and labor leaders cannot reach an agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Black: &#8220;felony securities fraud on a massive scale&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/bill-black-felony-securities-fraud-on-a-massive-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/bill-black-felony-securities-fraud-on-a-massive-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More from Bill Black criticizing the government&#8217;s bank bailout and cover-up&#8230;this time in a Barron&#8217;s interview: &#8220;The scale of fraud is immense. This whole bank scandal makes Teapot Dome [of the 1920s] look like some kid&#8217;s doll set. Unless the current administration changes course pretty drastically, the scandal will destroy Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency. The Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros: love Obama, hate his zombie banks</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/soros-love-obama-hate-his-zombie-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/soros-love-obama-hate-his-zombie-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Soros is quoted in an interview with Tick Ticker as supportive of President Obama&#8217;s policies generally but not of his need to reach a consensus which costs valuable time in dealing with the banks: &#8220;Essentially, Soros believes we should be following the so-called Swedish solution but fears we are heading down the same policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to allow GM bankruptcy? &#8211; it&#8217;s a bluff</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/obama-to-allow-gm-bankruptcy-its-a-bluff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/obama-to-allow-gm-bankruptcy-its-a-bluff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank oligopoly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holman Jenkins of the WSJ says President Obama will never jeopardize his re-election by hurting the UAW: &#8220;Even a &#8220;prepackaged&#8221; filing runs too much risk of a judge imposing more &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; on the UAW than the administration is prepared to tolerate. GM bondholders understand this: They&#8217;ve been intransigent precisely because they calculate the UAW is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT slobbers a little over Obama, before G20</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/ft-slobbers-a-little-over-obama-before-g20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/ft-slobbers-a-little-over-obama-before-g20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FT published its &#8220;exclusive interview&#8221; with President Obama today.Â  The interview of the &#8220;much like FDR&#8221; portrays the President as one who, in comparison to his predecessors, &#8220;conveys a degree of pragmatism&#8221; and &#8220;modulated phrasing&#8221; and who has a good chance to succeed in uniting the world at &#8220;the most important world economic gathering in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An example: how Geithner&#8217;s plan would work</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we said in a previous post, the proposed program is designed to hide the fact thatÂ  the taxpayer is paying for all the losses on the assets and the bank bondholders are unscathed.Â  But according to this comment by John C. Halasz on James Kwak&#8217;s Baseline Scenario coverage of the Geithner plan , it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman on the Geithner bank plan</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/krugman-on-the-geithner-bank-plan-it%e2%80%99s-just-another-version-of-an-idea-that-keeps-coming-up-and-keeps-being-refuted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/krugman-on-the-geithner-bank-plan-it%e2%80%99s-just-another-version-of-an-idea-that-keeps-coming-up-and-keeps-being-refuted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize winning, self-described liberal economist Paul Krugman said on his blog Saturday: &#8220;&#8230;itâ€™s just horrifying that Obama â€” and yes, the buck stops there â€” has decided to base his financial plan on the fantasy that a bit of financial hocus-pocus will turn the clock back to 2006.&#8221; Basically, Dr. Krugman says the banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Obama we trusted, now we&#8217;re busted</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/in-obama-we-trusted-now-were-busted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/in-obama-we-trusted-now-were-busted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1932, a popular slogan was &#8220;in Hoover we trusted, now we&#8217;re busted&#8221;.Â  The Obama Administration wants to characterize the president as FDR, and Bush as Hoover.Â Â  But, the change we can believe in is anything but.Â  An article by a realtor in Orange County before the election anticipated the fall in real estate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newt Gingrich: Obama uses French socialists to write his budget</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/newt-gingrich-points-out-that-obama-uses-french-socialists-to-help-him-write-his-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/newt-gingrich-points-out-that-obama-uses-french-socialists-to-help-him-write-his-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s budget has much more to do with redistributing wealth than with economic recovery.Â  Newt Gingrich on Fox&#8217;s Hannity show on Friday, March 13Â  points out that Obama uses a chart prepared by French socialists on page 11 of his new budget document.Â  The graph was created by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, French economists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volcker: &#8220;immediate, continuing crisis in the financial system.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/volcker-immediate-continuing-crisis-in-the-financial-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Paul Volcker is quoted as saying, &#8220;There are big economic problems behind the financial system too that are going to take longer to work out and you can&#8217;t neglect those problems while we&#8217;re working on this immediate, continuing crisis in the financial system.&#8221; So&#8230; what happened to everything is ok, now and Citi doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: The crisis is not that bad&#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/obama-the-crisis-is-not-that-bad-but-what-does-he-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama, speaking to the nations CEOs on Thursday said the crisis was &#8220;not as bad as we think.&#8221; He goes on to say that what we think is ever changing: &#8220;A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great.Â Â  A little bit of bad news and &#8216;Ooohh, we&#8217;re down on the dumps&#8217;&#8221;. So&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a socialist -Bush is&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/obama-im-not-a-socialist-bush-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama calls the NY Times back to say, &#8220;By the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system, and the thing I constantly try to emphasize to people is that if coming in the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to [...]]]></description>
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