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							<title><![CDATA[Why Has Long-Term Unemployment Doubled?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2012/07/10/why-long-term-unemployment-has-doubled-under-president-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media has focused on prolonged unemployment over 8 percent, while generally downplaying a shocker: the soaring number of people unemployed for more than 6 months.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, back in January 2009 when Barack Obama was sworn in, there were 2.6 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Outs Obama as Biggest Middle Class Tax Hiker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2012/06/29/supreme-court-outs-obama-as-the-biggest-middle-class-tax-hiker/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most definitive promise that Barack Obama made during the 2008 campaign was that there would be no middle class tax increases.Obama was as emphatic as President George H.W. Bush who, in 1992, campaigned with the bold slogan, &ldquo;Read my lips, no new taxes!&rdquo; ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Economic Growth President]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For several hundred years, a consensus developed in Western nations that economic growth &ndash; human progress &ndash; is a good thing. But now economic growth is under attack.Economic growth has meant more jobs, higher incomes, more wealth and all the good things that become possible...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Tax Policies to Suck the Life out of the Valley]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley became famous as a great incubator of partnerships that helped develop companies like Apple, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel and Sun Microsystems. But if President Barack Obama has his way, Silicon Valley will be hammered.Obama outlined a budget that would more than double...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama's Soak-The-Rich Plan Will End Up Hurting Middle Class]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has claimed that his budget goes after the rich who supposedly will pay the cost of his spending extravaganza. But it is already apparent that the rest of us will pay plenty.Obama is continuing the crusade against offshore tax havens he began as an Illinois senator. He's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big Infrastructure Programs Go Wrong]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Powell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recently enacted $787 billion "stimulus" program appears to be the down payment on a sweeping "new New Deal" that will include many other ambitious government programs--including the possible nationalization of health care.Given the size and scope of such interventions into the...]]></description>
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