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							<title><![CDATA[The Washington Swamp Is the Real Threat to Democracy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Sherk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington policymakers often pontificate about protecting democracy. But in typical fashion, congressional leaders miss the real problem. Photo ID laws and bans on ballot harvesting do not threaten democracy. Laws that make it hard to fire federal bureaucrats do. They empower the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's United Auto Workers Bailout]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Sherk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama touts the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler as one of the signature successes of his administration. He argues that the estimated $23 billion the taxpayers lost was worth paying to avoid massive job losses. However, our research finds that the president could have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why FDR Warned Against Public Unions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Sherk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'That wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking.   That was George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O  -- in  1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor...]]></description>
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