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							<title><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Time for GOP To Unite Behind Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/19/its_time_for_gop_to_unite_behind_trump_150665.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in my 94 years on earth, I fear for the future of our democracy. I see the federal government using its enormous powers with contempt for the governed instead of with the consent of the governed as our founders envisioned.
Fundamental change in America is occurring by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Every Day Biden Does Something To Weaken America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/11/12/bernie_marcus_every_day_biden_does_something_to_weaken_america_country_must_have_change_in_2024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus discusses his recent op-ed in RealClearPolitics endorsing Donald Trump for president with FBN's Larry Kudlow:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Stakes and a Simple Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/09/high_stakes_and_a_simple_choice_150037.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am 94 years old and like many of you, I am exhausted by politics and saddened by what I see happening to America. I had hoped it was time for me to move to the sidelines and let younger generations continue the fight to preserve America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s founding freedoms and values. But, like so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Whisper to the Conservative Movement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/06/a_whisper_to_the_conservative_movement.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is in a state of decline, if not chaos, following disappointing results in three straight elections and too many years of organized turmoil in our streets, schools, government institutions, and elsewhere. Reversing this requires fundamental changes in conservatives'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship Will Lift Minorities Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/entrepreneurship-minority-immigrant-home-depot-bernie-marcus-american-dream-upward-mobility-income-economic-disparity-regulation-11673262847?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big government is a far heavier burden to those who start out without privileges and advantages.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Must Not Return to Obama-Biden Stagnation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/home-depot-co-founder-marcus-trump-second-term</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump deserves a second term not despite his COVID-19 response but because of it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chinese Communist Party Owes the World Answers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-china-hold-accountable-deaths-devastation-bernie-marcus</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After becoming aware of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' coronavirus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' outbreak,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' why did China continue to allow flights from Wuhan to other parts of the world?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' And why did China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' buy an estimated 2.2 billion masks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' between Jan.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 24'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and the end of February?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' A new lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Response Bill Deserves Widespread Support]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-bill-paid-leave-support-bernie-marcus-andy-puzder</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an effort to address the coronavirus crisis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the House passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on Friday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Want to Change the Rules of the Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/11/exclusive-marcus-democrats-cant-win-based-on-their-ideas-so-they-want-to-change-the-rules-of-the-game/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats try to subvert U.S. founding institutions in their lust for power that they can't achieve through the existing framework.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia Businesses Are Victims of Abrams' Sour Grapes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/21/georgia_businesses_are_victims_of_abrams_sour_grapes_138717.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Georgia's film industry-related small businesses are about to experience the bitter taste of Stacey Abrams' sour grapes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
After 10 days of casting doubt and aspersions on Georgia's election results, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate offered a no concession-concession this week....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Needs a Fed Chair Who Won't Ride the Brakes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/01/trump_needs_a_fed_chair_who_wont_ride_the_brakes_138526.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has said the Federal Reserve has '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gone crazy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He might not be too far off the mark. Chairman Jerome Powell'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s threat to raise interest rates one more time this year after already increasing them three times is certainly ill-advised.
The U.S. economy is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Should Not Give In to Schumer on NLRB]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/403468-putting-pearce-back-on-labor-board-would-be-a-blow-to-small-business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump is reportedly being urged to compromise with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and reappoint National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Mark Pearce, a Democrat whose term ends Monday, to another five-year session.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fixing Education Is Key to Improving Job Creation]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/education/395011-fixing-education-is-key-to-improving-job-creation</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Could merging the Labor and Education departments, as the Trump administration proposes, help make the U.S. education system more responsive to the 21st century needs of the labor market?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Courage Could Free U.S. From OPEC]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/07/trumps_courage_could_free_us_from_opec_137216.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every president since Bill Clinton promised to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  While his predecessors failed, Donald Trump had the courage to do it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Every president since Richard Nixon promised to make America energy independent, and failed.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Here too,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Reverse Robin Hood' Tax Reform Narrative Is Bunk]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/364680-the-lefts-reverse-robin-hood-tax-reform-narrative-is-bunk</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am not part of the middle class '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' I grew up poor before achieving '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The American Dream'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by co-founding The Home Depot '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but I spent my career helping middle-class Americans to achieve their personal and professional goals. I feel comfortable speaking on their behalf...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Should Unite For Legacy Tax-Reform Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/362020-republicans-should-unite-for-legacy-vote-on-tax-reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Delivering long-overdue relief from overtaxation so that small businesses can become big ones and so hardworking families can keep a little more of what they earn is a legacy for which every U.S. senator should be remembered.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Bills Give Small Businesses Plenty to Be Thankful For]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/360561-tax-bills-give-small-businesses-plenty-to-be-thankful-for</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As these bills move through the legislative process, policymakers should expand specific small-business relief provisions to all small businesses, regardless of industry classification. The small business that designs a home shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to subsidize the taxes of the business that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If GOP Won't Unite on Taxes, Dems Will Win in 2018]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/355818-bernie-marcus-if-gop-wont-unite-on-taxes-dems-will-win-in-2018</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Demanding the perfect plan would kill the good one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Home Depot Taught Me About Trump's Economic Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://ijr.com/opinion/2017/07/266417-founding-home-depot-taught-president-trumps-economic-policies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy seems to be gaining strength. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Dow Jones Industrial Averageboasted an all-time high in recent weeks, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' unemployment rate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has hit a post 2008 recession low, and stagnant wages are beginning to move. The economic uptick can be attributable to a number of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Results]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/13/trumps_results_133605.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The business community is brimming with optimism across America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the highest level in ten years. I know it, because I hear it from my colleagues every day. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re hopeful, and for good reason: President Donald Trump is moving his job creation agenda forward resolutely.
First,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Pieces of Debate Advice for Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/26/three_pieces_of_debate_advice_for_donald_trump_131889.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Notes to the nominee: Three things Donald Trump can do and say to own the debate stage
The good thing about being a different kind of candidate running a different kind of political campaign is this: you can do different kinds of things when it comes to debates. You do not have to do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Stand With Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/01/why_i_stand_with_donald_trump_130727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a backer of former Republican presidential candidates, I now stand in support of Donald J. Trump because the fate of this nation depends upon sending him, and not Hillary Clinton, to the White House.
I know Donald Trump, but we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not close friends. However, I believe he will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Campaign to Silence ObamaCare Dissent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0516/Why-are-Obamacare-supporters-attacking-job-creators</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In fact, Mr. Ruffer is the most recent victim in a troubling pattern of seemingly orchestrated campaigns to silence small business owners who speak out about President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s agenda. CEOs have told me they see disturbing parallels in the Internal Revenue Service and Department of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Government: The Grand Experiment Has Failed]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/611360/201205141814/cut-regulation-and-small-business-will-create-jobs.htm?p=full</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the financial crisis and throughout the sluggish economic recovery, working families and small-business owners have watched as the federal government has engaged in a grand experiment in government-led economic engineering. That experiment has failed. The latest jobs report...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[True Job Creators Need a Voice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/15/true_job_creators_need_a_voice_110204.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernie Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I worked hard to make my own small company into a big one but I never could have succeeded if I had faced the avalanche of impediments that our current government hurls down upon this generation of entrepreneurs. The White House's job creation strategy is to threaten higher taxes on...]]></description>
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