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		<title>QE2 and Math That Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/qe2-and-math-that-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll readily admit I’m not the smartest guy in the room. Well, maybe I am – I am in here by myself, but… When the Fed says they are going to create the equivalent of 700,000 jobs with the $600 BILLION bond purchase, I get a little skeptical. Fortunately, I graduated from high school in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=175&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Comment on the Tax Code Ever?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Dusty! Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=172&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking One for the Team</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/taking-one-for-the-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a January interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, President Obama stated he “would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.”&#160; Many took this as a shot at George W. Bush.&#160; I would offer that it was really a shot at Bill Clinton.&#160; In the word-parsing tradition of Clinton, it all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=165&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just when you thought our &#8220;leadership&#8221; couldn&#8217;t get any worse&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/just-when-you-thought-our-leadership-couldnt-get-any-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 11:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words can&#8217;t describe my disgust and disappointment over Congress giving this guy a standing ovation. In his country, if you don&#8217;t have your papers, you are deported immediately.  Who in the hell does he think he is to criticize us, for not wanting to clean up his mess?? Filed under: Politics, Rants<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=152&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Day for Stocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 10:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice day for stocks. Well, maybe if you’ve shorted them (I haven’t). Seriously though, maybe this will serve as a wake up call for our leaders that too much debt is most certainly NOT a good thing. People in Greece are rioting, many have been hurt, many have been arrested, and three, so far, have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=149&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apathy or something like it</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/apathy-or-something-like-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merriam-Webster defines apathy as: 1 : lack of feeling or emotion 2 : lack of interest or concern Definition 2 is currently on my mind, because it seems closest to what has happened with the conservative voice in politics.  Before anyone jumps on me, I&#8217;m NOT saying that conservatives are apathetic. Not my meaning at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=47&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Jobs</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/more-on-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve stated once before (or maybe a million times before), we need more jobs in the private sector.  These jobs pay taxes; they aren’t paid for by taxes.  We’ve spent the last year with Congress and the President worrying about seemingly everything but jobs.  If we are going to grow the economy again, jobs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=132&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should I willingly suspend disbelief now?</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/should-i-willingly-suspend-disbelief-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost count of how many times he blamed Bush.  My point here &#8211; you were elected to solve problems, not blame others.  Bush didn&#8217;t ram the non-working stimulus through Congress.  Bush isn&#8217;t trying to raise taxes via health care, cap-and-trade, or letting tax cuts expire.  It will be interesting to see what&#8217;s in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=127&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/more-on-uncertainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of the Union address should be interesting tonight.  I&#8221;ll be very interested to hear what Obama has to say about the economy and the jobs situation in general.  I&#8217;m more than a little concerned that he is just now starting to emphasize job creation.  Despite what we may have been told, the stimulus package [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=121&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s about jobs?</title>
		<link>http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/now-its-about-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm… it’s all about jobs now? Really?  Poorly done health care reform, cap-and-trade, massive deficits, apology tours, and Nobel prizes are not the way to prosperity?  This may be a novel concept, and I’m sure no one has ever thought of this before, but here goes.  If people don’t have jobs, none of the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theillinoisguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10350337&amp;post=118&amp;subd=theillinoisguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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