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	<title>Restoring Social Balance &#187; Political Misinformation</title>
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		<title>ACORN and Tea Parties &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		ACORN and the National Tea Party Federation were/are both community organizers in their own separate ways.  However, neither organized communities in the natural sense of that word.   People who belong to each other due to their living situation forms a community, independently of class, beliefs, education, etc., etc.  ACORN and NTPF each catered to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN and Tea Parties &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		I recently stumbled upon some old news about ACORN, the now defunct organization whose main purpose was to register the disenfranchised to vote.  The alleged purpose of the now popular Tea Parties is to protest centralized government.  With the advantage of hindsight I was struck by the similarities between ACORN and the National Tea Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indulgence of Oil &#8211; Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		The NYT article I linked to in the last post detailed how the oil industry reaps subsidies.  In responding to the article, the oil industry representatives did not refute the tax breaks that the oil industry gets, but rather justified them.  One thing to keep in mind is how big and consolidated the oil industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indulgence of Oil &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		This feature started with a NYT article about risks that BP has been taking for years.  There recently was a related NYT article, titled &#8220;As Oil Industry Fights a Tax It Reaps Subsidies,&#8221; by David Kocieniewski.  This hearkens back to when I first started this blog, in late spring of 2008.  At the time oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indulgence of Oil &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/the-indulgence-of-oil-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/the-indulgence-of-oil-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		The last post established that the power of nation states serves to legitimize corporate wealth.  The most striking application of this principle has been in the Middle East, where since the start of the twentieth century western intervention has formed nation states in the region with an eye towards oil.  Though the indulgence of oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indulgence of Oil &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/the-indulgence-of-oil-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		Our indulgence through oil begins, historically, with the indulgence of corporations.  The explosion at BP&#8217;s Deepwater Horizon rig begins with the first stock issued to the Dutch East Indies Corporation.  Here’s a question for you to ponder.  What do nation states have that previous city states did not have?
The answer is not great territories or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Campaign Spending Revisited</title>
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		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/presidential-campaign-spending-revisisted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		Blogs have the means to see which posts get the most traffic, an indication of both quality and appeal.  Yet occasionally a popular post is being hijacked and distorted by another blogger to mean something other than intended.  One of my posts stands alone in regards to being frequently hijacked &#8211; the one on presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Tea Party Federation</title>
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		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/the-national-tea-party-federation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		On the face of it, turning Tea Parties into a federation is a good thing from my perspective as a staunch advocate of federation.  However, this movement towards &#8220;Federation&#8221; actually reinforces my earlier criticisms of the Tea Parties as special interest groups.  It is really akin to putting lipstick on a pig.
For those who don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Political Balance &#8211; Wise Jurisprudence</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-political-balance-wise-jurisprudence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-political-balance-wise-jurisprudence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		The one place where you most expect wisdom from government is where authoritarianism has its greatest stranglehold.  Supreme Court Justices are nominated for life through party politics.  They overwhelmingly represent wealth and power elites, with corporate lawyers in the lead.  They establish jurisprudence through arbitrary justifications couched in obtuse legal dogma.  Restoring political balance will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty and Tyranny &#8211; Confused Religious Liberty</title>
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		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/liberty-and-tyranny-confused-religious-liberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		I&#8217;ve been a deacon, church school director, lay preacher and served on almost every committee of my Church.  I give what I can out of my material resources.  I also use this giving as a tax deduction.  Hey!  I&#8217;m not stupid!  Yet it would not matter to me whether there was a tax break or [...]]]></description>
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