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		<title>Walmart, The Town Square, And Libertarian Myth</title>
		<link>http://therationalmiddle.com/2012/05/16/walmart-the-town-square-and-libertarian-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Chase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Philosphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unregulated Capitalism is the enemy of economic freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Liberalism is Pro-Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Small, local businesses create jobs that don't leave a community. Small, local businesses spend their revenues inside the community. Small, local businesses need the commercial infrastructure that only a sensibly crafted progressive tax structure can provide; educated workers and consumers, good roads and utility infrastructure, and quality police and fire protection.]]></description>
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		<title>A Sickness About Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 23:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Chase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can we care for all without government?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My relative doesn't like "socialized medicine". She is alive today because of the Social Security and Medicaid systems, but in her mind, those two sentiments are perfectly compatible. Her brother has lived in Germany for most of his adult life, and struggled mightily with many debilitating problems. Were he to have had the same problems in America, it is unlikely he would be alive today. But my relative was ardently complaining about the German system of socialized medicine. She was upset that "they" wouldn't approve of a certain treatment.  She thought (and thinks) it wrong that the poor of the world should be denied health care. But she doesn't like "socialized medicine".]]></description>
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		<title>Bacon Cheeseburgers Are Health Food</title>
		<link>http://therationalmiddle.com/2012/05/11/bacon-cheeseburgers-are-health-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Chase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The failure of austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the fraud of Austrian Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need those things that made us great; forgive the flag-waving, but I do believe we are the greatest. We need the best commercial infrastructure in the world; the most efficient, most state-of-the-art transportation, energy, and communications grids in the world. We need the most consistently well-educated population in the world, the well-spring of inventors and entrepreneurs. We need an internationally-competitive business environment; we have some of the most relaxed tax laws and requirements in the industrialized world, but U.S. multi-nationals are burdened with two costs that few of their competitors face; health care and retirements.]]></description>
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