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    <title>Christopher J. Welcher - Economics</title>
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    <title>Which 1/2 are you part of?</title>
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    &lt;em&gt;You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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- Adrian Rogers, 1931 
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>I'm as mad as Hell and ...</title>
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    Enough said...&lt;br /&gt;
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I doubt that many of these events will be covered fairly if at all by the mainstream media.&lt;br /&gt;
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Buyer's remorse?</title>
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    A sampling of articles from prominent Obama supporters in the media.  Remember that when you read these.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=2&amp;amp;ref=opinion&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/so_sayeth_the_teleprompter_160695.htm&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/despair-over-financial-policy/&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:48:08 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Directed Distraction</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:55:01 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Bailout cartoons</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Inaugural hypocrisy</title>
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    I guess it&#039;s OK when Obama does it, even when the country&#039;s economy is in such dire straits.  Gotta celebrate that &quot;hope and change&quot; no matter what the cost.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/01/14/ap-slammed-bush-s-extravagant-inaugural-05-now-it-s-spend-baby-spend&quot;&gt;SOURCE 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inauguration/story?id=6665946&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;SOURCE 2&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:50:06 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>So now I'm Selfish</title>
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    With all due respect (or not) - Screw you, Senator Obama!  My money does NOT belong to you or Washington.  YOU are not &lt;em&gt;entitled&lt;/em&gt; to it.  It is mine.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/obamas-new-atta.html&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:16 -0700</pubDate>
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    More evidence of the Washington/Wall Street collusion and corruption.  What surprises me is that someone had the gall to tell the truth about the lie that the Wall Street goons are in bed with the Republicans.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081031114947.aspx&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:36:19 -0700</pubDate>
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    I heard this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://boortz.com/index.html&quot;&gt;Neal Boortz&#039;s&lt;/a&gt; radio show this afternoon and thought it quite funny.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You small business owners out there are preparing for life under a Barack Obama presidency. One of our listeners sent us some new rules for small businesses based on Obama&#039;s ideals of change and fairness:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama officially becomes president-elect, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales and bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are under-achieving a &quot;fair shake&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst you. This will help those who are &quot;too busy for overtime&quot; to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    3. All top management will now be referred to as &quot;the government.&quot; We will not participate in this &quot;pooling&quot; experience because the law doesn&#039;t apply to us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    4. The &quot;government&quot; will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard &quot;for the good of all&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it&#039;s &quot;good to spread the wealth around&quot;. Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more &quot;patriotic&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don&#039;t feel bad, though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he&#039;ll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can&#039;t pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn&#039;t all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?)!!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th. 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:45:49 -0700</pubDate>
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    I guess that slathering the suppository with pork makes the insertion easier.  My wallet is in my back pocket not past my prostate thank you very much.  I&#039;d think you&#039;d already know that by now since you are on more intimate terms with &lt;strong&gt;MY&lt;/strong&gt; money than I am.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What I don&#039;t understand is why people think the same inept and corrupt people (and the &quot;experts&quot;) who &lt;strong&gt;GOT US INTO THIS MESS&lt;/strong&gt; can get us out of it - and what&#039;s worse is that &lt;em&gt;THEY WANT THEM TO DO IT&lt;/em&gt;!  I would think that the pols would realize that we no longer are fooled by their schemes - &lt;em&gt;right...&lt;/em&gt;  Collectively, we are all idiots and get what we deserve.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Put on your workboots, Comrade and march proudly!  You even have two drummers to choose from - Socialism or Fascism.  Freedom of choice.  &lt;em&gt;It&#039;s good to be an American!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
BTW - Good luck tonight, &lt;em&gt;Governor&lt;/em&gt; Palin (she&#039;s a state governor, Katie - got that?).  The liberal microscope of the &quot;objective&quot; Northeast corridor media will descend upon you like nothing you&#039;ve experienced before, looking for every gaffe and any sign of a lack of confidence in your answers.  Try and stay out of the way of the tiny beam of contempt and condescension in the middle.  Better yet, use a mirror to reflect the bile they are spewing at you back at them.  Be yourself.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here&#039;s a great &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122273224998788261.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from Taylor Stockdale, the son of Adm. James B. Stockdale (running mate of Ross Perot in 1992).  Keep this in mind for BOTH candidates.&lt;br /&gt;
 
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:21:37 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>Could this be coming soon?</title>
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    I&#039;ve heard no one talk about this, but I&#039;ve been wondering about the plundering dollar.  I&#039;m not necessarily saying that this financial crisis was planned, but the timing is ripe.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amero&quot;&gt;AMERO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amerocurrency.com/support.html&quot;&gt;INFO &lt;/a&gt;on the Amero&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;I&#039;m just sayin&#039;...&lt;/em&gt; 
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