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		<title>The CBO Projects Debt Will Increase to 90% of GDP</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1866</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office projects that by 2020 our federal public debt would equal 90 percent of our estimated gross domestic product.  By comparison, troubled Greece ratio was 115 percent.  With unfunded liabilities of social security and Medicare create a recipe for disaster. Today we must cut spending and cut deep, stop borrowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The People Have Spoken &#8212; Scott Brown&#8217;s Historic Upset in Massachusetts</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1863</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott P. Brown pulled off one of the biggest upsets in political history, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley to succeed Ted Kennedy as the state’s next U.S. senator. In a tweet sent to his Twitter followers upon winning, Brown said, &#8220;The people have spoken, thank you!&#8221; Click here to read related stories on Boston.com.
The People have spoken, indeed. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Responsibility of Our Time</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1856</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now self-evident the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and frequent elections are an inadequate package to guarantee this will always be a free country, our individual rights will always be protected, and we will forever be what we were born to be: free and independent.
 Something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurers Warn the Current Health Care Reform Plan Will Result in Big Increases in Health Insurance Premiums</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1853</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day before the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on the health care reform bill authored by Senator Max Baucus, health insurers announced they plan to issue a report warning that typical families will end up paying a lot more for their health insurance. From today&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer website article:
&#8220;The report makes clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Finance Committee Vote on Health Care Reform Set for Tuesday, October 13</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1842</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Finance Committee will vote on the health care reform bill on Tuesday, after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary report that estimates the bill authored by Senator Max Baucus of Montana will cost us $829 billion and reduce the projected deficit by $81 billion over 10 years. 
From an October 8 article in The Hill:
The Senate Finance Committee will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Democrats Urge Senate Leader to Give Us 72 Hours to Review Health Care Reform Bill Before Vote</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1837</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Finance Committee is expected to pass the big health care reform bill this week, which will send it to the Senate floor for debate, amendments and a final vote on passage. In anticipation of this, eight moderate Democrats sent a letter yesterday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, calling on him to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Interests and Their Lobbyists Influencing Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1815</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Congress has been shaping health care legislation that will affect every one of us, and while individual Americans attended townhall meetings across the country to at least try to make their voices heard, health care special interests and their lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes giving key Senators and Representatives campaign contributions. Lots and lots of campaign contributions. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform &#8212; the Public Option</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1807</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Senate Finance Committee continued its mark-up (considering and voting on amendments) of health care reform legislation, and two amendments were offered that would have created a government-run health insurance program that is referred to as the &#8221;public option.&#8221; The first was offered by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, and the second by Senator Charles Schumer of New York. Both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Finance Committee Digs Into Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1800</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Finance Committee is in the middle of marking up (considering and voting on amendments to) the health care reform bill authored by Senator Max Baucus. Here are two highlights:
First, the committee isn&#8217;t even marking up an actual bill. They&#8217;re marking up a &#8220;conceptual outline&#8221; of policy changes, and once they&#8217;re done marking up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington Warned Us</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1345</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 19, 1796, President George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address to &#8221;The People of the United States&#8221;  was first published. He wrote it to inform his &#8220;friends and fellow citizens&#8221; of his decision to retire at the end of his second term in office. More importantly, he wrote it to give us all &#8220;the disinterested warnings of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge is the Key</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1125</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Thomas Jefferson reminds us that the people must exercise sufficient control over government. Otherwise they will be oppressed by it. And this influence over government must be shared among all the people. As long as every individual participates, the government will be safe. The greater the participation, the safer government will be.
We deeply believe in this basic American principle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rulers are Servants, the People their Superiors</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1114</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is America, designed as a free country in which you&#8217;re a Sovereign, not a subject. This is an important point, so you need to fully understand the meaning of the word, &#8220;Sovereign.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the definition: supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; independent of, and unlimited by, any other; one that exercises supreme, permanent authority, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is America, and America is Freedom</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=1105</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory L. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is America, and we must never forget what that means. This country is special, and to keep the American spirit alive and strong, each of us must always remember what America is and what she represents to the world and humankind. In the introduction to Volume I of his two-volume book, America: The Last Best Hope, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Opinion Matters  &#8211;  Suggestions and Comments</title>
		<link>http://freeandindependent.us/?p=331</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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