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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20600</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I retired early, debt-free, financially independent, and my wife hasn&#039;t had to work for the last 30 years.

My only failure in life is that I wasn&#039;t able to make the contributions to my country I wanted to make.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I retired early, debt-free, financially independent, and my wife hasn&#8217;t had to work for the last 30 years.</p>
<p>My only failure in life is that I wasn&#8217;t able to make the contributions to my country I wanted to make.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20597</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The protestors didn&#039;t terrify me.&lt;/p&gt;

The response of the Democratic leadership to their lunatic ideas did.

And, by the way, don&#039;t project your own issues on to me.

I knew entrepreneurism was risky when I set out on it.  So is writing and publishing. I didn&#039;t turn my failures into a bitter lifetime hatred of anyone who manages to succeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The protestors didn&#8217;t terrify me.</p>
<p>The response of the Democratic leadership to their lunatic ideas did.</p>
<p>And, by the way, don&#8217;t project your own issues on to me.</p>
<p>I knew entrepreneurism was risky when I set out on it.  So is writing and publishing. I didn&#8217;t turn my failures into a bitter lifetime hatred of anyone who manages to succeed.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20596</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sooner or later, you have to tell yourself, &quot;Now, THIS is bullshit.&quot;

And although I wouldn&#039;t necessarily count it as evidence, it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the money changers Jesus threw out of the Temple.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sooner or later, you have to tell yourself, &#8220;Now, THIS is bullshit.&#8221;</p>
<p>And although I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily count it as evidence, it <em>was</em> the money changers Jesus threw out of the Temple.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20595</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The people getting producers and consumers together are required for things to work. I used to feel the same way about middlemen, money changers that you and Bowser do. Advertisers too. But these guys provide a valuable service or they wouldn&#039;t be in business. 

Still not sure about currency traders and the like.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The people getting producers and consumers together are required for things to work. I used to feel the same way about middlemen, money changers that you and Bowser do. Advertisers too. But these guys provide a valuable service or they wouldn&#8217;t be in business. </p>
<p>Still not sure about currency traders and the like.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20590</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t find them threatening, I just thought they were leaderless, disorganized and ineffectual, a children&#039;s crusade with good intentions but little chance of getting anything accomplished. If I had known how much they terrified your lot I would have done what I could to help them, perhaps even join them. 

TB, you&#039;re going to have to come to terms with the concept that you are never going to become a middleman, a parasite living off the labor of others, gorging on excess wealth in the backeddies and whirlpools of the turbulent flow of economic entropy.  

Its not the poor and the powerless who are preventing you from doing that.  Its the very people whose position you aspire to.  They simply don&#039;t want you. They don&#039;t need you.  Believe me, I know.  I&#039;m just like you in many ways.  Remember, I was the guy who was going to save the world by helping it efficiently manage its diminishing resources. Nobody needed me either, but I could see what was coming and was lucky enough to be able to take steps to protect myself and my family.

Don&#039;t vote against your own self-interest, no one will reward your loyalty and sacrifice. You&#039;re just another working man, a man who had a great deal to contribute but is not being allowed to do so simply because there is no place for you in someone elses business plan. Think of it.  You were working to send Man to the stars, now you&#039;re trying to sell children&#039;s books.

The nation can no longer afford a middle class prospering from what trickles down off the groaning tables of the &quot;job creators&quot;.  They squandered all the wealth and now are scrambling to ensure they can survive the coming decay. They will be ruthless.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t find them threatening, I just thought they were leaderless, disorganized and ineffectual, a children&#8217;s crusade with good intentions but little chance of getting anything accomplished. If I had known how much they terrified your lot I would have done what I could to help them, perhaps even join them. </p>
<p>TB, you&#8217;re going to have to come to terms with the concept that you are never going to become a middleman, a parasite living off the labor of others, gorging on excess wealth in the backeddies and whirlpools of the turbulent flow of economic entropy.  </p>
<p>Its not the poor and the powerless who are preventing you from doing that.  Its the very people whose position you aspire to.  They simply don&#8217;t want you. They don&#8217;t need you.  Believe me, I know.  I&#8217;m just like you in many ways.  Remember, I was the guy who was going to save the world by helping it efficiently manage its diminishing resources. Nobody needed me either, but I could see what was coming and was lucky enough to be able to take steps to protect myself and my family.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t vote against your own self-interest, no one will reward your loyalty and sacrifice. You&#8217;re just another working man, a man who had a great deal to contribute but is not being allowed to do so simply because there is no place for you in someone elses business plan. Think of it.  You were working to send Man to the stars, now you&#8217;re trying to sell children&#8217;s books.</p>
<p>The nation can no longer afford a middle class prospering from what trickles down off the groaning tables of the &#8220;job creators&#8221;.  They squandered all the wealth and now are scrambling to ensure they can survive the coming decay. They will be ruthless.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20589</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And while we&#039;re harvesting nuts:&lt;/p&gt;

How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/11/14/the-apostle-barack/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one?&lt;/a&gt;

Bonus:  A university professor.

I don&#039;t know the canonization rules, exactly, but I heard you need two miracles to become a saint.  Obama got elected with four trillion-dollar deficits in a row and a 50-year record for number of months of unemployment above 8 percent.  So I guess that&#039;s at least one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And while we&#8217;re harvesting nuts:</p>
<p>How about <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/11/14/the-apostle-barack/" rel="nofollow">this one?</a></p>
<p>Bonus:  A university professor.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know the canonization rules, exactly, but I heard you need two miracles to become a saint.  Obama got elected with four trillion-dollar deficits in a row and a 50-year record for number of months of unemployment above 8 percent.  So I guess that&#8217;s at least one.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20588</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, but Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader, wasn&#039;t saying &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pelosi-occupy-wall-street-protesters-god-bless-them_595117.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;God bless the rapists in the military.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

For extra credit, go back and check out the gushing liberals here were doing about the Occupy crowd.  Still are, I guess.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, but Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader, wasn&#8217;t saying <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pelosi-occupy-wall-street-protesters-god-bless-them_595117.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;God bless the rapists in the military.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>For extra credit, go back and check out the gushing liberals here were doing about the Occupy crowd.  Still are, I guess.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20586</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alcaray is right.  The Occupy people are now operating a big relief operation in the storm-stricken areas.

 &quot;filth, theft, rapes, property destruction, and the wreckage of small businesses&quot; can occur anywhere.  Have any of your patriotic sources been keeping up with the epidemic of rape of female GIs in the Middle East and in stateside bases?  And it&#039;s not A-rabs doing the raping, its American male GIs. 

I guess just the thought of anyone dissing bankers and stockbrokers is enough to send you into apoplectic fits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alcaray is right.  The Occupy people are now operating a big relief operation in the storm-stricken areas.</p>
<p> &#8220;filth, theft, rapes, property destruction, and the wreckage of small businesses&#8221; can occur anywhere.  Have any of your patriotic sources been keeping up with the epidemic of rape of female GIs in the Middle East and in stateside bases?  And it&#8217;s not A-rabs doing the raping, its American male GIs. </p>
<p>I guess just the thought of anyone dissing bankers and stockbrokers is enough to send you into apoplectic fits.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20585</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Dude, those people had the brains of a chicken.&lt;/p&gt;

They left behind filth, theft, rapes, property destruction, and the wreckage of small businesses anywhere they went.

Or is stupidity, like wealth and many other things, only a problem if it doesn&#039;t serve the Party?

Every nutcase on the planet is sincere.  I still don&#039;t approved of letting nutcases fly commercial airliners.  Or tell us how to run nations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude, those people had the brains of a chicken.</p>
<p>They left behind filth, theft, rapes, property destruction, and the wreckage of small businesses anywhere they went.</p>
<p>Or is stupidity, like wealth and many other things, only a problem if it doesn&#8217;t serve the Party?</p>
<p>Every nutcase on the planet is sincere.  I still don&#8217;t approved of letting nutcases fly commercial airliners.  Or tell us how to run nations.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/14/a-man-with-a-plan/#comment-20573</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aren&#039;t they busy rebuilding New Jersey right now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aren&#8217;t they busy rebuilding New Jersey right now?</p>
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