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		<title>Now What Predictions</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/now-what-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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I so don&#8217;t want to be pessimistic about this latest Congressional effort to &#8220;solve&#8221; our economic woes.  But what choice do I have?  Their track record is not very good.
So here are my predictions for the coming year or two:

Within three to six months, press stories will begin to emerge about misused funds, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=70&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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We should be enjoying our time off and being hopeful about 2009. But nope. I ended up spending another night running through options for survival. What happens if and when our January sales are well below break even? What do we do if this goes on for a few months or for god’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=67&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Confused</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/im-confused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, join the crowd.  But why are our political leaders so quick to fund all these bail outs.  And to call them anything but bail outs is lying.
Just look at what&#8217;s happened with the first $350B or so.  All gone and all wasted.  I can guarantee that any loans given to the car industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=63&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Them Do It!</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/dont-let-them-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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One of the great lessons I learned early in my working life is never be pressured into doing anything fast. If someone says, “The deal is only available now. If you don’t take it by this date/time, you’ll have missed this opportunity.” Always, always say ‘no’ when given these ultimatums. Right?

So why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=58&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$700 Billion? Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Isn’t it amazing how much we don’t know? Does anyone have any faith that our political leaders and federal monetary pros have any idea what they’re doing? Echoes of false pre-Iraq assessments fill my brain when I hear these people say “we have to do this!” Really, do we?

I’m sitting here watching the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=55&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Love Chris Matthews</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/i-love-chris-matthews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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Ok, not really.  But did you catch him ripping a Republican Congressman a new one on Wednesday?  Damn.  He went after him accusing the Rep of “trying to change his uniform” in the middle of battle.  He drove home the point that our country has lost tremendous value in the last few days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=47&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Become Wimps</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/were-become-wimps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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“I don’t know what I’m going to do. I hope FEMA can help me,” quoted by a homeowner in Galveston, Texas. This is the result of an economic system that doesn’t consider the health of the middle class. Those of you who are rich will now realize the truth of your wealth. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=37&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Olbermann and Air America Are Useless</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/keith-olbermann-and-air-america-are-useless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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I am a proud progressive. Let me say that again, I AM A PROUD PROGRESSIVE! Can I now move past the bonafidies and say a few words about the angry left?

Education, the poor, the middle class, foreign affairs, infrastructure, jobs, equal pay, living wages, environment, big oil, you name it, we’ve lost it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=32&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Are Assholes</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/republicans-are-assholes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renn Vara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Renn Vara

Or more accurately, Fox News and their demagogues are assholes. After an incredible first night of the Democratic Convention, these right-wing propagandists worked hard to recast the night into an alternative universe of division, pandering, manipulation and lies. Really?Listening to their post-night commentary was like listening to Eastern Block spokesman during the cold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=28&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rising South</title>
		<link>http://rennvara.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/the-rising-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Renn Vara

The pick of Senator Joe Biden as VP got me thinking. Why has our Party given up on the South? And if we have, does that pre-determine our demise in the coming Presidential election?

Look at the numbers. You can’t win the White House without making some forays into the Southern electorate. Our Party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rennvara.wordpress.com&blog=2279609&post=24&subd=rennvara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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