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	<title>The WAWG Blog &#187; Andy Hailey</title>
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	<description>Are there fascists in our democracy?</description>
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		<title>&#8220;When people are voting against their interests, more interest-based arguments don&#8217;t help.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4124</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you wonder why Democrats have gone from a significant victory in 2008 to looking at big losses in Congress in 2010? Do you wonder what it is the Republicans know and what the Democrats need to learn to avoid losing in 2012? I&#8217;ve referenced author George Lakoff in my postings several times, and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices &#8211; Pick one: Jobs or Deaths</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4092</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a commercial where citizens are complaining about taxes on energy and how that will &#8220;kill jobs.&#8221; That may be true or just rhetoric. But if these taxes cause the long term reduction in pollution of our air, land and water, and, as a side effect, saves the lives of fellow humans and other animals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Is Right &#8211; He Just Didn&#8217;t Fully Describe Who&#8217;s at Fault.</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4075</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RE: Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!,   Representative Paul, I think John Dean, former counsel for Richard Nixon&#8217;s White House, best described those inflicting this insult on the nation as &#8220;Conservatives WIthout Conscience&#8221; &#8211; also the title of one of his books.    These conservatives not only include the war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respecting the Beliefs of Others &#8211; If Lebanese Can Do It, Why Can&#8217;t Americans?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4059</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The population of Lebanon is 95 percent Arab and is mostly of the Muslim faith with a large Christian population, but only around 200 Jews: Muslim 59.7% (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Isma&#8217;ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality and Howard Dean&#8217;s Hopeful Optimism</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4037</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear Mongering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Dean, Your optimism is admirable relative to achieving a compromise between those that have such strong &#8216;feelings&#8217; over the civic center in NY. However, history shows that right-wing authoritarians (RWA), not just their leaders, don&#8217;t compromise. They do not come from a diverse or disobedient background and if you aren&#8217;t like them, you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry&#8217;s Hysteria &#8211; Going Over to the Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4017</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=4017#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear Mongering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Reid, Have you been punked by the Republicans &#8211; like so many Democrats have been? Their right-wing authoritarian minions have been controlling the media with their week-after-week of fear mongering and Democrats just line up with the hysterical right and repeat their ridiculous arguments. So many fearful people doing so many stupid things. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Midterms &#8211; Are We Going to Continue Our National Legalized Trickle-up Ponzi Scheme?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3927</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3927#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mega Rich RWA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This posting was inspired by an article at Rational Revolution. It takes another look at the disproportionate shift in income to the mega and ultra rich, the disproportionate tax breaks for the mega and ultra rich, and the creation of national and personal debt not seen since the Great Depression. The similarities of the Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing but Shirley Sherrod in the News This Week &#8211; What&#8217;s Up with That?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3821</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3821#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media-Info Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Shirley Sherrod story started on Monday with the release of a heavily edited video about a life experience which occurred decades ago. This story was released by a right-wing authoritarian (RWA) web site known for its lies. By Wednesday morning the lies had gone viral, everyone was reporting on it, and Ms. Sherrod was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RWA Lies Got Us Into Iraq, Killed ACORN, and Almost Killed Health Care Reform &#8211; Guess What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3755</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3755#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rampant Cronyism/Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear Mongering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noble Lie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fearmongering and Noble Lies are primary tools for the right-wing authoritarians (RWA). Just think back to last year and all the RWA fearmongering and lies about health care and how it barely became law. It wasn&#8217;t so much about the lies themselves, it was about getting a consensus that health care for all was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things May Get More Expensive &#8211; If the CWCs Get Their Way</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3690</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3690#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Powerful Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent conservative without conscience (CWC) email (You know one of those forwarded emails with mixed font and colors, false comparisons, and statements of problems that don&#8217;t exist.), there was a list of situations where one might be asked for an ID. Pulled over by the police. Making purchases on your department store credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Nationalism and the Right-wing Authoritarians</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3682</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3682#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Powerful Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the categories for this blog is Powerful Nationalism. In a recent Pew Research survey of 1,001 adults, some measures of this powerful nationalism were captured. These metrics confirm what has been posted previously in this blog and add to recognition of theRight-wing Authoritarian (RWA) among us. Here is what the survey confirms about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Changing Nature of Right-wing Authoritarian Lies &#8211; Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3560</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3560#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disdain of Educated & Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy/Scapegoat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fascism - Not Here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noble Lie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the tools used by the right-wing authoritarian (RWA) or &#8220;Conservatives Without Conscience&#8221; (CWC) leaders (Rep. Senators, Dick Arm&#8230;, Rush Lim&#8230;, Glenn Be.., Bill O&#8217;&#8230;, Newt Ging&#8230;, Michele Bach&#8230;, Sharron Ang&#8230;, Ann Coul&#8230;,) is the Noble Lie. These lies by the RWA leadership are used to manipulate the RWA followers, deny guilt, label their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the Right-wing Authoritarian Triad Taking Us?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3605</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3605#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avid Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church/State Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy/Scapegoat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog tracks where we are going by documenting the characteristic categories of the minority right-wing authoritarians (RWA) in the United States. The RWAs are part of our political system and are currently represented by the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and the minority party in our Senate. They are also characterized as being born-again evangelicals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As a Texan, Im Ashamed of Congressman Joe Barton</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3556</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3556#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Barton, You&#8217;re ashamed of BP suffering through a meeting with the President and having to honor their promise to pay &#8220;all legitimate claims?&#8221; As a homegrown Texan, I&#8217;m ashamed of your apology to BP. What could have made you do this? Are you running short of campaign funds? Did BP meet with you while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poor, Poor, Mega Rich &#8211; They Are Just So Over Taxed</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3446</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3446#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mega Rich RWA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The table below is mostly from an October 4, 2007 News Release from the conservative Tax Foundation. They point out that the richest 1% of the tax payers pay more in total taxes than the poorer 90 percent &#8211; those that make less than $103,912 a year. (These data are for tax year 2005.) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Illegal Immigration &#8211; Us</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3356</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3356#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enemy/Scapegoat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsession with Criminal Punishment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with illegal immigration is US consumers and employers. Consumers want cheap stuff and employers hire cheap labor to give consumers what they want. We get what we pay for, including trashy side effects in the deserts of Arizona. WE GET WHAT WE PAY FOR.]]></description>
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		<title>Lois B. Hailey, WWII Pilot and Teacher &#8211; She Will Be Missed by So Many</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3320</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3320#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 03:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Lois &#8220;Brooksie&#8221; Hailey 1/18/1915 to 4/24/2010 Lois Brooks Hailey, 95, passed away April 24, 2010 at her son&#8217;s home in Friendswood, Texas. She was born on January 18, 1915, in the house where she would grow up in Reno, Nevada, to Charles W. Brooks and Harriet Peckham Brooks. Lois was preceded in death by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust Requires Accessibility and Accountability</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3240</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Protect & Empower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of today&#8217;s GPS on CNN, Fareed Zakaria, posed the following question, &#8220;Who do you trust more these days? Government or big business?&#8221; I have more trust for our government, as represented by our elected representatives, to do what&#8217;s best for citizens. I have both access to my representatives and can hold them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing &#8211; Health Care Passes!!!!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3195</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3195#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Info Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this evening, Frank Schaeffer in his latest blog posting, predicted this moment. Being the eternal pessimist, I was surprised when it happened. The right-wing authoritarians, all 212 of them, have failed to block the correction of America&#8217;s biggest human rights violation. Those right-wing authoritarians (RWA), in both parties, who were raised in a fear-based, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives Want Protection not Just from WMDs, but PMDs and LMDs</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3006</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=3006#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Protect & Empower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You're on your own]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This article is dedicated to the former Libertarian in our software development team who just retired and has provided the seed for other postings.) To what extent should the government protect its citizens? Conservatives without Conscience (CWCs), including Libertarians, want citizen protection by the government limited to national defense. CWCs even start wars on false [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Activist Supreme Court &#8211; Restore The Constitutional Powers of We the People</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2966</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2966#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Corporations can&#8217;t got to prison for illegal actions. We the people can. We the people are left with PACs and what we can contribute to them to influence our elected representatives. Corporations are now their own PACs with their own funding and will now solidify their ownership of our representatives who will in turn outlaw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEMOCRATS &#8211; It&#8217;s Time To Stop Playing by Their Rules</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2956</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2956#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following was sent to leaders of the Democrat Party: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Why are Democrats so afraid of the Republicans? Why are Democrats so afraid of standing up for their progressive values? Why are Democrats so afraid of a Republican filibuster? What have you got to lose that you haven&#8217;t already lost and are now ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To Joe Lieberman&#8217;s Health Care Plan &#8211; It&#8217;s As Ugly as Him, But Maybe With Age &#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2857</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2857#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Senator Joe Lieberman and other conservatives without conscience (Also known as right-wing authoritarians and tea baggers), we have a health care bill that is more to the liking of health insurance companies than to the majority of Americans. This minority has &#8216;had their way&#8217; with the majority and they could care less about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Lieberman &#8211; Take Your Old, Rich, &#8220;You&#8217;re on your own,&#8221; White Male Attitude and Retire &#8211; Now</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2852</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2852#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You ideas for health care put corporate profit above the health of all Americans. My life/health should never be subjugated to the corporate profit of your favorite insurance companies. My health care should not be limited by insurance companies coming between me and my doctor. Our health care system is great for the rich, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redistribution of America&#8217;s Income &#8211; More for The Mega Rich or the Common Wealth?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2693</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2693#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mega Rich RWA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In summary, America's common wealth has been hit by a triple whammy: tax cuts for the rich far larger that can be considered fair, tax refunds to the rich via privateering, and by a shift of household income into the  excessively reduced upper tax brackets.  In addition, accountability for the nation's common wealth has been transferred from our elected representatives and handed over to rich individuals mostly accountable to themselves and corporate CEOs who are only accountable to shareholders.  The ultimate effect of all this transfer of wealth and accountability is that our government less able to protect and empower its citizens.

It's time we all realize that privateering  and  tax cuts favoring the very wealthy are not what America needs.   Just look at where they have gotten us - The Great Recession, a growing plutocracy, consumer debt at 100 percent of GDP, banks too big to fail, and ultimately the deaths of fellow citizens. ]]></description>
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		<title>Right-wing Authoritarian Belief in Strict Punishment Produces Domestic Terrorists &#8211; Who&#8217;s Protecting America?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2494</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2494#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church/State Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the <em>Conservatives without Conscience</em>, there is an extremist group -  "The fringe of the fringe."   This group was raised within the ideal Strict Father Model and taught to accept authority without question.   Their parental authority uses strong physical punishment to enforce what he believes is right.   Their religious authority uses politics to create a culture war and identify the enemies of their imaginary theocratic America.  Their media authority names their enemies and defines their failures.   Their economic authority makes sure the religious and media authoritarians are funded even when they can't make it on their own.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Destruction of American Democracy &#8211; &#8220;Privateering&#8221; Is Hard at Work</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2426</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2426#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Privateering is destroying America's democracy by eliminating our governments moral mission to protect and empower all of its citizens.   Privateering is supplanting that moral mission with protection and empowerment of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Pro Life Discontinuity &#8211; At Birth Life/Health Is Subjugated to Profit</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2409</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2409#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives without conscience (CWC) want life protected at all costs while it exists in the womb. Once you are born, however, CWCs believe &#8220;you&#8217;re on your own.&#8221; Your life after birth and your health are totally up to you &#8211; even though they are both subject to many systemic factors: your parents, your parent&#8217;s genes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Still Beat Your Spouse? &#8211; Push Polls, Lies, and Fear Mongering by CWCs</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2399</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2399#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear Mongering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noble Lie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard the question before &#8211; Do you still beat your spouse? &#8211; and there is no answer that doesn&#8217;t imply a negative. Well, polls being sent out by the &#8216;leaders&#8217; described in Conservatives Without Conscience (CWC) to their fearful supporters are also making negative implications by asking questions that aren&#8217;t based on anything real. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Percent of the Population Controls Over 40 Percent of the US Senate</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2382</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2382#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My most used quote is from Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean: Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds. They would march America into a dictatorship and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Health Care Emergency &#8211; Winning Health Insurance Reform</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2280</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2280#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following was based on a new article by George Lakoff. Populating the Administration with people from inside the beltway will help in some ways and hurt in others. Progressives are losing the health care reform effort because the inside the beltway team is using methods that have always failed in the past. They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Don&#8217;t Have Health Insurance&#8221; &#8211; Unless You Are Over 65</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2182</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2182#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you purchase auto, home, or flood insurance, you are covered as long as you pay your premiums. If you suffer a catastrophic loss, you&#8217;re coverage will save you from bankruptcy. James Kwak put it this way in his recent article at The Baseline Scenario: The point of insurance is to protect you against unlikely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Bruce  &#8211; Could He Become America&#8217;s Hitler?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2097</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avid Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enemy/Scapegoat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Info Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsession with National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Powerful Nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rampant Cronyism/Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Bruce became President of the United States, what would become of America? Decide for yourself. Bruce on the use of torture for the enemy &#8211; &#8220;The seeds of Abu Ghraib&#8217;s rotten fruit were sown by civilians at the highest levels of our government.&#8221; As president he would define who the enemy is. The &#8220;Imperial&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring the Rule of Law or Complacency to Apathy to Bondage &#8211; Mr. Holder&#8217;s Choice</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2034</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2034#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Holder, Every time the executive branch of our federal government erodes the rule of law, our nation takes one more step toward its end. To delay that end, there must be a thorough and complete investigation of any laws that were broken. There should be a restoration of those broken laws and those responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indefinite Detention Rates only a &#8220;Huge Pause&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2026</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2026#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Presidnet, I am writing to you concerning indefinite detention of suspected criminals/terrorists. On July 3, you told the Associated Press that the idea of indefinite detention gave you&#8221; huge pause.” However, huge pause does not mean you oppose it or intend to stop this GWB policy. &#8216;Huge pause&#8217; sounds like you are holding something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Isn&#8217;t Free &#8211; What Are We Willing to Pay For It?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1963</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1963#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mega Rich RWA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before deciding what freedom is worth to us in this time of financial catastrophe and preemptive war, let&#8217;s take a look at what freedom was worth to another generation of Americans. The table below shows the U.S. tax rates and brackets for the final two years of WWII. They were only slightly less during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Gangster Government vs. Total Gangster Corporatism</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2047</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2047#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nurturant State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I made the following statements at the end of an exchange with a libertarian coworker on one of current favorite fear phrases of Conservatives without Conscience &#8211; Gangster Government. Here is how I see our disagreement. You believe free enterprise is rational and self correcting. I believe free enterprise is, like any other man-made enterprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Health Care Option &#8211; Conservative vs. Progressive Views</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2040</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2040#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Add your name: WeWantThePublicOption.com &#160; After asking others to support the above effort, I got this one response: You mean the public option which is the government supplied option that will be offered if you still want to use your own health care? That public option will eventually destroy the regular private option so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Causation &#8211; Paying Taxes Contributes to Everyone&#8217;s Success</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1846</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1846#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[...  paying taxes supports America’s infrastructure and improves the chances of success for all citizens. However, cutting taxes, as the CWCs suggest, especially for the mega rich, only increases the chances of success of the mega rich.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Beltway &#8211; A Bad Barrel Produces Bad Apples</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2019</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2019#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 01:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Apple or Bad Barrel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, There was an exclusive news report on MSNBC tonight. The main point was that instead of reemphasizing what you have said in public about letting the Justice Department decide about prosecuting wrong doings of the previous administration, you instead said, in a private meeting today, that this issue is settled. You did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks Too Big to Fail, Criminals Too High-up to Prosecute &#8211; What CWCs Brought Us To and What to Do About It</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1650</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1650#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nurturant State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title says a lot about where we were going during the few last decades of rule by conservatives without conscience (CWC). It also suggests there is something we can do about it. What is it about the CWCs that brought us to this point where fixing a wrong is not an option? These CWCs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empathy &#8211; Why Is It Under Attack by the CWCs?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1679</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1679#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are samples of how conservatives without conscience (CWC) are responding to the word &#8220;empathy.&#8221; Be A Good Republican: Attack Empathy, Defend Torture Jeff Sessions Claims He Doesn’t Know What Empathy Is Steele: &#8216;Crazy nonsense empathetic!&#8217; GOP freaks out as America almost destroyed by &#8216;the empathy within&#8217; Why is empathy of such concern to CWCs? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Progressive Bumper Stikers</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1690</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1690#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some phrases worth keeping in mind, and which can minimize the effects of conservative strict-father worldview talking points. You should also try these Thinking Points. &#160; Fearful People Do Stupid Things &#160; Think for Yourself &#8211; Question Authority (Authoritarians) &#160; I Pay My Dues &#8211; Proud to Pay Taxes &#160; The Only Thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. President:  Put Action to Your Words &#8211; Pardon Sgt. Frederick</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1569</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1569#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enemy/Scapegoat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsession with Criminal Punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Apple or Bad Barrel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RE: Recently Released Bush II Torture Memos Mr. President, I agree with not prosecuting the lower level CIA employees for their part in implementing bad policies produced by Bush II and company. These torture policies built a bad barrel that took these good people and made them do bad things &#8211; turned them into &#8220;bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Release of the Four Torture Memos by President Obama</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2015</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=2015#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Apple or Bad Barrel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, I agree with not prosecuting the lower level CIA employees for their part in bad policies produced by Bush II and company. These torture policies built a bad barrel that took these good people and made them do bad things &#8211; turned them into &#8220;bad apples.&#8221; I also ask that you back up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Bagging Day &#8211; Who Attended and What They Want</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1546</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1546#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Besides being 99 percent caucasian, these fellow citizens are &#8230; Well, here is what John Dean said about them in Conservatives Without Conscience Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama &#8211;  Continuing the Clean Up After the Bush Administration?</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1528</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1528#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, Thank you for authorizing the release of the CIA torture guidelines from the previous administration.   This is another step toward undoing the wrongs of the past. I also agree that the hands-on implementers of those guidelines are not the ones that should be prosecuted.   Punishing them is not the solution to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Free Choice Act &#8211; Ron Paul and I Disagree</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1492</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1492#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nurturant State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In late March, I received the following response from Congressman Ron Paul to my request to support the EFCA: Dear Mr. Hailey: Thank you for contacting my office regarding my position on collective bargaining. Please be assured, I do support the right of all Americans to join the collective bargainingorganizations of their choice. However, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives, &#8220;Conservatives Without Conscience&#8221; and Checks and Balances</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1278</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1278#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nurturant State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Institutions, which humans create, tend to reflect the values of the humans that created/control them. These institutions can be corrupt and harmful or they can do good. The difference is whether the individuals in charge of the institution feel empathy and responsibility for themselves and others whom they impact. The institution may be a government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Free Choice Act &#8211; Shifting the Balance of Power, Just a Little</title>
		<link>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1375</link>
		<comments>http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=1375#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Hailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nurturant State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strict-father State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1983, two groups of aerospace employees had just had their benefits reduced and were told about it after the fact and in a very cavalier manner by senior management. Soon after, salt was rubbed into the wound when the employees learned that senior management was keeping the benefits that were just taken from the [...]]]></description>
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