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	<title>The Proud Profiteer &#187; Government</title>
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		<title>Why Do Governments Suck?</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/05/why-do-governments-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 11:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many people complain about the government. Actually, I cannot think of one person who doesn&#8217;t say politicians are corrupt and our government sucks. Can you? Even the people who run for government offices tell us every election how bad the government is and how they are going to fix it. So what&#8217;s up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If not good for me, is it good for We?</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/05/if-not-good-for-me-is-it-good-for-we/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/05/if-not-good-for-me-is-it-good-for-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=2218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read my blog, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen several times where I mentioned that you cannot expect different results from the government than you can from your own household. If you go into debt and go bankrupt, there is no reason to think a bunch of people in a group can go into debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Jefferson Approve Of Our Uprising?</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/would-jefferson-approve-of-our-uprising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/would-jefferson-approve-of-our-uprising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shay's Rebellion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=2149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to Edward Carrington, before the Constitution was written, Jefferson talks about the up risings in America during Shay&#8217;s Rebellion.
DEAR SIR, &#8212; &#8230; The tumults in  America, I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Pensions, A Disaster In The Making</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/government-pensions-a-disaster-in-the-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/government-pensions-a-disaster-in-the-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=2120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From my local paper comes even more proof of government&#8217;s complete incompetence. Why anyone trusts government is beyond me.
Pennsylvania hasn&#8217;t paid the annual recommended amount to its school  and state employee pension funds in years, and won&#8217;t for at least  another decade if lawmakers adopt a budget proposal designed to spread  costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Liberals Think Only Government Can Provide Essential Services?</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/why-do-liberals-think-only-government-can-provide-essential-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/why-do-liberals-think-only-government-can-provide-essential-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire departments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=2095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, so I&#8217;m on Facebook, and I see someone posted this picture. Following it was typical LOL type of comments. What really makes me LOL is how liberals think only government can handle essential services like fire protection. Do they just assume that if government ceased to exist tomorrow (I know, I&#8217;m daydreaming) that all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Success! &#8220;half of the cameras do work&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/government-success-half-of-the-cameras-do-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/04/government-success-half-of-the-cameras-do-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MTA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While this is no shocker to those of us who know government is a completely ineffective, you would think this would make the most ardent defenders of the state question how effective government is.
About half of the more than 4,000 security cameras installed along New York City&#8217;s subways are not working.
At the same time, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do We Really Need Government Licensing For Professionals?</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/03/do-we-really-need-government-licensing-for-professionals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/03/do-we-really-need-government-licensing-for-professionals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[licensing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Stossel had a great episode last week on government licensed professions. Here is a short segment from the show.

OK, so the typical statist argument goes, &#8220;Do you want your butcher to perform surgery on you?&#8221;. Well, maybe. It depends. How many successful operations has he performed in the past? What&#8217;s his success rate? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybersecurity Bill To Give President More Power Over The Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/03/cybersecurity-bill-to-give-president-more-power-over-the-internet-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/03/cybersecurity-bill-to-give-president-more-power-over-the-internet-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emergency powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JRockefeller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olympia Snow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While our government constantly preaches to the Chinese government about freedom of the internet, they are quietly attempting to get control of it themselves.
The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation.
Federal is fine, but what gives the president power over &#8220;private Web resources&#8221;? This [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Town charges for 911 calls</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/02/town-charges-for-911-calls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/02/town-charges-for-911-calls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy CA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting that this would show up just days after my privatizing 911 post. If you watch the video or even if you read the post at Hot Air, everyone seems to think this has to be a government service that is provided for &#8220;free&#8221;.  Of course the news piece focuses on a retired gentlemen who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Random Thoughts About Private Roads</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/02/more-random-thoughts-about-private-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/02/more-random-thoughts-about-private-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it looks like private roads are going to be an ongoing brain fart here. You can read previous posts on the subject here and here.  Almost every time I get in the car and deal with the frustrations of driving, I can&#8217;t help to wonder what private roads would be like.
Yesterday, we were coming [...]]]></description>
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