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		<title>Documenting Our Downward Spiral</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=253</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to keep up with our fast and furious descent from Superpower status, here&#8217;s the headline just prior to Obama&#8217;s historic trip to China (some joke to visit our money!). China Criticizes U.S. Financial Management During Obama Visit by Wall Street Journal Regulator says U.S. policy puts global recovery at risk as Obama [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake $20&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yet another sign that we are turning into a third world country, more and more vendors are holding our dollar bills up into the air and checking for signs of counterfeit currency.  This is standard procedure in Latin America, but I have never seen it here to the degree that it is happening now!]]></description>
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		<title>How can I get unemployment benefits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my daughter Britney told us that one of her employees at Starbucks who is also going to school asked if she could fire him because Obama extended unemployment benefits for another six months and if he could just get fired today that would be enough time and money for him to finish school and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>$1.3 trillion and counting&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  I can&#8217;t conceive of anyone buying anything for $1.3 trillion.  I can&#8217;t even imagine $1.3 trillion.  America&#8217;s leadership has just managed to spend that much in one single 15 minute vote.  They voted on a piece of legislation over 2,000 pages long they call healthcare reform.  The promised goals are to insure all Americans, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Barack?</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we were having dinner with some friends and discussing the Pope&#8217;s decision to canonize five new mortals, to which Tommy seriously asked: Was Obama one of them?  From the mouths of babes&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Loves Obama&#8217;s Defense Plans</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=200</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Headline this week was:  &#8220;Putin Applauds &#8216;Brave&#8217; US Decision on Missile Defense&#8221;.  Is it me?  Or should we all be worried when Russia likes the steps we take to &#8216;defend&#8217; our nation and allies?  President Obama states that a newer more flexible missile defense system that is sea-based as opposed to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Willing US Into Our Image</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=189</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often wondered why people in Argentina have such animosity towards the United States.  They speak of our country with the same disdain as they do their own miserable political and economic infrastructure, which is basically a huge web of misperceptions and corruption.  Nothing there is at it seems, or as it should be. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>BBQ Bulletin Board Bullying</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, we love most aspects of condo living in Sarasota, but we were definitely not prepared for all the bullying and gossiping. I am starting to believe that moving into the third phase of life, the supposed golden years, is like regressing back to high school. There are cliques, all right, but less of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamanomics Simplified</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one was sent to me by a friend, but I found it compelling. An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class&#8230; The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Check &#8211; Politics of the Third World</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=77</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. residents of Latin American descent should feel more at home in our country in the next few years, as we seem to be getting closer to the big government lawlessness they have migrated from. Every time we travel to my parent&#8217;s native country of Argentina, I am shocked anew about the unbelievable scenarios people [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Anything I want?</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it’s inevitable. At some point your beautiful little boys will be interested in T &#038; A. In a household where TV, YouTube, and video games are highly monitored, and access to information is on a need-to-know basis, all you need is a trip to Buenos Aires to defenestrate all your well-established home regulations. (Ok [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching our Children</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the patience to do that. You are a saint that you can homeschool,&#8221; said my good friend. WHAT? Anyone who knows me well knows I am the most impatient person alive today. It may be part of my OCD, but I am an instant gratification person. I move quickly, sometimes not so [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Opiate of the Masses</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; so this lady in Ft. Myers just asked if in the billions given to state government for stimulus projects, there will be a check in the mail for individuals and how much will that be for?  &#8220;Great question,&#8221; says Mr. President.  And he went on to explain that there would be $1000 checks [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Clean Energy, and RV&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is on the road selling his stimulus package.  His rhetoric, as usual, is compelling.  On the surface, it all makes good sense.  But if you look a little deeper, not only at the words, but at the images, there are so many contradictions. Who was the genius who chose the RV capital of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Madame Secretary, anyone?</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that we are constantly being manipulated by brilliant political handlers?  I think my public relations background has made me perhaps a little more skeptical than the average Joe.   Why are they dragging this Secretary of State announcement?  The longer it takes for it to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s An Economist Now</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So finally people are paying attention, trying to speed learn what all these terms mean, and how it will affect their lives.  While the politicians are going for the populist message – Get all those executives! Stop the golden parachutes!  Greed on Wall Street!  Those predatory lenders! The evil corporations!  Get all those speculators! Tax [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Has My Vote!</title>
		<link>https://therapyfund.com/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have generally been a pretty decisive person, but this election has changed all that.  It has been frustrating watching what has been going on.  But, I have finally made a decision and I am putting my full support behind Barack Obama. Being a former spin doctor myself, I tend to listen to the words [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama tour shifts to Israel (USA Today 7/23/08)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today has a cover story on Senator Obama&#8217;s World Tour, and the headline reads: &#8220;Candidate sees solving Arab-Israeli conflict as key to peace in Middle East&#8221;.  Really?  I am so relieved that we finally have a leader that can tell us how to bring peace to this volatile region.  Sign me up!]]></description>
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		<title>Luther Was An Anti-Semite!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You study, you read and you think you’ve heard it all &#8212; and then you find out that Luther was an anti-semite.     The same guy that nailed the 95 Thesis to the door in protest of all the injustices carried out by the Pope and his minions in the name of God, actually hated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer Trash At Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is it.  Not exactly a van down by the river, but camping in our front yard is pretty close.  We are fixing a few things in our house, which has been on the market for two years and has not sold.  Every potential buyer loved it but wanted a bigger closet in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The President We Deserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You get into your 40’s and being liked by your fellow man lacks luster.  So here it goes.  I love Barack Obama.  What’s there not to like?  The man is handsome, well-spoken, loves his wife, has two beautiful little girls, is self-made, has a great compelling life story, and no matter what surfaces about him, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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