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		<title>By: Paul Bonacci</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-19214</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bonacci</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to say I&#039;m a huge fan of the Heritage Foundation. 
 
Whenever I&#039;m need of revisionist history or I&#039;m just looking for intellectually dishonest talking points to falsely justify my companies corporate greed, treason and/or fraud, I know which pros I should turn to. 
 
Many thanks, 
 
Big Industry Lobbyist </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to say I&#039;m a huge fan of the Heritage Foundation.</p>
<p>Whenever I&#039;m need of revisionist history or I&#039;m just looking for intellectually dishonest talking points to falsely justify my companies corporate greed, treason and/or fraud, I know which pros I should turn to.</p>
<p>Many thanks,</p>
<p>Big Industry Lobbyist</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew, North Caroli</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-17586</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew, North Caroli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The service being asked (or, in some cases, demanded) of us does not, in the least, constitute &#039;slavery&#039;. We all want to see America prosper. Though I am a democrat, I fully supported the Bush Administration in voulenteerism. Our schools and hospitals need help, and the help they need is not partisan. Democrats and republicans need education, and, quite frankly, our government isn&#039;t providing the global standard. Let&#039;s help, for the sake of a brighter future for our beautiful country. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The service being asked (or, in some cases, demanded) of us does not, in the least, constitute &#039;slavery&#039;. We all want to see America prosper. Though I am a democrat, I fully supported the Bush Administration in voulenteerism. Our schools and hospitals need help, and the help they need is not partisan. Democrats and republicans need education, and, quite frankly, our government isn&#039;t providing the global standard. Let&#039;s help, for the sake of a brighter future for our beautiful country.</p>
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		<title>By: Go pound sand, CA</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-12575</link>
		<dc:creator>Go pound sand, CA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama can kiss my a$$. I work five months out of each year for the govt. for free. It&#039;s called paying TAXES. I will not submit to this thinly veiled attempt at indentured servitude at best; and quite possibly a Nazi brown shirt corps at worst. Does anyone remember recent history?  
 
This whole idea of sacrificing for the collective good is pure bull--it. If you live a right life, work for a living, and take care of your family, you are sacrificing for the collective good of this nation. And if you think this program will not end-up being a social welfare program, taking the labor and resources of the able and hard working American, and giving it to the leaches of society,(including the federal govt.) you are sorely mistaken.  
 
The govt. is a parasite. It takes and takes, growing larger, caring not for the host which it consumes and eventually kills. Good luck in the labor camps. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama can kiss my a$$. I work five months out of each year for the govt. for free. It&#039;s called paying TAXES. I will not submit to this thinly veiled attempt at indentured servitude at best; and quite possibly a Nazi brown shirt corps at worst. Does anyone remember recent history? </p>
<p>This whole idea of sacrificing for the collective good is pure bull&#8211;it. If you live a right life, work for a living, and take care of your family, you are sacrificing for the collective good of this nation. And if you think this program will not end-up being a social welfare program, taking the labor and resources of the able and hard working American, and giving it to the leaches of society,(including the federal govt.) you are sorely mistaken. </p>
<p>The govt. is a parasite. It takes and takes, growing larger, caring not for the host which it consumes and eventually kills. Good luck in the labor camps.</p>
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		<title>By: Cindy, MI</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-11759</link>
		<dc:creator>Cindy, MI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a lot of people are missing is the ALL.  The supporters say &quot;It&#039;s good for the kids to serve.  Schools already require it.  College kids get something for it.&quot;   
 
But his eye isn&#039;t on the kids (who, if they disobey, can&#039;t graduate from middle or high school), his eye is on ALL.  A person away from home 10 hours a day at a job and commuting then has to Serve another hour a day, or ten on the weekends, picking up garbage on the roadside, or doing some other job that someone was previously getting paid to do.  Exhausted people can&#039;t fight back, OR &quot;participate in government&quot;.   
 
Health care professionals will have to work in areas they don&#039;t want to &quot;because the need is there.&quot;  Adults will have to fear job loss during their three-month stints in the Civilian Security Forces training camps (read up on it, it&#039;s real).  
 
Then there are the elderly (conveniently called &quot;the retired&quot; in his plan).  No service?  No Medicare/Medicaid.  &quot;In return for affordable health care&quot; is how I remember it worded on his page -- though that&#039;s likely been Changed also.   
 
No amount of &quot;you&#039;re being stubborn, selfish and unpatriotic&quot; rhetoric can alter the fact that he wants ALL to serve in this Corps and that Corps.  That makes it mandatory, and unacceptable. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a lot of people are missing is the ALL.  The supporters say &quot;It&#039;s good for the kids to serve.  Schools already require it.  College kids get something for it.&quot;  </p>
<p>But his eye isn&#039;t on the kids (who, if they disobey, can&#039;t graduate from middle or high school), his eye is on ALL.  A person away from home 10 hours a day at a job and commuting then has to Serve another hour a day, or ten on the weekends, picking up garbage on the roadside, or doing some other job that someone was previously getting paid to do.  Exhausted people can&#039;t fight back, OR &quot;participate in government&quot;.  </p>
<p>Health care professionals will have to work in areas they don&#039;t want to &quot;because the need is there.&quot;  Adults will have to fear job loss during their three-month stints in the Civilian Security Forces training camps (read up on it, it&#039;s real). </p>
<p>Then there are the elderly (conveniently called &quot;the retired&quot; in his plan).  No service?  No Medicare/Medicaid.  &quot;In return for affordable health care&quot; is how I remember it worded on his page &#8212; though that&#039;s likely been Changed also.  </p>
<p>No amount of &quot;you&#039;re being stubborn, selfish and unpatriotic&quot; rhetoric can alter the fact that he wants ALL to serve in this Corps and that Corps.  That makes it mandatory, and unacceptable.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill, Anchorage Alas</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-11629</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill, Anchorage Alas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This article is way off base and out of line.   Government is NOT the problem,....lack of participation in governments role and irresponsible spending and an out of control military budget (60% of the worlds expedenture on military is done by the U.S. to control shipping lanes and support the petrodictators of the world).    The Heritage Foundation should realize that asking citizens to serve their country is critical to rebuilding this country and rebuilding the middle class.    
Stop the war agains labor, help solve the rediculous and barbaric healthcare (we spend more per capita yet have 50million plus not covered) program.  
 
Heritage Foundation......get off your highhorse and help this country deal with climate change, solve our healthcare issue (employer based healthcare is a competitive disadvantage to our companies), help us get rid of corporate welfare, revitalize the country and get rid of the Cut tax and Borrow policies of the republican led leaderships.    80% of our Federal debt was incurred under the Bush and Reagan presidencies.   Restructure our tax policies by taxing polluters and gasoline and diesel more and cutting income taxes further on the middle class and build a safer and cleaner energy system away from oil and gas and towards solar, wave, tidal, geothermal, wind, select biofuels (not corn)........... 
Why is it ok with you so-called conservatives to privatize profits and socialize losses.....did you not learn from the excesses of the 20&#039;s when we did not regulate margin debt, did not regulate our banks, and simply said &quot;Greed&quot; was good.......FDR adn the democrats had to rebuild this nation with the CCC, create some security with Social Security, and get this nation and the world through world war 2 successfully............ 
Be part of the problem and support Barack Obama as he helps you and others become better aware or our true &quot;Heritage&quot;.....which is based on citizen participation in both government and nongovernmental organizations.    
Remember, WE are the government and good government is the SOLUTION and not the problem. 
The financial services deregulation started in the Reagan years has ultimately led to the decimation of our Manufacturing industry and the irresponible and dumbly regulated buildup of the financial industry which has favored massive buildup of DEBT and threatens the financial future for all of us.     
We need to rebuild our economy based on Production and less debendence on consumption.  We need to create energy security and we can NOT drill our way out of this problem.....even Boone Pickens knows that. 
 
Your foundation is part of the problem and is anti-labor, anti-healthcare, and favors rich over the poor, and unwisely believes in supplyside trickle down economics fueled by the military industrial complex and massive build up of National Debt to subzidize corporate excess and irresponsibility.     
 
Change Now while you still can. 
 
Sincerely. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article is way off base and out of line.   Government is NOT the problem,&#8230;.lack of participation in governments role and irresponsible spending and an out of control military budget (60% of the worlds expedenture on military is done by the U.S. to control shipping lanes and support the petrodictators of the world).    The Heritage Foundation should realize that asking citizens to serve their country is critical to rebuilding this country and rebuilding the middle class.   </p>
<p>Stop the war agains labor, help solve the rediculous and barbaric healthcare (we spend more per capita yet have 50million plus not covered) program. </p>
<p>Heritage Foundation&#8230;&#8230;get off your highhorse and help this country deal with climate change, solve our healthcare issue (employer based healthcare is a competitive disadvantage to our companies), help us get rid of corporate welfare, revitalize the country and get rid of the Cut tax and Borrow policies of the republican led leaderships.    80% of our Federal debt was incurred under the Bush and Reagan presidencies.   Restructure our tax policies by taxing polluters and gasoline and diesel more and cutting income taxes further on the middle class and build a safer and cleaner energy system away from oil and gas and towards solar, wave, tidal, geothermal, wind, select biofuels (not corn)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Why is it ok with you so-called conservatives to privatize profits and socialize losses&#8230;..did you not learn from the excesses of the 20&#039;s when we did not regulate margin debt, did not regulate our banks, and simply said &quot;Greed&quot; was good&#8230;&#8230;.FDR adn the democrats had to rebuild this nation with the CCC, create some security with Social Security, and get this nation and the world through world war 2 successfully&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Be part of the problem and support Barack Obama as he helps you and others become better aware or our true &quot;Heritage&quot;&#8230;..which is based on citizen participation in both government and nongovernmental organizations.   </p>
<p>Remember, WE are the government and good government is the SOLUTION and not the problem.</p>
<p>The financial services deregulation started in the Reagan years has ultimately led to the decimation of our Manufacturing industry and the irresponible and dumbly regulated buildup of the financial industry which has favored massive buildup of DEBT and threatens the financial future for all of us.    </p>
<p>We need to rebuild our economy based on Production and less debendence on consumption.  We need to create energy security and we can NOT drill our way out of this problem&#8230;..even Boone Pickens knows that.</p>
<p>Your foundation is part of the problem and is anti-labor, anti-healthcare, and favors rich over the poor, and unwisely believes in supplyside trickle down economics fueled by the military industrial complex and massive build up of National Debt to subzidize corporate excess and irresponsibility.    </p>
<p>Change Now while you still can.</p>
<p>Sincerely.</p>
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		<title>By: Individuality and Freedom &#171; Conservative Thoughts and Profundity</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-10725</link>
		<dc:creator>Individuality and Freedom &#171; Conservative Thoughts and Profundity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] attack, whether by a collective-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment or by a collectivist redefining of the American Dream, we must resist it. Individual freedom and individual rights are our only chance to retain our [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] attack, whether by a collective-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment or by a collectivist redefining of the American Dream, we must resist it. Individual freedom and individual rights are our only chance to retain our [...]</p>
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		<title>By: RedPlanetCartoons &#187; Overreach</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-9665</link>
		<dc:creator>RedPlanetCartoons &#187; Overreach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Heritage Foundation: &#8220;A proposal for American Serfdom.&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Heritage Foundation: &#8220;A proposal for American Serfdom.&#8221; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Pamela, DC</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-8983</link>
		<dc:creator>Pamela, DC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s interesting to me how change.gov&#039;s explanation of the America Serves initiative has changed as the scary implications of the words on the screen have come to light.  The site&#039;s many agenda sub-pages, including plans for national defense and the economy, have also vanished.   
 
So far it seems that an open, transparent new administration really means deleting ill-chosen words and pretending they never existed at all. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s interesting to me how change.gov&#039;s explanation of the America Serves initiative has changed as the scary implications of the words on the screen have come to light.  The site&#039;s many agenda sub-pages, including plans for national defense and the economy, have also vanished.  </p>
<p>So far it seems that an open, transparent new administration really means deleting ill-chosen words and pretending they never existed at all.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew, Chicago</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-8771</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew, Chicago</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama&#039;s plan does not require college students to participate in community service, as the article suggests.  If students do decide to participate, and complete the program, they get $4,000 for college, and the community gets 100 hours of community service. 
 
I do agree that the American Dream is more of a personal concept. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama&#039;s plan does not require college students to participate in community service, as the article suggests.  If students do decide to participate, and complete the program, they get $4,000 for college, and the community gets 100 hours of community service.</p>
<p>I do agree that the American Dream is more of a personal concept.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard, Texas</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/07/america-serves/#comment-8752</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard, Texas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ted, you are right-on the mark.  500 hours of community is more than a third-time DWI will get you.  Mandatory means just that mandatory. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ted, you are right-on the mark.  500 hours of community is more than a third-time DWI will get you.  Mandatory means just that mandatory.</p>
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