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		<title>Six Steps Toward Financial Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
The devastating consequences of the financial crisis are all too familiar: billions of dollars and millions of jobs lost, and along with them lost confidence in the might of the American economy and the U.S. role as a global superpower. The question now is: What can we learn from the crisis and how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/08/six-steps-toward-financial-reform/</link>
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		<title>Getting Through to Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Post
It’s amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States.
On Monday, President Obama endorsed the decision by Rhode Island’s smallest, poorest city to fire the entire unionized faculty of its notoriously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/08/getting-through-to-unions/</link>
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		<title>Time for a Spending Cap with Teeth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
Fiscal storm clouds are upon us. In five years, federal spending has skyrocketed to 24.7% from 19.9% of our economy. That&#8217;s the highest level since World War II. Borrowing has ballooned the national debt to $11.9 trillion from $7.3 trillion, a five-year increase equal to the accumulation of debt between President George Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/03/05/time-for-a-spending-cap-with-teeth/</link>
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		<title>Fatted Leviathan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Review
The time bomb of runaway benefits for government employees 
The collapse of the housing market has been an object lesson for America. Households and banks borrowed too much on expectations of continuing appreciation in real-estate prices. This extra borrowing inflated a bubble until it burst. By discounting the future too optimistically, we let the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/fatted-leviathan/</link>
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		<title>No (Tenured) Teacher Left Behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
School reformers generally agree that the most important education resource is the teacher. But one of the biggest obstacles to putting a good instructor in every classroom is a tenure system that forces principals to hire and retain teachers based on seniority instead of performance.
California grants tenure to teachers after merely two years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/no-tenured-teacher-left-behind/</link>
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		<title>Preaching Choice in Obama&#8217;s Hometown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
&#8216;The voucher movement seems to have been born, or seems to have been started as a Republican idea. That&#8217;s the way Democrats look at it. That&#8217;s the way black lawmakers look at it. This is a Republican idea. This is what the Republicans want to push on us. . . . We don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/preaching-choice-in-obamas-hometown/</link>
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		<title>JOY OF SIX (FIGURES)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Post
They get an &#8220;A&#8221; in reading, writing &#8212; and retirement.
There are 738 educators collecting city pensions more than $100,000 &#8212; and three make more than $200,000, records show.
The $100,000-plus club makes up 1 percent of about 70,000 retirees in the city Teachers Retirement System, which doled out $3.8 billion in benefits in 2009.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/25/joy-of-six-figures/</link>
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		<title>The United States: Debtor and Leader?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
It&#8217;s hard to be a moral leader to the world when you have compromised your own future through fiscal irresponsibility. But that&#8217;s precisely the problem facing America today: Ballooning federal debt and a hollowed-out private sector threaten to render our nation a spent political force. What makes it worse is the realization we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/20/the-united-states-debtor-and-leader/</link>
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		<title>Muni Threat: Cities Weigh Chapter 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
Just days after becoming controller of financially strapped Harrisburg, Pa., in January, Daniel Miller began uttering an obscure term that baffled most people who had never heard it and chilled those who had: Chapter 9.
The seldom-used part of U.S. bankruptcy law gives municipalities protection from creditors while developing a plan to pay off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/20/muni-threat-cities-weigh-chapter-9/</link>
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		<title>Toward a Different Fiscal Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal
Tax increases can&#8217;t plausibly address the coming entitlement crisis.
Moody&#8217;s Investors Service&#8217;s warning last week that the AAA credit rating of the United States is in jeopardy raises fresh concern about the nation&#8217;s fiscal health. The question to ask about the president&#8217;s eye-popping budget, also rolled out last week, is whether it prepares the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/02/15/toward-a-different-fiscal-future/</link>
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