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	<title>Monadnock School Taxpayers Association News</title>
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		<title>Scenes From the New York Education Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was chancellor, I was told confrontation was bad. Not so.
Teachers are extremely effective messengers to parents, community groups, faith-based groups and elected officials—and their unions know how to deploy them well. Happy unions can give a politician massive clout, and unhappy unions—well, just ask Eva Moskowitz, a Democrat who headed the New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2011/05/11/scenes-from-the-new-york-education-wars/</link>
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		<title>WSJ Warns US About Debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal warned the US today that we are carrying too much debt.  This caused the markets to fall.  
Read more at the WSJ&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2011/04/19/wsj-warns-us-about-debt/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin Salaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Salaries
by Raymond Spitzer

Well I guess it is easy to see how the poor public servants have a tough time making ends meet. (My heart really bleeds for them).
2010 Wisconsin Teacher Actual Wages – Wisc Govt wages exposed
AVERAGE WAGE AND BENEFITS (for about 9 months of work)
TEACHERS:,
Milwaukee $86,297
Elmbrook $91,065
Germantown $83,818
Hartland Arrwhd $90,285 (highest teacher was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2011/03/24/wisconsin-salaries-2/</link>
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		<title>SAU 93</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SAU 93 kicked off on Tuesday March 22, 2011.  Dick Thackston was voted in as chair; Jim Carnie is the vice-chair.  There was quite a bit of discussion of the policy manual.
SAU 93 includes the towns of Fitzwilliam, Gilsum Richmond, Roxbury, Sullivan, Swanzey, and Troy.
Their website is:  http://www.mrsd.org/board_education.cfm?subpage=522562
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		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2011/03/24/sau-93/</link>
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		<title>Reforming the Retirement System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: Contact your Senators about SB 3. We will post date, time and location for committee hearing when we get it.
Below are some of the main issues involved in the NH Retirement Reform Legislation moving through the legislature. The is SB 3 sponsored by Senator Jeb Bradley and his 20 other co-signers.
Coalition of NH Taxpayers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2011/02/14/reforming-the-retirement-system/</link>
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		<title>Time for Bailout Transparency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big banks don&#8217;t want you to know which of them went to the Fed for emergency help.
Americans remain bitter about federal bailouts, even after every penny of the $309 billion rescue of banks and insurers was returned at a profit. Why? Because our government refuses to disclose all of the facts and, until it does, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/10/31/time-for-bailout-transparency/</link>
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		<title>There They Went Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 111th Congress fits a familiar Democratic pattern.
Democrats and their allies are already rationalizing their likely defeat next Tuesday, variously blaming the economy, GOP obstructionism, corporate money, or an inexplicable collapse in President Obama&#8217;s communications skills. Whatever minor truth lies in these excuses, they obscure the larger reality: Americans appear ready to repudiate Democratic governance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/10/31/there-they-went-again/</link>
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		<title>Gold vs. the Fed: The Record Is Clear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were no world-wide financial crises of major magnitude during the Bretton Woods era from 1947 to 1971.
When it meets next week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to signal its desire to increase the rate of inflation by providing additional monetary stimulus. This policy is based on a false—and dangerous—premise: that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/10/31/gold-vs-the-fed-the-record-is-clear/</link>
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		<title>The Rage Against &#8216;Citizens United&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Barack Obama gave the Supreme Court a public tongue-lashing.
Taking office in January 2009 as president, Barack Obama&#8217;s achievement was everywhere called historic. He was at the pinnacle of American life. Two years later, he may be on the cliff&#8217;s edge of another historic achievement—the electoral wipeout of his party with some of the Democrats&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/10/31/the-rage-against-citizens-united/</link>
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		<title>Where the New Jobs Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Texas, not California
The September state unemployment numbers came out last Friday, and we couldn&#8217;t help noticing that three of the four states with the highest job losses were California (-63,500), New York (-37,600) and New Jersey (-20,200). The other was Massachusetts (-20,900). Texas, meanwhile, gained 4,000 jobs.
This continues a longer term trend.Over the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monadnocktaxpayers.org/news/2010/10/31/where-the-new-jobs-are/</link>
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