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		<title>Public Sector Unions Must be Banned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a major underlying theme with the rapidly growing state and federal debt &#8212; unions. Over the past 30 years unions have won lucrative defined benefits contracts that placed affordable benefits in the present (e.g. 1978), but pushed off unafordable benefits to the future. Police officers could work for 20 years, and then retire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preventative Health? Time for new Measures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently canvassed several interns who are working on preventative health measures in D.C. and asked if there was any new ideas being tossed about. They said &#8220;No&#8221;. This got me thinking &#8211; with all the talk about preventing future illness, why are so few ideas tossed about in public? In order to get this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstinence Only Education is Silly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration stresses the importance of abstinence only education. Ignoring religious issues with premarital sex, does this policy have a chance of preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases? Any economist would say &#8211; NO!
Consider you have a child who wants to ride a bike. You can tell him he should not ride a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Price of Luxury Goods is Spiraling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grey Swan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily news reports stress that the price of luxury good tends to increase faster than the rate of inflation. Increasingly, middle and upper middle class families are being priced out of the luxury good market altogether. Why? I believe that a combination of age old factors and new trends are the root cause. This includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Free College Tuition (College Wars Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many European countries offer free education to those who want it. The idea is that education is good, and the more educated people get, the better. Since education is costly however, this is not necessarily true.
The main problem with education is that it is a partially zero-sum pursuit.
While classes in computer science and engineering may [...]]]></description>
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