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		<title>SAVING PBS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Can&#8217;t have the kids being groomed by Antiques Roadshow.” This statement is from a cartoon by Jen Sorensen talking about the defunding of public broadcasting. The humorous, but perceptive, cartoon explains the ridiculous reasoning behind Republican attacks on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Back in 1961 Newton Minow, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, famously described [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Budget Chaos in Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Senator Chris Larson is concerned about the impact on Wisconsin&#8217;s state budget from Trump&#8217;s cuts to federal funding. The cuts being implemented at the federal level will create havoc with the Wisconsin state budget. Senator Larson has introduced emergency legislation – the Frozen Federal Funds Emergency Act – to help deal with this problem. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Economic Conundrums</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.” Mahatma Gandhi “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey environmentalist and author Most of us would be better off if we spent less, spent more wisely, and saved more. But what happens to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social Security and Scary Looking Postcards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy Feitlinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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	Wisconsin’s GOP recently flooded our mailboxes with scary-looking postcards claiming that Kamala Harris’ “amnesty plan for illegals” will destroy Social Security and Medicare. First off, providing “amnesty” would mean pardons for illegally crossing the border and granting legal status, and VP Harris has no such plan. &#160; Secondly, while both programs may be unable to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Project 2025 Will Impact Your Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Republican policies hurt people. Project 2025 provides a blueprint – and an advance warning – of the many ways Republicans intend to hurt most people and the country. Project 2025 goes way beyond the usual Republican agenda of outlawing abortion, destroying unions, eliminating all restraints on big business and cutting taxes – again – for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Physicians for a National Health Program</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To anyone who may want to learn more, this is a great opportunity about how the Advantage Plans are taking over public Healthcare and are not really the best thing for us. &#160; Either of these links should work for the SEIU Retiree organized presentation on Thursday, September 19 at 1:00. There will be presenters [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For the Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where do you go to find over 17,000 lakes, 86,000 miles of rivers and streams, 5.3 million acres of wetlands and 650 miles of Great Lakes shoreline? Don’t go anywhere! Stay in Wisconsin! &#160; Healthy water is one of Wisconsin’s greatest assets. By protecting our water, we protect the health of our people, our economic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE RICH AND SOCIAL SECURITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	I’m sorry to burst everyone’s bubble about the rich and Social Security, but I believe it’s flat out wrong to think it’s as simple as the rich should pay “their fair share.” Compared to everyone else, they already pay their fair share because what each of us pays in Social Security tax is based on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ultra-Rich are Working to Mount Anti-Democratic Coup</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under the cover of religion, and promotion of social-political issues, some members of our ultra-rich class have launched a coup. They have insinuated themselves in the government and judiciary to vote themselves huge tax breaks. Under the last administration, a $1.7 trillion tax cut was enacted. It was heavily tilted to favor the top one-percent. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump – Promotes Mining in Indian Nation Lands, in the Boundary Waters, in Alaska &#38; the Arctic Circle, in Arizona, in Colorado, &#38; in New Mexico; and Eliminates Climate Change and Conservation Initiatives Key Facts about Mining, Oil &#38; Gas Drilling, Climate Change, and Conservation in Project [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Project 2025 is a Threat to our Freedoms, our Families &#038; our Futures</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fair Maps]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Project 2025 is a blueprint for a far-right white Christian Nationalist agenda in a second Trump term. A coalition of over a hundred right-wing organizations, led by think tank The Heritage Foundation, researched, developed, and released a 920-page document that sets out the MAGA agenda for every aspect of Americans’ lives. &#160; From sabotaging our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democracy vs. Autocracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Kolb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Democracy vs. Autocracy What do these terms really mean? Defined by Webster’s dictionary, democracy is “a government by the people, usually through elected representation,” compared to autocracy, “government by a single, absolute ruler.” Citizens choose candidates to appear on ballots through caucuses and primaries in democracies; and are elected through free, fair, secure, and non-fraudulent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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