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		<title>The Furloughs Are Back</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/07/the-furloughs-are-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard for me to escape this issue of California state workers having to take pay cuts. My wife is a State worker bee and we have seen much in the way of deteriorating pay and forced furloughs. I recognize that these government workers are but pawns in the large budgetary chess battle now going on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Jarvis is Spinning in his Grave</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/07/howard-jarvis-is-spinning-in-his-grave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego voters are going to possibly be looking at two ballot measures coming this fall that will actually raise taxes. The proposed half-cent sales tax increase and the $98 per house(and $60 per apartment unit) is quite a shift of direction from the spirit of Proposition 13, enacted in 1978.  We decided then not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words About Daniel Schorr</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the Sunday morning show on CBS and was taken aback by the network&#8217;s scanty coverage of the death of Daniel Schorr. Like his rough take-no-prisoners style or not, this guy was a giant in electronic journalism. Their brief three minute bio-pic was an insult in my view.
I remember him most vividly during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost of Joseph Welch</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/04/the-ghost-of-joseph-welch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Goldman Sachs drama unwinds it brings to mind another famous Senate hearing, the Army-McCarthy hearings that were held in 1954. In a single moment,  Senator McCarthy was destroyed politically along with his political movement. For those not familar with the Senator from Wisconsin, he was the political leader in the fight to root out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Gets a Public Flogging;Politics or Theatre?</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/04/wall-street-gets-a-public-floggingpolitics-or-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American history provides a mother lode of dramas such as is now occurring on the Hill.  For those not following the news too closely, Congress has hauled in several miscreants from Goldman Sachs for a serious finger-wagging session. When it was all over, Goldman&#8217;s heavies left town, no less richer but with the knowledge that the game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Movie Won&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/03/the-right-movie-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutjimscott.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[because The Hurt Locker is a film and not a hybrid movie-cartoon.  I saw Avatar in 3D and thought it spectacular entertainment.  It was a magical experience and would see it again on the big screen. But that attribute alone does not mean it was a great movie worthy of Best Picture status. 
Judging from the box office, the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $1.99 Deli Sandwich</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/03/the-199-deli-sandwich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving along Mission Gorge Road Sunday past and drove by a store that was advertising a deli sandwich for $1.99. While this may appeal to stretched consumers, the idea of pricing-to-survive troubled me. The Dow closed Friday over 10,500 and I presume will continue a slow march toward prosperity, no matter how ephemeral.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now the Gloves are Really Off</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/02/now-the-gloves-are-really-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last Mr. Obama realizes that there is no crossing the aisle on health care reform.  It is clear the administration will be forced to craft a bill unilaterally and force it through Congress. This will please few people but at least it will be viewed as some progress and provide the Democrats with some political cover this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take off the Gloves!</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/02/take-off-the-gloves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutjimscott.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The thinly veiled public relations exercise going on in Washington today over health care reform reminds of a story about Benjamin Franklin.  As you may recall, Mr. Franklin, always a master of self-promotion, invented a machine powered by heat that made enough noise to convince passersby that he was working on projects well past midnight. In his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running in Place</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/02/running-in-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutjimscott.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have finally made peace with my new reality. And it is probably yours as well. All of us are facing a new era of working longer, harder and for less money.  If you are looking for someone to blame you are missing the point. What we are seeing is a return to normal global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bank Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/01/the-bank-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President yesterday fired another salvo in his battle with the nation&#8217;s largest banks. He wants to make sure taxpayers get paid back for the bailout. The recent spate of excessive bonuses set off this proposal.
I do not think the size of executive compensation is really the issue here. The problem is that the gang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Act of War?</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/01/an-act-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cyber-fracas now going on between Google and the Chinese is perhaps a preview of how future wars between major powers will be fought. Bytes will replace bullets. It will be more important to produce hackers than high school guards.
I believe the last conventional war was fought in Korea. Terrorism and hacking are most likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google and the Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/01/google-and-the-chinese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s decision to leave the China market is interesting on several levels. Western business interests have pursued the Holy Grail of &#8216;The ChinaMarket&#8217; for the past 150 years. No one power or one interest has ever found much enduring success there with the exception of the Brits and the Portuguese. The lure of all of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No-Fault Banking</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/01/no-fault-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I noted that it is important to appreciate the difference between banks and bankers. Think of the latter as a close-knit economic guild. Because of this, they can move freely from bank to bank, collecting bonuses and options along the way. No where is it remotely important to actually perform well.
If you doubt this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Cheer from the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutjimscott.com/2010/01/some-cheer-from-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s U-T business section featured a real retro-headline, &#8220;Finally,good news on 3 fronts&#8221;.  Unfortunately below the fold was this grim header, &#8220;Del Mar Heights office building sold at great loss&#8221;.  These headlines are emblematic of our times. True the economy is improving for some people, but for others, it remains a train wreck.
The Administration still [...]]]></description>
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