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<title>Any reason for optimism, lately? (Trees And Things)</title>
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<description>Obama&#x27;s a mediocre president at best, Romney might be better but will be saddled with a bunch of nutjob Congressmen who want to go back to the gold standard.  Neither party really seems to have any new ideas about how to improve governance or fix the economy - Republicans want to cut taxes and cut spending and have no real plan to close the long term deficit, Democrats want to raise taxes and increase spending and also have no real plan to close the long term deficit.  Europe looks about two steps away from</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 8 Jun 2012 02:27:15 GMT</pubDate>
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