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	<title>Comments on: OUR STATE FINANCIAL TRAIN WRECK IS NEAR&#8230;</title>
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		<title>By: Philip Morgan</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1693</link>
		<dc:creator>Philip Morgan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the advice Kirby.
Phil</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the advice Kirby.<br />
Phil</p>
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		<title>By: Kirby Wilbur</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1687</link>
		<dc:creator>Kirby Wilbur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give your money to individual candidates or groups like Club for Growth or Americans for Prosperity that you agree with on the issues.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Give your money to individual candidates or groups like Club for Growth or Americans for Prosperity that you agree with on the issues.</p>
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		<title>By: Philip Morgan</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1685</link>
		<dc:creator>Philip Morgan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m still with you Kirby, even though I have not blogged lately.
I got a call recently from the National Republican Party, and will probably get more as funding gets more serious.
Can you or anyone else tell me why I should give Michael Steel some of my dwindling funds after his backing of Dede Whatsherface in New York?

God bless you and your hard work Kirby.

Phil Morgan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m still with you Kirby, even though I have not blogged lately.<br />
I got a call recently from the National Republican Party, and will probably get more as funding gets more serious.<br />
Can you or anyone else tell me why I should give Michael Steel some of my dwindling funds after his backing of Dede Whatsherface in New York?</p>
<p>God bless you and your hard work Kirby.</p>
<p>Phil Morgan</p>
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		<title>By: N/A</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1684</link>
		<dc:creator>N/A</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I forgot to mention that it is the link in the first paragraph that is incorrect, the other links are fine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I forgot to mention that it is the link in the first paragraph that is incorrect, the other links are fine.</p>
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		<title>By: N/A</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1683</link>
		<dc:creator>N/A</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am sure you have already gotten messages about this, however, I thought I would let you know that your link you posted for the &quot;Americans For Prosperity&quot; Website is incorrect and you might want to fix it.  All it does is direct you to a 404 error page.  You have the link name spelled correctly, but the web address you entered is missing the &quot;s&quot; in Americans. Just FYI.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sure you have already gotten messages about this, however, I thought I would let you know that your link you posted for the &#8220;Americans For Prosperity&#8221; Website is incorrect and you might want to fix it.  All it does is direct you to a 404 error page.  You have the link name spelled correctly, but the web address you entered is missing the &#8220;s&#8221; in Americans. Just FYI.</p>
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		<title>By: Rod Mandery</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1681</link>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mandery</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Both my wife and me worked for 30 years for a state pension. Now it seems that all of the years paying into it may evaporate in front of our eyes. When you say the state is headed for a disaster, I am unsure that the word &quot;disaster&quot; is strong enough? Catastrophe maybe?? Why has the legislature ignored the pension funds? Are the patients really running the asylum? Seems so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both my wife and me worked for 30 years for a state pension. Now it seems that all of the years paying into it may evaporate in front of our eyes. When you say the state is headed for a disaster, I am unsure that the word &#8220;disaster&#8221; is strong enough? Catastrophe maybe?? Why has the legislature ignored the pension funds? Are the patients really running the asylum? Seems so.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben Dover</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1679</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank-you for all you effort</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank-you for all you effort</p>
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		<title>By: Martel Hermann</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1678</link>
		<dc:creator>Martel Hermann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did you hear that O&#039;Bama is going fire local school officials for poor performances. Now, how is it that he thinks that HE can FIRE a local school Principal or Administrator?
He thinks he can do it because of the Federal dollars pumped into local schools! That&#039;s how!
Slowly but surely we are all becoming SLAVES to left-wing, social-progressive, democrat government.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you hear that O&#8217;Bama is going fire local school officials for poor performances. Now, how is it that he thinks that HE can FIRE a local school Principal or Administrator?<br />
He thinks he can do it because of the Federal dollars pumped into local schools! That&#8217;s how!<br />
Slowly but surely we are all becoming SLAVES to left-wing, social-progressive, democrat government.</p>
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		<title>By: velta benson</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1677</link>
		<dc:creator>velta benson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a state employee retiree - with Medicare and pay $350 for my &quot;supplement&quot; for Uniform - state owned &#039; nonprofit&quot; health provider...I paid full amount of $8000 a year before I turned 65 for my spouse and me.  State does not provide health care to retirees - unless they do for Unionized workers like Fire fighters, teachers? but not old regulars such as me....  

The Pers 1 is what I&#039;m on and yes, I am waiting for Gregoire to tell us this has to go or get reduced.  I AM counting on that.  BUT again, when it was realized the State could not cover Pers 1 for long, they went to Pers 2 (which was seen as awrulf) and then to individual stock options or investment instruments, and so the state should not be needing to provide any &quot;retirement&quot; to folks who came after me....  Not sure what we are talking about here... Thank you.  Velta Benson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a state employee retiree &#8211; with Medicare and pay $350 for my &#8220;supplement&#8221; for Uniform &#8211; state owned &#8216; nonprofit&#8221; health provider&#8230;I paid full amount of $8000 a year before I turned 65 for my spouse and me.  State does not provide health care to retirees &#8211; unless they do for Unionized workers like Fire fighters, teachers? but not old regulars such as me&#8230;.  </p>
<p>The Pers 1 is what I&#8217;m on and yes, I am waiting for Gregoire to tell us this has to go or get reduced.  I AM counting on that.  BUT again, when it was realized the State could not cover Pers 1 for long, they went to Pers 2 (which was seen as awrulf) and then to individual stock options or investment instruments, and so the state should not be needing to provide any &#8220;retirement&#8221; to folks who came after me&#8230;.  Not sure what we are talking about here&#8230; Thank you.  Velta Benson</p>
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		<title>By: Arthur</title>
		<link>http://www.kirbytalk.com/2010/03/our-state-financial-train-wreck-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-1676</link>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, K ~ your first link is missing the &#039;s&#039; in Americans ;-)
(the 2nd one is ok)

cheers!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, K ~ your first link is missing the &#8217;s&#8217; in Americans <img src='http://www.kirbytalk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
(the 2nd one is ok)</p>
<p>cheers!</p>
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