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		<title>Lost Treasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Zuckerman]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Quick Hook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, what little boy didn&#8217;t want to be a pirate?  Life on the high seas, wearing whatever you wanted, pillaging, and doing as you pleased.  And the best part, hunting for lost treasure. In today&#8217;s ever-perilous economic times, fortunes are spent every day, some for good cause, some for fun, and some a complete [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Growing up, what little boy didn&#8217;t want to be a pirate?  Life on the high seas, wearing whatever you wanted, pillaging, and doing as you pleased.  And the best part, hunting for lost treasure.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s ever-perilous economic times, fortunes are spent every day, some for good cause, some for fun, and some a complete waste of money.  Take for example the Gang of 12 &#8220;Super Committee&#8221;. In theory, a solid idea. With Washington being more dysfunctional than ever before (is that even possible?) 6 Blues and 6 Reds hashing out a plan to get us out of the Grand Canyon of debt and deficit spending sounds like a good idea, right?  But wait, I know my memory is a tad weak, but didn&#8217;t we just undertake the very same process with the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Committee last November?  Hmmm &#8211; 3 Donkeys, 3 Elephants reaching consensus on how to get us out of debt and deficit spending?  Sound familar?  Now where could that confounded report be?  I picture it in the same secret giant warehouse where the Ark of the Lost Covenant was stored in Raiders of the Lost Ark.  I bet we could also find the Knights of Templar Treasure there, a few Roswell alien bodies, maybe the real Dead Sea Scrolls.</p>
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