<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<oembed>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<type>link</type>
	<objectid>83556</objectid>
	<title><![CDATA[How the Country Has Come to Find Itself in the Current Economic Mess]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/how-the-country-has-come-_b_83556.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p> As the Senate moves to consider the wholly inadequate stimulus package passed by the House -- zip for the jobless, no increase in food stamps, squat for the nation's crumbling infrastructure -- it's useful to consider how the country has come to find itself in the current economic mess.</p>

<p> Part of the reason we need a "fiscal stimulus package" under what President Bush continues to claim is a strong economy is the bad behavior of a government operating in...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
</oembed>
