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	<description>You're reading the bite-sized musings on travel, technology, and other miscellaneous topics by Anna and Jeff Watkins from Los Gatos, a small town nestled in the hills at the southern end of Silicon Valley.</description>
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		<title>Say &#8220;No&#8221; to Sleazy Bank Behaviour</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2006/06/say-no-to-sleazy-bank-behaviour</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2006/06/say-no-to-sleazy-bank-behaviour#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, BofA: Train your replacement, or no severance pay for you written by David Lazarus about Bank of America&#8217;s decision to have their internal technical support staff train their Indian replacements.


  Bank of America has been steadily moving thousands of tech jobs to India. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEOs Feeling the Pain</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2006/04/ceos-feeling-the-pain</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article on CNNMoney.com, Study: CEO pay grows at slower pace in `05, we should be feeling sorry for the poor CEO:


  The total direct compensation for top corporate CEOs grew by nearly 16 percent last year, a significant increase that was still well below the 41 percent growth of the prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Has Frozen Over</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2006/02/hell-has-frozen-over</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beelzebub himself called to give me the news. In other news GM chief agrees to halve salary, BBC:


  The chief executive of General Motors (GM) is to take a 50% pay cut to help the struggling carmaker save money.
  
  Rick Wagoner and other executives have agreed to reduce their pay and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Praise the Loss of Mortgage Deductions</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2005/11/all-praise-the-loss-of-mortgage-deductions</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2005/11/all-praise-the-loss-of-mortgage-deductions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, I&#8217;m delighted that our Moron-In-Chief&#8217;s commission on simplifying taxes has considered slashing the Mortgage deduction. This brings me no end of happiness.

This is not because I want to see all my home-owning friends suffer, but because the housing market is just out of control. The National Association of Realtors, a totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moment of Clarity</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2005/09/moment-of-clarity</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2005/09/moment-of-clarity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else noted the irony?

Looking at the anarchy that is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it occurred to me today that if they weren&#8217;t off getting killed in Iraq, we&#8217;d have a heck of a lot more National Guardsmen to help out in New Orleans&#8230;

I&#8217;m not the praying sort these days, but I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Next ?!?!?</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2005/08/what-next</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2005/08/what-next#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am unbelievably furious and depressed both. I cannot believe what is happening in our country at this moment in time. I nearly regret bringing a child into this mess.

Last week, both the House and Senate passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (see each link for summary text). Although this bill does grant tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Economy and Long-Term Jobless</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2005/03/new-economy-and-long-term-jobless</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2005/03/new-economy-and-long-term-jobless#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LA Times has a very interesting article about the new economy and the long-term jobless. Among the more interesting points made in the article is that workers with a college degree are finding themselves out of work longer and with fewer prospects than ever before.

As someone who has personally endured rather more unemployment than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Reich on Consumerism</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2005/02/robert-reich-on-consumerism</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Robert Reich&#8217;s latest column in the New York Times I have finally found a mainstream voice for my own thoughts. Although I despise Wal-Mart and never shop there, I don&#8217;t actually blame Wal-Mart executives or Sam Walton for the destruction of downtown shopping districts. That decimation lies squarely on the shoulders of American consumers: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Debate</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2004/10/second-debate</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2004/10/second-debate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been listening to the second Presidential Debate, and it
certainly sounds like Kerry is kicking Bush&#8217;s ass. Kerry has managed to
deliver numerous crushing blows to George &#8220;Monkey Boy&#8221; Bush.

These blows will win him the Presidency of the United States of
America twenty-five days from today.
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		<title>Peter Howe on the Republican National Convention</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2004/09/peter-howe-on-the-republican-national-convention</link>
		<comments>http://metrocat.org/2004/09/peter-howe-on-the-republican-national-convention#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the September issue of The Digital Journalist, Peter
Howe has an interesting take on the recent Republican National
Convention. Howe&#8217;s article,The
Uncivil War, highlights some of the most disturbing and long
reaching aspects of the political divide in America:


    This column was late as usual, but the cause this time was
    somewhat [...]]]></description>
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