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		<title>ARE WE HANDLING UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION RIGHT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When businesses lay someone off they frequently provide a severance pay for the individual.  Depending upon rank and tenure it is designed to help the former employee out while they seek a new job.  It is a fixed amount, and is paid over time regardless whether the person gets new job during the payout. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I HAVE A DREAM!  YES, LOTS OF THEM!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I dream a lot, hence the name for my blog: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8221; My articles are not based on lots of research, just my experiences in life and work. My hope is that someone will find it some day and find an idea that helps them n their career and life in general. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL SECURITY, JUST ANOTHER ENTITLEMENT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people my vintage believe that social security is not an entitlement, but a return on money we have invested over our working life.  I know I want to believe that! However thinking about it I believe Congress believes it is an entitlement, just like welfare, unemployment compensation, and a host of others.  As such, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TO COMPETE OR NOT TO COMPETE; THAT IS THE QUESTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work your way up! &#160; Yesterday a friend of mine asked his 23 year old college graduate son about the occupy Wall Street raucous.  His son said, &#8220;why don&#8217;t they just get jobs and work their way up?&#8221; Last night on a news clip on Wall Street an older guy suggested that to a young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MORE ADVICE FOR MY KIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s world, we have the entitlement mentality, which is based on the belief in redistribution of wealth, or “pooling of wealth” for the common good. This is not a new concept. The early apostles did the same when they started spreading the word about Jesus. They sold their assets, and pooled their money, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;WORKERS&#8221; IS THAT A GOOD TERM?</title>
		<link>http://www.robseverson.com/general/workers-good-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I hear the term &#8220;workers&#8221; I get a little angry.  Not really angry, just a little! The reason is that I do not think that word does any good for us. When I hear it, I think of slavery, insignificant duties, and yes, the proletariat.  It also seems to demean folks other than themselves, IE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUSINESS TURNAROUNDS, ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM THE USA TURNAROUND?</title>
		<link>http://www.robseverson.com/general/business-turnarounds-usa-turnaround/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking again!  I don&#8217;t claim to have all the answers, but as a country boy do have a bunch of observations and questions! I&#8217;ve been around businesses in distress for over 30 years, having financed them, coached them and procured financing for their turnaround  plan.  Some make it; some don&#8217;t.  I liked working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS SOCIAL JUSTICE A COPOUT?</title>
		<link>http://www.robseverson.com/general/social-justice-copout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Severson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social injustice I heard this term a lot in the 60&#8242;s when I was in college but didn&#8217;t think about it too much as I was doing other things than protesting stuff.  As it keeps coming up I looked it up on Wikepedia to learn more about it. There is a lot on there, but [...]]]></description>
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