<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Brother Can You Spare $300 Billion ? : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>82504</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/82504/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brother Can You Spare $300 Billion ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb the global financial meltdown.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>461</score><crdate>11/21/2008 12:57:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T12:57:21+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Here's your rifle.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/22/2008 7:18:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-22T07:18:41+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381154</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q12</url><title><![CDATA[jhordie @ 11/21/2008 7:48:56 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><i>The four states are estimated to have amassed close to 1.5 trillion dollars in surplus in the past six years due to high oil prices that rocketed above 147 dollars in July</i></div>I'm sure a large part of that came from the U.S. The least they could do is give a little back after after raping everyone.<br/><br/>Politics makes strange bedfellows.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 7:48:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T19:48:56+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381147</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q11</url><title><![CDATA[fentwin @ 11/21/2008 7:36:58 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/world/l/82504/1/#q10"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>Skippii</b>&#160;:&#160;Nowhere in the article does it say anything about BORROWING.</i></div>From the article: &quot;Al-Seyassah said Washington sought the amount as <i>&quot;financial aid&quot;</i>....<br/><br/><br/><br/>A rose by any other name.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 7:36:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T19:36:58+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381138</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q10</url><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 11/21/2008 7:06:34 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Nowhere in the article does it say anything about BORROWING.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 7:06:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T19:06:34+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381105</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q9</url><title><![CDATA[sukkie @ 11/21/2008 6:12:03 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[err..<br/>forgive 16 billion dollars? <br/>also -borrowing from the middle east isn't going to help ease the problem of 'increasing' the oil supply is it? so... higher oil prices? <br/><br/>sigh]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 6:12:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T18:12:03+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381093</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q8</url><title><![CDATA[fentwin @ 11/21/2008 6:02:40 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Aren't these the same gulf nations that we didn't want to be beholden to fuel-wise? Aren't these the same countries that spurred the idea energy independence? So we wouldn't have to give money to those that &quot;hate&quot; us.<br/><br/><br/>I guess beggars really can't be choosers.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 6:02:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T18:02:40+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381068</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 11/21/2008 5:23:45 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/world/l/82504/1/#q6"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>JoshSF49</b>&#160;:&#160;CONGRESS!<br/><br/>ugh.<br/><br/>Before we consider bailing *any* company out, we need to consider bailing out the average American so he can put bread on the table for his family.</i></div>I agree. <br/><br/>But they will never make sure we never see a penny of it.<br/><br/>Grrrr.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 5:23:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T17:23:45+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381059</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[JoshSF49 @ 11/21/2008 5:18:51 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/world/l/82504/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>TraumaMamma</b>&#160;:&#160;And we just bailed out banks and possibly car companies?<br/><br/>So if the taxpayers (us) are bailing them out, where is THIS 300 billion really going to go?</i></div>CONGRESS!<br/><br/>ugh.<br/><br/>Before we consider bailing *any* company out, we need to consider bailing out the average American so he can put bread on the table for his family.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 5:18:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T17:18:51+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 11/21/2008 5:09:10 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[And we just bailed out banks and possibly car companies?<br/><br/>So if the taxpayers (us) are bailing them out, where is THIS 300 billion really going to go?]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 5:09:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T17:09:10+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>381004</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[JoshSF49 @ 11/21/2008 4:43:56 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[YAY!  More debt!]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 4:43:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T16:43:56+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>380806</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[stinkobinko @ 11/21/2008 1:40:44 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[and so where did people THINK it was going to come from?]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 1:40:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T13:40:44+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>380786</id><url>http://www.plime.com/l/82504/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[cb__ @ 11/21/2008 1:11:26 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Wow, it's THAT bad?  I was hopeful we could solve this on our own.. I really hate the thought of being at the mercy of the OPEC nations even more than we already are.]]></content><score></score><crdate>11/21/2008 1:11:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-21T13:11:26+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>