Politics & Government - 10 October 2006

2006-10-10 12:02:58 · 10 answers · asked by Dane 6 in Politics

does anyone realize illegal employees dont get these benftits but illegal employers do? get richer off the poorer
what protections do you have on fair housing that illegals dont?
who makes the profit.. slumlords ? how many illegals are housed in your area so sliumlords make more money on bad overcrowded substandard places. why dont more peoepl ask the users of the desperate the profiteers be fined!? that will surely get rid of illegals more humanely too!

2006-10-10 12:01:22 · 4 answers · asked by homelessinorangecounty 3 in Immigration

(In the U.S.)

2006-10-10 12:00:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Then why has our Government passed a law that legitimizes this

2006-10-10 11:59:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Shivering Alaskans to Hugo Chavez: Keep your oil
POSTED: 9:09 p.m. EDT, October 9, 2006
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already penetrating the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.

And yet a few of the small communities want to refuse free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."

The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush's nemesis. While scores of Alaska's Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.

"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don't want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, administrator for the tribal council in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we're in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."

Nelson Lagoon residents pay more than $5 a gallon for oil -- or at least $300 a month per household -- to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15. About one-quarter of the 70 villagers are looking for work, in part because Alaska's salmon fishing industry has been hit hard by competition from fish farms.

The donation to Alaska's native villages has focused attention on the rampant poverty and high fuel prices in a state that is otherwise awash in oil -- and oil profits. In 2005, 86 percent of the Alaska's general fund, or $2.8 billion, came from oil from the North Slope.

The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, a native nonprofit organization that would have handled the heating oil donation on behalf of 291 households in Nelson Lagoon, Atka, St. Paul and St. George, rejected the offer because of the insults Chavez has hurled at Bush.

Chavez called Bush "the devil" in a speech to the United Nations last month. He has also called the president a terrorist and denounced the war in Iraq.(Watch former President Bush call Chavez "an ***" -- 2:10)

Dimitri Philemonof, president and chief executive of the association, said accepting the aid would be "compromising ourselves." "I think we have some duty to our country, and I think it's loyalty," he said.

Over the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities -- including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine -- in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci, who approved an agreement last winter to buy discounted oil, said he had no plans this year to seek a similar arrangement. In Boston, Massachusetts, a City Council member wants a landmark Citgo sign near Fenway Park taken down and replaced with an American flag. In Florida, a lawmaker asked the state to cancel Citgo's exclusive contract to sell fuel at turnpike service stations.

About 150 native villages in Alaska have accepted money for heating oil from Citgo. The oil company does not operate in Alaska, so instead of sending oil, it is donating about $5.3 million to native nonprofit organizations to buy 100 gallons this winter for each of more than 12,000 households.

"When you have a dire need and it is a matter of survival for your people, it doesn't matter where, what country, the gift or donation comes from," said Virginia Commack, an elder in the arctic village of Ambler, an impoverished Eskimo community of 280 where residents are paying $7.25 a gallon for fuel.

For years, Alaska natives have accused the state and federal governments of sending too little money to their tiny, far-flung communities, where fuel and grocery prices are bloated by the high costs of delivery by plane and barge.

An editorial last month in the Anchorage Daily News bashed the Legislature's rejection in March of an $8.8 million state supplement to a federal program that helps poor Alaskans with home heating costs.

"It's embarrassing that residents in a state with so much oil wealth should be looking to a foreign nation for help," the newspaper said. "It's hard to blame villagers for accepting the gift."

A spokesman for Gov. Frank Murkowski, John Manly, said the governor believes Chavez's donation is a ploy to undermine Americans' faith in their government. But he said it is up to each village to make its own decision.

"It seems like a very strange irony that we produce the oil and yet every year there seems to be a chronic problem in getting the fuel to people that need it," Manly said.

Joan Eddy, principal and teacher at Nelson Lagoon's school, said most buildings in town were erected 30 to 40 years ago, which makes them pretty old, considering how they get battered by the constant 20-25 mph wind coming off the ocean. Their heating systems are aging, too.

She noted the fuel barge is late arriving this year, and said residents are turning on their furnaces for only a few hours in the morning and at night.

"We're conserving as much as we can because we are concerned. It looks like it's going to be a snowy winter and cold," she said.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

2006-10-10 11:58:09 · 13 answers · asked by RENEGADE. 2 in Immigration

"'There have been amnesties and reforms before, and they will continue to occur periodically,' "Few in Mexico question the prevailing feeling that Mexicans have an inalienable right to go north." If they broke the law to get here and obtained documents such as someone else's social security number illegally, they do not have the right to become a citizen. If you are a citizen and become a felon you loose your right to vote and have trouble getting work. Why should it be any different for "illegal aliens"? Plain and simple they are abusing our country, our laws, and on top of all that don't even bother to learn English but expect us to accommodate them and learn Spanish
Go to many "developing" and "third world" countries. Guess what you can't easily get into their country illegally and if you do you will most likely wind up in a very nasty jail. If these countries don't tolerate illegal immigration why should we. If you get caught there you get deported.

2006-10-10 11:56:33 · 8 answers · asked by Zoe 4 in Immigration

2006-10-10 11:54:17 · 9 answers · asked by Shorty 1 in Other - Politics & Government

You think the GOP whitehouse can take this opportunity to handle the Korea related situation really well these next few weeks? Will that restore Republican confidence of your vote?

2006-10-10 11:54:08 · 5 answers · asked by roostershine 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Just 6 weeks before Sept. 11th?

2006-10-10 11:54:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-10-10 11:53:52 · 2 answers · asked by selling_point1 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-10 11:53:26 · 20 answers · asked by flamingo 1 in Military

2006-10-10 11:52:34 · 4 answers · asked by donald w 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I'm 245 lbs and 6ft tall. I need to get down to 210 very quickly in order to get the ball rolling (taking the ASVAB and DLAB tests and going to MEPS). How can I do this in 2 months? Is it possible to just not eat for a few weeks and lose weight that way? lol

2006-10-10 11:51:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Please only anwer this question if you are serious and know what you are talking about. NO COMMENTS PLEASE.

2006-10-10 11:51:32 · 8 answers · asked by Papachango 1 in Military

essay style

2006-10-10 11:50:38 · 10 answers · asked by gunitgurl2012 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-10 11:50:16 · 12 answers · asked by roostershine 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-10 11:50:11 · 21 answers · asked by bhurll 1 in Government

2006-10-10 11:50:07 · 2 answers · asked by dixlesst 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I posted two questions earlier. Though they're simple to me, it seems I am still talking over people's heads. Let me try again:

Does the negative, angry emotion that so many people feel in thinking about or discussing the death penalty largely prevent them from learning about the death penalty and related human rights issues?

Ready, of course, for your calm, patient and well-considered views.

2006-10-10 11:50:03 · 9 answers · asked by voltaire 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-10 11:49:40 · 2 answers · asked by michael o 5 in Law & Ethics

Why was there only one piece of an engine found out of all of it, and why does this piece not match any part of the Boeing that hit it?

2006-10-10 11:49:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

8.5 TRILLION DOLLAR National Debt
250 Billion dollar a year deficit
Record number of personal bankruptcies
More debt per capita than any other nation
The most indebted nation in the history of Earth

A endless war in Iraq, another war on terrorism the USA won't win, unless serious changes are made. Both wars have ruined our nations credibility.

WHO SAID THE US EMPIRE WILL LAST FOREVER?
No empire has ever lasted.

2006-10-10 11:49:09 · 11 answers · asked by Villain 6 in Politics

Sign the petition -

http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=campaigns.display.page&obj_id=132788

2006-10-10 11:48:56 · 6 answers · asked by LongJohns 7 in Other - Politics & Government

I'm in south east Wisconsin and I don't know where to look to find a gay cop.

2006-10-10 11:47:50 · 6 answers · asked by coplover 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Rwanda?They still live in poverty.Why don't we feel as responsible for that genocide?

2006-10-10 11:46:02 · 11 answers · asked by RX 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-10 11:45:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

coming to this nation from all over the world?

In Mexico, like it is in many other nations, a very small percentage of Mexican nationals DO NOT have the Desire or the Need to Emigrate to the U.S. These people are academically well educated, have a good financial living style, culturally well rounded people that do not have the necesity to come to the U.S. The majority of the people that immigrate to the U.S. are really people that couldnt be able to do well because of lack of education. These Uneducated Immigrants come to the U.S. and are taking jobs away from the average American citizen because of their hard working skills and loyalty to the hand that feeds them. Iknow, I know, everyone out there saying that "they take over our jobs because they are willing to get paid less and therefore companies are in the business of making money".

2006-10-10 11:42:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

.. has got anything to do with the running of America?

2006-10-10 11:41:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

How can a nation be decreed by an outsider. how can a nation be created based upon a biblical text. sure the holocaust happened, but how does that give the jews a right to their own country that they left 2000+ yeas ago

2006-10-10 11:39:41 · 21 answers · asked by ohnogruffalo 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I have bee told that the name Pakistan is derived from: Pashtu, Arab, kurdis and ?? Is that right? Who knows about this?

2006-10-10 11:38:12 · 2 answers · asked by lilys_butterflies 1 in Other - Politics & Government