Politics & Government - 17 October 2006

Like when you feel people are lurking outside during the night time hours making noise so you cannot sleep. And trying to turn over things like my glider swing and other yard ornimates I have in my yard, just to be irritating. I keep to myself at all times I only talk to 2 people in my neighbor hood. When I drive through I smile and wave to every one and seem to get along with every one except one family I do not associate with because the lady and I do not see eye to eye. Now things have been happening and I feel the need to protect my suroundings. I have not brought the police into it because this lady has a reputation for retribution. And I am leary that worse things would happen. If I could get the proof to show to the police. What are my rights to protect my self ???

2006-10-17 05:59:21 · 9 answers · asked by grameelovesya2 1 in Law & Ethics

Please list the ideas and issues that you think of when you hear this topic. I recently wrote about this and I am curious to see what everyone else has to say. What issues pop up when granting confidentiality to birth mothers? What issues arise when taking away the confidentiality that they have been guaranteed by law?

2006-10-17 05:57:22 · 10 answers · asked by jtiernan07 2 in Civic Participation

To all you fellow New Yorkers out there: Which one are you voting for....and why?

2006-10-17 05:57:16 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Anything? In six years?
One thing?

2006-10-17 05:56:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

in your own words, define revoution. why do we call the industrial age a revolution

2006-10-17 05:55:35 · 5 answers · asked by Marixza E 1 in Embassies & Consulates

After six years?
Republican majority in House and Senate, a mandate,
all squandered, nothing done on so many fronts?
Is it ALL Clinton's fault?
Is it better NOW than under Clinton?
Come on...!

2006-10-17 05:53:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I want to know how to spell Cason and where is it in modern day Vietnam and what war was fought there during the Vietnam War?

2006-10-17 05:52:56 · 3 answers · asked by Fun2010 4 in Military

2006-10-17 05:51:00 · 22 answers · asked by steph27 1 in Military

Hahaha see...You can make anything Bushs fault...its fun

2006-10-17 05:50:42 · 21 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 in Politics

2006-10-17 05:49:33 · 2 answers · asked by jay s 4 in Government

how many innocent children have been killed by the USA's millitary during both president Bush's wars in the middle East?

(please list both american "children" serving in the US millitary as well as the countless thousands of childred that lie in graves in Iraq and Afganistan)

2006-10-17 05:48:55 · 11 answers · asked by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 in Law & Ethics

As people know, in this country we do not have a President who can not just make a decision to do things and it happens. It has to go to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Then it goes to him to sign off. And some things that the Sen and the HoR bring up he has nothing to do with. I understand that the Presidents party controls both Houses so my question is this. Why blame Bush? Blame the people that we elected into the House and the Senate. If people don't like Bush's party, why did we elect so many to office?

Just curious.

2006-10-17 05:47:55 · 11 answers · asked by Too Cool For Me 4 in Government

2006-10-17 05:46:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2577124

how is this NOT breaking the geneva convention?

2006-10-17 05:46:32 · 2 answers · asked by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 in Law & Ethics

some cars come stock(standard) with tinting that is darker than the law allows.

i have herd that as long as the tinting came like that from the dealer(not a used car) than you're safe from the law.

is this true??
and if so than why do they get to slide just because a company tinted it insted of a person???

2006-10-17 05:46:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Just wondering, please no bashing other Parties or I will report you. I just want a short answer like "I am a republican" or "Democrat"

2006-10-17 05:46:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I turned from the 3rd lane from the right.

2006-10-17 05:44:15 · 15 answers · asked by Kitkat 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Why did you make the decision to go into law?

2006-10-17 05:43:45 · 9 answers · asked by Dana V 1 in Law & Ethics

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
As U.S. leaders craft policies to curb illegal immigration from Mexico, the U.S. Federal Reserve is devising programs to extend banking services to undocumented immigrants. A new remittance program aims to bring Mexican migrants who send money home into the mainstream U.S. financial system, regardless of their immigration status.

Dubbed "Directo a Mexico," the remittance program enables U.S. commercial banks to make money transfers for Mexican workers through the Federal Reserve's own automated clearinghouse, which is linked to Banco de Mexico, the Mexican central bank.

To use the service, a Mexican need only possess a matricula consular, an ID issued by the Mexican consulate in most major U.S. cities to those with proof of Mexican birth or citizenship, or a picture ID card issued by the U.S. or another foreign government. The idea is to make it cheaper and safer for Mexican workers to send funds to their relatives.

"We offer an extremely competitive exchange rate," said Elizabeth McQuerry, an Atlanta-based assistant vice president for the Federal Reserve Bank's retail payments office. "We cost a third of other providers."

The majority of immigrants currently make transfers, which average $350 each, through companies like Western Union or a hodgepodge of wire-transfer firms, couriers and others that operate out of storefronts in Hispanic enclaves. Family members then collect the wired cash at a shop in their town or village.

The Federal Reserve Bank and Banco de Mexico launched a cross-country road show during the summer to promote the new funds-transfer program to commercial banks. Banks that offer the service hope to attract new customers. Indeed, one of the Federal Reserve Bank's goals is to use the program as a springboard for drawing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the formal U.S. banking system because commercial banks require that those wanting the service first open a savings account.

"People who didn't have bank accounts establish a relationship with us," said James Maloney, chairman of Mitchell Bank in Milwaukee, one of the first banks to offer the Federal Reserve Bank's remittance scheme. "It's great for our business."

Acknowledging that many Mexicans sending money home are illegal immigrants, the Federal Reserve's brochure poses the following frequently asked question: "If I return to Mexico or am deported, will I lose the money in my bank account?" The answer: "No. The money still belongs to you and can be easily accessed at an ATM in Mexico using your debit card."

A team at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta joined forces with a team at the Mexican central bank to design the Directo a Mexico program in response to a mandate by President Bush, following the U.S.-Mexico Partnership for Prosperity struck by Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox in 2001. One of the stated objectives was to lower the cost paid by Mexican workers to send money to their native country.

The Federal Reserve Bank's brochure touts the favorable foreign-exchange rate, based on the official rate, and a low transfer fee. "In addition, your money is safer in the bank than in your pockets or underneath the mattress," the brochure says.

Retail banks that participate in the program charge as little as $2.50 a transfer compared with $40 charged by some transfer services. Retail banks in the program pay the Federal Reserve 67 cents per transfer.

Most immigrants operate in a cash economy outside the formal banking system, where they have neither credit nor identity. In a post 9/11 era, bringing immigrants into the banking system - and tracking their remittances - is vital to security, supporters say.

Critics, however, say the Federal Reserve Bank is coddling illegal immigrants and helping them engage in capital flight. "Anything that makes it easier for people to live in this country illegally is an inducement for illegal immigration," said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an immigration-restrictionist group. "On top of that, it is draining money out of our economy."

Latin American migrants in the U.S. transferred $53 billion to $55 billion to their native countries last year, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. About $20 billion went to Mexico, $12 billion to Central America and the Dominican Republic, and the rest to South American countries.

Remittances sent by Mexicans topped $15.5 billion in the first eight months of this year, 20 percent higher than the amount sent during the same period in 2005, according to Mexico's central bank, and this year's annual figure is expected to hit a new record. Savings scraped together by nannies, painters and others working abroad are now Mexico's second-largest source of foreign revenue, after oil exports and ahead of tourism.

Since the Federal Reserve launched the program last year, about 150 U.S. financial institutions have enrolled. While most Mexicans continue to avoid banks, consumers using the program seem happy with it. Julian Gimenez, who works for a landscaping company in Milwaukee, for years had sent money to his wife, Catalina, in Jalisco, Mexico, through a wire-transfer company in his Latino neighborhood. Now, Gimenez uses Mitchell Bank. "It's cheaper to send the money and it arrives faster than any other place," he said.

Last month, the program was expanded to enable migrants in the U.S. to open an account for relatives to whom they plan to send money. A bank teller in the U.S. can open the account remotely on a Web site set up by Mexico's Banco del Ahorro Nacional y Servicios Financieros, the development bank known as Bansefi, which has a vast network of branches in urban and rural areas.

The beauty of the program, says Bansefi's Chief Executive Officer Javier Gavito, is that the "unbanked population" on both sides of the border gets into the formal banking system. In Mexico, only half of all adults hold a bank account.

Directo a Mexico "revolutionizes the remittance market," said John Herrera, co-founder of Latino Community Credit Union, which has five branches in North Carolina and participates in the remittance program.

"U.S. banks have realized that these working-class folks are sending real money back home," said Herrera.



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2006-10-17 05:43:43 · 10 answers · asked by RENEGADE. 2 in Immigration

I take private guitar lessons and my teacher told me that if I get him sick then he would sue me, I would guess for the number of days he couldn't work. Can he do that?

He cancelled my lesson last week because I showed up with a cold. I was fine with that but he mentioned suing me if he gets sick.

2006-10-17 05:41:59 · 3 answers · asked by dracul 2 in Law & Ethics

Is Hillary Clinton planning to be a presidential candidate for 2008?

Can you tell me what her "promises" are? ( saying I will do this and that if you elect me as the president...)

Do you support her? Why and why not? What makes you to like her?

2006-10-17 05:40:53 · 9 answers · asked by davegesprek 1 in Elections

Is Hillary Clinton planning to be a presidential candidate for 2008?

Can you tell me what her "promises" are? ( saying I will do this and that if you elect me as the president...)

Do you support her? Why and why not? What makes you to like her?

2006-10-17 05:40:30 · 1 answers · asked by davegesprek 1 in Politics

I apologize for my writing skills. I do not see well! NOW because I have been shot with lasers and infrareds when going to work at night.This has also caused a heart condition and lose of a wire in my heart called a fascular after being shoot with pulsed radiation devices. I have traced these attacks back to the The Joint Staff along with many military bases and CIA locations including NSA
Ft. Meade. I you do not beleive in Black Operations being run againist USA citizens then maybe you do not know your generals
activities, that are againist your fighting for freedom in america.

2006-10-17 05:32:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

opposition?

2006-10-17 05:31:08 · 5 answers · asked by ;-) 1 in Politics

I want to know detailed procedure to lodge complaint to address our issues pertaining to social issues , Delay in functioning of government agencies etc. in detail about where to complaint and various criteria if any

2006-10-17 05:31:00 · 1 answers · asked by Tony_Pdkt_TN 2 in Law & Ethics

I see people completely write off other viewpoints as being left or right.

I think the terms right-wing and left-wing have little to do with living in a great society.

What do you think?

2006-10-17 05:27:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

So many people say it's the law that you are not to come into this country illegally, so who cares if you get deported and ripped away from your families, or leave your children behind with no one to support them...well then let me ask this.... If you always stand behind something just because it is the law then I guess you also agreed with slavery in the old days... Also, I guess that means that it was okay when the law said that christians couldn't pray in their homes back in the old Soviet Union, and I guess it was also okay when Hitler took thousands of Jews from their homes and tortured and killed them, because after all, that was his law. Here in our own country thousands of people had to go AGAINST the law during the Civil Rights movement, just so that everyone could be considered equal, I guess if you idiots think that the law is so wonderful all the time, and you have to follow it no matter what, then you also would've agreed with all these things....?

2006-10-17 05:26:51 · 14 answers · asked by tiece20 2 in Immigration

2006-10-17 05:22:56 · 6 answers · asked by yahoofan 1 in Military

So that, if the aid is after it to have committed, we called LAWYER?

2006-10-17 05:19:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i'm joining the army in process of geting the job or mos.. this is not my first chose . but looking at this as a steping stone to better myself. my question is when i do join the army , i want to tranfer to the marines so what a good contract to join if any 4 active or 2 reserve. i dont want to get screw myself over when signing my life to the army ...i would of join the marines but my score to low. and yeah i know that some people think that marines will take anybody but it not true they dont have such as high standards as the airforce but they do have serant quilifaction to join . what screewd me ove were my score. im not a test taker what so ever .i know my material.but what they say it a test i blank out.even knowing the material or question being ask. but yeah im only join the army because i have to do something anything to better my self as an invisdual. moving foward and not backwards. plus i dont want to waste any more time.i dont want to wait 6mo to retake the asvab again .

2006-10-17 05:19:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military