Politics & Government - 13 July 2007

I ask this because some cons point to a growing economy and say this is proof tax cuts (mostly for the rich) work.

That is nonsense.

Every president since atleast FDR stepped out of office with an economy bigger then the one he stepped into. However, if you were to compare the percent increase in real GDP, inflation adjusted median wages, inflation adjusted tax revenues, jobs created, poverty rates, etc, etc, you would see largely see Keynesian Democrats beat supply side Republicans any day.

2007-07-13 02:43:39 · 10 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

2007-07-13 02:43:32 · 7 answers · asked by muslove2007 1 in Elections

I know that Yahoo has purged Answers of left-wing opinion - I was the victim of censorship myself. But it's fascinating that there are so many ardent pro-war posters when America is now unified against Bush's war crime. Aren't you people aware of what goes on in the real world?

2007-07-13 02:42:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-13 02:42:03 · 2 answers · asked by Gimena C 1 in Military

Is this a Great Country or What*? Supposedly the richest and most powerful Country in the World and we still have 40+ Million Americans without Health Care Coverage*...Are you one of the 40+ Million without*?

2007-07-13 02:39:46 · 21 answers · asked by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 in Politics

Is it to protect military and strategic secrets from our enemy?

Is it to protect the Bush Administration from accountability?

2007-07-13 02:38:59 · 20 answers · asked by El Duderino 4 in Politics

You knew it was coming, every time the White House gets a batch of bad news for the administration it's time to announce a terrorist threat: this time for the ENTIRE summer. Does anyone believe these liars anymore?

"We used to have John Ashscroft's major announcements. We used to have David Paulison's breathless advisories about how to use duct tape against radiation attacks. We used to have Tom Ridge's color-coded threat levels. Now we have Michael Chertoff's gut," began Keith Olbermann in a scathing 'Special Comment' on MSNBC's Countdown.

"That we really have been reduced to listening to see if [Chertoff's] gut will growl, that [his] intestines are our best defense," mocked Olbermann. "All hail the prophetic gut!"

2007-07-13 02:38:13 · 18 answers · asked by guess 5 in Politics

In india open kiss system should not appriciated by the society because our social system is depends upon it

2007-07-13 02:37:34 · 14 answers · asked by sunil_fci k 1 in Government

Missing 11 year old Girls body found, Thai illegal sex preadator in custody. He had been convicted of a sex crime in 1990 !

2007-07-13 02:34:47 · 16 answers · asked by Dr Doom 4 in Immigration

One of the greatest fallacies about the so called 'Cuban Revolution' has to do with healthcare

Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro's propaganda machine: "All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free." But the truth is very different. Castro has built excellent health facilities for the use of foreigners, who pay with hard currency for those services. Cubans who require medical attention must go to other hospitals, that lack the most minimum requirements needed to take care of their patients.


These facilities are filthy and patients have to bring their own towels, bed sheets, pillows, or they would have to lay down on dirty bare mattresses stained with blood and other body fluids.

http://therealcuba.com/Page10.htm

This latest Moore propaganda film is no different than his last one, Fahrenheit 9-11, which ignored the brutal dictator and showed Iraqi kids in the park flying kites and enjoying rides at a carnival.

2007-07-13 02:34:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The report that AlQaeda was growing came out a day before he made the announcment.

2007-07-13 02:32:32 · 1 answers · asked by Enigma 6 in Politics

2007-07-13 02:31:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

That is, why do you think the reasoning is for posting here, when clearly they aren't looking for answers, just to piss off the liberals who have already had enough of Bush's bullsh--. (Show me ANY proof of Bin Laden in Iraq, or ANYWHERE in the law there is mention of executive privilege (made up by the Bush administration) and I'll eat my words. And no, Ann Coulter isn't a reliable source; rather she's an insane, evil *****.)

2007-07-13 02:28:58 · 1 answers · asked by Bing 1 in Politics

I won't be in the military for about 4 years, as i'll be going through rotc in college.

However, I heard that alot of military men stationed in korea marry the girls over there and bring them back because some of those girls will save up like 3-5 thousand dollars and pay the military men the money to marry them and bring them back with them.

If this is true, i would definately put in a request to be stationed over in korea and try to find the highest paying girl there to marry me and bring her back. Does that sort of thing still go on?

Also, do most of those girls just want to become us citizens, or do some of them actually stay with the man they marry once they get into the US as a citizen?

Anyone know what the most i could stand to make on that is?

2007-07-13 02:28:51 · 27 answers · asked by jimmyjohnson3042 1 in Military

Considering the Bush Admin. LIED to teens about reproductive health and contraceptives, (http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport/2004/12/pr_2004-12-02.html ) do you believe the report that the US teen birth rate has dropped to a "record low"? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_on_he_me/teen_sex )

2007-07-13 02:28:15 · 10 answers · asked by R H 2 in Politics

Some people admit he freed the slaves, but still call him a racist. The fact is Lincoln's view on slavery EVOLVED. It evolved from merely hate for slavery to support for full equal rights for black people throughout the land.

NOW FOR SOME FACTS: (PAY ATTENTION TO THE DATES)

LINCOLN HAD ALWAYS HATED SLAVERY
"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began."
- Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858

2007-07-13 02:23:05 · 12 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

2007-07-13 02:20:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Obama's face is on Hallmark cards right now?? Is Hallmark run by a bunch of democrats? If so, I will start buying competitors cards.

2007-07-13 02:11:34 · 3 answers · asked by COblonde 3 in Politics

speeches of members of the House of Lords in the case of Royal college of nursing of the united kingdom v DHSS

2007-07-13 02:03:03 · 3 answers · asked by felix 1 in Law & Ethics

If not why? If so, why dont they do anything about it in countries which dont have rich oil resources?

2007-07-13 02:02:27 · 3 answers · asked by CAN T 2 in Politics

2007-07-13 02:00:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Or will she sign the execution order?

2007-07-13 01:59:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It is time to elect the world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:
Which of these candidates would be your choice?


Candidate A associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.

Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.

(If you've heard this one before, then SHHHH...)

2007-07-13 01:57:33 · 8 answers · asked by redsquirrelpooka 4 in Politics

2007-07-13 01:51:38 · 20 answers · asked by The Lord 1 in Politics

2007-07-13 01:45:10 · 9 answers · asked by Ed Ward 1 in Immigration

2007-07-13 01:44:00 · 1 answers · asked by mohan rao kotari k 2 in Politics

IE Immediately outside the main entrance to your place of work ? If so can someone point me to the relevant document ?????

2007-07-13 01:32:02 · 7 answers · asked by statsman 2 in Law & Ethics

hi my husband is deployes to Iraq and our 2 year wedding annversery is coming up, dose anyone know what i can get him that i can send to Iraq? Thanks alot.

2007-07-13 01:26:50 · 13 answers · asked by A soldiers wife 4 in Military

If today's Republican Party still represents the Party of Lincoln and northeastern yankees, why won't they denounce the confederate flag like Democrats?

Instead of denouncing it, they claim "state-rights". Since when was the Republican Party the "state-rights" party?

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"Political considerations color the divergent views of presidential candidates on whether the Confederate flag should be moved from the State House grounds.

For Republicans competing in the Feb. 2, 2008, GOP primary, where white voters will hold sway, the flag is a state issue that the candidates are not eager to discuss.

On the Democratic side, where half or more of the voters in the Jan. 29, 2008, primary will be black residents, candidates have no qualms about calling for the flag's removal.

'Each side is playing to its basic constituency,' said Blease Graham, a political science professor at USC."
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/3154156555288552774125262463641910882421

2007-07-13 01:26:20 · 18 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

2007-07-13 01:25:26 · 28 answers · asked by ifhusain 4 in Military