Politics & Government - 21 July 2007

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2007-07-21 04:09:07 · 14 answers · asked by Your Mom 6 in Other - Politics & Government

Yep , apparently 'panic attack' medication of every kind has been sold-out throughout the country as a result of the President's colonoscopy and Cheney's temporary status as 'president' !!!
Yeah , I guess their marketing department is going to offer free colonoscopys to the President on a monthly basis till the end of his term . And Wlagreens is offering free Kleenex for the whiners with every purchase of medication too . Sales , they are a bustlin' !!

What will they think of next ?

2007-07-21 04:07:46 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

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2007-07-21 04:04:26 · 23 answers · asked by <3 3 in Immigration

1. Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
2. Iraq is a threat to the United States.
3. a.) Iraq has ties to 9/11
b.) Since the above didn't fly - Iraq has 9/11 like terrorists
4. We will be greeted as liberators.
5. The war will pay for itself with oil.
6. Mission Accomplished
7. The war will be relatively quick and easy.
8. I will fire anybody I find out had ties to leaking information about a CIA operative.
9. You're doing a hell of a job Brownie
10. We should not be in the business of nation building.

2007-07-21 04:03:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I'm wondering about how to attain a dual US+UK citizenship.
In short, my mom is from northern Ireland and my dad is American. They were living in Germany when I was born, so I had a UK passport at 2 years old for when we moved back to the US.
I'm wondering if because I had a UK passport at one time, there were different procedures for me to attain a dual citizenship. I should also mention I'm 19 years old now.

2007-07-21 04:02:55 · 9 answers · asked by ashleensc 1 in Immigration

It is expected to draw millions.
Have to be ready for the crowd.
Hillary 2008

2007-07-21 03:54:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

If the Democrats agree to enact some free-market reforms, it might be worth supporting a modest expansion of S-CHIP. Otherwise, President Bush should make good on his veto threat.


Ten years ago, Congress enacted the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP, to cover kids whose parents were doing too well to qualify for Medicaid assistance but not well enough to buy their own insurance. Now the program is up for re-authorization, and congressional Democrats want to expand it as a down payment on national health care.

The program has already expanded beyond its original mission. New York is planning to cover families that make four times the federal poverty line. Almost 700,000 adults get their coverage through the program. The design of the program abets its growth: When states expand benefits, the federal government picks up most of the tab.

The program’s expansion has come at the expense of private health-care coverage. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Democrats’ proposal would get insurance to 2.3 million additional children but simply replace private insurance for another 1.7 million. (It does not report on how many adults would also lose their private coverage.) Liberals are untroubled by this prospect. The replacement effect “hardly matters as long as the net effect is an expansion of insurance,” says The New Republic. But it means that taxpayers are not getting much bang for their bucks.

S-CHIP also creates a trap for low-wage workers. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute notes that, in combination with other welfare programs, S-CHIP levies a very high effective marginal tax rate on many such workers. If they work hard to make more money, that is, the resulting loss of benefits can put them behind where they started.

Senate Democrats would finance the S-CHIP expansion by hiking cigarette taxes. These taxes fall most heavily on the poor; they cannot be hiked much further without stimulating black-market activity; and they will not raise the target amount of money unless a lot more people take up the newly expensive habit. (House Democrats would raise additional money by also kneecapping the private-sector component of Medicare.)

A lot of children are going without health insurance for the same reasons that a lot of adults are: Government policies have made health markets dysfunctional. Instead of giving up on those markets and having the federal government pick up the tab, we should fix those policies. We could start by taking two steps the Bush administration advocates. The first is to reform the tax code so that individuals who buy health insurance for themselves can get the same tax break that employer-provided health insurance gets. The second is to allow individuals to cross state lines, and thus jump over their own states’ onerous mandates, to buy insurance.

Cannon, the Cato Institute health-care expert, makes a strong case for a third step: treating S-CHIP and Medicaid the way we treat welfare. In 1996, we reformed welfare by block-granting it to the states. Similarly, Congress should give a set amount of money to the states to cover needy families. It should not reward the states for being more generous.

The Democrats are in no mood to do any of these things. “Health insurance for kids” is a popular slogan, of course, and much of the business community is with the Democrats. Health-care providers are happy to get new subsidies, and some of them are afraid that Congress will ding them if they don’t get on board.

If the Democrats agree to enact some free-market reforms, it might be worth supporting a modest expansion of S-CHIP. Otherwise, President Bush should make good on his veto threat.

2007-07-21 03:53:37 · 3 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

2007-07-21 03:48:32 · 21 answers · asked by fjrgrh e 1 in Law & Ethics

Was wondering if it was possible to work in the US as a Nurse with a diploma from a UK university?

2007-07-21 03:48:27 · 6 answers · asked by James W 2 in Immigration

Ideally parents should teach their kids about sex but the sad truth is that many parents don't do their job. If these kids have high risk sex they can get pregnant with kids that the rest of us will have to pay for through our taxes in social services and later crime associated to poverty, incompetent parenting, and abscentee fathers. They could get a disease that requires medical attention that we again have to pay for as tax payers. Therefore does it not behoove us to offer comprehensive sex education in schools, including in addition to abstinence, birth control methods, and ways to prevent the contraction of veneral diseases?

2007-07-21 03:46:53 · 5 answers · asked by David M 6 in Law & Ethics

Clinton had high approval ratings because he did absolutely nothing in his 8 years. The more a president does during the presidency, the more approval ratings drop. The Clintons are all about popularity and know how to do nothing

2007-07-21 03:46:00 · 11 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

2007-07-21 03:42:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

in the political office to become the President of the United States?

2007-07-21 03:39:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The Democrat party is self-imploding. The fringe left base who elected officials based on campaign promises have yet to see any thing happen. Since they have been in control of the congress for 180 days, they have done nothing to satisfy the extreme left base. They won't get the troop withdrawl that Harry Reid wants. You think the Democrats want to be blamed when genocide would wipe out Iraq on our withdrawl? I don't think so. They are vested in our defeat but want to be sure that President Bush gets the blame.

2007-07-21 03:38:30 · 17 answers · asked by 7th generation 2 in Politics

by Muslim clerics?

2007-07-21 03:36:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If not, WHY?

2007-07-21 03:34:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I got a good one. Was there a president in office for more then two terms? that would be more then 8 years?

2007-07-21 03:31:23 · 7 answers · asked by PushSucharaX 3 in Elections

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072002163.html?hpid=topnews

2007-07-21 03:30:47 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-21 03:27:07 · 6 answers · asked by shanna c 1 in Law & Ethics

I keep seeing other countries with female leaders and wondering why we have not had one?

Do we think women are less qualified than a man? And if so, are we hypocrites for other judging other countries, saying how much inequality they hold as far as gender?

Thanks for your thoughts...

2007-07-21 03:26:48 · 4 answers · asked by Miss.Understanding 3 in Politics

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/200707iphonesurveillance.htm

2007-07-21 03:19:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

We are having major HOA problems in our community, we basicly feel like they are trying to keep kids out of sight, locked in the house all the time, and in this day and age many of us are getting very upset about this we believe strongly in the kids getting excerise. It's new construction area and they are just took over, they want to take down the community playground, or make all homeowners get rid of any playground stuff in yards.
But the newest thing is trying to get rid of all kids pools, so the question legally what is condiered a kids pool and what is an above ground STRUCTURE (the by laws state the word structure with is the key here with legal terms) Depth, size, type any help here would be great, otherwise we feel like we have to become like the people that don't want to see kids and complain about every little thing they do because that is how they are treating all of us with kids which is why we are getting picked on, because they complain, we're not.
Thanks!

2007-07-21 03:16:45 · 2 answers · asked by trevorstreasures 2 in Law & Ethics

Why is it that the A.C.L.U. aggressively prosecutes Christian and Jewish religious activities in schools and other public institutions while turning a blind eye to children being forceably subjected to Islam and its terrorist theology?

The A.C.L.U. has reportedly refused to take ANY cases against the Islamization of schools while exerting full force against any Christian or Jewish organization.

This has REPEATEDLY occured in California, Oregon, etc.

They have just stated that they now intend to force the University of Colorado at Boulder to re-instate Ward Churchill ( remember his description of the WTC victims as "3000 little Eichmanns" ?) while aggressively trying to muzzle the free speech of Christians and Jews in outright defiance of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Why do you think they prosecute Christians and Jews but support Islam and inflammatory left-wing bigots?

2007-07-21 03:16:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Tax increase, socialized healthcare, "windfall profits" tax for oil companies, burdensome environmental regulations that ruin property values?

2007-07-21 03:10:58 · 14 answers · asked by RP McMurphy 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-07-21 03:09:05 · 5 answers · asked by Marios.. 1 in Immigration

is the us allies with germany?

2007-07-21 03:06:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I guess now the plan is to scare us into submission with a constant barrage of terrror warnings about terrorists being more dangerous than ever, while the generals work on us by constantly begging for us to allow them to stay the course....inferring the hillarious "Support the mission and our troops" propaganda.

Of course, no one will remind us that to support our troops really means working them over and over in multiple tours of duty til their turn comes to die or be crippled.....and to come home to reduced VA benefits and horrendous hospitalization and treatment at VA hospitals.

2007-07-21 03:04:49 · 10 answers · asked by ballerb j 1 in Politics

Definition: The preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Multiculturalism

2007-07-21 03:04:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I got a demand letter from a atty. Should i take it seriously or just dont respond? Someone got hurt on my property, but if i leave it alone it will go away!?.Should I let my insur. co. know about this letter. Anyone been in a situation like this what should I do?

2007-07-21 03:01:14 · 8 answers · asked by John 1 in Law & Ethics

The world's combined national debt was 2004: $44,620,000,000,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

In the list of 198 countries, only 5 very small nations have zero debt. Huge amounts of interest for national debt is payed by almost all nations in the world. Who receives this interest?

2007-07-21 02:59:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anders 2 in Law & Ethics