Politics & Government - 7 August 2007

2007-08-07 11:52:18 · 10 answers · asked by Dont get Infected 7 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-08-07 11:51:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

...jus thought i'd let you know.

2007-08-07 11:49:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I'm talking microchips, actually they may be the very chips that can cause a rat to change from walking in a straight line to a certian direction (operated by a remote computer). This is very possible now.

Remember in prison you have no rights basically, so they could force you to have the implant in there!

The news and government would most likely tell you how important & good they are and the old phrase 'If you're innocent you'll have nothing to worry about'.. "Kids would never go missing again" etc, etc..

2007-08-07 11:49:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

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2007-08-07 11:49:07 · 21 answers · asked by John O 1 in Immigration

About a year ago we received a check in the mail saying that i had won some money around 3,000 in a lottery drawing. We tried to cash the check at the bank but then my account was placed on hold because the band said that the check was counterfeit. Now about a year later i am receiving letters from companys saying that they want to help me because i am about to be sued by the bank for money they never gave us.We called the bank to confirm that they are in fact trying to sue me. I am 17 years old and i dont have a job. Is it possible that they wont be able to sue me so they will instead sue my parents?

2007-08-07 11:48:37 · 9 answers · asked by Jack 1 in Law & Ethics

gain, not to serve the American people? They serve their lobbyist corporate benefactors and representatives of foreign countries in order to enrich themselves. Mr. Dobbs rants continually that they are not responding to the American people. They say if a person does the same thing over and over and expects different results that person is engaging in insane behavior. Perhaps Mr. Dobbs needs some personal care and help?

2007-08-07 11:45:49 · 7 answers · asked by illinipower 2 in Civic Participation

On Jan 7th i moved out of my apartment to a new complex. Upon moving out we had already given a forwarding address twice. We failed to do a walk through due to only 1 person working in the office (Yes our mistake). Our debit card was used to pull our money out on the due date so figured we would be charged for our remaining bills upon leaving. We happened to show up the next day because we forgot something and they had already started painting (an employee that worked there was painting)

On April 25th we were then contacted by a collection agency. They stated that we owed charges for:

Rent Due: 255.73 (Prorated 8 days)
Late fee: 100
Sewer and h20: 17.24 and 18.73
Cleaning: 250.00
Painting: 220.00
Carpet: 980.00

My first question is:

Is 900sqfeet apartment with the kitchen and bathroom being tiled cost 980 for carpet?

Does it cost 233 and 220 to clean 2 rooms? (kitchen and bathroom since they replaced carpet)

They never sent us a bill until the collection agency did.

2007-08-07 11:44:51 · 4 answers · asked by lovehelp12372 1 in Law & Ethics

I always watch HGTV about real estate and people buying homes overseas to live or retire. I assume u have to be some kind of permament resdent of that country and be a US citizen right? What if u want to retire abroad, how do u become a permanent resident if u dont work?

2007-08-07 11:44:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I'm a spaniard,and I want to know if there's the same feeling in the States about people from spain as to mexicans.There shouldn't be,because we're europeans!but I don't know...could anybody anwer my doubt...
gracias!

2007-08-07 11:42:06 · 24 answers · asked by Paloma A 1 in Immigration

Does the non-custodial parent still have to pay when the child gets in trouble and sent away while in the custody of the other parent. The non-custodial parent is willing to take custody, but it may be too late now, with all the trouble the kids are in. This is in the state of Iowa, if that helps at all.

2007-08-07 11:41:17 · 5 answers · asked by agreenwolf75 1 in Law & Ethics

or does he just look like one in makeup...lol,,

2007-08-07 11:41:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-07 11:37:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-Odds-080707.html

2007-08-07 11:37:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Those of us with a post 2nd grade education know that we were winning militarily in vietnam and the north was contemplating suing for peace because of our continued bombing. The left via politics and outright treason caused our "leaders" to pull out without the job being finished and 3 million south vietnamese, cambodians and laotians were slaugthered by commies. Does siding politically with the enemy give aid and comfort to the enemy and bolster their confidence to continue to fight though they have no way of a tactical victory? Only political and ideological victory? We know that almost all terror attacks in Iraq are concentrated around baghdaddyO because that's where the bleedia is. Bleedia reports only the baaaaaaaaad and the left eats it up like the sheeple they are.

http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010438

2007-08-07 11:37:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Roaring Economy Started in the 80's




RUSH: Here's Emily in San Francisco. Hey, Emily. It's nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.

CALLER: Thanks. I listen to you every day. It's something to look forward to, especially on a Monday morning. It was a terrific show yesterday.

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. What about today's? I think we're off to a pretty roaring start today.

CALLER: Oh, yes. There are so many topics to talk about. For example, I wanted to talk about the fact that the Clintons want to take credit for the nineties, for the "great economy," which today is the greatest boom in the world we've ever seen in history. All the countries in the world are booming. It's incredible how they took credit for the nineties when it wasn't until 1994, November of 1994 that everything changed because a Republican legislature came in.

RUSH: Actually, to be thorough and honest about this, if there hadn't been Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, then the nineties wouldn't have happened and whatever the Republican Congress did in '94 would not have been as successful because their starting point would have been much different. So you really gotta go back to the eighties and the drastic, the drastic reduction in marginal tax rates which spurred the economy. They had some glitches. The real estate market had some problems because they did change tax codes and behaviors and so forth. When that ironed out, it was "Katie, bar the door." We are still experiencing the boom of the eighties to this day.

CALLER: Exactly. The thing is, though, as President Bush was saying on Saturday, he hopes to balance the budget in five years, within five years. However, the Democrats, almost like blackmail, they have to put in a $22 billion, you know, just overspending in order to ruin it, because within five years, the president explained, that $22 billion could add up to close to a quarter of a trillion dollars just in their overspending. So they are the tax-and-spend bunch. We put them in as a president, you get someone like Hillary, and then you get at Congress filled with Democrats that are left-wing. It's no longer the Democrat Party we knew of the Kennedys. We now have a left-wing party.

RUSH: They do, Emily. They have the left-wing party. We don't. In fact, since you mention that, two things. This business of balancing the budget in five years? I remember the nineties. A balanced budget was a big deal, but I remember Clinton saying (impression), "Well, we could balance in two years, do it in five. We could do it in ten years." It wasn't a priority. I've been hearing this so much. I'm 56. I am a seasoned adult now. I'm not yet a seasoned citizen, but I'm a seasoned adult and I've been hearing about all these financial crises my whole life. "The national debt! Why, it's going to wipe us out! Why, the deficit is going to wipe us out. The budget is not balanced!" Well, I look around, and for how long have I been paying attention? I started paying attention when I was twelve years old, so over 40 years here, and all these predictions of collapse and doom and gloom, and they happen every year, and they happen every day, and some of them recycle. The deficit's going to wipe us out. The national debt's going to wipe us out. The ChiComs holding so much of our foreign debt -- and it never happens. We just keep roaring right along. My advice is: don't panic. Don't let 'em put you into panic. As for the Democrats and overspending, they are tax and spend party. They're redistributionists. They want to control you. They want to control as many people's lives as they can.

2007-08-07 11:36:57 · 15 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

I work in a grocery store as a cashier. My manager recently started dating one of the other cashiers. Him and the other cashier have all of a sudden turned on another cashier and I. I have been employed with the company for 5 years and have and ok record. As in no major complaints or anything. The manager is now taking a personnal interest in who the other cashier and I are talking to and what we are doing. It was never an issue until he started dating this woman. She is making comments like "the **** is going to hit the fan" and heads are going to roll. We can't go to the owner of the store because he thinks that the manager walks on water and could never do any wrong. Does anyone know what else we could do. The manager won't even let us talk to each other. Or certain other employees while we are on company time. HELP!!!!

2007-08-07 11:36:33 · 6 answers · asked by budgie 2 in Law & Ethics

I do not mean for you to tell me how you hate it, or what our government needs to do.

2007-08-07 11:31:35 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-08-07 11:30:59 · 21 answers · asked by Jay H 2 in Military

i know it sounds stupid but someone told my mom that and shes teaching me to drive so i figured id look into it because i cant think of any logical reasons that it wouldnt be....

2007-08-07 11:29:31 · 11 answers · asked by smartree16 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-07 11:26:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Someone Robbed 3 Gas Station W/ A BB Gun What Would He Be Charged W/ And Is It A Felony?

2007-08-07 11:26:46 · 11 answers · asked by Brown Boy 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

I did a non vocational subject (Ancient and Medieval History) and though I loved doing it I do feel really sad that those three years of hard work have done NOTHING to help me find a job!!!

I know its hard to get a job in that field but when we started Uni we were told that *any* degree looks good on your CV and can lead you into Graduate Management placements, Government jobs etc.

Fast forward 6 years and I have never been able to find a job with my degree - its a 2:1 . There aren't enough grad jobs out there and too much competition. And I don't want to teach.

I wish I'd learned a skill or trade instead but we were made to feel that was a poor second for "less academic types" (ie "thickos!").

Before I had my baby I worked in a call centre for £6 an hour alongside LOADS of graduates! Its depressing.

Should the Govenrment encourage more skills training for school-leavers?

2007-08-07 11:26:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Should the federal government take the responsibility away from local government for spending money unwisely?

It took a collapsing bridge in Minnesota to alert people across the country to the fact that many other bridges in many other places have been allowed to deteriorate without adequate maintenance.

If this were just a matter of poor political leadership at various levels of government, we could at least hope for better leaders in the future. But the problem goes deeper than that.

It is not just the people but the incentives that are responsible for the neglect of infrastructure, while tax money is lavished on all sorts of less urgent projects.

In other words, when there is a complete turnover in political leaders over time, the same problem will remain because the same incentives will remain when new leaders take over.

Some people claim that the problem is how much money it would take to properly maintain bridges, highways, dams, and other infrastructure. But money is found for other things, including things far less urgent and some things that are even counterproductive.

The real problem is that the political incentives are to spend the taxpayers’ money on things that will enhance politicians’ chances of getting reelected.

There may be enough money available to maintain bridges and other infrastructure but that same money can have a bigger political payoff if spent building something new instead of maintaining and repairing existing structures.

When money is spent building a new community center, a golf course, or anything that will be newsworthy, there will be ribbon-cutting ceremonies and the politicians who cut the ribbons can expect to see their pictures in the newspapers and on TV.

All that keeps their name before the public in a positive role and therefore enhances their prospects of being reelected.

But there are no ribbon-cutting ceremonies when bridges are being repaired or pot-holes are being filled in. These latter activities may be more valuable than a community center or a golf course, but they are not nearly as photogenic.

The preference for showy projects that will enhance a politician’s career prospects is not peculiar to current politicians. Adam Smith pointed out the same thing about politicians in 18th-century Europe.

We can vote the rascals out but the new rascals who replace them will face the same incentives and in all likelihood will respond in the same way.

A pattern that has persisted for more than two centuries is likely to continue unless something fundamental is changed.

What really needs to be done is to change the incentives.

While most bridges in the United States are owned and operated by government agencies, there are times and places where bridges have been owned and operated by private companies, just as numerous other goods and services are provided through the marketplace.

How would that change the incentives?

A company that has to get the money to build and maintain bridges or other infrastructure through the voluntary actions of people in the financial markets, instead of being able to extract money from the taxpayers, is going to find financiers a lot more finicky about what is being done with their money.

People who are putting their own money on the line are going to want to have their own experts taking a look under the bridges they finance, to see where there are rust, cracks, or crumbling supports.

When people know that the lawsuits that are sure to follow after a bridge collapses are going to drain millions of dollars of their own money — not the taxpayers’ money — that keeps the mind focused.

Those who like to think of the government as the public interest personified may be horrified at the idea of turning a governmental function over to private enterprise.

Politicians who want to hang onto sources of patronage and power will of course encourage people to look at things that way. But the track record of privately run infrastructure will compare favorably with government-run infrastructure.

But that is only if we stop to compare — and to think.

2007-08-07 11:26:18 · 5 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

While I think that the government had an idea of what might happen, and certainly could've taken more precuations pre-9/11, it's all hindsight and I really can't believe that many American people working for the governing would knowingly kill three thousand civilians. Is there any real convincing evidence? I'm not a huge fan of our government, I know they do illegal things all the time, but I think to say 9/11 was caused by Americans is a pretty low blow.

2007-08-07 11:25:10 · 9 answers · asked by David 4 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-07 11:24:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I am thinking of doing law at university but i dont like the thought of having to defend a guilty person. Are there different types of lawyers? If so, then could someone please tell me. Thanks!

2007-08-07 11:23:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Booze Bus -Having a drinking party wana come we have da bus.

Helper - yes it is pathetic when cops go to parties on duty with booze then go bust others for drink driving (Fact).

CaptainF*ckinSpaldin Yes I agree they should be sacked.

SirWilliam - Yeah right.

amanda - they have no sense of humor cause they know its true.

SGT. D - no wonder your a cop cant get anything right

Hail2TheChef! yep, they will come after stealing materials from work sites after midnight (Fact)

Old Fuzz - when was that, yesterday.

To the really good cops, those that really do the job for the right reasons this is not for you, it is for the corrupt pathetic exuses of people who for whatever reason get a kick put of breaking all the laws they are supposed to enforce.

2007-08-07 11:21:36 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in International Organizations

No such thing has being English?

2007-08-07 11:20:15 · 35 answers · asked by Michael o 1 in Politics

What do you think are some reasons why the President was given almost unlimited military powers? What are some possible positive and negative effects resulting from the scope of President's military power?

Thank you!

2007-08-07 11:16:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government