Politics & Government - 4 October 2007

Congress' job performance was approved by just 22 percent, continuing a gradual decline in the public's assessment since Democrats took over in January. Its lowest reading in the poll was 24 percent, recorded most recently in July.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_on_re_us/bush_congress_ap_poll

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Its not looking good for you "22-percenters"!

2007-10-04 09:00:26 · 11 answers · asked by Lavrenti Beria 6 in Politics

2007-10-04 08:58:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It seems pretty obvious we are imploding as a country. When will it happen and who will be President at the time?

2007-10-04 08:56:12 · 14 answers · asked by Chef 6 in Other - Politics & Government

I am getting sued by a collections company for a credit card debt that I never paid. I know, I should of paid it. I have a court date for oct 12. I need free advice, where can I get it? I live in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Please help with advice.

2007-10-04 08:55:55 · 8 answers · asked by Frank M 2 in Law & Ethics

I need details describing why outsourcing is bad and how to stop companies from outsourcing.

2007-10-04 08:54:08 · 3 answers · asked by smi_guardado 2 in Law & Ethics

Mine was when the guy kept calling the officer papi. I couldn't stop laughing... LMAO!!!

2007-10-04 08:53:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Tell me if this sounds fishy to you, i gave my two weeks and my last day was to be the 11th of october. Yesturday we had a big mandatory meeting with the HR lawyer, the usual stuff, harassment and so forth but they wouldnt let me in. They said it was cuz i was leaving in a week, then he did one on one meetings and they wouldnt tell him i wanted to talk to him. So finally he agrees to talk to me and i had questions about getting compensated for work i did 6 months prior, but never heard back from my managers about. So he says that he will pay me up to the 11th but i cant work there, i have to stay home. I said what if i dont want to do that, and he says i have no choice. Is this true? Did i not have a choice but to leave? Ive never met this HR guy before and i believe the reason they told me to leave was because they are not running the place legally and they think i know too much. dont know what else it could be since ive never even been close to being written up never been in trouble?

2007-10-04 08:51:46 · 1 answers · asked by sandee 2 in Law & Ethics

If that holds true then shouldn't libs pick up the tabs on these worthless social programs Stop taking cheese away from the mice to give to able bodied Americans who need to learn the value of work

2007-10-04 08:51:19 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What exactly did he do wrong legally? Im so confused. He hit on a cop in the bathroom...why would that be illegal? Can't there be gay men in Idaho...or is it illegal to try to pick up someone in the bathroom. Does that just apply to bathrooms or is it everywhere? IM REALLY CONFUSED

2007-10-04 08:50:08 · 6 answers · asked by jenluvslife 3 in Law & Ethics

That's like running through a red light in front of a cop and then backing up and stopping after he has been caught.

2007-10-04 08:49:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

An american observation was if by playing with stocks with no physical assets the apparent boom is time bomb waiting for trigger , i think india is in the same position.

If casinos are permitted money particularly ill gotten one will end up in casinos and restore the sanity of economy. The loser will be pan potentiary , civil servants, custom and excise, and film financers.
Stock market players and casino players are compulsive gamblers. Casino will provide respite to aam aadmi

2007-10-04 08:47:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

My father had heart failure 18 months ago and has been deemed unfit to do his job which was a truck driver. He did not pass the DOT physical and applied for disabilty and social security. He is 58 y/o. He is having a very hard time with the process. They told him at the SS office that he was able to have gainful employement and did not qaulify. He has no medical insurance and is paying for his medication out of pocket. $300.00 month. How can we get him some additional help. I don't really understand what the problem is with him receiving these benefits, at his age, and condition he can't get a job that he has performed all his life. What do they expect him to do?

2007-10-04 08:47:28 · 9 answers · asked by elvisarron 1 in Law & Ethics

Would she be treated any differently just because it was her prison?

2007-10-04 08:45:17 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

.......The one who raises the most campaign money?

2007-10-04 08:44:10 · 9 answers · asked by KingHenry ll 2 in Elections

2007-10-04 08:43:24 · 1 answers · asked by Tears-4Me 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-04 08:42:24 · 10 answers · asked by judi 2 in Government

There is someone here with expired plates and someone has turned them in to the police here and they did nothing to her so what can be done now? Need answer ASAP....thank you for the info...

2007-10-04 08:40:37 · 21 answers · asked by Lil Miss Giggles 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

why have so many people run up accesive depts............and why is it sociably acceptable to be in so much dept.

2007-10-04 08:40:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i no im only 12 but im good at fighting and im passing my med. lab i wanted to be in the army since 9/11 when the twin towers went down i was so mad i wanted to kill someone so i wanted to be in the army every since my dads says if thats what u really want and my freinds say combat medics are stupid and dont fight and do nothing so i need something to say to them to make them back off

2007-10-04 08:39:33 · 9 answers · asked by ? 1 in Military

At first I had high consideration's for the Air Force, but it seemed that every recruiter from the other branches didn't exactly have a positive response to the Air Force itself. What would be the best branch of the Military and what are the benefits of it? By the way I plan on being a Reserved Cadet for now.

2007-10-04 08:39:14 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Me and my colleagues are having a professional debate and I am looking for a recent link, September 2007 or October 2007 that shows Giuliani, or any Republican ahead of Hillary Clinton in a potential presidential match, I have searched and searched, can anyone help?

2007-10-04 08:39:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

What do you think of their jobs?and salaries?and the way they affect the USA?

2007-10-04 08:38:42 · 18 answers · asked by name goes here 2 in Immigration

A cop pulled my husband and another car over and told him he was speeding ( which he wasnt I was in the car with him) 81 in a 65. We were really confused and didnt understand why we were pulled over and he said that we were clocked by Airplane radar. First of all he pulled two cars over at once and I was told thats illegal in Ohio and I've never heard of a ticket by airplane but im sure its real since he said so. We saw no Airplanes in the sky which left us even more confused.... So is this Legal in the state of Ohio ???

2007-10-04 08:38:33 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

The 2 Party system in America is really proving its weakness to its people. When i do participate in this forum I find myself quietly laughing at the how stupid it sounds to my ears when American people choose sides.. Democrat or Republican, The bottom line is, that there is absolutely no way, that 300 million people can be living in a democracy can be represented fairly with only two parties. Yes Europeans have many different fractures and issues with a multi-party system, but there is no inherent good that can come from a system claiming to represent 300 million people, especially when the man at the top listens to no one.. and these red necks who were elected by fraud and theft, on both sides are too stupid to understand that the world is not listening to them or Americans anymore. . Its time for a mult-party system in America`?

2007-10-04 08:37:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

i have been dismissed from work, how do i appeal aganist unfair dismissel

2007-10-04 08:36:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

This clown puts an emergency center in the WTC AFTER the 1993 bombing, communications systems WERE NOT upgraded, even though Islamic terrrorists had made it known New York City was a target and needlessly cuased respiratory illnesses with a rushed clean up of the WTC site.

Guiliani is nothing but a dirtbag giving photo ops AFTER 9/11, shamelessly exploiting 3000 deaths for his benefit and to cover up his incompetence of allowing and causing death, illness and injury.

but here's hoping Guiliani is the Republican nominee, the record he runs on is the record which deserves to be attacked.

2007-10-04 08:35:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

that u can take a car back in 48 hours if u decide u cant afford it or just change ur mind , and get all ur money back as a
' buyers rights " ?

2007-10-04 08:34:04 · 8 answers · asked by BulletGirl 2 in Law & Ethics

and ask them if they have a medical condition?
and what can a employee do if harrased about this or and if when they are dischared or suspended with out pay due to this

2007-10-04 08:33:49 · 12 answers · asked by ernesto l 1 in Law & Ethics

Blue-State Employment Blues
As long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

By Greg Kaza


Bears and partisans are exuberant about the August employment report, which recorded a loss of 4,000 jobs in a labor market that employs 138 million. Employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was “essentially unchanged,” with losses concentrated in the manufacturing (-46,000) and government (-28,000) sectors. This was no surprise: Manufacturing has contracted in August in eight of the last ten years, dating back to the Clinton era.

Employment is a broad economic indicator, and last Friday’s less-than-stellar report deserves attention. But another monthly BLS report on regional and state employment offers a view of the jobs market through an alternative lens. In particular, this report allows one to compare employment growth between the so-called Blue and Red states.

Political pundits identify 18 bona-fide Blue states, which backed Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, and 29 clear-cut Red states, which supported Republican President George W. Bush both times out. Blue states are said to be “liberal,” and Red states “conservative.” But there might be another reason to term certain states “blue”: weak employment growth in a period of expansion.

Total Blue-state employment growth has been only 3.3 percent during the current expansion, which began in November 2001, compared with the U.S. rate of 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, total Red-state employment growth has been 7.5 percent, more than double that of the Blue states.

In baseball terms, one might say the Blue team is hitting only 5-for-13 for a mere .277 average, while the Red team is slugging 18-for-29 for a league-leading .621.

Here’s a closer look at the stats:

Job growth has trailed the U.S. average in 13 Blue states. California, the largest Blue-state labor market, fell behind by the narrow margin of less than a half-percent, while growth has been slower in Rhode Island (5%), Minnesota (4.1%), Wisconsin (3.1%), New York (2.8%), New Jersey (2.7%), Pennsylvania (2.7%), Vermont (2.3%), Maine (2.1%), Connecticut (1.5%), Illinois (1.1%), Massachusetts (-0.2%), and Michigan (-5%). The job losses in Michigan and Massachusetts have been the most severe, falling below 2001 levels.

Regionally speaking, this blue-streak continues. The Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions, all predominantly Blue, have trailed the U.S. jobs-growth average. The only Blue region to beat the average has been the West, fueled by above-average jobs gains in Hawaii (15.2%), Washington (9.5%), and Oregon (9%). Two other Blue states — Delaware (5.8%) and Maryland (6.1%) — also have bested the U.S. average.

Now for the Red team:

Of 29 certified Red states, a full 18 have topped the U.S. jobs-growth rate. And here an interesting trend appears: Red states with no income taxes — Nevada (25.7%), Wyoming (15.2%), Florida (13.9%), Alaska (10.2%), Texas (9.1%), South Dakota (8.3%), and Tennessee (5.5%) — have all witnessed above-average job growth.

Not surprisingly, three of four Red regions have led the U.S. in job growth: Red states in the West have expanded 15.9 percent followed by the Plains (7.7%) and the Southeast (7.5%). The only Red region to trail the U.S. jobs-growth average has been the Midwest (1%).

This trend is not new. It has merely been overlooked by the mainstream media. Labor is colorblind in the political context of Red and Blue states. And as long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

2007-10-04 08:32:47 · 17 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

And fund the war with their profits rather than illegal drug trade?

2007-10-04 08:32:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics