Politics & Government - 20 October 2007

Standing for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"

In fact, in 2007, only 17% of Americans said that they were familiar at all with the USA PATRIOT Act.

2007-10-20 12:38:25 · 6 answers · asked by fanman475 3 in Law & Ethics

This is a long story,but I will try to give you the short version.
I needed a death certificate for my mom,who died in 2004, and called the funeral home to get one.The owner of the home told me he would be happy to send me one.Which he did. When I got it there was a request for a $10.00 fee.I paid the $10.00 and sent it with a note telliing him,that it would be in his best interest to let the customer know of any fees.He sent me my check back with a nasty note to me.I sent the check back to him with a letter of apology.I thought that would be that,but I just got my check back again with another nasty note.He wrote a big VOID across the check and told me he didn't want it.WHO'S RIGHT??Should he have kept the check??

2007-10-20 12:38:13 · 9 answers · asked by Cheese 5 in Law & Ethics

Do you think our founding fathers invisioned an America where 40% of our income is taken away by the government before we even spend anything. And probably closer to 50% is taken out before it's all said and done.

Wasn't the revolution over stuff like this? How much did those people pay in taxes compared with modern day?

2007-10-20 12:36:43 · 8 answers · asked by icpooreman 6 in Other - Politics & Government

WTO is sold out to the West, third world countries have comparative advantage in agriculture, but Western countries do not want to compete because they know they cannot win.

2007-10-20 12:36:15 · 6 answers · asked by magonzetcetcetc 1 in International Organizations

i worked for a company in the landscape industry,i am very knowledgeable in the field ,i surpassed most in that company,in the hard times of finding jobs i went back to what i knew ,landscaping,after a week at the company i was presented with the document stating "after leaving for 36 monthes i could not do any work in the field of landscaping and within 35 miles of the city limits "i live in the city ,i am wondering if presented to a lawyer if its able to break ,i mean 3 weeks with them it sounds like they are jugarnauting the little man,let alone the bs the director told me why i was let go

2007-10-20 12:33:29 · 6 answers · asked by groundpick 1 in Law & Ethics

has anyone ever heard of this and are they any good ????

2007-10-20 12:33:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-10-20 12:32:27 · 2 answers · asked by Mike 2 in Law & Ethics

Before answering this question, please read the proposed plan. Thank you.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/americanhealthchoicesplan.pdf

2007-10-20 12:31:09 · 10 answers · asked by The Wiz 7 in Government

i was arrested and posted bond in the same county that i supposedly had a past bond from 1998 for 1000$. It was from 1998 and it was for traffic tickets. i went to court and was told to do community service. my recruiter then sent me into the air force and told me that it was taken care of because i enlisted. so i was wondering why didnt they send me like 30 minutes away to take care of that past bond. i was in the jail and everything in the same county and they didnt send me to the other town to jail? whats some possible reasons why that happened? i have court and i want to know if theyll find out about it then too.

2007-10-20 12:27:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I was curious, if I am currently living in Australia, I was born in Australia, and all of my relatives are from Europe, how is it possible for me to permanently move to the US and become a US citizen?

Oh, and try to keep your answers reasonably simple, without complicated talk.

2007-10-20 12:26:54 · 3 answers · asked by Oliver 2 in Immigration

Is it just me?
so this is how our tax money is being spent!

WE PAID $1,700,000,000,000 IN FEDERAL TAXES IN 2004

42% of our 2004 taxes were spent on WAR
while only
9% was spent on education
8% was spent on housing the poor
1% was spent on diplomacy

I think Bush has done well spending our money on a senseless war while Americans are still poor,with little education, and kids can't get proper healthcare,because of spending on a lie(war)

2007-10-20 12:26:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

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a friend's younger sister said it was because the British wanted everyone to think the Indidans threw the tea overboard.

2007-10-20 12:26:19 · 10 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Other - Politics & Government

I have a court case I am involved in and the website that was updated has the information below. I have no idea what it means, and I need a definition in laymen's terms: This is a felony case.



PROCEEDINGS

ACTION CAME ON FOR PRE-TRIAL.

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HEARINGS

HEARING CONTINUED TO 11/02/2007 AT 8:30 IN DEPARTMENT R5.

CASE CONTINUED FOR DISPO/RESET.

DEFENDANT ORDERED TO APPEAR ON HEARING DATE.

TRIAL DATE VACATED.

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TIME WAIVERS

SET LAST DATE FOR TRIAL TO 11/02/2007.

DEFENDANT WAIVES TIME TO 11/02/2007 PLUS 60 DAYS.

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2007-10-20 12:26:13 · 8 answers · asked by Jenny M 2 in Law & Ethics

According to Karl Marx, Communism is an economic system in which everyone works and money is distributed equally to everyone--no one is richer than anyone else. This prevents the lower classes from being exploited, since there are no lower classes.
I know in the past Communist nations have ended up with a totalitarian government, but in 'Communist Manifesto' Marx says nothing about the type of government that should run a Communist country.
So when people are looking for a negative political term to call someone, shouldn't they call them totalitarian or fascist rather than Communist?
I was just wondering, since I see the term thrown around a lot.

2007-10-20 12:21:55 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-10-20 12:21:25 · 26 answers · asked by ikegirl 3 in Politics

Does this make you question why our energy policy doesn't work?

2007-10-20 12:18:24 · 14 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics

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doctors especially and engineers, and other high paying professions. I see them everywhere, especially in the big cities in the United States.

2007-10-20 12:18:08 · 11 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

If I was to concider joining the military, how many months or years would I have to be in the military until they can send me to war?

Thanks

2007-10-20 12:17:51 · 15 answers · asked by rebekah perez 1 in Military

"an unjust law is no law at all"...this is an old saying....if this is true i think we have the discretion to disobey unjust laws.it is the duty of every citizen to follow laws... as unjust laws are not laws we have the right to disobey such laws. Is this correct?

please try to explain your answer

2007-10-20 12:15:17 · 7 answers · asked by Ranjeeth 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-20 12:14:52 · 19 answers · asked by charbatch 3 in Politics

2007-10-20 12:13:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-10-20 12:13:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I like her because of who hates her.

I dislike her because she's actually just like the people who hate her the most.

2007-10-20 12:12:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Hitler conquered all Europe and Stallin spread communism and captured Ethiopia In the other side of the world the Japanesse conqured all of Asia Philippines,China,Korea,etc....the Americans didn't know the war yet because they stay Isolated from the problems of other countries.

How will the Americans win if the Jap's conqured all of it's Asia (oh yea they make trade they should know what's going on) and the the Germany,Austria, and Italy finally took over all of Europe.How will the american win with little support to back them up if the U.S stayed neutral for soo long?

2007-10-20 12:12:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

What are two main reasons America invaded Iraq? I am writing a paper for Englishand we need to provide to reasons America invaded Iraq. We then have to decide if Merlin, the characer from Once and Future King, would agree with the war or not. Any helpful simple websites would be appreciated.

2007-10-20 12:11:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

that the winner will eithe be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton

2007-10-20 12:06:38 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Hillary is still trying to get a national medical plan passed. She worked on this for eight years while Bill was president and now 7 years with Bush as president and she still can not get anyone to vote with her. She supported the recent effort to get medical care for kids expanded - DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT INCLUDED? It would have made tax payers supported medical care available to illegal aliens! Don't you think if Clinton wants to help the American tax payer she would avoid channeling our tax money into programs supporting illegal aliens? Maybe this is another program she voted YES on without reading it; as she did in voting us into Iraq. Shouldn’t we be telling Clinton, Obama, Edwards and those republican candidates opposing these three that anything they do that supports illegal immigration or immigrants will result in lost votes? It appears the lead Democratic and the lead Republican candidates both support illegal immigration – look at their records; they are not for the common working person!

2007-10-20 12:05:57 · 16 answers · asked by Dallen B 5 in Elections

2007-10-20 12:05:29 · 4 answers · asked by Tin Thunder 1 in Politics

When a country uses nuclear weapons all countries hate that country.

2007-10-20 12:05:11 · 18 answers · asked by Machiavelli 1 in Military

My ex partner and I went through a lot of crap a while ago and so we took our case to court over our young son when we split up. The court put visitation/joint custody orders in and so I see him once a week for 8 hours on a Saturday.

For the past few months though we've been getting along fine, and now we're wondering if we HAVE to follow the orders as were set out by the court, or can we just do as we please? It seems a bit silly that we now stay at each others houses at random days of the week and see our son all the time together, yet on a weekend we have to muck about going to a contact centre to drop him off, then I pick him up, and we go home again together anyway, then do it in reverse 8 hours later!

I do wanna keep the orders there just in case something goes wrong again and then my rights to see my son once a week are protected, but are we required by law to follow those orders or can we just put them away indefinitely?

2007-10-20 12:03:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics