Politics & Government - 27 December 2007

SOUTH Cheshire MP Stephen O'Brien has attacked the Government over the way it has presented official statistics on migrant workers.
The Tory MP for Eddisbury said a study by the Statistics Commission has found the Government has been attempting to fiddle the official figures.
He said the new analysis of official figures has revealed that more than 80 per cent of the new jobs created by Labour over the last decade have gone to foreign-born workers - not the 54 per cent recently claimed by the Government.
The study also found that 1.4 million of the 1.7 million jobs created since 1997 have been filled by those born overseas.
Mr O'Brien said: "If we are to have a sensible and grown up debate about the impact of inward immigration on our frontline public services and indeed the character of our nation, we must be given robust and accurate statistics and information.
"I know that Frank Field a respected Labour MP shares our concerns about the Government's manipulation of figures

2007-12-27 07:59:58 · 14 answers · asked by trish 5 in Law & Ethics

With Bhuto's assisnation I can't help and look at the the American candidates and wonder do they believe in any cause so strongly that they would lay their life down for it. What are your thoughts?

2007-12-27 07:59:56 · 9 answers · asked by G-gal 6 in Elections

2007-12-27 07:59:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Could it be that those bible thumpers are hypocrites? For all of the rallying and abortion clinic bombings, they seem to have alot of abortions. Especially among white rural poor who are the very foundation of the fundamentalist Christians. They also have the highest rates of crime in the country, and the highest rates of poverty. Neither are very god like. More hypocrisy?

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.jsp?cat=10&ind=465

2007-12-27 07:58:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My niece and nephew are living with us because their mother is in a transition finding a new place to live. My niece seems to have some sort of chronic bronchitis. Her brother was allowed on medical when he was with his mother but she was not because she is the dependent of a marine. He deploys to Iraq in February and has yet to fill out the proper paperwork to get her health insurance and a military I.D card. I cannot afford to add her to my health insurance because they want an additional 600 a month. What do I need to do to get her the military insurance she is entititled to as a dependent of an active duty military serviceman?

2007-12-27 07:58:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

The amount was $169.99 and I am 17 years old. What will the judge sentence me with?

2007-12-27 07:57:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

im interested in joinin the navy but im not sure if they are gonna choose the job for me that i dont want....cuz i heard they want to **** you over if ur not smart enough....u think they my weak left hand wrist will affect me in the navy?....with wat i want to do there?...please help

2007-12-27 07:56:04 · 6 answers · asked by dreiko 1 in Military

They have the lowest rates of high school grads, the lowest rates of college grads. The lowest rates of Health Insurance coverage. And the Lowest levels of literacy in the whole country. They have the highest rates of abortion, crime, and poverty. How is it that they have the shame of all of this, all in one geographic location? What is wrong with the people of the south?

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_baeo.htm
http://www.ncaa.org/grad_rates/
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.jsp?cat=10&ind=465
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparecat.jsp?cat=7

2007-12-27 07:55:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Didn't our founding fathers set out to protect us from a monarch. Why do people want to pass the presidency from bush to clinton to bush back to clinton, and no one see's a problem with this. Electing Hiliary is electing Bill... it is setting up the same special interest that were around 8 years ago. Doe anyone else see a problem with this...?

2007-12-27 07:53:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Please, I am really worried. What will happen to me? Will I go to jail? Probation? Prior to this day I was charged with embezzlement, and today I found out i was charged with Probable Cause. What will the judge sentence me with?

2007-12-27 07:50:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I have also been informed that I would have the opportunity to choose submarine, surface warfare, or aviation within the supply corps. With those 3 opportunities, I believe that I would choose surface warfare and aviation as my primary selections.

My follow up question is what these options would dictate....For example, I imagine that aviation would more than likely have me serving on a carrier. And to go beyond that, what are the advantages/disadvantages of serving on carriers as opposed to smaller ships?

Thanks again!!

2007-12-27 07:49:41 · 3 answers · asked by Blake S 1 in Military

This is for the state of Indiana

2007-12-27 07:43:58 · 31 answers · asked by judithdh1 2 in Law & Ethics

Vidal. Who are the great American thinkers on the right?

2007-12-27 07:43:51 · 6 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7 in Politics

If the left is against Illegal immigration, and voter fraud (as they claim) you would think they would be for this and not against it, what say you?

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/417713.html

2007-12-27 07:43:51 · 20 answers · asked by T-Bone 7 in Politics

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/646750/posts
15 girls die as zealots 'drive them into blaze'

SAUDI Arabia's religious police are reported to have forced schoolgirls back into a blazing building because they were not wearing Islamic headscarves and black robes.

Saudi newspapers said scuffles broke out between firemen and members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who tried to keep the girls inside a burning school in Mecca.

Fifteen girls were killed as they stampeded to escape from the blazing building in the Muslim holy city. Saudi media and families of the victims have been angry over the deaths of the girls in the fire that gutted the school.

The resulting public criticism of the religious police, or mutaween, is highly unusual.

The English-language Saudi Gazette, in a front-page report yesterday quoted witnesses as saying that members of the religious police stopped men who tried to help the girls escape from the building, saying: "It is sinful to approach them."

A civi

2007-12-27 07:43:29 · 4 answers · asked by Scratch N 3 in Law & Ethics

If I make enough money to support my family and am a good samaritan, should I be required to reinvest in my community again? (Note: I'm not saying if I'm for taxes or against them, I just want to know what people think)

2007-12-27 07:42:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-27 07:41:21 · 4 answers · asked by tricia g 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-12-27 07:39:27 · 8 answers · asked by towwwdothello 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Take for example something like a soda bottle or cigarette bud (which I do not even smoke, so this is purely hypothetical) and I throw it on the street after finishing with it. These things are *not* biodegradable, so it is littering and therefore illegal.

However, say I was eating a banana and threw the peel on the ground or perhaps threw some biodegradable paper on the ground. These things *are* biodegradable and will eventually dissolve, so does that still make it littering / illegal?

A totally random question, but one I find interesting nonetheless.

2007-12-27 07:38:45 · 11 answers · asked by Answer-Me-This 5 in Law & Ethics

2007-12-27 07:37:12 · 10 answers · asked by cANDYMAN 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Or, can someone who is ineligible for a security clearance become president? I suppose that the answer to the second part of this question is an obvious yes, judging by some of the people who have held the office; however the amount of information that the president is privy to must be astounding. It is a little scary to think of what foolish thingfs they might do with that information.

2007-12-27 07:35:26 · 12 answers · asked by ubathby 2 in Law & Ethics

are the people in yuma az homocidal,or,,,,,,, what is with all the bad vibes, or am i being forced not to function, am i being told to kill myself??? making me look insane???

2007-12-27 07:35:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I noticed this with Clinton and Bush, that in their second terms they tended to be more aggressive and do things that might not be popular with the public. Why is that?

2007-12-27 07:33:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

The president of the USA is only president for 4 or 8 years. So do you think there are secrets and classified information that is kept from the president?

2007-12-27 07:32:30 · 13 answers · asked by anonymous 2 in Government

2007-12-27 07:32:06 · 28 answers · asked by Maxi Robespierre 5 in Politics

contries come here or are stationed here?? Just wondering cos a guy i met lived in japan for 3 yrs...

2007-12-27 07:30:23 · 33 answers · asked by jasMINe 4 in Military

...against the LAW and considered reckless endangerment on behalf of the JAIL? Please ONLY answer if you KNOW LAW.
SHEEESH!!!

2007-12-27 07:30:01 · 7 answers · asked by raginwolf2007 1 in Law & Ethics

Does everyone out there know that when a funeral procession goes by you (in the opposite direction), you are supposed to drive your vehicle to the side of the road and wait for the procession to pass? Pulling over to the side of the road is showing respect to the deceased. You'll know a funeral procession, because all the cars in the line have their lights on and the hearse is usually the first vehicle in line.

2007-12-27 07:29:17 · 10 answers · asked by cthy_bahr1 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

My brother and my nephew are both teenagers and theivies. My mother (this is her daughter) has no idea what to do with them. She has found numerous stolen items in their rooms and she does not now what to do. She doesnt want to turn in the things she found cause they have her fingerprints on them. She even found a gun! Please help she dont know what to do with them other than kick them out when they turn 18. Waht does she do with the stuff?

2007-12-27 07:28:48 · 12 answers · asked by Theresa M 2 in Law & Ethics

Why? Why not?

2007-12-27 07:27:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics