Civic Participation

so that, in a disaster they can help each other and have the skill to rebuild insted of sitting around for TWO YEARS as they have in the case of Katrina in New Orleans, and beg and complain about how they CAN't get help.
Especially when the FACT is, they just want everyone else to do their work for them, rather than invest some effort toward resolving their OWN problems.
LAZY? or just incompentent welfare no-goods?

2007-08-30 11:57:49 · 37 answers · asked by Philip H 7

So the questions is - Are you American enough to inquire into these facts? Or are you the new kind of American who is too scared to even look at these facts?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/300807_larry_craig.htm

2007-08-30 11:52:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Gandhi,by his philosophy of non-violence and self discipline managed to get independence for India. He opposed violence and independence was gained without any bloodshed. He swayed masses without any oratory. He lived like millions of poor Indians. He practised what he said.In spite of this neither the British nor Nobel ecognized his great achievement. One can understand the British as after India its Empire crumbled. Nobel seems to be very biased.

2007-08-30 08:44:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got summoned for jury duty last week and I can't go because not only am i living an hour and a half away from home [I am in college], but I also have class the day that i am supposed to show up, at that time. on the letter, there was a number to reach the bailiff which i tried to call three times, only to be put through to voicemail. I filled out the form i had to fill out and sent it in for fear of getting in trouble. I also included a lttle note inside of why I cannot go. Should I wait to see if I hear anything? what should I do?

2007-08-30 07:51:00 · 8 answers · asked by leafonthewind88 2

Are the survivors of hurricane Katrina just whining? Or, are they being treated differently because many are black? Did FEMA screw up? Did they help enough? Were funds disbersed unfairly? Or, were funds used wrongly by the survivors? You have heard of hurricane hugo, I am sure, as well as others that have hit the Atlantic coast, did those places have similar problems after the storms? Or, is it that our government cares more about what other countries think of us than it's own people who were born and raised here? Should our government keep letting in foreigners and give them money to start here, should we still be in Iraq, should we let people sneak over the borders to come here, should we be helping other countries when a sunami hits them? What about our own people that are good and deserve help here in this country (USA)? (I am not talking about the ones who live here who are lazy, alcoholics or drug addicts, etc.)

2007-08-30 00:29:01 · 7 answers · asked by elvlayarvvi fEisty wife and mom 6

I have just read the news release on how lives could have been saved at VT. It talked about earlier warnings and communcations. It does not say anything about people taking control of the situration. Are we American just passive lambs wanting the government to do everything for us? Or, should we be more active and pro-active with the challenges we face?

2007-08-29 23:54:59 · 12 answers · asked by jack-copeland@sbcglobal.net 4

We want our borders closed and sealed, our Gov't. is going to do what they want! We need to stop these people now, Elections are fine and dandy, but in the meantime these people are destroying America, one day at a time!

2007-08-29 21:40:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

...screwing the government (read: taxpayers) out of tons of money in Iraq. Instead of fixing a truck with a flat tire they would burn it and get a new one, they charge like $100 a bag (to the govt) to do the soldiers' laundry, $27 each for a styrofoam plate, they run convoys with nothing on the trucks risking thier drivers lives and the lives of our soldiers to make more money. It goes on and on. Anyway, I only saw the last 15 or 20 minutes of it, does any one know what the name of the documentary is? Also, if you saw it how do you feel about this, and what do you think we as citizens can/should do about it?

2007-08-29 21:22:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will they ever realize they are not the only people in the world do go through a disaster? Will they ever stop expecting the "government and President Bush" to make their lives the same as they were before Katrina. If my life had been turned upside like theirs was two years ago, I would have moved on and started to rebuild by now. It's been two years! Stop crying and stop taking care of yourself and your family. While the WWII generation is known as the greatest generation, I think the Katrina New Orleans generation will be known as the most embarrassing of the American generations. How about showing some backbone and doing something for yourselves?

2007-08-29 13:26:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I remember writing a paper in college about a journalist who came up with a "buck-a-week plan", whereby voters could give $1 a week to put towards public financing of an election.

1) This would remove the lobbyists and special interests from the political game.

2) It would generate more than enough money to finance the elections ($11 billion based on 221 million people voting in 2004) for every candidate nation-wide.

3) It wouldn't give one party the advantage over the other in raising money.

I understand some details would have to be worked out (who would be eligible to draw from the pool of funds, etc.), but would you be more inclined to vote if a system such as this were in place?

2007-08-29 09:33:45 · 5 answers · asked by samans442 4

That is the justfication for not helping New Orleans.
They ALL are on flood plains.

By the way, the other states affected by Katrina had primarily wind damage and the levees didn't break so there is no comparison.

2007-08-29 04:13:45 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear and see alot of whining because the government doesn't do what " I" want.So I ask, what are you willing to do to help? Would you serve your country,militarily or in some other civic capacity? Run for office or are you just content with sitting back and helping to deteriorate it from within? It was once said "Ask not what your country can do for you,but what you can do for your country!" It is sad that the freedoms that so many have died for are used to rot this great nation from within.

2007-08-29 00:04:42 · 6 answers · asked by Oracle 2

why do you suppose jefferson felt that it was not only the right but also the duty, of the people to overthrow a despotic government? How would the history of the world be affected if despotism were allowed to reign unchecked?

2007-08-28 17:07:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-28 15:08:13 · 16 answers · asked by brian j 1

Okay so my grade is doing service projects and my friend and I have to come up with 7 because we're the service chairmen. But One that we both want to do is make care packages for a local shelter. How would we do tht? Do you just drop them off randomly or something. could someone PLEASE fill us in on how we'd do this? THANK YOU SO MUCH!

2007-08-28 13:18:54 · 8 answers · asked by Do You Feel 3

Why is it that republican and religious and secular conservatives continue make family values an election issue. The issue of family values and morality was ONE of the hallmark reasons for the Republican take-over of congress and it was also used as a theme during Bush’s first run for office.

Read the list of “hypocrites” below and respond whether or not you think that family values was/is a “SMOKE SCREEN” to win favor and votes


POPULAR SCANDALS


1. Senator Larry Craig, recently pleaded guilty to lued homosexual acts in an Airport. He still defiantly claims that he is not gay.

2. Mark Foley, had phone sex and indecent conversations with male pages.

3. George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later committed suicide. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999

4. Senator David Vitter (R-La) who ran a hard-core platform on traditional family values, name was found on a Madams list. He told his constituents that it was a “private issue” and to leave him alone.

5. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.

6. Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

7. John E. Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."

8. Henry Hyde, Judge who oversaw Clinton's impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced.

9. Newt Gingrich, married three times. Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments

10. Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison


Conservative Personalities and Figure Scandals

1. Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Paid $425,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay affair.
2. Ted Haggard, popular conservative pastor who advised Bush on Family Values issues was outed by a male prostitute who also alleged that he gave Haggard drugs.
3. Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee
4. Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harassment by his producer.
5. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.


There are many, many, many more. I know that I am going to be accused of being repub-coserv-basher. I am not, I know the democrats have just as many scandals if not more. However, I think that the whole PLATFORM OF CONSERVATIVE FAMILY VALUES IS A DISINGENIOUS strategy to rally votes and to swing elections. THIS LIST DEMONSTRATES THE FACT THAT NO ONE PRACTICES WHAT THEY PREACH!!!
I also believe that we are all human and everyone makes mistakes, but it is VERY HYPOCRITICAL to impose ideas that these “cultural-icons” don’t keep!
(((What are your thoughts???)))))))

2007-08-28 12:24:50 · 28 answers · asked by Andre L 1

We all know how great our transportation systems are! These are the people endorsing Hillary. Hooray! When she's President, the low-income-low-education stooges that vote for her will be the ones paying more when bus fares go up in order to subsidize more seats for the fat people, and other useless department of transportation projects...

2007-08-28 07:18:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-28 06:59:02 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a 7 month old with no child care set up in a large city where i am onwaiting lists for child care would telling the court i am breastfeeding work? any thoughts

2007-08-28 06:44:55 · 12 answers · asked by Lilly 2

I dont undersatnd liberals and conservatives. BOTH want the federal government running our schools yet... both HATE the other side.
I personally don't want Bill Clinton near sex ed.. I am sure liberals have plenty of things they dont want GW teaching either.

Leave curriculum to local school boards to decide and leave the money there as well.

Get GW and BC out of small town USA and let parents and teachers LOCALLY decide what their kids should be taught.

Does anyone get my point? I asked this before and nope.. they didnt get it then either.

Big Business + Big Government = Big Brother

2007-08-28 04:01:11 · 10 answers · asked by kent j 3

I've been diagnosed with Asthma since i was three months old,all my live up to now i've never participated in any sport activities or anything like that in my school because i'll end up getting y attack.I just want to know if i can be exempted from going for National Service if i get a doctors letter for my conditon.Because as i know there's a lot of of people with Asthma who still go.Is it because their condition is not so bad or that it's not one of those serious sickness.

2007-08-28 01:40:09 · 2 answers · asked by mia 2

"A state cannot live without Politics but Politics should have its controll by supereme politicians, unless, it will affect publics." Analyse.

2007-08-27 19:43:17 · 2 answers · asked by abanti 1

since the early 1920s when women had only just been given the vote????

2007-08-27 15:46:34 · 4 answers · asked by bramos100702 1

Would you go along with it? Aw, its sombody elses problem to worry about right?...cooking a frog maybe (not a french joke) perhaps Lou Dobbs is on to somthing.

2007-08-27 13:07:00 · 11 answers · asked by jimbotron 3

I don't understand why in every election there are groups out there trying to get young people to vote. If the young people want to vote they should, if they choose not to vote they shouldn't vote.

Why would anyone want to be pressured into casting a vote for something that the person is not interested in and not informed about. I voted for the first time in 2000 because I learned all about the candidates and issues and closely followed the race.

Just like I wouldn't vote for any of these awards shows where I didn't see the movies or know any of the people running, why should people that do not know the candidates or issues be expected to vote?

For example, on the yahoo election site there is a "declare yourself" page trying to get young people to vote. It doesn't offer much information about the candidates or issues. Only that its important they vote. I think its important that people not vote if they don't know what they're voting for.

2007-08-27 11:06:25 · 11 answers · asked by Tommy 2

Why are none of the Democratic presidential candidates asking this same question?

2007-08-27 06:43:36 · 26 answers · asked by daibato 2

how did you get out of it?

2007-08-26 23:38:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

What can govt or non-govt organizations do prevent losing more homes and lives?

2007-08-26 18:33:57 · 3 answers · asked by Dolphin-Bird Lover8-88 7

Persident Bush is responsible for the damge caused by Katrina (as some of you believe). However in 1977 the Army Corp of Engineers attempted to build concrete barrier gates, similar to the flood control gates used in the Netherlands. The building of these gates was stopped after the environ-mental (wackos) filed suit. So one can only assume that this is what caused the flooding. My question is who is at fault based on this information?

2007-08-26 18:24:46 · 16 answers · asked by hardwoodrods 6

The price of ciggarettes is being raised again by almost another dollar. On Wednesday, August 1st, H.R. 3162 which included a $4.50 per carton federal cigarette excise tax increase was passed by the US House of Representatives by a vote of 225-204. On Thursday, August 2nd, H.R. 976 which included a $6.10 per carton federal cigarette excise tax increase was passed by the US Senate by a vote of 68-31. Both bills also included increases in the federal excise tax on other tobacco products.

Is it conflict of interest that the government is making so much on ciggerrettes? If you truly believe that this money is all going to positive social programs your naive.

To write your senators:
http://www.stopthefetincrease.com/

2007-08-26 18:17:24 · 3 answers · asked by D'Angelo 2