Government - June 2006

2006-06-21 15:52:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

DID YOU KNOW?

As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with full frontal view - it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

DID YOU KNOW?

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

DID YOU KNOW?

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE??

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

2006-06-21 15:52:34 · 6 answers · asked by ben s 3

2006-06-21 15:48:16 · 11 answers · asked by MOVING 5

George W. Bush is a moron! Why did he go into Iraq in the first place? Two years prior to the invasion. He said that Saddam Hussain was not a threat and a target for terrorism (talking about 9/11). Two years later he is accusing him of weapons of mass destruction and sheltering members of Al-Queda. Two years, 3 000 lives and $300 billon later. No weapons found, no evidance of Saddam hiding Al-Queda. Even so, why did he have to bomb a country to (protect it's citizens even though he killed 30 000 of them to get one guy.) He demonstrated hypocrisy, murder, war mongering, money theft and lying all at one time. He can't speak, he's unpopular (I'm Canadian and live in Canada, I would know), people are losing their jobs. Money is shipped out the door. Our southern neighbours are in debt. Why does Clinton get impeached for loving his intern and Bush dosen't for killing people and lying (which is why Clinton got impeached.) Impeach President Bush and get a decent leader in the States.

2006-06-21 15:25:16 · 35 answers · asked by centreofclassicrock 4

Shocking Display of abuse of power is on the rize

http://opposingdigits.com/vlog/

2006-06-21 15:21:13 · 10 answers · asked by joeblack605 2

why or why not?

2006-06-21 14:59:39 · 18 answers · asked by YourDreamDoc 7

In Iraq the US is making great sacrifices in soldiers' lives and spending billions of $ in order to bring it democracy.

Do you think democracy will survive there after the US leaves, or will it soon degrade to Muslim fundamentalism ?

2006-06-21 14:52:27 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

how many of u think that pres. bush is a good president and is doing the best of his power to be a good president? na dhow many of u voted for him v.s. kerry?

2006-06-21 14:43:39 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-21 14:37:06 · 8 answers · asked by Mr. Knowledgeable VI 7

The republicans feel that the government should not get involved, but this should be left up to the employers, but on the other hand they vote for a raise for themselves. which they just did, they make now 165,000.00 a year. What do you think?

2006-06-21 14:14:01 · 10 answers · asked by murphysmom 2

When the constitution was written, the founding fathers realized that there might be need to amend it. Not through judicial mis-application or ignoring it, but by letter-law change to it.

I would like to see a change to how people are granted citizenship.
The coincidental timing (although MANY illegals cross so the timing is NOT accidental) of a birth when on vacation or simply stopping on a layover to another local should not be cause to hand out citizenship.
I would like the constitution to read something like this:
Children born within the boundries of US lands and territories will have the same status as their biological parents. If one parent is of a legal status, and one is not, then the child will be granted the greater status, subject to the same requirements as any other alien. If one parent is a citizen and one is not, the child will be a natural born citizen.

Would you agree and support an amendment like this one?

2006-06-21 14:04:34 · 6 answers · asked by athorgarak 4

The Senate voted today 52-46 to defeat, for the ninth time since 1997, the proposal to increase the minimum wage. The lame, but predictable retort by Sen. Ted Kennedy, "Americans believe that no one who works hard for a living should have to live in poverty. A job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it," and then claiming a worker would earn $10,700 per year - almost $6 grand below the poverty level for a family of three. How ridiculous! What planet is he from? Nobody with a family of three is going to go out and get a minimum wage job. They'd have to more than triple the minimum wage just to bring it outr of the poverty level! What most people don't realize is that some big unions have a handy little clause that ties in there wage to the minimum wage. Thus if it goes up, their wages go up. How convenient during and election year! Of course the poor stiffs who get laid off, well who cares, they're just the little guy?

2006-06-21 14:02:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you go about getting an American citizenship? How long does it take to get the application, and receive word of my success or failed attempt? How much does it cost? Do I need to get a job in the states first before I apply? Do I need to show reason for moving? I think it would be great to be able to live in two of the worlds greatest countries.

2006-06-21 13:49:02 · 5 answers · asked by nostridomius 2

Interestingly silent on this and other atrocities carried out by the insurgents in Iraq are the “human rights” groups who seem to spend every day accusing the United States of torture, war crimes, and various human rights violations. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called the Iraq war “illegal,” and John Pace, former UN chief of Human Rights for Iraq, has said that human rights conditions are “as bad now as they were under Saddam,” but was it America that filled mass graves with hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqi civilians? Last month, Human Rights Watch again accused the US of “brutalizing Muslim suspects in the name of the war on terror,” but how many times have Americans strapped bombs to their own chests and purposely detonated themselves in a large crowd of civilians? Amnesty International’s website highlights America’s use of “torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” against terrorist captives, but how many prisoners—have americans be-headed?

2006-06-21 13:32:12 · 10 answers · asked by bushfan88 5

One of the biggest issues I see the American Government face is the issue of a non-functioning welfare system. The majority of welfare dollars are spent on women and children, and no child should starve (although I've met some women that might deserve it). But the system in place makes no effort to allow a way up and out. In fact it makes it very difficult by cutting off all support at such a low income level many "can't afford to work". Any suggestions??

2006-06-21 13:14:37 · 18 answers · asked by Carla&Len C 2

for greedy CEOs.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7324

2006-06-21 13:01:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2006-06-21 12:45:35 · 5 answers · asked by tudor 1

The Senate just voted down a minimum wage increase,after they just gave themselves a hefty raise.

2006-06-21 12:42:14 · 2 answers · asked by sassyk 5

Signing statements are memos that Bush uses when he signs a bill from Congress into law. He uses them for statutes comprising that law that he intends to ignore. In other words, he chooses which laws to abide by and which to break. If this isn't illegal and a blatant violation of the Constitutional separation of powers, I don't know what is.

An example was when congress sent a bill to him a while ago that clarified that torture of any type is illegal. He signed the rest of the bill, but crossed out the anti-torture statute.

He has done this about 750 times in his presidency.

(And please don't tell us how bad Clinton was. I'm talking about Bush - he's the president now. )

2006-06-21 12:37:12 · 7 answers · asked by lip11 3

2006-06-21 12:25:00 · 4 answers · asked by Homer 4

2006-06-21 12:17:44 · 12 answers · asked by kobacker59 6

2006-06-21 12:14:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-21 12:10:23 · 13 answers · asked by Bearable 5

2006-06-21 12:01:49 · 21 answers · asked by david r 3

All you need to know is at this website:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/

Go there is you want the truth...

2006-06-21 11:28:40 · 7 answers · asked by Paul Dilsaver 1

as long as i can remember iwas told to eat up my food remember the poor children of africia this gave me the impression that the poor black people didnt know anything coz they couldnt feed themselves now that iam older i understand that drought and war in the more poverity striken countries are the main causes i think it is very racist i know there is massive starvation but why does africa h

2006-06-21 11:07:09 · 15 answers · asked by bernie 2

I doubt it from what I see going on today,what you think?

2006-06-21 10:55:48 · 10 answers · asked by I-C-U 5

2006-06-21 10:48:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-21 10:44:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-21 10:34:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous