Government - October 2006

I used to be so patriotic but now it seems to me that this country is taking better care of everyone else but us. I see all the beliefs we started this country on disappearing. My husband works in the military and he gets treated like crap! We get paid next to nothing,and they don't care about us as a family or anything. I am beginning to think that it is never going to get better, like on a down hill slope. I am almost to the point of asking, is it better to move away from all of the mess we have created or just hope that we come to our senses. Can anyone give me hope,or should I start packing my bags?

2006-10-17 16:33:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Studds married his long time partner in Massachusetts when gay marriages were legalized by that state.

He had sought to have his partner declared eligible for a wife's benefits on his death. The partners claim has been denied by the government.

Most pensions of this kind were intended to provide income for surviving widows and were devised when women were homemakers and mothers only.

2006-10-17 16:27:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

True or false?

2006-10-17 16:04:18 · 1 answers · asked by Paul I 4

2006-10-17 16:00:34 · 7 answers · asked by Paul I 4

I am now 18 and I am applying for a job I need to know if I have to put the info down when my records are about to be exsponged. if you can help please do but I also need to know your source. I live in Florida

2006-10-17 15:54:52 · 9 answers · asked by waynesmith88 1

2006-10-17 15:36:38 · 1 answers · asked by Aaron Li 1

he increased oil prices for you

2006-10-17 15:16:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 15:07:39 · 11 answers · asked by Lisa M 3

The insurgents have members with varied interests. I'm not informed enough to know who all has coals in the fire on this one. Sunni, Shiite, Al Qaeda? Who else? Are there groups of people not associated with any of these groups who are just tired of Americans being in their country?

2006-10-17 15:04:12 · 10 answers · asked by Lisa M 3

I am not attacking any president, the main reason I watch his speeches is to laugh at how much he messes up with talking. If your bored you can check out my yahoo 360 page, put soem pics up, but please do not email me like BEV did he invited me to live in his dungeon, please no weirdos, especially ones old enough to be my grandpa!and i dont feel like using spell check either

2006-10-17 15:00:09 · 6 answers · asked by Star 4

2006-10-17 14:51:06 · 8 answers · asked by Lou 1

My account is closed? They sent all the money back to my account and wont let me deposit anymore. I havent played in a while so i was surprised.

2006-10-17 14:50:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The united State Federal Government,
a system of checks and balances

2006-10-17 14:47:16 · 5 answers · asked by major P 1

2006-10-17 14:44:42 · 4 answers · asked by mecca a 1

2006-10-17 14:43:22 · 14 answers · asked by Lisa M 3

I know the truth before it came out in August

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&sourceid=zeitgeist

2006-10-17 14:24:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 14:19:11 · 21 answers · asked by Taco 3

The Act authorizes the permanent detention and torture (as defined by the Geneva Conventions) of anyone - including American citizens - based solely on the decision of the President.

Amnesty International said that the Act "contravenes human rights principles. An editorial in The New York Times described the Act as "a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The president can now, with the approval of Congress, indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions.

We must stop using terrorism and national security to push every bill and agenda forward. Bush used it, and hurried to the Iraq war and look at the state it's in now. Think long term please

2006-10-17 14:15:12 · 9 answers · asked by Answers Nickname 2

2006-10-17 14:12:39 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 14:05:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 13:51:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 13:42:26 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

in our country also say they don't believe in war!
Sounds like a contradiction to me!

2006-10-17 13:41:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

And why will they respond by attacking me being a Liberal, or unamerican, when it is so painfully obvious that the man is a complete moron? Dont they know how to form their own opinions, or realize that the country is in serious trouble? Do they have an answer for this, or will they just attack, which is what I honestly expect from such brain dead denizens?

2006-10-17 13:39:08 · 25 answers · asked by Nestor Desmond 6

I have heared him make the claim many times however, he never offers any proof or details that his policies have done this. It seems to me that there maybe just alittle BS to his claims.

2006-10-17 13:33:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, my grandma was a peace demonstrator during the vietnam war even though my other grandpa (not her husband is a vietnam veteran). She said that there was a peaceful non religious government in Afganistan in the 1970s (I think thats the date she gave) and President Regan sent troops into that country and caused the government to fall because they were not religious. He supported the Taliban government because they believed in G-d. She said that the non religious government gave women equal rights. If she is right than our own country made the problem we are currently facing. Oh I happen to believe in G-d. My grandma does not beieve in G-d. She says the comunists were right and when they were in power there were no religious wars like we have now. Is she right?

2006-10-17 13:29:18 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 13:19:37 · 9 answers · asked by David D 3

Can anyone explain me the process a Bill goes through when vetoed by the President and is over ridden by Congresss?

2006-10-17 13:19:06 · 6 answers · asked by Leona 2

2006-10-17 12:57:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can anyone tell us if the new terror law allows for US citizens to be detained as "enemy combatants" and so subject to it's parameters? Can anyone cite where "enemy combatant" is defined in the new law? thankyou

2006-10-17 12:37:38 · 4 answers · asked by jerrytherobot 2