Government - December 2007

should they continue to claim there over inflated salaries and allowances now that they are rubber stamp jobbers? Do you think that they are more suited to this, in which case should they be on the minimum wage?

2007-12-14 10:37:06 · 20 answers · asked by Beau Brummell 6

did the framers of the constitution and founders of the american system of gov't want to make a giant superpowerful tax collecting machine that would cease the funds of the haves and redistribute them to all the have nots in north and central america for health care? why not europe? are there any europeans who have no health care? shouldnt the un cease peoples funds and redistrubute them?

2007-12-14 09:20:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

On October 22 I completed a form SS-5 (Request for replacement Social Security Card) and, per instructions, mailed it with my passport enclosed, certified mail, to my local Social Security office.(5TH FLOOR, 237 W 48TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10036 ). My return receipt shows that the package arrived and was signed for by a SSA employee.

Time passes. Now it's a month and a half later - far longer than the 2 week turnaround promised. No response from the SSA. I called their main toll free number and tried to get a current status. No luck; I have to contact my local office. The local office deliberately does not list their phone number.

So now I am left with only one option, the one I wanted to avoid in the first place. I have to take a day off from work and stand in line at the SSA to find out what happened to my application and passport.

Does anyone have a good alternative for me? I don't want to waste a day at the SSA. Thanks!

2007-12-14 08:23:00 · 18 answers · asked by Daniel S 1

2007-12-14 08:11:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why have we not conformed to the idea of health care for all U.S citizens?

2007-12-14 08:09:24 · 15 answers · asked by Potter 1

Which of the following represents the closest example of a constitutional monarchy?
1. The King writes up a constitution for his people in order to preserve the peace.
2. The King declares all his laws over the people through a written constitution.
3. The people use the constitution as a forum to express their grievances
4. The people of a country write up a consitution to limit the authority of the King.

I'm having a hard time answering this question because I dont really understand answer number 2. I think the answer might be 4?? Thanks for your help.

2007-12-14 07:14:01 · 3 answers · asked by Kristin 2

I was told he needs to show proof of ID, well, he can't a Texas ID Card unless he has a SS #, but the SS office won't give him one unless he has a picture ID....DUH!!!!!!! One agency says I need the other but neither will help. HELP! My son is 18. He has NOTHING with a picture on it to show who he is. Just a birth certificate.

2007-12-14 07:05:45 · 5 answers · asked by eacreporter 2

2007-12-14 06:51:23 · 2 answers · asked by Elmay 2

The UK govt seems to spend more time apeasing non brits and natives....WHY?
this might sound like a rant but bare with: we can't call christmas, christmas anymore. Instead it is called Winter Festival.
Pigs can no longer be shown in advertisements (for fear of upsetting muslims or jews...who i think couldn't really care less about it).
And giving benifits to immigrants from romania or ghana or wherever who can barely speak english ( and spending £38,000,00 in translators fees each year) and denying some natives the same benifits..
what is wrong with our govt? what can they be thinking?

2007-12-14 06:39:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are the goals of Madd?
what are the Demographic characteristics of their membership?
What sort of resources do they have at their disposal ($, TV, Celebs, etc)?
To whom do they give money to?
How do they influence the government? (writing bills, testifying, expert opinions, etc)
What government agencies and what congressional committees do they lobby?

I f anyone can help me this that would be really great! Thank you so much.

2007-12-14 06:31:04 · 9 answers · asked by Ashley 2

There is a basic thing I don't understand about the bill. It currently costs about $5 billion to insure 6 million kids through the same mechanism. This bill Bush just vetoed would have covered another 4 million people at a cost of $35 billion.

Now I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but doesn't increasing the cost 700% while increasing the coverage 67% seem like a not so great proposition? Does that give one pause to think that Bush might just be right about vetoing that particular bill as written?

2007-12-14 06:18:57 · 13 answers · asked by thegubmint 7

help me!!!

2007-12-14 05:47:14 · 4 answers · asked by jasmine 1

in india plese tell me

2007-12-14 04:21:28 · 4 answers · asked by savvy v 1

2007-12-14 03:16:36 · 4 answers · asked by gina c 1

2007-12-14 02:31:09 · 14 answers · asked by pikachild2003 3

I’ve been doing some studying on Bill Clinton’s time in office as President. It appears that Bill is very popular for the way he handled the budget deficit for the United States. However, I’ve read a couple of articles that states that Bill Clinton was not the reason for our debt decrease, but the GOP/Congress was. In fact, supposedly, Bill Clinton opposed the budget at first, but when the budget actually worked out in our nation’s favor, he took the credit. Can anyone offer me any insight on this? Please educate me. Thanks.

2007-12-14 01:56:23 · 14 answers · asked by lildiesel2001 2

What would our founding fathers have thought of our current welfair system and the waste of our tax money? (Since a large portion of people using it have not contributed to it and therefore it puts undue stress on productive members of our society)

2007-12-14 00:56:22 · 12 answers · asked by edwin_farr 1

As early as next tues. the house committee will have a hearing on the baseball steroid abuse. With all the other issues, such as health care, the war, social security problems, etc. why is this pushed to the forefront? Why are they not haveing hearings on the problems that face everyday americans?

2007-12-13 23:36:47 · 5 answers · asked by canam 7

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

2007-12-13 22:05:25 · 6 answers · asked by GORAWALIA SHAH 1

[In the last few days I found the following question on yahoo and I replied is mentioned below the question.I further ask that firstly law went on keeping its eyes closed when boolyism was going in the class/compound of the school.Again law kept its eyes closed when the owner kept its Gun outside the lock.Law further closed its eyes to relax the school staff for letting out the the boolyism.In this way law killed four birds with its one stone.Three students and the owner of the gun being the birds.Can”t we say,we design a stupid law? ]
“Has the gun culture arrived in India? If yes, how to stop it?There was a shocking incident in Euro School in Gurgaon yesterday where a 13 year old shot and killed his classmate. The cops are blaming the school and parents for negligence. Is this the arrival of the "gun culture" in India? What can we do to stop it?”
GUN CULTURE IS CENTURIES BACK.WHERE IS LAW? LAW IS PERFORATED.NO FAULT IS OF BOY WHO DIED. NO FAULT IS OF BOYS, WHO SHOOTED. FAULT IS IN THE LAW. WHY THE LAW WAS SLEEPING WHEN BOOLISM WAS GOING ON?WHY THE LAW WAS NOT SELF PREVAILING,SELF GOVERNING, SELF SUSTAINING AND SELF OPERATING BEFORE THE INCIDENT OCCURED? I HAVE POSTED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS IN THE PREVIOUS DAYS ON YAHOO. THAT WHY THE LAW IS NOT MADE HAVING THE FACTOR OF SELF SUSTAINING, SELFGOVERNING AND SELF OPERATING SO THAT NO CATASTROPHE MAY TAKE PLACE.I HAD POSTED THE QUESTION THAT ENGINEERS HAD MADE THE COMPUTER AND ADDED A SELF SUSTAINING, SELF GOVERNING AND SELF OPERATING DEVICE IN COMPUTER(ANTI VIRUS DEVICE) SO THAT NO CATASTROPHE MAY TAKE PLACE IN THE COMPUTER SYSTEM. I POSTED THE QUESTION BY CHALLENGINGTHE LAW COMMUNITY THAT WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH THEY ARE DOING. ARE THEY NOT GETTING FUNDS FOR RESEARCH? MANNY MORE QUESTIONS I POSTED FOR MAKING THE LAW SELF SUSTAINING, SELF GOVERNING AND SELF OPERATING ON THE PATTERN OF ANTIDEVICE IN THE COMPUTER.DAILY CATASTROPHES ARE TAKING PLACE IN OUR LIVES.ONLY THOSE KNOW ITS PAINS WHERE CATASTROPHE TAKES PLACE.(ONLY WEARER KNOWS WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES)OTHERS THINKS IT A NORMAL MATTER.OUR PARLIAMENTARY THINKS IT A NORMAL MATTER.TO HANG SOMEBODY IS NO SOLUTION.KINDLY READ OUT MY ALL QUESTIONS(POSTED ON YAHOO-UNDER THE TITEL-GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

2007-12-13 21:56:57 · 6 answers · asked by GORAWALIA SHAH 1

Or is that lunacy?!

2007-12-13 21:22:34 · 14 answers · asked by jubjub firefly 2

when we observe the past six months ,the america is weakening in all areas,its currency declining,rise of economy in countries like china ,india,is america going down the drain and india and china are going to be the next super powers

2007-12-13 21:11:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Shouldn't we have the right to delay the election if most people had no acceptance of fools? Could we sue the federal government for lack of morals? After all, haven't they been teaching us 'morals' for all this time? I can rember back in the farm days when the fed printed out 'How to' pamplets for mothers and families, and...how to raise our crops, and now our children, now our private lives....where does it end???? The Constitution of course.

2007-12-13 20:47:14 · 7 answers · asked by Dntcrosthline 1

He claims this plan is to expensive unnecessary and a waste of money. This plan will cost about 7 BILLION DOLLARS each YEAR.
Yet he has asked congress for 180 BILLION to invest on the war. This will break up to 15 BILLION PER MONTH.

As I follow his point is that our money should be invested on killing people not saving their lives.

Is this guy an idiot or not ????

2007-12-13 19:16:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've heard Congress is more powerful that the President, but I also heard that they weren't. The Judicial branch is pretty powerful too. Also, is it true the President can give orders to launch nuclear weapons at a desired country? Or does he need some sort of consent?

2007-12-13 18:42:19 · 7 answers · asked by 0carina 4

2007-12-13 18:23:11 · 2 answers · asked by amster 1

I've been wondering how much "they" really know about us. Can they access all the record about us with a click of a button? If they really can find out a lot about us, why different govt. departments make us fill up the forms for getting things done such as immigration, etc? Why not just check their databases...

2007-12-13 18:18:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador will open bidding for a major oil project in a jungle nature reserve in June if the poor Andean country does not receive international funding to abandon the proposal, the oil minister said Monday.

The government is seeking a minimum of $350 million a year from the international community for 10 years not to drill in the Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha fields located in Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. The money is to compensate Ecuador for income it would have generated by drilling for oil at the site.

The jungle area, which holds close to 1 billion barrels of crude, is part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Some environmentalists say the reserve has more varieties of plant life than the United States and Canada combined.

See link - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/ecuador_drilling_park

Question - What are your thoughts ?

2007-12-13 17:42:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who said this?

2007-12-13 17:41:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-13 16:42:53 · 3 answers · asked by D C 4