Other - Politics & Government - May 2007

The left has promoted access to the middle class through promoting public education including higher education, home ownership through things like the GI Bill, and unionization so people could make a decent living at their jobs.

Until recently, I would have said the right's work your *** off and maybe start your own business worked about as well or complemented the other approach, but with the outsourcing of jobs, stripping workers of health care and pensions, and allowing monopolies to crush mom & pop start ups, and government subsidies and no bid contracts to some favored cronies, I'm not sure if people at the top of the GOP care about access to the middle class at all.

I know a lot of Democrats support similar economic policies to the GOP, so this is more about the ideas than parties.

2007-05-17 06:52:53 · 15 answers · asked by yurbud 3

This is a Philosophical question only. So please no "Haters" from either side.
Can we learn anything regarding our Government and Americans in General from studying past Great Civilizations?
The "Dawn of Western Civilization" can be traced to the Greeks and then the Romans. Where Rome in Particular flourished. Much of what we see is "Hollywood". Thier culture and Medicine, Political Structure, Literacy, Art ect.Where advanced beyond anything seen truly until the early 1900's.
Though the Western Roman Empire fell around the year500, the Eastern Empire flourished for almost 1000 years after in modern day Turkey, when the Ottoman Empire took over.
What caused the fall of the West? Who were the people that moved to the Eastern Empire, knowing the West was Decaying?
Can we draw any from any of this and apply it to today?
It is said it was caused from "Internal Strife". If true, what if any conclusions, if any, apply to present day America?
And, should we learn from them?

2007-05-17 06:37:51 · 10 answers · asked by Ken C 6

He's been a republican for a while but now all the sudden republican pundits are saying he should not be allowed in the party.

2007-05-17 06:25:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians of a certain ilk say that their moral compass is the question, "What would Jesus do?" So let us apply this to the specific case at hand, regarding the War in Iraq, the whatever-it-is in Afganistan, and the oft-ballyhooed "Next War."

What do you get when you try a Christian approach to warmongering?

2007-05-17 06:13:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton voted Wednesday to advance legislation cutting off money for the Iraq war, then refused to pledge to support the measure if it came to a vote, then said she would.

At lunchtime, the New York senator and presidential candidate was asked repeatedly by reporters whether she favored the troop withdrawal legislation that had just come up for a procedural vote on the Senate floor.
Her answer: "I'm not going to speculate on what I'm going to be voting on in the future. I voted in favor of cloture to have a debate."
By supper time, she had a different answer.
"I support the underlying bill," she said. "That's what this vote on cloture was all about."

Ive been saying this from the beginning.. but here is a bit of sweet truth to words being put into her mouth. If we elect Hillary, or shall i say re-elect Bill, then how is that "having a better experienced " person in the office. She's a puppet, thats all. We saw this in the debate.

2007-05-17 06:10:28 · 8 answers · asked by 2008 matters 3

where does that leave the rest of the world? And how did they get to define what moderate is?

Oh, I see, Animal Farm and the meaning of what is is? They make up the new meanings of words as they go.

2007-05-17 06:04:07 · 15 answers · asked by rmagedon 6

i heard this and found this link regarding the Phelps organization.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834909/posts

can anyone confirm this?

2007-05-17 05:40:07 · 3 answers · asked by nostradamus02012 7

I mean come on.

2007-05-17 04:24:48 · 25 answers · asked by kaasflip 2

get so upset when you prove that they are in fact SOCIALISTS?

Do you remember that quote, I think it was Shakespeare, "me thinks thou doth protest too much", meaning that it would not bother you if it were untrue.

People call me all sorts of names here, none of them bother me because they are not true. And should they be intutitive or intelligent enough to find out what I am really about, it would not bother me either since I am not ashamed of what I am.

So I guess the socialists do not want anyone to know the truth, but of course they have been going on like that since Lenin.

2007-05-17 04:20:27 · 15 answers · asked by rmagedon 6

Of course, other than war whinning. It's so sad and now the public is responding. Their approval rating is below Bush.

Hey Washington.....Why don't you get something done and quit thinking about yourselves.

Disgusting!

2007-05-17 04:19:26 · 9 answers · asked by Robert S 2

Isn't this restricting Paul's 1st Amendment right to speak his mind? Not to mention that Paul's comments echo those of many published reports about our meddling in Middle Eastern politics.

I seem to recall many neocons standing up for Don Imus after his idiotic comments, so why are the neocons proposing to censor Ron Paul now?

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-44/117935695635230.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

What happened to the conservative base of the GOP?

2007-05-17 04:17:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the Palestinians don't have access to U.S. aid how do you expect the people to survive without turning to Hamas for money?

2007-05-17 03:26:53 · 7 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1

I asked a question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApyDYclynpHZttX5g2kloOfsy6IX?qid=20070517071959AAYJyBq

And some guy told me that I should leave....

WOW....so basically people in our country now think that if you are unhappy with our corrupt government....you should leave.....

AMAZING!!!!

Hey....where is Hitler hiding by the way?

2007-05-17 03:26:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Clinton dies and of course goes straight to hell. When he gets there the Devil greets him and offers him three ways to spend eternity. They go to the first door and the Devil shows him Newt Gingrich, hanging from the ceiling with fire under him. Bill says "Oh no! That’s not how I want to spend all eternity......." They go to the second door. The Devil shows him Rush Limbaugh chained to the wall being tortured. Bill says "Oh no! Not for me!"

They go to the third door. Behind it is Ken Starr, chained to the wall with Monica Lewinsky on her knees giving him a BJ. Bill thinks and decides, "Hmmm, looks okay to me. I’ll take it." The Devil then says, "Good. Hey Monica, you’ve been replaced

2007-05-17 03:24:48 · 12 answers · asked by Ron 2

I am just thoroughly disgusted today (well everyday) with the BS that our government does and the special rights given to these special interest groups...

I am just flat out sick about it....our government is for crap.

2007-05-17 03:19:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

me thinks not....

2007-05-17 02:50:28 · 7 answers · asked by ? 4

with the same difficulty?

2007-05-17 02:44:48 · 10 answers · asked by Johnno 2

Has the Stalinist media over at CBS lost it's mind? Or do you think it's CBS looking for dirt in every corner except over at the DNC.
How petty and stupid.

2007-05-17 02:40:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-17 02:22:48 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you agree that Afro-caribbeans are immensely intelligent, worldy, sophisticated, pacifistic, articulate, eloquent, culturally enriching individualists?
Do you read the Guardian like me too?

2007-05-17 02:21:41 · 14 answers · asked by Yer Acker I be 2

* Palestinians facing cleansing & starving in their own land by the jews of Israel & those supporting them outside.
* Palestinians are all despair,starving under Israel's & the world seige.
* every Palestinian has atleast one member of his family killed by the jews in Israel.
* Israel exercising daily orgenized terror against the Palestinians.
* As palestinians life became like hell, so they try to fight their terrorizing agressor by any available mean including stones.
WORLD, WAKE UP & COME BACK TO YOUR SENSE!!!

2007-05-17 01:11:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

encountered? or is this more important?http://uk.f233.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?box=Inbox&MsgId=6768_29650962_730277_1622_231483_0_19509_337002_1585949622&bodyPart=2&tnef=&YY=20444&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&VScan=1&Idx=7

2007-05-16 21:18:21 · 12 answers · asked by mia 5

Why they screw the things up all the time?

2007-05-16 20:58:23 · 5 answers · asked by hero1 1

It is well knownt that the middle east does not like us, but it is not because they hate our freedoms as Guiliani would have us believe, who by the way is very weak in the history department. It is because we have been involved in the overthorw of governments. There is not one person who can reasonably tell me that the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 was very influential to terror in the middle east. After all, operation ajax documents do show that the U.S used terrorism in Iran and blamed it on Mossadegh to turn the public agaisnt him. If you know history you should know that Paul was correct in his comment last night.

2007-05-16 19:46:26 · 9 answers · asked by Luke F 3

2007-05-16 19:34:34 · 2 answers · asked by poofirific 1

2007-05-16 17:16:13 · 13 answers · asked by MattH 6

Some people point to the fact that pre-human data from ice cores show that a rise in CO2 levels follows a rise in temperature. The temperature then continues to rise for the next few thousand years. They are right to question this. Let me explain why it is significant to what is happening now.

This is what is known as a positive feedback - the temperature rise (part of the natural cycle) causes CO2 to be released from its disolved state in the oceans - the rise in CO2 then accelerates warming further (this has also been proven). The magnitude of the subequent warming seen in ice cores can ONLY be explained by inclusion of the greenhouse effect of CO2.

The important thing to see here is that increased CO2 in the atmosphere DOES cause warming - although it is not the only factor, and in previous occurances the release of CO2 has been caused by the earth warming, not the other way around (as part of its natural cycle).

But right now we humans are causing something completely unatural that has never happened before - we are burning fossil fuel at an amazing rate - releasing CO2 into the atmosphere which would otherwise have stayed locked up under the ground in the form of oil, coal and gas. This has caused concentrations of CO2 to now be way higher that ever before in human history. The world IS now warming - nobody disputes that.

Now since a warming world has been shown to cause increased CO2 which then will cause more warming, how is even more CO2 in the atmosphere, due to our pollution going to affect the natural cycle?? Well, the truth is, nobody knows for sure, so maybe we should perhaps just try to reduce our impact on this natural cycle?? rather than just hoping it will all turn out ok. what do you think?

2007-05-16 15:31:59 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well...

Mitt Romney->

* Abortion - 1994: Believed abortion should be safe and legal -2002: Personally against abortion but pro-abortion rights as governor, endorsed legalization of RU-486 (morning-after pill) 2007: Firmly anti-abortion

* Stem Cell Research - 2002: Endorsed embryonic stem cell research - 2005: Vetoed stem cell research bill

* Gun Control -1994: Supported assault weapons ban and Brady bill, rebuffed the NRA - 2002: Supported assault weapons ban and Massachsetts' tough laws on gun control - 2006: Joined NRA as a life member and said that states should ease licensing requirements; claimed he was a gun owner but later admitted that he's didn't in fact own a firearm

* Minimum Wage -1994: Opposed increase as an "anti-business" position but told David Brinkley in October that he supported tying an increase to rate of inflation
2002: Supported increase in line with inflation -2006: Vetoed minimum wage increase

* Gay Marriage - 1994: Opposed federal marriage amendment

2007-05-16 15:21:26 · 5 answers · asked by Logical Rationalist 4

Bush (the Commander in Chief), Sec. of Defense Gates, Cheney, Rove, Condi, General/War Czar Lute, General Petreus, National Security Advisor: Hadley or Bush's dog Barney?

2007-05-16 14:31:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-16 14:26:15 · 7 answers · asked by sally sue 6