Other - Politics & Government - July 2007

Obviously, if Rosie ran for President, she'll win by a landslide. We all know this. We all agree. It's common knowledge. However, the exact reason why she was denied election after election to run for President escapes me. They say it is because she is lesbian, but the real reason is because they KNOW she'll win. How is that fair? Are we a country that makes up excuses because we are afraid? We criticize other nations of being corrupted and yet we fail to realize that our government is too?

2007-07-13 15:25:14 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

i know we have to pay our taxes, but is it the constitution that forces us to pay?

2007-07-13 15:22:31 · 15 answers · asked by Honor 2

Putting the Social Security trust fund back together is definitly the right move. It is currently in the general fund and they are blowing it, I have heard that it would have trillions in the account if it had been left in a trust and not blown thru these years.

2007-07-13 15:01:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's for Speech and Debate so please source your info!

2007-07-13 14:05:37 · 8 answers · asked by sunny12rms 2

Almost everynight now, I turn on the TV to find some special interest group, Democratic Presidential canditate, or some other liberal whining about how bad things are in this country and how our Social Programs aren't working need reformed and how the American people want change.

Which party vows to be the advocate for the poor and deprived and the minorities EVERY election?

Which party promises change to bring relieve to those who suffer most in this country year after year since the Great Depression?

Which party designed, lobbied for, implemented, and is most active in overseeing programs like Welfare, EPA, Social Security, etc...?

Which party has offered the most empty promises?

Kind of ironic isn't it?

2007-07-13 13:50:57 · 7 answers · asked by Voice of Liberty 5

Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

On the 20th of October, the government commenced action against the company under the trading with the enemy act.

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

2007-07-13 13:49:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems to me that we were once a more respectful nation with everything closed on Sundays and the tolerance for each other and our different religions was more visible in every day life.

Kids were more repectful, crime was not as common and there seemed to be more tranquility and peace in our every day lives.

Now we have everything open Sundays. Church seems to be something families avoid and I think that the separation of Church and State to the degree we have done has caused us to loose our Moral Compass.

Do you agree or disagree and what can be done to get our Country back on track?

2007-07-13 13:44:27 · 12 answers · asked by M's Dad 3

He rolls into office with the Soviet Union dissolving, and an economy just starting a recovery. Then he's lucky enough to be in office at the birth of a great new industry, the dot.com industry. Peace and prosperity, perhaps the best time in 50 years for a leader to enact bold new programs or pass important reforms.

Did Clinton reform Health Care, like he campaigned on? Resolve the Iraq situation in the 8 years he had? Reform Social Security? Fight Terrorism? Resolve the Israel/Palastinean conflict? End illegal immigration or pass immigration reform? Reverse the decline in manufacturing? Stop Outsourcing?

I can only think of the following accomplishments. He put some extra cops on the street, NAFTA, and Welfare Reform. All nice, but nothing great considering the Golden Opportunity he had.

Of all the great issues confronting our nation, was he able to resolve even one?

2007-07-13 13:06:58 · 19 answers · asked by Uncle Pennybags 7

shouldnt U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 be the law that forces us to pay?????
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html

2007-07-13 13:02:56 · 10 answers · asked by Honor 2

Rep. Borris Miles (democrat) voted against a bill that gives Texans stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, vehicles, and workplaces. Yet he can do it? Typical liberal socialist hypocrite. Here is the link
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288737,00.html

2007-07-13 12:39:56 · 6 answers · asked by F123 2

Hey they want to get rid of the IRS, isn't that reason enough to support them?

2007-07-13 12:33:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that a lot of people moved to San Francisco during the Summer of Love. How did the rest of California follow so quickly? I thought a republic system is suppose to balance out opinions from differing areas to come to a middle ground. Somebody write a concise answer and dont be rude please.

2007-07-13 12:33:05 · 13 answers · asked by Jona 1

who the really wanted a muliticutral country?

2007-07-13 11:34:57 · 12 answers · asked by dave c 3

I'm just trying to understand? Thanks!

2007-07-13 11:28:49 · 10 answers · asked by May Hegglin 3

2007-07-13 11:21:16 · 11 answers · asked by PETER 1

I know it is the U.S.'s fault, I just don't know how yet. Please help.

2007-07-13 11:16:48 · 7 answers · asked by RP McMurphy 4

Why is it legal for one person to hold multiple public offices? For example, recently indicted former Newark, NJ mayor Sharpe James was the mayor of Newark at the same time was a State Senator too.

What are the policies regarding this in other states?

Thank you for any answers.

2007-07-13 11:12:49 · 4 answers · asked by findandreplace 3

Britain is backing off the Middle East conflict. Iran is sitting back smiling saying they will do whatever they want. The economy is flip flopping between interest rates and housing. Baby boomers are retiring. What have we done to ourselves and where do we go from here?

2007-07-13 11:04:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm beginning to think that it's related to the fact that every Republican scandal involves homosexual sex and perhaps they just hated Clinton for being one of the enemies -- a heterosexual.

I just read a story about Republican Florida state rep. Robert Allen who was arrested Wednesday and charged with soliciting an undercover male officer for sex at a park in Florida.

Of course, we all know about the Mark Foley scandal and we have yet to learn all there is to know about the Jeff Gannon scandal; and we've all pretty much forgotten the Reagan/Bush homosexual scandal and the Franklin sex scandal. But why is it that everytime I hear about a Republican sex scandal, it is a homosexual scandal?

Robert Allen Scandal
http://www.local6.com/news/13664897/detail.html

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From the Washington Times, June 1989
Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush
http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm

2007-07-13 11:01:24 · 11 answers · asked by Trevor S 4

Assuming troops in the Middle East have been brought home, what one issue should the new President of the United States focus upon...?

The Middle East, Europen alliances, Energy, Global warming, health care, foreign policy, China, N.A.T.O, Russia, Africa, Immigration, the economy, other....

2007-07-13 10:51:12 · 16 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5

Terrorism is an industry in the Middle East. If you want power over there without being given it by the West, it basicly has to go through terrorism. The terrorist thinktanks play on the large industry and hypocrisy in the US to rally up support. (Support is wide because it feeds families.)

Now in the US, guys like Bush want to play on the concept that the Average American doesn't deserve terrorism (they don't) and get us to rally up to go crazy in the Middle East.

Obviously the power on both sides are corrupt. The average joe terrorist feels that the US is the cause of world corruption (it DOES play a HUGE roll.) The average person in the US feels they should't have to pay for the mistakes of an elite few.

But here is the question: While Americans shouldn't have to suffer for the crimes of our leaders, is it fair for us to wreck up other countries to get rid of the threat?

2007-07-13 10:46:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

"TITUSVILLE - State Rep. Bob Allen was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a local park after offering to perform a sex act on an undercover officer in exchange for $20, police said.

Allen, R-Merritt Island, was booked into the Brevard County jail in Sharpes on a charge of solicitation to commit prostitution, a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in the county jail and a $500 fine."

Ok folks, he was arrested on the charge of solicitation to COMMIT prostitution after offering $20 to perform oral sex on an undercover MALE police officer. What an f-ing sicko!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-boballen071107,0,7769658.story

So Rudy Guiliani's South Carolina campaign manager was arrested last week for sale and distribution of cocaine and now John McCain's Florida campaign manager has been charged with prostitution. What the hell is going on with the GOP?

2007-07-13 10:37:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should it continue?

2007-07-13 10:21:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-13 09:26:48 · 8 answers · asked by Rainman 3

I am sick of it. Both parties. I am sick of lifetime politicians who are already rich. Why are there no poor people in US politics?

2007-07-13 09:23:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

What happened to the men like FDR, JFK and Truman. At what point did this all happen. When did they become like Nancy pellalagossi and drunken Ted Kenndy. Was it before or after LBJ?

2007-07-13 09:02:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Democrats and increasing numbers of Republicans are saying enough's enough: four years of a failed policy is enough to determine that we cannot succeed. By that standard, shouldn't we reexamine other policies that have been around much longer with similar success records?

Including:

Government education (100+ years and almost no improvement in the nation's illiteracy rate)
Medicare and Medicaid (40+ years, costs out of control, draining the medical system of its assets and squeezing the middle class)
Social Security (70+ years and no one under 40 will ever see a dime of what we put into this Ponzi scheme)
War on Drugs (25+ years and we can't even keep drugs out of our own prisons, much less outside our borders)
War on Poverty (i.e., welfare, subsidies for poverty...after 75+ years, the poor are still poor)

Thoughts?

(Serious discussion only; please, no name calling or ad hominem.)

2007-07-13 08:50:44 · 10 answers · asked by Martin L 5

2007-07-13 08:47:16 · 7 answers · asked by bwuny 3

If our state and feds would give bigger rebates, we could all get off the grid, I want to do this but iam not rich, any tips???

2007-07-13 08:46:50 · 7 answers · asked by julianne s 2

I mean -- do you REALLY?
Remember Mr. Speaker who had a rare, extremely deadly form of TB? Resistant to antibiotics? Who said, "To hell with it, I'm getting on the plane anyway?"

Do you think he should be personally responsible for all the people he infected?

Because personally, I think he should go to jail.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19734910/

2007-07-13 07:56:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous