Other - Politics & Government - September 2007

I think we would get a lot better idea about how much they extract from us if we had to send it in.

2007-09-04 17:52:29 · 5 answers · asked by kevin s 6

As if I were a 2 year old...

I will be entering at the bottom of the corporate ladder. I have noticed a lot of libertarians are for both the gold standard and the abolishment of a minimum wage, as well as a free market system. If this were to happen (hypothetically) how can you promise my corporate bosses wont eat me alive?

Appreciate it.

2007-09-04 17:23:01 · 3 answers · asked by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6

Answering another question gave me the thought to ask this question. What would you say are the 10 most powerful countries, in order influentially, or overall. By that I mean a combination of their diplomatic status, their wealth, their military force, their trade relations, their production, their influence over other countries, their resources, all of those things and anything else you can think of.

Thinking about it, I've come up with a list of countries which would be logical without any order. Just some of the world's more powerful countries in my opinion.

USA
Russia
China
India
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Israel
Britain
France
Germany
North Korea (who supposedly have the 5th largest military on Earth)
Japan
Pakistan (Nuclear Capabilities)
Canada (Oil reserves)
Nigeria (probably the most powerful country in Africa)

This is just speculation on my part though, I don't have any facts supporting it. I just want to see what you guys think.

2007-09-04 17:21:25 · 9 answers · asked by William E. Roberts 5

2007-09-04 17:16:44 · 2 answers · asked by <33 1

look at these:

1)Selling posioned food for the citizens to eat and die.
2)Selling lead painted toys to destroy the future of the country.[the kids]
3)Buying National debts, that way they have the U.S. economy by the balls.
4)Buying stakes in U.S. military weapon building companies.
5)Recently peforming cold war era military excercises with Russia
6)Hacking into the Pentagon.

please prove me wrong.

But if i am right, pls call your congressman or woman and ask them to act before it gets too late.

2007-09-04 16:51:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i never go in there...but its never happened to me. and most will agree, this is no excuse. and was no accident. craig knew what he was doing, and admitted it hoping it would save his career..

he was wrong.....AND he's a pervert

2007-09-04 16:41:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul303.html

2007-09-04 16:41:07 · 2 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1

Here is what the government funded health care programs in one state cost state hospitals. How can the hospitals stay open if we have a nationwide universal health care plan like this?

Wisconsin:
Shortfalls from government programs continued to increase in 2006. On average, the Medicare Program paid hospitals only 77 percent of the cost of providing care to beneficiaries, while Medicaid paid even less at 48 percent of cost. That translates into over $1.6 billion of hospital patient care costs not funded by government programs that were shifted to others—also known as the “hidden health care tax.”

Uncompensated care—a combination of unreimbursed care provided to charity patients and bad debts for those patients able to pay but who fail to pay for services—totaled $614 million, increasing by $65 million (12 percent) over 2005, with charity care representing the larger increase of 27 percent, or $43 million. Bad debts accounted for $22 million of the increase. Contrary to some claims, a small percentage of charges are actually ever collected from those without insurance. These unpaid bills are also part of what hospitals must pass on to commercial payers.

“Wisconsin hospitals continue to provide high quality, cost-effective care,” said WHA Senior Vice President George Quinn. “But unfunded patient care expenses—government program payment shortfalls and uncompensated bad debts and charity care—continue to increase and now amount to over 20 percent of the hospital bill for a patient with commercial insurance.”

2007-09-04 16:31:58 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 16:24:25 · 4 answers · asked by chandrakant p 1

My Mother in law wants to take my daughter into Canada tomorrow. I have been looking on-line and found that she can get into Canada without a passport (she's under 15) if she has a Birth Certificate, photo I.D., and a signed permission letter from her parents. I can't find anything that says what she will need to get back into America after the trip. They are not flying, they are driving over. So can anyone tell me what she needs to cross back into the U.S. after her visit?
My Mother in law is a Canadian Citizen with resident Alien status in the U.S.
My daughter is a U.S. citizen.
I also asked this in Travel, because I need an answer ASAP since my MIL gave me less than 24 hours notice. Thank you so much if you can help.

2007-09-04 15:40:11 · 5 answers · asked by Thrice Blessed 6

Republicans would never take up for a democrat that did something wrong. In the past the took ever opportunity they could get to cricify any democrat that even breathed funny BUT YET, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid strongly suggested Republican leaders judged the Idaho senator, who was arrested in a homosexual sex sting, more harshly than Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, whose phone number was recently linked to a heterosexual prostitution service." You sure as HE*( would never get that kinda compasion out the those da*( "compasionate conservative republicans".

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

2007-09-04 15:38:34 · 7 answers · asked by politicallypuzzeled 3

AP History, [JUNIOR]

Founding Brothers: Revolutionary Generation

2007-09-04 15:29:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 15:14:00 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many believe this to be the real birth day of Christ in the year 3 AD due to star alignment. If anyone still thinks it is 25 December then you are not getting a visit from Santa!

Seriously though, does anyone have any 'intelligent' thoughts on this possibility?

2007-09-04 14:55:49 · 10 answers · asked by lee h 3

Please answer me this because its a part of the equation I do not understand when California's governor wants everyone to have health insurance the Democrats are bent on insuring 40 million (Obama) citizens that don't now have health insurance; not how do you pay for the insurance but how is the present health care system suppose to care for them all?

I have heard it suggested that people with insurance won't flood the emergency rooms for sniffles - good - but won't they flood the doctors office instead? There are not enough nurses to go around now, not enough assistants to the nurses, not enough doctors, and not enough doctors offices to handle all of these extra insured. What is the plan by the left to fix that part of the equation or are they just ignoring it?

2007-09-04 14:48:48 · 13 answers · asked by netjr 6

I know Texas want to, they are the only state which can do it at the moment.As for other states I'm not sure,that's why I want you people of America to tell me.

2007-09-04 14:48:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can they kick him out? Threr would b a process right?

2007-09-04 14:42:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i personally dont like the top 3 democrats 4 certain reasons so how do u think the governor of new mexico would be

2007-09-04 14:29:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 13:48:33 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need to get my learners permit

2007-09-04 13:18:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 13:06:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Questions out of...

Founding Brothers: A Revolutionary Generation

[AP CLASS]

2007-09-04 13:02:01 · 8 answers · asked by Matt D 1

45 years ago I visited Russia and they justified the one party system by asking me If the two American parties were any different. I had to admit that nothing much changed no matter which of the two parties was in power. Now if the two main parties would let the Green or some other party become the opposition, maybe we could have some real change. Or don't Americans want real change?

2007-09-04 12:43:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

already, highly skilled medical jobs like radiology are being outsourced. between 30 million and 40 million million american jobs are likely to be shipped overseas in the next 10 to 20 years!!!

2007-09-04 12:18:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you agree with a "Robin Hood" model in society? Do you think state should intervene and distribute the goods accordingly to its citizens? Do you think rich should sometimes be *punished* for being rich? I am excluding taxes since I am speaking of direct state intervention in every financial area. Even in the slightly capitalist era in the beginning years of Bolshevik regime when Lenin allowed Nepmen to exist, he charged them more, for example on education because they were better off than most of the population. Nepmen felt that the state was using them to remedy the results of the unsuccessful war communism policies and in the mean while punishing them for being capitalists on ideological pretexts.

I am not asking you whether it is substantial or impractical, I want you to express your opinions on this system from whichever perspective you want. It maybe from a religious,moral, juridical or philosophical perspective. Is this regime justifiable? If so, what accounts for it?

2007-09-04 11:48:06 · 17 answers · asked by :] 4

Everybody knows that we are at war because of 9/11! Why is President Bush lying about it?

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/bush-on-911/
Think Progress » Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11

2007-09-04 11:47:48 · 10 answers · asked by GeauxJoe 2

I have had this discussion with many people , it is - Do you believe if there was a depression in America that made the Middle Class and most of the working class lose there jobs - there kids would work to support there family ?

I ask because I honestly don't know , its hard to say based on alot of kids priority's being video games and such .

2007-09-04 11:42:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here we are playing around in the ME, not getting anything accomplished, except for making more and more people in the ME hate us. China is tapping into the Pentagon's network, sending us lead filled toys and poisoned food....not even talking about how much of our US Treasury bonds and other reserve assets that they hold. Then there is their military build up made possible by our huge foreign trade deficit....and the list goes on. We have 12-20 million people here illegally that our government can't/won't do anything about and those same illegals that are here working for a "better life" since their home country sucks so bad that they left in the first place rant about their hatred for America. It's ok....come on in and get the freebies. No worries though, even though we KNOW that there are people with less than noble intentions (i.e. terrorists) getting through the porous border that we have, it would go against the “rights” of our friends to the south to actually do anything about it.

The "top contenders" for the presidential bid are all sh!t. None of them are worth a damn nor will they do anything to change the way things in this country are going and no one seems to care. Hey Fox and CNN tell me to vote for them....so I must. Corporations are running the government, the Federal Reserve owns all of our money (which for those that do not know, the Federal Reserve is NOT a government agency, it’s ran by private bankers)

Am I the only one who sees through the BS? Can anyone honestly tell me that this is painting a good portrait of our future?

2007-09-04 11:40:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

If she/he/it manages to steal the election, what term will be used to describe the strange deaths of hundreds of her enemies?

"Hillaricide" just doesn't have that ring to it.

2007-09-04 11:31:02 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 11:26:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous