Politics - 9 July 2007

About 7 in 10 Americans is "concerned about the income gap" and the wealth gap, as well as the "declining size fo the middle class" but they also thought that government's role should not be to tear down the wealthy or give handouts but rather ensure that there is upward mobility.

Except that the data show that there is upward mobility - more so than in past generations. Indeed the "gap" is not between one group with declining income and one with rising income, just between two groups whose real incomes are rising at different rates - - - and more importantly, for the most part it is between older, more experienced workers and younger, less experienced workers (most of who will one day be in the other, higher income category), the gap growing as we move to a knowledge-based economy. The "middle class" is in fact moving up.

People's concern seems a concern for others - as in, I'm OK, everyone I know is OK, but the media have convinced me that untold millions aren't.

2007-07-09 02:19:37 · 1 answers · asked by truthisback 3

(and why do people say ONLY Bush lied?)

"People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."

-Bill Clinton on "Larry King Live" 07/23/2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/23/clinton.iraq.sotu/

(CNN) -- 2004 -- Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/index.html

Hillary Clinton: No regret on Iraq vote

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 10:10 AM EDT (1410 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is not sorry she voted for a resolution authorizing President Bush to take military action in Iraq!


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/

2007-07-09 02:16:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because that's what a successful impeachment will get you!
Good thinking, hippies!!!

2007-07-09 02:15:52 · 2 answers · asked by bradxschuman 6

Do you vote based on who is the best person for the job?

2007-07-09 02:09:50 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

the United Nations Millennium Project – a global war on poverty designed to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones. Sachs is currently demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy.

2007-07-09 02:05:27 · 4 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

IMHO..the complaints of lost rights is a concerted effort to falsely trump up impeachment charges..setting the stage for political chaos..

On the political front, Soros has poured massive funding into such groups as the ACLU, which uses lawsuits to hamstring the War on Terror. Soros also funds Amnesty International, whose US executive director has called for the arrest of President Bush as a war criminal. Another Soros-funded group, The Center for Constitutional Rights, has drawn up detailed articles of impeachment against the President.

By posing as ordinary Democrats, Shadow Party candidates trick mainstream voters into supporting them..

Soros writes in The Age of Fallibility, “[T]he Democratic Party does not stand for the policies that I advocate; indeed, if it did, it could not be elected.”

2007-07-09 02:03:10 · 6 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

If socialized medicine is so good....
Why then do so many from the Carribean and Latin states fly past Cuba to get free medical help in the USA ?

"What! Free Medical in the USA you say?????

Yes... They just fly back home without paying the bill!!!!!

Hmmmmm... I wonder..
Could THAT be a big reason why medicine is expensive for US CITIZENS ? That WE have to pay for YOU?

2007-07-09 01:41:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Watching that Live Earth concert just put such a warm feeling in my stomach that I broke every light bulb in my house, shut of the gas line, burned my truck, and biked the 20 miles to work this morning. It was such a great thing to see all those people playing for free, no one making profits off of all those happy concert-goers, Al Gore donating his time and money to the cause, all the concert venues left in a pristine condition after the events ...

WHAT!!!??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL IT WAS WAS A BIG MONEY-MAKING SCAM!!!???

2007-07-09 01:41:26 · 17 answers · asked by thegubmint 7

Democratic form of the governement is one of the the best form of government. Even the holy book Quran favour it. The verses full of democratic secular principles and guidences. They can establish Islamic democracy or republic with secular image, where everyone has rigth and get justice.

2007-07-09 01:40:13 · 13 answers · asked by ifhusain 4

Is it shared Idealogy or appeasement .

2007-07-09 01:37:48 · 7 answers · asked by Dr Doom 4

why are we the lone ranger? are all the major industrialized democratic western "mostly christian" nations wrong in having some form of nationalized healthcare and we right?????

Why does everyone else see healthcare as a right or something that must be provided to all and not us???? How long will we be the lone ranger???

2007-07-09 01:26:03 · 12 answers · asked by ningis n 1

Are you as tired of this crap as I am?
Aren't there a few important things going on in the world?
These people in Washington DC seem to be under the impression that it's all about them.
I'm sick of it.
Your thoughts?

2007-07-09 01:23:53 · 8 answers · asked by mark623112 4

2007-07-09 01:15:34 · 2 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

2007-07-09 01:13:46 · 7 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

What do you make of this? I read and hear how stupid we are no history and all the rest of it But how can we be the only nation with a brain!

2007-07-09 01:08:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 00:44:05 · 16 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

Is it because geography and social science is not taught enough in American schools and that the Media has taken advantage of their lack of understanding? I was astonished to find some schoolmates from America, not even being able to locate Washington D.C. on the American map!

2007-07-09 00:01:06 · 26 answers · asked by 2012 4