Politics - 18 August 2007

Affirmative action? Yay, Nay or Compromise?
Abortion? Yay, Nay or Compromise?
Iraq/Afghanistan (depending where your from)? Yay, Nay or Compromise?
Universal Health Care? Yay, nay or compromise?
Gun Control? Yay, nay or compromise
Catholic+Public Schools or Just Public?
Patriot Act? Yay, nay or compromise?

2007-08-18 13:35:44 · 18 answers · asked by centreofclassicrock 4

The common refrain from most Dems and Bush-haters is that our 4 year recovery is creating mostly low wage retail and burger flipping jobs. Actually this is the standard propaganda from the Dems anytime a Republican is President.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

This analysis of job changes and average wages from July 06 to July 07 clearly shows that about 1.3 million new high wage jobs were created, and about 350,000 high wage mfg and construction jobs lost. That's a net of 950,000 new high wage jobs. There was also another 650,000 or so new medium and lower wage jobs.

Please check out this link http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2007/08/where-the-jobs-.html especially the second graph. That graph references Table B-3 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on wages. That table can be found here http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm

2007-08-18 13:34:22 · 9 answers · asked by Uncle Pennybags 7

I mean hes done so much more than an illegal war and torture of innocent civilians.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0818goppolitics0818.html
letting scooter off, the list is too long to post with just 1,000 characters.

2007-08-18 13:31:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

At the end of his second year, (remember the Reagan recession?) Reagan's approval rating was 41 percent; after the Iran-Contra scandal was revealed, Reagan's approval rating stood at 46 percent. His approval rating for his entire presidency was lower than Kennedy's, Eisenhower's and even Johnson's, and at times he was one of the most unpopular presidents in recent history.

In 1982, the Congressional Budget Office found that taxpayers earning under $10,000 lost an average of $240 from Reagan's 1981 tax cuts, while those earning more than $80,000 gained an average of $15,130. By that fall, the jobless rate hit 10.1 percent-the worst in 42 years, and a year later 11.9 million were out of work. In 1983, the country's poverty rate rose to 15 percent, the highest level since the mid-'60s.

One of his most famous assertions was, "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." In 1985, Reagan praised the P.W. Botha's apartheid regime of South Africa for eliminating segregation.

2007-08-18 13:23:03 · 15 answers · asked by Richard V 6

Why should we take sides in the affairs of other countries when their conflict do not affect us? I think we should bring our Military home secure our borders and work on our domestic problems.

2007-08-18 13:16:58 · 20 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

Including love making I bet.

2007-08-18 13:06:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0818goppolitics0818.html

2007-08-18 13:02:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

You guys are just manly!

2007-08-18 13:01:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

When somebody brings up the fact that President Bush is a chickenhawk, his supporters have brought up Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, two other war presidents who didn't serve.

(Well, they served in the milita whatever the hell that means, and, no, Bush didn't serve. When you can't be bothered to show up for your one weekend a month it doesn't count as service.)

Anyway, while Lincoln and Roosevelt may not have served, they are different from Bush for a few reasons.

1. Lincoln and Roosevelt didn't lie and weren't just waiting and praying for excuses to rush into their wars. The other side threw the first punch. (If you bring up 9/11, I'm referring to the Iraq War, NOT the Afghan War.)

2. Their wars were about a little bit more than corporate profit.

3. Lincoln and Roosevelt may not have served in war, but their kids sure as hell did. Lincoln's son volunteered as did all four of Roosevelt's sons. Jenna and Barabara Bush have yet to raise their right hands.

2007-08-18 12:56:41 · 13 answers · asked by ThatOneDude 3

I'm lost in the concept of how freeing up more money for upper income folks to invest expands our economy and creates jobs.
People who invest money do so where they get the greatest returns. The greatest returns are in countries with expanding economies, like China. Why invest in America with an economy expanding at a 4% rate when you can earn 4 times as much in the Chinese economy, which is expanding at a 12% rate.
Exactly how does this benefit our economy? How does giving upper income people more money to invest overseas create more jobs here?
Why is it less beneficial to give the middle class, who are likely to spend their money within the USA, a tax break?

2007-08-18 12:52:55 · 28 answers · asked by Overt Operative 6

2007-08-18 12:47:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seem to me that all Bush has done is to create more government, lead us in to an illegal war, fail to secure our borders and devide our country. Where are the conservative ideas we were promised? I think it's time for a change. I think we need new blood in Washington. Any suggestions?

2007-08-18 12:46:26 · 19 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

Where exactly in the Bible was Jesus ever conservative about anything?

2007-08-18 12:34:45 · 13 answers · asked by somber 3

Both Bush and Cheney are for big government. Just look at the so called Patriot Act, the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security were created under this act. Just what we need more government agencies.

2007-08-18 12:34:10 · 14 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

2007-08-18 12:27:11 · 8 answers · asked by Val J 2

Okay, before I commence my assail on conservative hypocrisy, let me just say that this is coming from an objectvie viewpoint, as I am a proud independent.

I'll begin with Dick Cheney. In spite of his enigmatic unconstitutionality, Dick Cheney wasn't always a bad guy. In a 1994 interview, Dick Cheney told a reporter that going into Iraq (after the Gulf War, of course) would be mistake. That pieces of the country would fall off among the secular conflict. Hmm, that doesn't sound too much like the Dick we know an love. Now tell me, why would he influence a trillion dollar operation that he even said was sure to fail. Is he a hypocrite or does his stubborness run so deep that he is morally content with sacrificing lives and the country's resources for a doomed operation. Conservatives, if there is any reasonable conunterargument to denounce my question, I will shut up and you will never hear from me again. So please, enlighten me. Mind you, this is just one example. I have many, many more

2007-08-18 12:26:26 · 12 answers · asked by Oliver 2

Just to name a few the civil rights movement, women rights, we went to the moon, cures and treatments for diseases were found, cities were modernized, more technologies evolved, education improved, communication became easier, we started to question our government more, stereotypes started to break down and people learned to accept other races, religions and cultures more than ever before, computers and the internet were invented, traveling by plane became more affordable. So why do people say that things were better in before the 60s?

2007-08-18 12:25:56 · 7 answers · asked by Lindsey G 5

It's all they think about! It's like they think their borders are constantly under attack when they're clearly not. whenever you see some nut in Iraq with a hostage, they've got the poor bugger dressed a "Camp X-Ray" inmate and they're bleating about "Our Muslim Brothers". It's clear to anyone that this didn't really happen five years ago and that America's just making the situation worse.

Of course I sympathise with the 11/9 attacks and agree that what happened was horrendous but talking constantly about killing all muslims does have certain "Holocaust" feel about it.

I'm British, so I'm not stranger to terrorism, bearing in mind the decades of IRA campaignes but I find the US' new found piety on the issue troubling considering the IRA was funded exclusively from America.

I'm not having a dig at America, just observing that throughout they're history, they've had an enemy "Who want to destroy our democratic way of life".

2007-08-18 12:16:57 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

its been like 93 years since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, we haven't seen any real progress why keep wasting money and overcrowding our prisons, i mean shouldn't pedophiles ,rapists, and murderers be our priority?

2007-08-18 12:16:37 · 10 answers · asked by pot roast 1

2007-08-18 12:12:37 · 20 answers · asked by Page 4

and very aggressive efforts to move toward the development of nuclear weapons program?

I may be wrong!

2007-08-18 12:03:25 · 28 answers · asked by Page 4

http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/freespeech/presidential_advance_manual.pdf

2007-08-18 11:57:43 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6

The mainstream media usually does just as I tell them, but there are some persky new-media types, along with some people who have the gall to think for themselves, who continue to talk about all the things I've said and done in the past. How can I stop this? Okay, I have committed fraud, theft, money-laundering, and perjury. Sure, I have obstructed justice and cheated in the futures market. I said there were WMD's and demanded action against Iraq. I have a foul mouth and a bad temper. I mock black people by trying to talk like them in their churches. BUT HOW CAN I STOP THE RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, RIGHT-WING LIARS WHO OPPOSE ME?

2007-08-18 11:49:56 · 25 answers · asked by Hillary Clinton 2

isn't it all about having a better argument? So far I don't see much in the way of good arguments, good ideas, solutions, a plan for the future from the conservative side....all I see from you are complaints and threats and name calling....you call people socialists or communists....clearly indicating that you have no idea what either one is......if I disagree with you, you're reaction is to beat me up....you don't agree with Michael Moore, so want to kick him. stop being angry and start coming up with conservative ideas that will bring solutions to the issues we face.....climate change, healthcare, energy, pollution......

2007-08-18 11:41:31 · 29 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4

i hear it ain't doing much.

2007-08-18 11:38:56 · 11 answers · asked by pot roast 1

And who really deserves that sacred land?

2007-08-18 11:38:50 · 19 answers · asked by Say_"NO"_to_Bush 2

http://www.wayodd.com/canadian-women-gives-birth-to-rare-identical-quads/v/7812/
This family goes to the USA because no hospital in Canada could handle this situation. Isn't this another example of what would happen here on a much larger scale if Universal Health Care comes to the US?

2007-08-18 11:38:04 · 22 answers · asked by Scott B 7

Shouldn't they be doing more important things or is this essential to American security?Please enlight me
An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm

2007-08-18 11:28:49 · 12 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7

2007-08-18 11:20:15 · 20 answers · asked by michele v 1

vietnamese terrorists defeated us, korean terrorists defeated us, muslim terrorists defeated us... they are even copying our methods: we killed scores of innocent japanese civilians so that their government surrenders and they killed ours in NYC seeking our surrender. Can we really win? and when?

2007-08-18 11:19:43 · 8 answers · asked by puzzling questions 1