Politics - 3 October 2007

2007-10-03 09:15:46 · 22 answers · asked by DON'T BURN ME 2

Where is the politician that says "Look we are going to make laws that are going to start to take noticeable effects when this age group gets this old. We are going to start these programs when I'm in office. For us that's 40, 50 and up we should start trying to prepare this world for our grandkids. For those that's 30 and 35, we need to get these programs rolling for our kids." Why we can't get a commission or a new political party that focuses on that?

2007-10-03 09:12:59 · 5 answers · asked by Mr.October 2

Since a lot of you say he was the worst president in history why did he leave office with a 65% approval rating and why did he have an average approval rating of 57% even with the monica lewinsky scandal?

2007-10-03 09:11:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you believe global warming is real? Are you taking measures to reduce the amount of pollution? I do believe that global warming is real! I don't know what is causing it. Could we be partly responsible? Well, I know that our emmissions certainly could not help matters any! I know that the weather where I live has changed drastically in the last couple of decades. Summers are hotter, longer lasting. The winters are milder and shorter. This year was the hottest ever! At the end of August temperatures soared to over 100 degrees F. The final days of September where also brutally hot! I know that something is different. I do not believe that this is one of those "cycles" that come every so often. And neither do people who have lived here longer than I! They say They have never seen this type of weather here in their entire life!

2007-10-03 09:02:46 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Chinese communist government killed its own people and students in Tian An Mien Square for democracy demonstration. How could it be relied to persuade Myanmar to allow democracy and not to kill monks??

2007-10-03 09:02:35 · 7 answers · asked by Globixer 2

medicaid why are they so upset at the notion that they (who as a group use far more health care dollars than nonsmokers) might have to subsidize childrens health care??
Personally if we could just separate smokers onto their own medical insurance plan I would be happy as a lark.

2007-10-03 09:01:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Medicare covers people 65 and older

Medicaid covers low income families.

These are both examples of socialized health care, but I never hear conservatives complain about them. Now we get a bill which expands children's health care coverage, and conservatives seem to hate it:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahj_9Ts6XCPlEPR8x0ZiSSPsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071003121552AAmDn25

The president's alternative is to renew SCHIP by spending an additional $5 billion over the next five years. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says this wouldn't even support coverage of kids already in the program.

Bush says the bill would distort SCHIP's low-income focus by extending coverage to families making up to $83,000 a year. Backers of the bill insist it does no such thing. As under current law, a state can ask to go that high, typically because it has a high cost of living, but it still needs the administration's permission.

Why cover the poor and elderly but not kids?

2007-10-03 09:00:06 · 11 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

2007-10-03 08:55:16 · 5 answers · asked by ? 7

2007-10-03 08:55:08 · 35 answers · asked by DON'T BURN ME 2

I mean why does it scare so many people? Isn't the luxury of knowing that you don't have to pay an arm and a leg (sorry for the pun) for health care more reassuring? Why do I see so many people claiming it is socialism/communism? Isn't it the right thing?
It has nothing to do with Hilary, or whoever the democratic candidate is. It has to do with insuring the American people, and keeping us healthy.
For those that say the government is not capable of providing this service, please cite some specific examples. I believe that the private sector doesn't want to insure EVERY American, or else they would make more of a concerted effort to include everyone (regardless of income level), they would quit denying claims to their customers, and wouldn't continuously persuade doctors not to see patients (or treat them in such manner to get them out of the hospital as sonn as possible).
As always please keep it respectful. This is a hot issue, and I really wish it wasn't politicized.

2007-10-03 08:54:29 · 15 answers · asked by MJ 32001 3

Let me start by saying that I'm asking for honorable liberals to answer . Honorable , Thoughful , Honest , Intelligent , Liberals .
Let me also say that I've used those words(honorable etc.) many times before in my addresses to liberals , DESPITE being told by my own party members that I was foolish or only dreaming that any liberal could be that way . So you libs would serve yourself well by at least acknowledging that for starters .
Now , on to the question. . . .

Surely most of you know that President Bush believes in what he's doing . Passionately . Hell , even left-wing websites acknowledge that . And those same websites 'report' that the president has said that if he sees that a left-wing candidate , weak on terrorism and Iran , was on track to win the whitehouse , then he'd be far more likely to 'clean-up' Iran before leaving office .
So , when the left continually mounts baseless attacks and attempts to make far-left ideals into policies , you are only forcing his hand .

2007-10-03 08:51:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 08:46:43 · 30 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

then it does in backwoods of Mississippi?

The cost of living is higher up here.

ANOTHER THING. IS THE COST OF LIVING IN MEXICO CHEAP BECAUSE IT IS MORE "EFFICIENT"?

I DON'T THINK SO.

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The clash over the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is being fought largely between members of Congress from high-income states, such as Maryland, versus members from low-income states, such as South Dakota and Mississippi, which rank near the bottom in median household income.

In South Dakota, where the median household income is only $42,791, giving such a benefit to a family with an income of more than $61,000 seems excessive, according to Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.

“Low-cost, efficient states such as South Dakota... end up subsidizing higher costs in inefficient states,” complained Thune during the Senate debate.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21066498/

2007-10-03 08:41:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 08:41:52 · 8 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

2007-10-03 08:40:59 · 7 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

Did your politics effect your opinion of this question?

2007-10-03 08:36:38 · 7 answers · asked by Incognito 5

2007-10-03 08:35:52 · 7 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4

The amount asked for pales in comparison to the amount of money given to private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. None of us will ever see that money again. This may not sit well with voters in 2008 during the general election.

2007-10-03 08:35:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

People say there's no way to win a war against a religious based ideology nor an enemy that blends in with the rest of the cultures.
This idea really isn't true. The people of the USA are just not willing to do what it takes to rid the planet of these terrorist. That being wage the war exactly like WWII, massive death and destruction.
These terrorists weren't the first to fly airplanes into targets and blow themselves up just to kill others. The Japanese did exactly the same thing during WWII. The Japanese had exactly the same notion in their heads that they would go to a special place in heaven if they sacrificed their lives to kill the enemy.
In the last year of the war in Europe, just the Allied aerial bombing alone killed almost 700,000 civilians in Germany and left tens of millions homeless. This type of death and destruction is what takes the will to wage war out of the population of the enemy.
This surgical war they are trying to wage against terror will not work. All it will do is bring more people into the enemy's fold. The middle-east, particularly the radical countries like Iran, Syria, Jorden, Pakistan, and mayeb even Saudi Arabia, need to be bombed into the stone age. Every city needs to be leveled. Massive civilian deaths must occur. Only this way will the people of that area want peace, just as the Japanese did after a few atoms bombs fell from the sky.
The people of the USA can't live with that much death on their hands, however.

2007-10-03 08:30:49 · 36 answers · asked by Perplexed Bob 5

2007-10-03 08:30:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

for not thinking ahead, for not looking towards the future, but instead rewards them for their short comings..... Will people learn from their mistakes? Will future generations learn responsibility if their irresponsibility is rewarded by hard working tax payers? If all of a sudden the government provides for everyone who has made bad decisions and didn't use their heads, where do you think we'll be 50 years from now.... IF we can survive?

2007-10-03 08:30:02 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just curious what you think. I don't have an opinion about who's better or anything.

2007-10-03 08:28:39 · 15 answers · asked by secretservice 5

I just got an email from Howard Dean cause I'm on that email list when he sends out the emails to the public asking me to write my congressman about the Bush vetoing the kids health care thing.

Does he think I am stupid?

These politicans they do this kinda stuff all the time to get the base all whiped up into a frenzy.

Its like this bill, it covered more kids than were in need, its not a good bill it costs too much money.
So Bush vetoes this so the democrats can get us all worked up and bent out of shape,
and the bill wanted to raise cigarette taxes,

so now Republicans are running around like chickens with their head chopped off saying heh look at us we faught a tax cut!

Its like flag burning, they waste their time on flag burning and then go home and campaign on the issue.

Meantime, how many poor kids really are without health insurance?

How about we get a decent piece of legislation for them?

2007-10-03 08:28:38 · 12 answers · asked by Spartacus 3

Will you howl on YA! all day but do nothing? What can we do?

2007-10-03 08:28:06 · 1 answers · asked by The President 3

I think even John Wayne's characters would be fried and served for dinner in the current atmoshere.

2007-10-03 08:27:11 · 15 answers · asked by mamadixie 7

Of the bill to raise the income level of those who can get free health care, they fail to mention WHY he vetoed it. No where in the article does it mention that it raised the income level of eligibility well above $80,000, effectively changing what the bill was intended to do in the first place: help families who make too much to receive medicade but don't make enough to afford quality health care.

Hanoi Reid even went as far as to say that "President Bush is denying health care to millions of low-income kids in America."

When did making over $80,000 a year equate to "low income"?

Why does that figure seem to be conspicuously absent from news articles?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_children_s_health

2007-10-03 08:26:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

"WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance."

This guy really don't think about the future and health of the next generation. If you want productive country, then you can't have with disabled nation and its citizens.

2007-10-03 08:25:08 · 8 answers · asked by Jola 2

The underdog that wins in 2008?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

2007-10-03 08:22:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

WWW.SAVELOUIS.COM

2007-10-03 08:20:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I will be going out with some liberal friends this weekend.
I know, but I'm very lonely and must take what I can get.
At any rate, I'm heaing I should bring plety of money because I'll have to foot the bill and also, try to find a restaurant in a safe neighborhood because if we were attacked by a mugger , they would turn and run.
Should I keep the date or cancel and hopefully, down the road try to find some conservative friends?

2007-10-03 08:18:16 · 27 answers · asked by Nvr2soon 6