Politics - 9 October 2007

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Letter to Edgar Eisenhower, Nov 1954
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1147.cfm

2007-10-09 11:45:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:45:16 · 9 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

Greenspan called him a spendthrift with little fiscal discipline and Fox thought he was overly cocky and not the best choice to be president. Is this just the beginning of books critical of Bush now that he is about to leave office?

2007-10-09 11:45:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Agree or Disagree?

There is no need to deport them - they will deport themselves if:

1. Sanctuary cities lose federal funding.
2. Every employee or potential employee must have a verifiable social security number - must match the name it was assigned to.
SSA & IRS will assist employers with employee verification.
3. Identity theft - 10 year mandatory sentence.
4. Employers caught cheating and hiring illegals - stiff penalties up to and including jail time.
5. No govenment benefits or drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
6. "Anchor babies" not allowed US citizenship.
7. Build a border fence with strong enforcement at our border.

If these compliance methods were used then we could get a handle on the immigration problem and allow temporary or seasonal workers for agriculture and job sectors that Americans truly won't do.

2007-10-09 11:44:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

"They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore."
- PAT ROBERTSON, THE STATE, Columbia, South Carolina, Nov. 14, 1993.

2007-10-09 11:40:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:18:54 · 14 answers · asked by sincere12_26 4

What debate? Seemed more like a promotion for McCain, Romney, Guiliani and Thompson. for instance Ron Paul went a second over his 30 seconds, he was interrupted, but Guiliani was allowed to talk almost a minute past his 30 seconds.

It is obvious the 4 mentioned candidates are being promoted by the media, so I will not be voting for any of them since there is something fishy about them if the media supports these people.

2007-10-09 11:18:20 · 5 answers · asked by ST 4

I'm American and live right on the border, and a lot of the seniors sneak up to Canada for their prescriptions.

2007-10-09 11:14:58 · 5 answers · asked by alex e 3

Andrew Sullivan of the New York Post seems to think so.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10072007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/we_must_confess.htm

I agree with him. No matter how many times people will bring up 9/11 to try to justify the means, it does not make it right. In fact, it puts America on the same level as Pol Pot, North Korea and Vietnam. To hear media blowhards like Bill O'Reilly defend torture as a viable means of extracting information simply makes me sick. Is this what our great country has sunk to?

2007-10-09 11:07:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus10oct10,0,129162.story?coll=la-home-nation

How can the US say it is a great paragon of virtue?

How can you say America is "land of the free" and the "arsenal of democracy" when the CIA runs around abducting foreign citizens, deporting them to the Middle East and torturing them?

Of course, they can't torture them on US soil... Its just a simple matter of taking the person elsewhere to torture them!

Normally, as a Red-Tory conservative type I would question this German citizen's story about how he was handed over to the CIA, and then tortured by them in Afghanistan.

However, when you get the government denying his case saying that his story would "expose state secrets", doesn't this make you wonder?

What "State secrets" does the Bush administration have to hide?

How many others have been tortured by the arsenal of democracy and possibly killed to keep the "state secrets" safe???

2007-10-09 10:51:22 · 5 answers · asked by CanadianFundamentalist 6

Are we heading towards a financial disaster just like the USA? When are big business and the rich going to pay their fair share?

2007-10-09 10:47:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was it called?

2007-10-09 10:44:02 · 24 answers · asked by Me 3

2007-10-09 10:40:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to Tim Flannery, the upcoming version of the IPCC report will contain new data showing that the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has already reached critical levels

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_sc/climate_change

He said the data showed that the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations had reached about 455 parts per million by mid-2005, well ahead of scientists' previous calculations.

"We thought we'd be at that threshold within about a decade, that we had that much time," Flannery said. "I mean, that's beyond the limits of projection, beyond the worst-case scenario as we thought of it in 2001," when the last major IPCC report was issued.

Additionally, studies have shown that arctic sea ice is melting 3 times faster than climate models predict.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070501-arctic-ice.html

How can we continue to delay action on global warming when research indicates time is running out?

2007-10-09 10:40:14 · 9 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

2007-10-09 10:39:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well prove it

They are a private security firm owned by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince
They provide security all around the world to FEMA workers in New Orleans after Katrina, serve as bodyguards to politicians (in both parties) when traveling overseas
So prove they are Bush's private army but do a little research before spewing ignorant hate

2007-10-09 10:37:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean really, who does John Edwards think he's fooling?

2007-10-09 10:36:44 · 10 answers · asked by Major Deek 2

We saw them expose a CIA officer named Valerie Plame

Exposing a CIA officer is an act of treason and it also exposed many others that were still under cover out in the field.
They exposed her to discredit her husband Joe Wilson who had went to Niger and verified Saddam did not purchase components for WMD's like the Whitehouse said was the reason for the Iraq war. "Mushroom Clouds"

Now they have exposed a company who did nothing but research terror groups and the websites they use. This took the last seven years to develop and was an enormous tool in tracking chatter and video posts by Islamic extremists. Because of this al_Qaida is now silent on the net with little or no way of knowing what they are up to. The whole program has gone black.

How are we supposed to fight a war on terror when the Whitehouse keeps going out of its way to damage information capabilities.

America is not safer since 9/11, other than the fact that they put troops as targets in the Middle East

2007-10-09 10:28:14 · 6 answers · asked by scottanthonydavis 4

By coincidence or design, the first question of the debate went to Thompson, making his first appearance with rivals who have been campaigning for months.

He said the economy is strong, with no threat of a recession in the immediate future.

2007-10-09 10:27:21 · 29 answers · asked by JF 3

Why are so many people showing up at the obama rally's wearing white sheets? Are the people with their heads shaved and their hands in their pockets supporting him also? Why do the sheets have DNC on the back of them?

2007-10-09 10:23:53 · 9 answers · asked by Hunter 4

Subject: Full Time American’s opinion of 110th Congress Performance Rating
This is possibly, the most embarrassing representatives of our country put together in one group with the entire world as an audience. What were you “Career Politicians” thinking of? We are paying you $150,000.00 plus a year for what?
• Working less than 200 days year
• Submitting bills to the President that will fail
• Submitting trivial resolutions
• Grandstanding children to endorse Legislation
How dare you chastise a novice legislative body like Iraq’s when there are so many expert “Career Politicians” who are conducting this countries legislation like some “reality TV” show. It is a sad day when this particular country (The United States of America) sets this kind of example for the other governments of the free world to follow. I personally think you “Career Politicians” need to get your collective butts together and do something responsible. If you can’t do it here then get on a plane and go to Iraq, coach and mentor the new government there just like our military

2007-10-09 10:20:31 · 6 answers · asked by rance42 5

2007-10-09 10:19:42 · 12 answers · asked by me 1

They hate the USA and all our flag represents. When do you think they'll try to get the United States of America Flag deemed offensive and divisive...so, therefore we can't fly it

2007-10-09 10:11:40 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have seen it over and over and over again on these boards and other places. They are filled with confusion about what it means to win in Iraq. They prattle on endlessly about what it might mean or not mean to win, how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, talk it endlessly to death.

They can't even decide what the heck IT MEANS TO WIN much less how to go about it.

I say its a baaaad idea.

2007-10-09 09:48:46 · 31 answers · asked by Major Deek 2

Is it true that after they released the tape Bin Laden sent Hillary 2 million dollars for her campaign?

2007-10-09 09:45:28 · 14 answers · asked by Hunter 4

Putting aside the usual if's and why's is it illegal to download
the anarchist cookbook in the uk even if it is widely available
in US. Is this another basic freedom issue, ironically when
the States are the greatest proponents of terrorists being
around evey corner.

2007-10-09 09:44:24 · 7 answers · asked by vision of darkness 2

Who would you vote for? I'd be fine with either.

2007-10-09 09:29:04 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

it would make us a more peace-loving nation.

2007-10-09 09:28:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

When a Muslim commits an act of terror it is done in the name of his religion. If a person who happens to be a Christian commits an act of terrorism it is not usually done in the name of Christianity (like Timmothy McVeigh).

Mainstream Muslims do not condemn acts of Muslim terrorism. Mainstream Christians are the first to condemn acts of terrorism perpetrated by so-called Christians because they know that they are not real Christians.

Is this a valid point?

2007-10-09 09:24:28 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

saw it pre-sunrise yesterday morning... why is everyone on Y!A acting like it's 'late breaking news'?

2007-10-09 09:18:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous