Politics - 1 November 2007

Who is eliminated from this "umbrella"?

2007-11-01 12:51:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

She used to be a man, right?

2007-11-01 12:50:54 · 19 answers · asked by Dude #2369™ 4

What's your tolerance for risk?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21420050/
NASA refuses to disclose air safety survey
Survey shows twice as many reports of bird strikes, near mid-air collisions

2007-11-01 12:50:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean are you only going to vote for him because he is white..I can tell ya there is more to Dick Chenney then just being white..he has experience as VP...a war time VP...and Chairman of Alberton as well..Chenney/Obama in 08

2007-11-01 12:48:59 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-01 12:46:46 · 16 answers · asked by lincolngomes301 2

2007-11-01 12:44:31 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tell that to the republicans who debate on CNN or MSNBC or PBS.

2007-11-01 12:37:10 · 17 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Do other contries not deserve the right to create there own society? How come the USA pick's and choose's who they want to help? are there not countries who’s people were far worse off than the Iraqi people?(like in Africa)why is it OK for the US to have an enormous stockpile of nuclear arms and then call other countries evil for trying to create the same deterrent system? When i was young there was a bullie in my village who would call everyone stupid and push his weight around as we got older it was him that was stupid. is this the same as the USA calling other contries evil? are they the evil ones? how come thay never help people who dont have things thay want?

2007-11-01 12:36:16 · 11 answers · asked by tony cola 2

2007-11-01 12:34:16 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

The 'boys club" really rags on her. I hadn't picked anyone in particular I want to win for president. But now I am wondering why they are so intimidated by her. Pretty soon, people are going to listening to hear what she has to say. The boys club is really doing themselves more harm. What do you think?

2007-11-01 12:26:18 · 14 answers · asked by tig 3

Last time I checked it is a U.N project not Bush because Regan stopped it so it wasn't Bush idea but lets say it all U.N projects stink remember Food for oil that went will not.

2007-11-01 12:25:57 · 6 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Just finished watching it, scared the s**t out of me. And to be honest, really had a very misguided message. Im not sure if it was supposed to be defending muslims because it didn't. It left me with a feeling that multiculturalism is going to end us all. Having people in your country who dont agree with something to an extent where they will kill themselves and hundreds of innocent victims cant be a good thing. But the programme left me feeling that muslim culture and british culture are totally seperate and quite obviously should not be mixed - i know 52 people that probably would agree with me (if they wernt dead)

2007-11-01 12:24:29 · 8 answers · asked by jj26 5

i have heard from some1 that hillary clinton has"cheated people every way there is". is this true?

2007-11-01 12:24:29 · 17 answers · asked by Die Sonne 3

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_po/clinton_fundraiser

2007-11-01 12:23:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you heard him speak? This man is a saint & he's no one's whipping boy. Is he your average joe billionaire?

2007-11-01 12:19:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If it meant trading in your vehicle for one that would last longer and not pollute. Would you do it?

2007-11-01 12:19:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it the new thing for people???........It's so stupid! Most of them don't even know what real Libertarians believe.

Just because you smoke pot doesn't make you a Libertarian.

I'm for legalized drugs, big guns, killing the IRS, shutting down public education, and letting the oil companys do whaever the hell they want. But even all that doesn't make me a Libertarian.

2007-11-01 12:15:18 · 13 answers · asked by Evgeni 7

I am talking about if you are a law abiding rule respecting nation and not one that chooses its own definitions.....what is torture in international law?

2007-11-01 12:08:52 · 5 answers · asked by ron j 1

What other reason would the new money be cashing out.

Like hedge fund managers will no doubt have to pay income tax in the near future.

2007-11-01 12:03:22 · 8 answers · asked by whirling W dervish 2

why does the Chief Justice--not the President of the Senate preside over the impeachment trial of a president?
thank you

2007-11-01 12:02:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-01 12:00:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

If things are so bad, why are they so good?

With all the gloom coming out of Wall Street, the Democrats on the campaign trail, and the mainstream media, a remarkable thing just happened: Real gross domestic product, the best summary report of the American economy, came in at a breathtaking 3.9 percent annual rate for the third quarter. In fact, following the 3.8 percent growth rate for the second quarter, the U.S. economy has posted its strongest quarterly growth in four years. The economy actually appears to be speeding up, following the relatively sluggish performance of the prior 18 months.

On top of this, the inflation rate is actually slowing down. The consumer spending deflator is reading 2.1 percent for the past year, compared to over 3 percent six quarters ago. The core inflation rate is down to 1.9 percent, below the Fed’s 2 percent target.

Even employment is holding its own. According to Automatic Data Processing’s private employment survey, which showed its strongest gain in four months, October looks like it will produce about 125,000 new jobs.

Meanwhile, rising exports of American goods and services are booming to such an extent that the deep housing recession is being cancelled out. And while many continue to predict a consumer collapse because of falling home prices and tighter credit, after-tax inflation-adjusted income is 4.1 percent ahead of last year, for a $344 billion gain, while the purchase cost of energy prices are flat. The little noticed factoid is that consumer energy use per unit of GDP has actually fallen by more than 50 percent in recent decades.

Again: If things are so bad, why are they so good?

The stock market roared after the Federal Reserve cut its target rate on Wednesday by 25 basis points to 4.5 percent. The rate cut was a small insurance policy, just in case the subprime credit crunch and the housing downturn take a larger toll on the economy.

But listening to the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, you’d think it was 1929 all over again. The litany of scare-talk complaints includes China trade unfairness, globalization, immigration, income inequality, stagnant wages, a shrinking middle class, the sinking dollar, and high oil prices.

Yes, there is home deflation on Main Street and loan deflation on Wall Street. It will continue. But what about the rest of the story? When you listen to the hedge-fund short-sellers and the liberal politicians as they attempt to discredit the Bush economic boom, you could almost fall for their bear-market seduction. But the seductress turns out to be an economic harlot — not a beautiful woman.

The true message of the strong economy is that we’re virtually guaranteed of a Goldilocks soft landing or better — and certainly not a recession.

It’s interesting that while the Bush tax cuts of 2003 continue to encourage investment and entrepreneurship, expanding national income and higher tax collections have brought the big bad budget deficit down to $160 billion, or roughly 1 percent of GDP. Using something called the primary deficit — which extracts net interest on the debt and can be used to measure fiscal stimulus on the economy — we actually have a 70 billion surplus.

These are all reasons why it would be foolhardy to embrace large-scale tax-hikes to allegedly fight the budget gap.

House tax chief Charlie Rangel’s great idea to reduce the corporate income tax is the first pro-growth tax-cut measure from a Democrat in many years, and hopefully his effort will spur a discussion of full-scale tax reform by the Republican and Democratic candidates. But looking to the rest of Rangel’s plan, there are ways to eliminate the alternative minimum tax that do not require big tax hikes on the most successful earners and investors.

For example, the Bush administration’s tax-reform panel, chaired by former senators Connie Mack and John Breaux, proposed a growth-and-investment plan with only three income-tax brackets of 15, 25, and 30 percent. The plan would repeal the AMT and reduce the corporate tax to 30 percent. Capital gains and dividends would remain at 15 percent.

Or there’s the new plan from Wisconsin House member Paul Ryan that would move to a 10 and 25 percent tax system while also eliminating the dreaded AMT.

In other words, there are a lot of ways to gently nudge tax rates lower while broadening the tax base that would keep the Bush boom going well into the future.

The print and broadcast media do not give President Bush much credit for his economic policies. But somehow I have to wonder whether low unemployment, strong growth, negligible inflation, and record stock markets do not deserve just a bit of praise.

It is still the greatest story never told.

2007-11-01 11:52:44 · 21 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

Or the glimershien. (spelling and meaning might be wrong) German for the refelictive shimmer on the edge of things moist with the dew.

2007-11-01 11:51:49 · 6 answers · asked by whirling W dervish 2

I just noticed the button.

2007-11-01 11:51:17 · 7 answers · asked by Mitchell 5

many in both parties seem to think both are the "ultimate evil in the universe"... and have all these crazy conspiracy theories about them...

I find it comical...

and I personally don't think either are particularly good leaders...

2007-11-01 11:49:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or was it a liberal, just posted pro military question.

2007-11-01 11:49:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-01 11:47:17 · 9 answers · asked by shawnp089 2

We go all the way from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Hillary and Rudi?

2007-11-01 11:41:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

She would be nowhere without him .
We would not even know who she is.
Would'nt that be nice?

2007-11-01 11:31:49 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Washington State Rep. Richard Curtis (Republican) is caught in a Gay Sex Scandal.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/66570/

2007-11-01 11:21:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous