Politics - 20 November 2007

Socialized medicine - hasn't bankrupted Canada Germany England the Netherlands France Sweeden or Holland

Or if half was spent on health care and half on education

Or 1/3 on health 1/3 on mass transit and 1/3 on education


What would the US be able to do and look like - Would the US finally be more than 5th on the list of best life standards for their citizens ?

2007-11-20 12:22:45 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 12:21:43 · 8 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

2007-11-20 12:20:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 12:00:12 · 12 answers · asked by christine2550@sbcglobal.net 2

impeachment is merely the investigation into the alleged wrong doing.

if this is not treason, what is? and now we have a witness coming forward.

2007-11-20 11:58:31 · 5 answers · asked by leftypower 2

2007-11-20 11:45:04 · 16 answers · asked by . 5

2007-11-20 11:42:25 · 13 answers · asked by indychamp 2

2007-11-20 11:30:09 · 15 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

2007-11-20 11:20:18 · 19 answers · asked by Wait a Minute 4

As the cost of living accelerates, have the exploiters finalised their escape plans, will they accept "personal responsibility" when the backlash and purges begin.

2007-11-20 11:15:54 · 8 answers · asked by . 5

2007-11-20 11:10:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of his own staffers (Scott McClellon) is outing him as being corrupt. Bush was involved with a cover up in the CIA leak case.

2007-11-20 11:09:39 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

any thoughts about his book saying that the President and Vice President knew of the CIA outing and lied to him for him to pass the info on...Is this why he quit?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_mcclellan

2007-11-20 11:08:27 · 2 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7

YAY!!! OIL!!!

2007-11-20 11:02:57 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 10:58:56 · 20 answers · asked by Wait a Minute 4

...was a globalised socialist anti-religious dictatorship lead by me where racists and bigots would be persecuted whilst intellectuals and generous people would be celebrated.

2007-11-20 10:54:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Anyone who follows the media has probably heard many times that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and incomes of the population in general are stagnating. Moreover, those who say such things can produce many statistics, including data from the Census Bureau, which seem to indicate that.

On the other hand, income-tax data recently released by the Internal Revenue Service seem to show the exact opposite: People in the bottom fifth of income-tax filers in 1996 had their incomes increase by 91 percent by 2005.

The top one percent — “the rich” who are supposed to be monopolizing the money, according to the left — saw their incomes decline by a whopping 26 percent.

Meanwhile, the average taxpayers’ real income increased by 24 percent between 1996 and 2005.

How can all this be? How can official statistics from different agencies of the same government — the Census Bureau and the IRS — lead to such radically different conclusions?

There are wild cards in such data that need to be kept in mind when you hear income statistics thrown around — especially when they are thrown around by people who are trying to prove something for political purposes.

One of these wild cards is that most Americans do not stay in the same income brackets throughout their lives. Millions of people move from one bracket to another in just a few years.

What that means statistically is that comparing the top income bracket with the bottom income bracket over a period of years tells you nothing about what is happening to the actual flesh-and-blood human beings who are moving between brackets during those years.

That is why the IRS data, which are for people 25 years old and older, and which follow the same individuals over time, find those in the bottom 20 percent of income-tax filers almost doubling their income in a decade. That is why they are no longer in the same bracket.

That is also why the share of income going to the bottom 20 percent bracket can be going down, as the Census Bureau data show, while the income going to the people who began the decade in that bracket is going up by large amounts.
Unfortunately, most income statistics, including those from the Census Bureau, do not follow individuals over time. The Internal Revenue Service does that and so does a study at the University of Michigan, but they are the exceptions rather than the rule.

Following trends among income brackets over the years creates the illusion of following people over time. But the only way to follow people is to follow people.

Another wild card in income statistics is that many such statistics are about households or families — whose sizes vary over time, vary between one racial or ethnic group and another, and vary between one income bracket and another.

That is why household or family income can remain virtually unchanged for decades while per capita income is going up by very large amounts. The number of people per household and per family is declining.

Differences in the number of people per household from one ethnic group to another is why Hispanics have higher household incomes than blacks, while blacks have higher individual incomes than Hispanics.

Considering the millions of dollars being paid to each of the anchors who broadcast network news, surely these networks can afford to hire a few statisticians to check the statistics being thrown around, before these numbers are broadcast across the land as facts on which we are supposed to base policies and elect presidents.

Now that the Internal Revenue data show the opposite of what the media and the politicians have been saying for years, should we expect either to change? Not bloody likely.

The University of Michigan study, which has been going on for decades, shows patterns very similar to those of the IRS data. Those patterns have been ignored for decades.

Too many in the media and in politics choose whatever statistics fit their preconceptions.

2007-11-20 10:53:59 · 17 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

2007-11-20 10:53:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

In a recent question, I mentioned that "real employee compensation" has gone up. In other questions I've talked about "Real Income" going up. In every question, I define these Real gains as after inflation.

Yet in every one of these questions, I get idiotic responses from libs saying, yeah those may be up, but gas and health care are up even more. Or the dollar is worth less.

They just can't understand that those things are inflation. Inflation is not something else plus those things.

Gross Income Gain - Inflation = Real Income Gain

It's just that simple folks.

I'd appreciate any help on how to explain these things. Maybe if I can dumb it down to a 5 year old's level, the libs might be able to understand it.

2007-11-20 10:42:45 · 26 answers · asked by Uncle Pennybags 7

So the guy who covered up for bush over the Scooter Libby thing, is now admitting that Bush and Cheney were behind the whole thing, and that Bush and Cheney both have lied to the american people I love our republican, christian president.

2007-11-20 10:33:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

The reason for all the immigration is quite simple ,it took a while for the penny to drop .He is not getting back at the English for Culloden .In immigrant areas up north they tend to vote labour ,and Conservative in the south .Now ask your self where are all the new immigrants heading ? London and the southeast and who are they going to be grateful to once they get citizenship after only 5 years ? Cetainly not the tories with their hatred of anyone who has not got a public education or a plum in their mouths .Gordon"evil genius Brown Is building a power base for the future .He has seen it work well in America with GWBushs` rich power base ,now he wants his own .Unfortunately ,this power will come back to haunt him when a Sharia base Government takes over because of the Generous child allowance ,muslims will take this and breed the next power base for themselves .As Gordie can only breed rejects his descendants will not be affected .

2007-11-20 10:32:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 10:31:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 10:29:40 · 10 answers · asked by TC 3

The amount of the deficit is making the dollar a worthless piece of paper. We cannot afford another year of George W. Bush's mismanagement.

2007-11-20 10:29:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think about it.

2007-11-20 10:20:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

So they can attack whomever they want for whatever reason that satisfies them?

2007-11-20 10:17:48 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 10:12:31 · 17 answers · asked by chrl_parker 2

2007-11-20 10:12:10 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-20 10:07:53 · 12 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6

Is the new ability to be able to reprogram cells instead of using human embryo going to end the debate?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7101834.stm

2007-11-20 10:04:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous