Grants and Scholarships

Can federal/student aid grants COMPLETELY pay for graduate school? I recieved student aid for all 4 of my undergraduate years. I did not have to take out any loans. I am very interested in going to graduate school to further my education. However, money is very,very tight for me. Can I recieve free grants (student aid) to *entirely* pay for my master's degree program without having to take out any loans? any websites with information will also be appreciated! and/or your personal experience paying for graduate school.

Do Free student grants other than Fed Pell grants really exist. If so where do I start?Thank you!? I need more money for school!!!!! The Fed grant is not enough. :(

Anyone know how to apply for a free federal grant for a nursing student (UCSF)? My parents didn't fill out the FAFSA (Federal Application for Financial Student Aid) in time, now I have hardly any money except savings to spend. This sucks!! $11,000 all gone. .

Is it better to be an independent college student for the purpose of getting state or federal grants? My mother makes too much (70K+/yr gross income) for me to be able to get state grants (Washington State), and I am curious if I were to break free of being a dependent student that it would help me out by decreasing my "household" income. I figure that I could get married to a girl in the same situation and perhaps make things easier on myself. I have been living in my own apartment for two and a half years, so I would say that I have my own established residency, but I am truly clueless. Having good grades and being self-sustaining through work and loans make it feel like I should be receiving some kind of assistance. I work way to hard I believe to not be getting some support. Alternatively, if there is advice for people trying to make their way through school, while making excellent grades at a private college that doesn’t offer scholarships, then that would be appreciated too! Thank you!

I need to find a good source for federal grants, there's a lot of scams out there.? I need to know how to file for a federal grant for free. I am a student in desperate need for funds. Financial aid only goes so far. If anyone has info on this let me know asap.

Is there any free federal student aid money for dependent students? I'm 22 still living with my parents going to school. I can't afford to move out yet. I've tried FAFSA but I don't qualify because my Dad makes too much money. But actually he doesn't make enough to put me through major college. It's kind of like I'm stuck in the middle? I've googled and can't seem to find any "free" money for dependent students like me. Does anybody know of anywhere or anyplace that gives you free money to go to school like a Pell Grant or signing up for FAFSA? *Serious answers only please.

Why are filthy poor people getting free rides to college with Pell Grants and federal scholarships? They need to accept that college is for the rich (people with true value) or go into deep debt with student loans. Don't tread on MY taxes.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid Questions? So i need help paying for my college next year but i dont want to apply for student loan or any type of loan. i heard FAFSA is a good place to start but im lacking information about it since i live far from the states. i live in the marianas islands so its pretty much isolated from the big world. 1) Any Requirements? 2) Am i competing for this scholarship? or is there a certain gpa and sat scores needed. 3) What is YOUR recommened score? 4) Any other scholarship grants similar to this? (soemthing most of the applicants can get. in other words garanteed scholarships) Hmm thanks alex for your answer it will help me but still one more question is unanswered...am i competing for this or does everyone get it if the income of each individuals parents are low.

I hear so much info on free government grants given away to start a business, how can I receive funding.? I plan on starting a 18 wheeler truck driving school, I would also like to know, how my students can obtain federal student loans to attend my school.

What grants for college are available to a person with a low income other than the government pell grants? I already know about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid but I still need more cash for school and joining the military isn't an option for me. Are there any more grants for a college education available to me?

Should the government give grants to pay for college? This is taxpayer money used for grants and isn't that unfair to all those that didn't decide to go to college? Wouldn't it be better to just have the gov't back student loans? Right now stafford loans do not cover much, unless you go to a state school. Wouldn't it be cheaper for taxpayers and better for the students if the gov't stopped giving out free money to students and just backed a larger amount of federal grants, maybe up to $15k per year. Of course it isn't a perfect plan because it would cost the gov't more to pay back loans that students default on, but i'm sure something could be worked out. What is wrong with making students, like myself, pay in cash or take out loans to pay for school? College is a privilege, not a right.

Where is the best place to register for federal grants for college? i will be starting school in the fall and was able to get one grant for school, but it isn't enough and the school is not really good with helping the students when it comes to free money. i have already done fafsa i have already done fafsa

If he wants to ELIMINATE college loans/grants completely,Why should ANY College student vote for Ron Paul? Make your case. I am a student who is doing JUST FINE on federal grant and loan money that I EARNED. Ron Paul wants to see education in America collapse apparently by eliminating pell grants and loans. The Free market failed at distributing low-cost, low interest educational loans to students in need. That why the Federal government consolidated loans into the federal sphere in 2009 With that said, why would anyone who's a student vote for Ron Paul? It goes without saying, I too was once enamored by Paul until I saw his completely ridiculous idea on Pell Grants and Federal Student Loans. Prior to 2009, all education loans were privately administered. this FAILED miserably, so that's why the government is the sole fount of all subsidized student loans in america now.

Can I use my free financial aid (NOT student loans) to pay bills? I'm in community college. I am currently living with a relative expense free, due to the fact that I'm a minor. I plan on compensating them when I turn 18, but I still won't have a lot of cash to work with. I have an expected family contribution of 0. I know I am going to receive quite a bit of financial aid for fall 2010 and spring 2011. My question is, can I use that financial aid to pay the rent and utilities. Or even car payments if needed? I am NOT talking about student loans. I'm talking about the free federal and state aid. The Pell Grant, for example.

Your La Raza at work see the truth Fox Forwards Blatantly False Claim That DREAM Act Would Provide "Free Ride? Your La Raza at work see the truth Fox Forwards Blatantly False Claim That DREAM Act Would Provide "Free Ride To College" In Fact, The Bill Limits Financial Aid Available To DREAM Act Students Nothing In The Bill Provides A "Free Ride To College." The DREAM Act makes permanent legal status eventually available to certain individuals who attend college, but it does not pay for that education. In fact, the bill limits federal student aid available to those who obtain legal status through the DREAM Act to loans, work-study programs and services like counseling, and mentoring. DREAM Act students will not have access to federal grant programs like Pell Grants and Opportunity Grants. From Section 11 of the DREAM Act: SEC. 11. HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE. Notwithstanding any provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), with respect to assistance provided under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), an alien who is granted conditional nonimmigrant status or lawful permanent resident status under this Act shall be eligible only for the following assistance under such title: (1) Student loans under parts D and E of such title IV (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq., 1087aa et seq.), subject to the requirements of such parts. (2) Federal work-study programs under part C of such title IV (42 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), subject to the requirements of such part. (3) Services under such title IV (20 U.S.C.1070 et seq.), subject to the requirements for such services. [H.R. 6497, Section 11, 12/07/10] AILA President: Claim Forwarded By Fox Is "Simply Wrong." David Leopold, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which supports the DREAM Act, told Media Matters: It is simply wrong to claim that the Dream Act offers a "free ride" to college for eligible immigrants. Under the legislation passed by the House last night the DREAM immigrants are eligible for no greater benefits than other lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizens. These include certain student loans and federal work-study programs. [Leopold email, 12/09/10] DREAM Act Provides Legal Status To Certain Unauthorized Immigrants Who Came To U.S. As Children. The DREAM Act would provide conditional legal status for five years to unauthorized immigrants who came to the country as children and meet other requirements. This status can be extended for another five years provided that the individual has, in addition to meeting other conditions,completed at least two years of college or served in the armed forces. Following the 10 year period, those individuals can apply for permanent residence. Only after having permanent resident status for at least three years can they seek citizenship. From the Congressional Research Survey summary of the DREAM Act passed by the House on December 8: http://mediamatters.org/research/201012090027 Who do you believe La Raza or Fox ?

Do I qualify for FAFSA? I've included what they gave me? Does this say I qualify for FAFSA loans? Based on the information we have on record for you, your EFC is 0 . You may be eligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant and other federal student aid. Your school will use your EFC to determine your financial aid eligibility for federal grants, loans, and work study, and possible funding from your state and school. Your FAFSA has been selected for a review process called verification. Your school has the authority to request copies of certain financial documents from you and your parent(s). WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW (Use the checklist below to make sure that all of your issues are resolved.) Be sure to review the items marked with a Highlighted Field and make any corrections if necessary by selecting the 'Make Corrections' button at the bottom of the page. If you want to register with Selective Service, you can register by doing one of the following: (1) answer "Male" to Item 21 and "Register Me" to Item 22 by selecting the 'Make Corrections' button at the bottom of the Page, (2) complete a Selective Service registration form at your local post office, or (3) register online at www.sss.gov. Selective Service will not process your registration until 30 days before your 18th birthday. We assumed certain information to calculate your eligibility for federal student aid. We printed the assumption we made and a Highlighted Field for each of these items. If our assumptions are correct, do not change them. If they are incorrect, you need to make the necessary corrections by selecting the 'Make Corrections' button at the bottom of the page. We assumed you did not file and will not file a 2008 income tax return (Item 33). Please review this item. If you need to make corrections to your information, select the 'Make Corrections' button at the bottom of the page. You must use your Federal Student Aid PIN to access your record online. If you need additional help with your SAR, contact your school's financial aid office or the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243). If your mailing address or e-mail address changes, you can make the correction online or call 1-800-4-FED-AID and ask a customer service representative to make the change for you. Based on the information reported on your 2009-2010 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you may be eligible for an Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) depending upon the type of courses that you completed in high school. We will need to ask you some additional questions. You may call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) to provide the additional information. We will send that information to your college so that they can determine if you are eligible for an ACG. All follow-up information will come from the financial aid office at your college. You were issued a Federal Student Aid PIN to sign your 2009-2010 FAFSA. Your information has been verified and your PIN has been confirmed. Do not share your PIN with anyone. Remember that your PIN stays the same from year to year and that you can use your PIN to make corrections, add school codes, view your federal student loan history, and electronically sign your Federal Direct or Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Master Promissory Note. For more information on the PIN, visit www.pin.ed.gov. Your mother was issued a Federal Student Aid PIN to sign your 2009-2010 FAFSA. Her information has been verified and her PIN has been confirmed. Your mother should not share her PIN with anyone. The PIN stays the same from year to year and can be used to make corrections, add school codes, and view your federal student loan history. For more information on the PIN, your mother can visit www.pin.ed.gov.

Help With FAFSA Please? Hey, I applied through FAFSA for student aid. It was precessed on 4/1/09. I did not receive a emailed SAR or a letter yet. I checked the SAR comments on the site. A friend told me I could go back to school to fill out a FAFSA. I guess I was supposed to contact the school first and did not know. Do I need to contact them? As of now I have not contacted them. Here is the SAR comments. What do I do? Based on the information we have on record for you, your EFC is 0 . You may be eligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant and other federal student aid. Your school will use your EFC to determine your financial aid eligibility for federal grants, loans, and work study, and possible funding from your state and school. WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW (Use the checklist below to make sure that all of your issues are resolved.) If you need to make corrections to your information, select the 'Make Corrections' button at the bottom of the page. You must use your Federal Student Aid PIN to access your record online. If you need additional help with your SAR, contact your school's financial aid office or the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243). If your mailing address or e-mail address changes, you can make the correction online or call 1-800-4-FED-AID and ask a customer service representative to make the change for you. Based on the information reported on your 2009-2010 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you may be eligible for an Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) depending upon the type of courses that you completed in high school. We will need to ask you some additional questions. You may call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) to provide the additional information. We will send that information to your college so that they can determine if you are eligible for an ACG. All follow-up information will come from the financial aid office at your college. P/S I AM 100% NEW AT THIS AND I AM LOST LOL HELP!!!!

How do I change to federal free edition on H&R Blocks website? I started filing my taxes and apparently I clicked on the deluxe federal edition without realizing. I came to the end of my taxes and it was going to charge me for doing the federals after I entered my information. How do I get my federals back to federal free? And can I do it without having to re-enter all of my information and start from scratch? I'm a student and I work 1 job on campus. Also--I have to pay state taxes on my scholarships and grants? Is this normal? I have never had to pay before this year and now they are charges me taxes. I tried 3 tax programs and they all told me the same thing. When I asked my schools FAFSA College Bowl Sunday personnel, they told me I shouldnt have to pay anything at all. Hopefully someone with Tax Savay can help me out here... This sucks that they are trying to make me pay money on scholarships and grants. It's not fair that since I can't afford school and earned some really awesome scholarships and grants that they want me to pay taxes on it?!?!

Conservatives: Would you (or your children) ever apply for Federal student loans, such as through FAFSA? Would you take out government loans and grants (such as the Pell Grant and Stafford Loans) to finance a higher education? Or would you strictly stick to the free-market and get high-interest private student loans with floating rates? I bring this up because Democrats are planning on prohibiting private companies from giving out student loans. It'll all be Government money now: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791704575114020658755684.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Can I get student loans if my co-signer had declared bankruptcy? I need student loans, the federal ones are not enough and the "free" money is not enough (grants) so I need a loan to cover college. If my co-signer has declared bankruptcy will it matter? My parent already got denied a student loan for 4k so I know I can't go there. Help! That person is my last hope. And what lender would be best to shoot for? They need to make this easier, no wonder poverty is on the rise if one cannot get a college education because the cost of education is too darn high and the government doesn't care to help people! Receptionist positions require college education here too! It's crazy.

What is the best way to get free money for college? Hello all, I am currently going to school with the hopes of one day becoming a Pharmacist. Over the next 6 years I am looking at more 100k in student loan debt. What is the best way to get Federal grant money? Does anyone know of any good websites to look at? Thanks

Is a masters degree in counseling (psychology) worth the risk of being stuck with student loan debt? I am half finished earning an AA degree. I am a straight A student with a good deal of self discipline and self-determination. I want to earn an BA in psychology from USF and then a Masters in counseling at a California university to become either a Mental health counselor or a Marriage and Family counselor. I am a first generation student so the deadlines and processes can be daunting at times. I filled out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and have received a full Pell Grant ($5,300) plus a Florida Medallion scholarship for my progress in high school (100% tuition at community college, 75% state university until I earn a BA). So, I am pretty sure that I will be able to afford a BA, but I am not so sure about being able to afford a MA. Just the cost of attendance for graduate school is much more than I could make in a year even if I could find a job. Is it possible to get enough scholarships to fund an MA without any student loans? I hear of a lot of people who have earned masters who cannot pay off their student loans because they can not get the job they trained for. All of their hard work in college has lead to low paying jobs and a huge debt. I am afraid of being one of them. I really want to pursue this field. Psychology is basically "my thing". I'm not pursuing this degree for money, but I do want to have a family and be comfortable and be able to support my future childrens' college education. Pursing this field will make me happy but not if I can't support myself let alone a family. I wonder if I should just earn a bachelors in a field with better job security and a better salary. I also wonder if this uncertainty is temporary - if the economy will get better and allow for me to get a job in the field of psychology. I have seen my parents struggle with debt and I know that doing something that interests me isin't worth debt that I won't be able to pay off. So do I sacrifice years of studying and financial stability to become a counselor so I can be satisfied with my work life? or do I sacrifice my interest in psychology for financial stability so that I may be satisfied with my love/family life? Thank you for reading my long, anxiety-attack of a question. I would really appreciate an answer from someone who has been through something similar recently. Because I am a first-gen student I don't know anyone who can help me with this question. Money will not automatically bring satisfaction to my life, but what i've learned through family experience is that satisfaction is not possible if you are constantly struggling to earn a living.

Is earning a masters degree in counseling (psychology) worth the risk of being stuck with student loan debt? (I am posting this question in two categories since it has to do with both.) I am half finished earning an AA degree. I am a straight A student with a good deal of self discipline and self-determination. I want to earn an BA in psychology from USF and then a Masters in counseling at a California university to become either a Mental health counselor or a Marriage and Family counselor. I am a first generation student so the deadlines and processes can be daunting at times. I filled out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and have received a full Pell Grant ($5,300) plus a Florida Medallion scholarship for my progress in high school (100% tuition at community college, 75% state university until I earn a BA). So, I am pretty sure that I will be able to afford a BA, but I am not so sure about being able to afford a MA. Just the cost of attendance for graduate school is much more than I could make in a year even if I could find a job. Is it possible to get enough scholarships to fund an MA without any student loans? I hear of a lot of people who have earned masters who cannot pay off their student loans because they can not get the job they trained for. All of their hard work in college has lead to low paying jobs and a huge debt. I am afraid of being one of them. I really want to pursue this field. Psychology is basically "my thing". I'm not pursuing this degree for money, but I do want to have a family and be comfortable and be able to support my future childrens' college education. Pursing this field will make me happy but not if I can't support myself let alone a family. I wonder if I should just earn a bachelors in a field with better job security and a better salary. I also wonder if this uncertainty is temporary - if the economy will get better and allow for me to get a job in the field of psychology. I have seen my parents struggle with debt and I know that doing something that interests me isin't worth debt that I won't be able to pay off. So do I sacrifice years of studying and financial stability to become a counselor so I can be satisfied with my work life? or do I sacrifice my interest in psychology for financial stability so that I may be satisfied with my love/family life? Thank you for reading my long, anxiety-attack of a question. I would really appreciate an answer from someone who has been through something similar recently. Because I am a first-gen student I don't know anyone who can help me with this question.

Is there any free money I can get to help me get out of debt? I am a single parent.? I work from 8am to 6pm with a 2hr. lunch break. I have daughters too old to be at the daycare I work at, but the daycare picks them up and brings them there. One of my co-workers take them home an hour later when she gets off. Then I get off an hour later, so they are not home alone long. I live about 8 mins. away and their school is 5 mins. away from the daycare. I have no relatives or friends to roommate with or depend on to keep my kids so I can work a second job. I owe my university for one semester because my gpa was too low to get pell grants and federal student loans. I haven't gotten court ordered child support in years. I am certified in cpr and health and I am taking classes paid by my daycare at the university. In order for me to get a true degree, the semester must be paid off first as I am told. Is there money out there to help me pay this? I need a work at home job in addition to my current job so I can be home with my girls. I need extreme help because I am behind on bills. Is there any concrete advice you can give me to get me out of this hole?

Would you put your 17 year old in foster care so they can get free college later? Kids who age out of foster care at 18 get federal college funding as an independent student, which basically means they get a ton of grants so they can go to college free or nearly free. If you didn't think you could afford your kids college but you knew your income kept you from qualifying for financial aid, would you do something that drastic? Skygazer did you file a FAFSA? You should have gotten Pell grants and state grants. How long ago was it though things might have changed?

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day..teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime?" Republicans like to use this phrase when talking about cutting government programs to help the poor, but that only addresses the "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day" part of the quote. What do Republicans suggest we do about the "teach a man to fish" part? Does this mean they support free college education and other job training programs to teach people to earn a better living? Then why are they always against Federal student grants, and affordable government loans for tuition? So are any Republicans going to explain what they mean by the "teach a man to fish" part of the quote? When I hear "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a liftime," I think it means teaching people the skills needed to survive on their own. Simply cutting off all aid and letting the person suffer on their own is not teaching skills to survive. Helping people go to college or a job training program sounds like "teaching a man to fish." So why are Republicans against it?

Federal Direct Parent Loan Approval? Background: I plan to be a freshman at the University of Washington. I'm an out-of-state student from Illinois. I received the following financial aid: Federal Pell Grant $4731 Federal Supplemental Grant $4000 Federal Perkins Student Loan $3000 Federal Work Study Program $3300 Federal Direct Sub Stafford Loan $3500 Federal Direct Parent Loan $17,265 My father and I are very concerned about the Federal Direct Parent Loan. When I graduate from the university, my father will be in his 60s, retiring. His credit score is not very good as a result of various financial issues relating to illnesses, divorce and family issues. Will the Federal Direct Parent Loan be denied? It seems very unfair to me, seeing that the University of Washington offered it to me. Throughout my college search process in high school we were told that the financial aid packages from universities were worry-free. Please advise me, I'm rather upset :(

Financial aid questions help me please? Can someone explain why there is negative numbers on the estimations. What does it mean? Does the cost of attendance cover room and board? We have now received the results of your 2009-2010 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Based on the information you provided, it appears that you may be eligible for the following financial aid. Please note that this is only a preliminary analysis of your financial aid eligibility and is not an official award letter. Estimated Cost of Attendance (COA) at SJSU for 2009-2010: $0 Expected Family Contribution (EFC) - as determined by the Federal Government: ($3729) Total Need (COA - EFC): $-3729 Estimated Federal Pell Grant Eligibility: $1600 Estimated Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant: $0 Estimated State University Grant or Cal Grant: $3048 Remaining Eligibility (Total Need - Grants): $-8377 -thank you mark--

My FAFSA stated that i got a EFC of 0. Is it good or bad? I applied to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and i got my Student Aid Report (SAR). It said that my EFC is 0 and it also stated that I may be eligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant and other federal student aid. I have applyed to Modesto Junior College (MJC). So is having a EFC of 0 good or bad? If its bad how can i make it higher? Do i have to contact the college or will they contact me? How much money will i get? (A rough estimate, please.) How long will the money last?(apllied for 2008-2009)(it will last a year, right) What can i use the money for?(examples,please) Thank you for the people who answer this and to the people who even bothered to look at this. What happends if i dont use all that money? What happends if i changes colleges, does the money still come with me? What happends if i decide to drop out, which i wont, will i get to keep the money? how long can i keep applying for the FAFSA? Do i have to apply to the Pell Grant or does the college do that for me?

Academic Competitiveness Grant (FAFSA)? so im almost finishing my fafsa and this comes up Based on the information reported on your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you may be eligible for an Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG). To be eligible for this grant you must: Be a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen Be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant Be a first or second year undergraduate student, or be enrolled in a certificate program of studies of at least one year (for first year eligibility), or two years (for second year eligibility) Have completed a rigorous high school program of study after January 1, 2005 Be enrolled at least half-time in a two or four year degree program. IT didnt mention anything about THE PELL GRANT does it mean im not going to get it??

FAFSA; Academic Competitiveness Grant ? so im almost finishing my fafsa and this comes up Based on the information reported on your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you may be eligible for an Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG). To be eligible for this grant you must: Be a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen Be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant Be a first or second year undergraduate student, or be enrolled in a certificate program of studies of at least one year (for first year eligibility), or two years (for second year eligibility) Have completed a rigorous high school program of study after January 1, 2005 Be enrolled at least half-time in a two or four year degree program. IT didnt mention anything about THE PELL GRANT does it mean im not going to get it??

Who asked this question (hands down, one of the worlds longest questions)? Let me, if I could, go to the Civil Rights Restoration Act. In 1981, you support an effort by the Department of Education to reverse 17 years of civil right protections at colleges and universities that receive federal funds. Under the new regulations, the definition of federal assistance to colleges and universities would be narrow to exclude certain types of student loans and grants so that fewer institutions would be covered by the civil rights laws. As a result, more colleges and universities would legally be able to discriminate against people of color, women and the disabled. Your efforts to narrow the protection of the civil rights laws did not stop there, however. In 1984, in Grove City v. Bell, the Supreme Court decided, contrary to the Department of Education regulation that you supported, that student loans and grants did indeed constitute federal assistance to colleges for purposes of triggering civil rights protections. But, in a surprising twist, the court concluded that the nondiscrimination laws were intended to apply only to the specific program receiving the funds and not to the institution as a whole. Under that reasoning, a university that received federal aid in the form of tuition could not discriminate in admissions but was free to discriminate in athletics, housing, faculty hiring and any other programs that did not receive the direct funds. If the admissions office didn't discriminate, they got the funds through the admission office, they could discriminate in any other place of the university. A strong bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate decided to pass another law, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, to make it clear that they intended to prohibit discrimination in all programs and activities of a university that received federal assistance. You vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Even after the Grove City court found otherwise, you still believed that there was, quote -- and this is your quote -- a good deal of intuitive appeal to the argument that federal loans and grants to students should not be viewed as federal financial assistance to the university. You realize, of course, that these loans and grants to the students were paid to the university as tuition. Then, even though you acknowledged that the program-specific aspect of the Supreme Court decision was going to be overturned by the congressional legislation, you continued to believe that it would be, quote, too onerous for colleges to comply with nondiscrimination laws across the entire university unless it was, quote, on the basis of something more solid than federal aid to students. Judge Roberts, if your position prevailed, it would have been legal in many cases to discriminate in athletics for girls, women. It would have been legal to discriminate in the hiring of teachers. It would have been legal not to provide services or accommodations to the disabled. Do you still believe today that it is too onerous for the government to require universities that accept tuition payments from students who rely on federal grants and loans not to discriminate in any of their programs or activities?

What do you think broke Calif to give illegals free college education Bill would let illegal immigrant student? What do you think broke Calif to give illegals free college ,Bill would let illegal alien students seek financial aid where does Calif get all their money for this ?A bill that would give students who are in the country illegally the opportunity to access college financial aid was introduced in the state Legislature this week, according to news reports. The California Dream Act, AB 130, would allow students who are in the country illegally to benefit from the same financial aid as other students in the state who attend public universities and colleges, according to a San Jose Mercury News story. This bill is different than an earlier failed federal bill, which would have given some students in the country illegally a pathway to legal residency and eventually U.S. citizenship. Supporters of the state bill said it will help students gain an education and eventually contribute to the workforce. Opponents say the already-strained state can't afford to help those who are in the country illegally. A previous version of the bill passed the state Senate and Assembly in the past but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it three times. Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, who reintroduced the bill Tuesday is hoping newly elected Gov. Jerry Brown will be more receptive to the bill, according to a Sacramento Bee story. The fiscal impact of Cedillo's current bill is undetermined at this time but a previous version of a bill in 2010 would have resulted in more than $38 million in new annual expenditures from the Cal Grant program, according a calculation by the California Student Aid Commission. The bill comes at a time when Brown has introduced billions of dollars in proposed cuts in the state budget, including to the public university systems. http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-284101-bill-illegally.html?nstrack=sid:980889|met:102|cat:227|order:2

Homework help multiple choice 10 points? 1)This award will pay 100% of tuition and allowable fees when attending a Florida public post-secondary institution; you will need to meet certain eligibility requirements including 75 hours of community service. A)Florida Academic Scholars Award (FAS) B)Florida Medallion Scholars Award (FMS) C)Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Award (GSV) D)Subsidized FFEL Loan 2)This award will pay 100% of tuition and allowable fees for college credit courses leading to an associate degree at a Florida public community college or 75% of tuition and allowable fees at another Florida public post-secondary institution. There are certain eligibility requirements, but you do not need community service hours. A)Florida Academic Scholars Award (FAS) B)Florida Medallion Scholars Award (FMS) C)Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Award (GSV) D)Subsidized FFEL Loan 3)A(n) _____ is not awarded on the basis of need. You'll be charged interest from the time the loan is disbursed until it is paid in full. A)subsidized loan B)grant C)scholarship D)unsubsidized loan 4)Money provided by a third party to help students meet the costs of attending college. It can be provided by various agencies including federal, state and local governments, universities, community organizations, and private corporations or individuals. A)Financial Aid B)Florida Pre-Paid College Plan C)College Board D)Bright Futures Scholarship 5)This award will pay 75% of tuition and allowable fees attending a Florida public post-secondary institution; you will need to meet certain eligibility requirements including core courses in a vocational program. A)Florida Academic Scholars Award (FAS) B)Florida Medallion Scholars Award (FMS) C)Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Award (GSV) D)Subsidized FFEL Loan 6)Money for education expenses paid by the school for on-campus or community-based employment. A)Scholarships B)Loans C)Work-Study Programs D)Grants 7)This program consists of three lottery-funded scholarships for Florida high school graduates who demonstrate high academic achievement and enroll in eligible Florida public or private postsecondary institutions. A)Financial Aid B)Florida Pre-Paid College Plan C)College Board D)Bright Futures Scholarship 8)Using the _____ your parents or grandparents can lock in college tuition and dormitory housing at today’s prices. A)Financial Aid B)Florida Pre-Paid College Plan C)College Board D)Bright Futures Scholarship 9)These can come from many different places including national, state, public and private sources. This money can be awarded based on a variety of different factors such as financial need, academic or athletic achievement, program of study, and background. A)Scholarships B)Loans C)Work-Study Programs D)Grants 10)If you're looking for any type of financial assistance to attend school, completing the _____ is the first step. This application is used to apply for all need-based federal aid programs and some state aid programs. A)Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) B)Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) C)Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) D)Subsidized FFEL Loan

Is it necessary to be a US Citizen or permanent legal resident to apply for FAFSA? Hello, I am an international undergraduate student majoring in Music Performance, at the University of North Texas (under an F-1 Visa). I am trying to apply for Free Application for Federal Student Aid to apply for grants or scholarships, but by the time I'm asked if I am a US Citizen and I say no (when filling my profile)... well, it doesn't let me to go on, I suppose. I tried many ways possible but still didn't work. So, do I require to be a US Citizen or permanent resident to apply for this or not? Any suggestions? Thank you very much...

WORLDS LONGEST QUESTION...Please answer it...? Let me, if I could, go to the Civil Rights Restoration Act. In 1981, you support an effort by the Department of Education to reverse 17 years of civil right protections at colleges and universities that receive federal funds. Under the new regulations, the definition of federal assistance to colleges and universities would be narrow to exclude certain types of student loans and grants so that fewer institutions would be covered by the civil rights laws. As a result, more colleges and universities would legally be able to discriminate against people of color, women and the disabled. Your efforts to narrow the protection of the civil rights laws did not stop there, however. In 1984, in Grove City v. Bell, the Supreme Court decided, contrary to the Department of Education regulation that you supported, that student loans and grants did indeed constitute federal assistance to colleges for purposes of triggering civil rights protections. But, in a surprising twist, the court concluded that the nondiscrimination laws were intended to apply only to the specific program receiving the funds and not to the institution as a whole. Under that reasoning, a university that received federal aid in the form of tuition could not discriminate in admissions but was free to discriminate in athletics, housing, faculty hiring and any other programs that did not receive the direct funds. If the admissions office didn't discriminate, they got the funds through the admission office, they could discriminate in any other place of the university. A strong bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate decided to pass another law, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, to make it clear that they intended to prohibit discrimination in all programs and activities of a university that received federal assistance. You vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Even after the Grove City court found otherwise, you still believed that there was, quote -- and this is your quote -- a good deal of intuitive appeal to the argument that federal loans and grants to students should not be viewed as federal financial assistance to the university. You realize, of course, that these loans and grants to the students were paid to the university as tuition. Then, even though you acknowledged that the program-specific aspect of the Supreme Court decision was going to be overturned by the congressional legislation, you continued to believe that it would be, quote, too onerous for colleges to comply with nondiscrimination laws across the entire university unless it was, quote, on the basis of something more solid than federal aid to students. Judge Roberts, if your position prevailed, it would have been legal in many cases to discriminate in athletics for girls, women. It would have been legal to discriminate in the hiring of teachers. It would have been legal not to provide services or accommodations to the disabled. Do you still believe today that it is too onerous for the government to require universities that accept tuition payments from students who rely on federal grants and loans not to discriminate in any of their programs or activities?

what is the answer? : Let me, if I could, go to the Civil Rights Restoration Act. In 1981, you support an effort by the Department of Education to reverse 17 years of civil right protections at colleges and universities that receive federal funds. Under the new regulations, the definition of federal assistance to colleges and universities would be narrow to exclude certain types of student loans and grants so that fewer institutions would be covered by the civil rights laws. As a result, more colleges and universities would legally be able to discriminate against people of color, women and the disabled. Your efforts to narrow the protection of the civil rights laws did not stop there, however. In 1984, in Grove City v. Bell, the Supreme Court decided, contrary to the Department of Education regulation that you supported, that student loans and grants did indeed constitute federal assistance to colleges for purposes of triggering civil rights protections. But, in a surprising twist, the court concluded that the nondiscrimination laws were intended to apply only to the specific program receiving the funds and not to the institution as a whole. Under that reasoning, a university that received federal aid in the form of tuition could not discriminate in admissions but was free to discriminate in athletics, housing, faculty hiring and any other programs that did not receive the direct funds. If the admissions office didn't discriminate, they got the funds through the admission office, they could discriminate in any other place of the university. A strong bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate decided to pass another law, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, to make it clear that they intended to prohibit discrimination in all programs and activities of a university that received federal assistance. You vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Even after the Grove City court found otherwise, you still believed that there was, quote -- and this is your quote -- a good deal of intuitive appeal to the argument that federal loans and grants to students should not be viewed as federal financial assistance to the university. You realize, of course, that these loans and grants to the students were paid to the university as tuition. Then, even though you acknowledged that the program-specific aspect of the Supreme Court decision was going to be overturned by the congressional legislation, you continued to believe that it would be, quote, too onerous for colleges to comply with nondiscrimination laws across the entire university unless it was, quote, on the basis of something more solid than federal aid to students. Judge Roberts, if your position prevailed, it would have been legal in many cases to discriminate in athletics for girls, women. It would have been legal to discriminate in the hiring of teachers. It would have been legal not to provide services or accommodations to the disabled. Do you still believe today that it is too onerous for the government to require universities that accept tuition payments from students who rely on federal grants and loans not to discriminate in any of their programs or activities?

Is America free for the taking? Read the attached and let me know your thoughts.? Letter by a Florida teacher................ A teacher speaks This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school? One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money left over. She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.' I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for! I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education. Something is wrong here. I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along. I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

What part of no free ride do you not get? I have repeatedly seen conservatives on this site stating that under the dream act students will get Pell grants.... The only conclusion I can draw from this is that they lack the ability to research or read legislation... And instead only listen to the talking heads.. So I have decided to provide several links to the correct info which is: During the first six years, the immigrant would be granted "conditional" status, and would be required to graduate from a two-year community college or complete at least two years towards a 4-year degree, or serve two years in the U.S. military. After the six year period, an immigrant who met at least one of these three conditions would be eligible to apply for legal permanent resident status. During this six year conditional period, immigrants would not be eligible for federal higher education grants such as Pell grants, but they would be able to apply for student loans and work study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act http://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=13746 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Dream-Act---Immigration-Law-Reform-in-2010?&id=3361262 http://news.jornal.us/article-5049.The-Dream-Act---Immigration-Law-Reform-in-2010-.html http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s729/text So what part of no free ride do people not get?

Are people against the DREAM act because they are misinformed? The problem: Many students graduate from college and high school each year, and face a roadblock to their dreams: they can't drive, can't work legally, can't further their education, and can't pay taxes to contribute to the economy just because they were brought to this country illegally by their parents or lost legal status along the way. It is a classic case of lost potential and broken dreams, and the permanent underclass of youth it creates is detrimental to our economy. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch has said: “In short, although these children have built their lives here, they have no possibility of achieving and living the American dream. What a tremendous loss for them, and what a tremendous loss to our society.” The solution: The federal DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), is a bipartisan legislation that would permit these students conditional legal status and eventual citizenship granted that they meet ALL the following requirements: --if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16, are below the age of 30, --have lived here continuously for five years, --graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED --have good moral character with no criminal record and --attend college or enlist in the military. Why should you care? There is no other pathway to citizenship for these students. Besides the injustice of punishing children for the alleged transgressions of their parents, throwing away the talent we have invested in from K-12 and accruing losses in human and financial capital by deporting talented students is bad public policy. The Social Security Administration has recently stated that we need a net increase of 100,000 immigrants each year to ensure Social Security solvency. Passing the DREAM Act would actually help solve the Social Security crisis by creating a larger taxable base of educated Americans that are already in the United States. It would also free some of the backlog that currently plagues the legal immigration system. Also, the DREAM Act in its latest form, does not grant in-state tuition to any student. The DREAM act would: NOT grant “massive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.” This bill has been narrowly tailored to only include students willing to pursue post secondary education and military careers. NOT mandate states to provide in-state tuition for undocumented students. Instead, the DREAM Act would eliminate the current ambiguity of federal law and give states the right to determine eligibility for higher education benefits. In addition, the bill would allow undocumented students to become eligible for the federal student loan and federal work-study programs to help finance their education. NOT grant “amnesty to illegal immigrants no matter how old they are.” The DREAM Act clearly states that only those that have “not yet reached the age of 35 years on the date of the enactment of this Act” would qualify. Also, students would need to have arrived in the country before their 16th birthday and have been present for “5 continuous years prior to the enactment of this Act.” NOT result in the loss of “seats” at colleges and universities for other students. The capacity for the American higher education system to absorb additional enrollments is far from being exhausted. In fact, even in the realm of four-year colleges, space is plentiful. Each May, our association publishes a list of between 200 and 300 four-year colleges with space still available after most students have already made their decisions about where to go to college. While much of our nation’s popular focus on “college” is, in fact, on the most highly-selective four-year colleges, the truth of the matter is that there exists a full range of post secondary institutions which, taken together, will continue to have space for students well into the future. http://txdreamactalliance.webnode.com/mythsandfacts/ http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Admitted/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=151 @ Yak rider: please explain how it is amnesty if the kids are required to join the military or attend college completing two years towards a bachelors degree in order to achieve status? mind you no grants or money is given to them to go to school.? isnt amnesty what happened in 1986 when reagan just pardoned 2 million people, with no prior requirements??

On my FAFSA, my EFC was 2772, am I still eligible for a partial pell grant? I was told that as long as the EFC was below 4000, I would at least be eligible for partial pell grants or something along those lines. It said I appear to be eligible for the following. * A Federal Pell Grant of up to $2800. Grants do not have to be repaid; they are free money to help with the cost of college. * An Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) of up to $750 for your first undergraduate year or up to $1300 for your second undergraduate year. * Low-interest federal student loans. The amount of these loans depends on, among other things, your year in college, the cost of attendance at your school, and what other student aid you will be receiving. * You may also be eligible to receive other federal, state, or institutional grants, scholarships, and/or work-study. Thank you, Jen! Do you think it would be more than $1600 a year?

Is it true the Government wants to keep people stupid so they can make free tax money? Look at the modern standard family portrayed on TV. Then look at the standard family portrayed in the 50s and 60s. The difference now is each family has to have both mother and father working in order to afford the bills of the family. Such as house payments, car payments, power, camping, and other family generated costs. Sometimes the costs are so much even the kids have to work by the time they turn 15. Our schools teach the nations students basic information and enough to let them become industrial workers. In other words start off at McDonalds and work up to higher pay warehouse jobs and so on. Even a person who goes to college will not have enough to support a family until they live together and put together their monies to afford a house and other. Those who live in apartments will never prosper as that high pay rent money does not focus on payment towards ownership. Our educational system is just one big prison. Cops in the hallways, having electronic searching devices at doors and, doctors and nurses who are reporters .....just like cops, teachers are reporters too....just like cops, not to mention your educational information is directly linked to the feds and military (which is both), you are not taught much about how to defend yourself from the legal system and more. The schools are directed by the federal and state government agencies to keep you stupid. That is defined in a short way. Schools make big money off of sports games, Federal grants as well as State grants. 75% of all home and property taxes goes to an education slush fund and schools are continuing to be built as well as the laws that are made to keep you in school so you as a person can be monitored by the government. Look back at the TV shows that portray a family of the 50s and 60s where the mother is at home doing her motherly deeds. The government saw this and intentionally made it so both mother and father had to work in order to afford these modern bills. How to get out of this rut? Some can catch on right away and make it big quickly after high school or 6 years of college to study to become an attorney, a doctor or other high profile jobs. There is no exception of those high profile jobs in order to make big money. Remember, your school makes money off of sports and other. YOU have the chance and choice to tell your principal what classes you want, what time you want them and what you want to learn. You are your teachers boss, as well as the principals. You have Constitutional Rights to stand up for and make your teachers and principals and hall monitors abide by them. No one can search you for any reason with out a court order. No school policy supersedes your rights nor does law. No matter what age you are.....you are protected by those first ten Constitutional Amendments. If you like someone and you want to kiss them in front of who ever or hug them.....that is your individual choices. Unless you break a law or a policy that is supported by a law and that law is supported by the Constutional Amendments.....you are free to do, to wear, to kiss who and what ever you want. Each of you need show your teachers where they went wrong and support that with a good explanation. You need to tell the principal if you want me to play football or a sport that can harm me...then you pay me 1000 a week and full coverage medical insurance or you get nothing. You need to stand up and say what you want.....its your school and you out number the entire staff. Think about it, students on strike. YOU should and must be paid for any time you spend at school after that standard day of school. All your cheer leading, football gear, basket ball gear, gymnastics gear and other must be paid for by the school. Or, you dont participate. Remember, without your participation that school will not be recognized. Remember always, it is you who plays the game makes the school a big name and big money. Those things will continue to make you who you become in the future. Never think the school does not have the money for this or that. If they can spend 11 or more million bucks on building a school they have a bunch more to spend it on something else. And that something can be someone like you to live healthy as well as wealthy while your doing something for the school as well as your future. I have an issue about clothing policies in schools......What you wear is part of your culture, and creed and your natural way of life. Again, you are protected by the Constitutional Rights, so, if you want to wear ripped up clothes, mini skirts or halter tops, skin tight pants or a shirt with a pot leaf on it.....you have the right to express and say what you want as long as it harms no one else. That includes those people who wear their pants down to their knees (still looks like your running around with a Scmiddy diaper on) then you keep on saggin.

fafsa question for college? i recently decided to apply to tx state and have already sent everything there, including reprocessing my fafsa so the info is sent to the university. I did my fafsa and completed it in march. however this was on the tx state website. April 1 is the priority deadline to submit your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the upcoming academic year. * Your FAFSA must be received by the federal processor before this date in order for you to be considered for all types of aid-including all grants. * If you file your FAFSA after this date, you will only be considered for the Pell Grant and loans. Also, there is no guarantee that your aid will be available by the registration payment deadline due to the time involved in processing and verifying your application. does this mean my fafsa had to be sent to the university before april 1st or that i had to have it completed and processed before apr 1, which i did.

SINGLE & INDEPENDENT MOM, START SCHOOL IN THE FALL, NEED INFO ABOUT GRANTS & LOANS ASAP PLEASE? I did my FAFSA and I live alone. I still used my parents W2's and mines of course and I qualified for DIRECT unsubsidized and subsidized loans. Does that mean I have to eventually pay them back? Cuz I also qualified for alittle money off the federal pell grant but it's very little. My parents don't have money to help me with school but I do not get why I did not qualify for free money being that am making little money from work and all my bills? What can I do? Where can I get free money in Delaware as a full time law student?

FAFSA/ EFC information? Hi. I just finished filling out my FAFSA. It says: Estimated Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = 4067 The EFC is an index that schools use to determine your eligibility and is not the amount of money that you have to pay. Based on your EFC of 4067 you appear to be eligible to receive the following: A Federal Pell Grant of up to $1500. Grants do not have to be repaid; they are free money to help with the cost of college. Low-interest federal student loans. The amount of these loans depends on, among other things, your year in college, the cost of attendance at your school, and what other student aid you will be receiving. You may also be eligible to receive other federal, state, or institutional grants, scholarships, and/or work-study. I'm concerned. Tuition at the particular college per semester is in the 6000-7000 dollars range. I have little money saved up....almost 1,000 dollars. Compare that to the tuition amount (which is not including cost of textbooks)....there is a huge gap. Not to mention that is for 1 semester. My parents won't be helping me pay for college either. This is my concern. With an EFC of 4067 dollars, no parental financial help and a savings account with only 1000 dollars....Last year I was offered a 2200 dollar grant for 15 credits...I obviously won't be getting that this year. Should I talk to my college and explain to them that my parents won't be helping me pay......(they can afford to, but they are money greedy)...would it help at all???? Also, my brother has more money than me and his college cost about the same as mine for tuition and at the end of the FAFSA it said he was eligible up to 5000 dollars in grants and scholarships. Why is his award eligability so much greater than mine? My brother has 12000 dollars in his bank account. He was working last year but it was for my uncle so he did everything secretly in order to not pay taxes. This whole school year he does have a work study job. I'm already attending a cheap school....I can't go any lower than this school. Had you read what I wrote about the tuition cost, you may have found that out. And I didn't say I GOT a grant for the upcoming school year. Last year, yes, but it wasn't in the amount of 2200 dollars because I couldn't afford 15 credits....it was not a Pell grant either, it was a state grant. Thanks for the encouragement though...now I feel MUCH worse about the situation. And scholarships, I apply for TONS of them and I can't manage to get even 1!!!

please help explain this fafsa to me? here is the letter i got from fafsa... Estimated Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = 0 The EFC is an index that schools use to determine your eligibility and is not the amount of money Based on your EFC of 0 you appear to be eligible to receive the following: * A Federal Pell Grant of up to $5550. Grants do not have to be repaid; they are free money to help with the cost of college. * An Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) of up to $750 for your first undergraduate year or up to $1300 for your second undergraduate year. * Low-interest federal student loans. The amount of these loans depends on, among other things, your year in college, the cost of attendance at your school, and what other student aid you will be receiving. * You may also be eligible to receive other federal, state, or institutional grants, scholarships, and/or work-study. and here is the tuition info on the school... In-State Tuition and Fees$501 Books and Supplies $1,566 Off Campus with Family Other Expenses $2,898 Total expenses Off Campus with Family In-District $4,965 my question is what are the "other expenses" it talks about? and does this mean that Fafsa will give me the $4,965 ? or will i get the $5,550 and the $750?? and with tuition is that the schools yearly tuition or tuition per semester? please just explain to me what all of this means? i have also been told they might put money in my pocket??

how do i use my financial aid? lol? so i enrolled all my classes and all and start school in sept but all i got in the mail is a one piece of paper saying you have recieved your free app. for federal student aid(fafsa) and determined your aid elgibility as follows: then it had my pell grant for both fall and spring but my ? is how the hell do i use it lol ?

How many grants can you receive? I am attending a community college right now (2010-2011), and will attend at the same institution in the 2011-2012 year as well. I have received $6,300 in financial aid from the college including the Federal Pell Grant (5,500 this year) and a Federal ACG grant (750 this year). I'm not sure how my EFC looks but it should be less than 2,000. Just an overlook on my financial standings. I will be transferring to TCU full time and looking at about $60k+ in tuition in order to attend the business school there. Total expenses are showing in between 80k and 90k, give or take particular choices in room/board. I have a list of several Federal/Texas grants that I meet the criteria for, but how many grants will I most likely receive? Below is a list of everything TCU/myself meet: (Name/Max amounts per year) Texas Pell Grant - $4,731 Fed. Pell Grant - $5,500 SEOG - $4,000 TEGP - $3,808 TCOG Program - $4,731 TEXAS Grant (not the pell) - $6,808 and also the Tuition Reduction for Students Taking More than 15 Hours. So again, what is the likelihood that I will receive many of these? If I received all of these then I would be cleared entirely and debt free, but obviously that doesn't really make much sense in the scheme of things. Sources for Aid/Amounts @ www.collegeforallTexans.com Thanks a ton to anyone who knows what they're talking about.

Are there any scholarship programs for adults who are not recent high school grads? I need to know, because I am a 30 year old woman and I am desperate to continue my post secondary education but I am drowning in personal and living expenses. I am not eligable for any grants that I know of for federal help. Please help, every scholarship I ever read about is for recent high school grads or for grad students and people like me seem to be stuck in the middle stuggling. I read everyday about billions of dollars spent on educational grants and free money, where is it? I have not yet seen any viable scholarship program that would meet the needs of single working, able bodied adults. Yes, all of these things also make us well capable of supporting ourselves but as we all know, education is very expensive and if you are of a working class then you will either have an impossible time or be saddled with a huge bill after graduation. My goal is to enrich my life not to bury myself in debt.

Is this financially irresponsible for a young college student? Please answer? I'm a freshman, full time college student majoring in CIS Network/System Administration and my minor is in Technology Management. I receieve the Federal Pell Grant of $5,500 a year and I am currently at a community college where I will be for 3 years, so a majority of my education will be paid for without student loans. (My college has a transfer agreement with a university where I can earn 90 credits at the community college so I can save a ton of a money) I am EXTREMELY fortunate enough to live rent and bill free at my girlfriend's parent's house until I finish college. I work part time and I make around $500-$600 a month. I went through some financial problems before so I am just now able to buy my own car. My price range is $2,000-$3,000, I'm planning on putting half down and making payments on the remainder throughout one year. I'm also making monthly $100 payments on my girlfriend's bridal engagement set that I put $150 down on last month so the total left on that is $1,439.99. I got into some legal trouble when I was younger and I have $2,060 left in court fines to pay, too. I pay $50 a month on those. I do not have health insurance either, which has cost me $3,000 in hospital bills from asthma attacks (I have them controlled now) which required prior hospital stays. I pay $50 a month on these, also. I guess I am just overwhelmed with all these different payments and I'm not sure if I can afford this car plus the cost of insurance ($100-$125 a month) even though this is what I need the most. Am I being irresponsible with my money?

Career Education Another One?!? 52. These degrees are offered by state universities and private colleges/universities and include Masters and Doctoral degrees. (2 points) Undergraduate Post-secondary Graduate Secondary 53. This degree is awarded for successful completion of undergraduate curriculum at a four-year college or a university. (2 points) Bachelors Masters Doctoral Associates 54. This degree offered by community colleges provides specific job training or allows you to transfer to a university for a higher degree. (2 points) Masters Doctoral Associates Bachelors 55. The U.S. military consists of _____ active-duty services and their respective Guard and Reserve units. (2 points) Five Ten Eight Four 56. Admission to most colleges and universities is _____. (2 points) competitive non-competitive elite unlocked Matching For questions 57–59, match each term with its description. A.Unsubsidized loan B.Work Study Program C.Subsidized loan 57. awarded on the basis of financial need. You will not be charged any interest before you begin repayment or during authorized periods of deferment. (1 point) 58. not awarded on the basis of need. You'll be charged interest from the time of disbursement until it is paid in full. (1 point) 59. Money for education expenses paid by the school for on-campus or community-based employment (1 point) Multiple Choice 60. This application is used to apply for all need-based federal aid programs and some state aid programs. (2 points) Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) Subsidized FFEL Loan

Why is the Obama administration giving a free pass to millions of illegals? The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton ordered agency officials on Aug. 20 to begin dismissing deportation cases against people who haven't committed serious crimes and have credible immigration applications pending. A draft memo from ICE's sister agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, to Morton discussed ways the administration could adjust regulations so certain groups, such as college students and the spouses of military personnel, could legalize their status or at least avoid deportation if Congress doesn't pass comprehensive immigration reform. USCIS rules on applications for visas, work permits and citizenship. USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley said the memo was intended to stimulate brainstorming on how to legalize immigrants if new laws aren't passed. Has the Obama administration decided to grant amnesty without involving congress? http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-10-immigration10_ST_N.htm I never could understand why Liberals bring up the man they despise as an example of amnesty. It was a mistake then & its a mistake now. We need millions of jobs! Wolf: Yes criminal illegals! But the rest he is giving a free pass to & there are MILLIONS of them! John M: Why shouldnt they go back to their own country & wait like LEGAL immigrants do? Why should they cut to the head of the line???

what do u think about this exploitation of American life? This will send your blood pressure up!!! Letter by a Florida teacher................ A teacher speaks This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school? One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover. She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.' I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for! I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education. Something is wrong here. I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along. I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA! PART OF THE PROBLEM - Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak up. If you agree -- pass this along, if you don't agree --- delete it. </HTML> This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm This will send your blood pressure up!!! Letter by a Florida teacher................ A teacher speaks This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school? One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover. She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.' I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for! I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education. Something is wrong here. I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along. I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as

Financial Aid says that "Based on your EFC of 0 you appear to be eligible to receive the following:? A Federal Pell Grant of up to $5550. Grants do not have to be repaid; they are free money to help with the cost of college. An Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) of up to $750 for your first undergraduate year or up to $1300 for your second undergraduate year. Low-interest federal student loans. The amount of these loans depends on, among other things, your year in college, the cost of attendance at your school, and what other student aid you will be receiving. You may also be eligible to receive other federal, state, or institutional grants, scholarships, and/or work study. Does this mean that I'll only get $5550 in financial aid? My tuition is $7,700 so will I have to take out a student loan? If I take out more than what I need in the loan will I be able to keep what's left over because I need money for a car. Thanks in advance for those of you who help.

Free Grants/Financial Aide? I am currently a single mom/ nursing student having problems paying my tuition for the spring semester. I am not eligible for Federal financial aide so, I have been looking for some grants or financial aide and every place seems to be a scam. Most websites want you to pay money to find free grants. If anyone knows of a place to find financial assistance please let me know.

What does it mean on my fafsa that my EFC= 2591 ? I filled out the fafsa llast night and it says this: Estimated Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = 2591 The EFC is an index that schools use to determine your eligibility and is not the amount of money that you have to pay. Based on your EFC of 2591 you appear to be eligible to receive the following: * A Federal Pell Grant of up to $3000. Grants do not have to be repaid; they are free money to help with the cost of college. * An Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) of up to $750 for your first undergraduate year or up to $1300 for your second undergraduate year. * Low-interest federal student loans. The amount of these loans depends on, among other things, your year in college, the cost of attendance at your school, and what other student aid you will be receiving. * You may also be eligible to receive other federal, state, or institutional grants, scholarships, and/or work-study.

I need information on obtaining grants for a college office.? I am planning on interviewing for a position tomorrow within a college office, and one of my main points is that grants are out there for the office to use, and grow. I am sure they are out there, but search engines are not a good tool to use, because you will end up with a lot of student resources, instead of for the college itself. I would really appreciate it if I could find a source of both Illinois, and Federal grants available to colleges and universities, as I am not very sure how to come across this information without the position itself. If a career placement, internship, graduate, or non traditional grant seems to come to mind, feel free to elaborate, as that is my main focus. Thank you for your help.

Can a student loan replace your federal grant? I receive a pell grant every semester that completely covers my tuition, and I still get a refund for about $900 every semester at the end. I charged my books and tuition back in December for this semester to my Pell Grant... the same way I've been paying for the past 3 years. This month (March-- the middle of the semester) I applied for a student loan (direct subsidized stafford) for $4500. Now the activity on my account states that my tuition was covered by my LOAN, not my Pell grant. So now, my loan is only sending me $2845, and I cannot click on my Pell grant information for details as I could before. It is still listed as $2775 but it is not allowing me to click on it, like I can on everything else. It's freaking me out! I would hate to pay for school with a loan when I got it for free. I need this money to cover some of my bills until I graduate!!! Please tell me I'm getting all of my grant money back! :) Also, I'm taking 3 five week classes this semester, and the third class starts tomorrow. This could have something to do with the Pell grant... maybe it's being adjusted... or that I applied for the loan late in the semester... but I'm really scared! Why would they pay my tuition with my loan when it was supposed to be with my grant?

what does this mean? i am trying to get a scholarship and i have been incarcerated but it says the fallowing Wilder-Naifeh Technical Skills Grant — Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) The Wilder-Naifeh Technical Skills Grant (WNTSG) is part of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship program (TELS). The WNTSG is a grant that is available only to Tennessee residents that attend a Tennessee Technology Center. This program became effective the Fall term of 2004. ELIGIBILITY – Must be a Tennessee resident one year prior to May 1st. State residency is determined using TBR promulgated rules; TBR Rules 0240-2-2. Must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident Must be in compliance with Selective Service Requirements Must be in compliance with federal drug-free rules and laws for receiving financial aid Must not be in default on a federal student loan Must not owe a financial aid refund or overpayment Must not be incarcerated Must meet the enrollment requirements for both the school and the program. (Do not have to have a high school diploma or GED if not required for enrollment in the school or program.) Must be enrolled in a program leading to a certificate or diploma. Continuing education and supplemental certificate programs are not eligible. Must have never received the Tennessee HOPE scholarship or have completed a certificate or diploma program with the Wilder-Naifeh Technical Skills Grant i do have a felony it is a year and 3 months old and i am trying to get my life together

maybe a Democrats is what we need in 08 do you agree? Sometimes a few steps backward is necessary to move forward. Often the only way many can learn is from the school of hard knocks. Let the American people really see just how wrong the democratic policies are. Let them explain the attacks on American soil and abroad because of their actions. Let’s see just how far pandering to foreigners like George Soros will strengthen America. Sometimes only cold hard reality clears the air. mistakes have been made in Iraq, that is a given. When in history did any war campaign unfold flawlessly? Truth be told, Far-left extremist and many more misguided democrats care only about regaining complete control of local and federal government positions. Been on this earth a good while now, seen much crap from both parties. Never in our history has so much half-truths and misinformation been thrown around by the democratic party. I just can't understand how or why today’s democrats are allowing a foreigner George Soros to buy so many public officials and they are okay with it. They even stick up for the trash and repugnant hate speech their outlets opine in the media, news papers and mostly the internet. Hillary Clinton refuses to condemn movenon.org's latest example of their down right hateful, disrespectful, misleading, line of garbage towards a bronze star recipient of valor. So what did Bush do, he has the back bone to do something about radical groups who would see America destroyed and innocent peoples who only don't believe in radical Islam. Slick Willy single handedly crippled our Intel. agencies during his admn. If the cuts hadn’t been made and regular operation had been let to continue, terrorist groups would not have been able to grow and become as powerful as they are today. Carter started it all, by allowing the fall of Iranian government which allowed terrorist to have control of an entire state. Yeah thanks democrats. Back in the day, mush of what comes from the Far-left, liberals , and liberal democrats would have brought charges of treason. The only thing that gives me comfort is there is a much higher authority that will have final judgment of all. So democrats.... live in your misguide brainwashed bubble. ignore facts and truth. believe what you want. You will have to answer for your actions. May god have mercy on your souls. Once and for all let history prove the case that democrats are self-serving. Cry me a river democratic student who would rather see America week because they can’t get free grants for collage…. Self serving!!!!!!

Why do parents save for their kids college education when Financial Aid will pay for everything? I constantly hear things about parents who save for their kids college education... Don't people know that Financial Aid is available that will pay for 100% of the cost of going to college? There are Stafford Loans, the Pell Grant, and many other Federal Student Loan programs that will cover 100% of the tuition cost AND give the student money left over to live on while attending college. Yes, the student will have to pay these loans back but NOT while attending school. You can defer the payments till after you graduate and get a job. If you don't get a job, then you can defer even longer with the Income Based Repayment program. You could conceivably NEVER pay the loans back... There is NO NEED for parents to save and put away money for college when the government is willing to give away free money to anyone who wants to attend school. Just fill out the FAFSA form online and you can get all kinds of FREE Government Financial Aid. I will add that if a student simply waits till they are over 22 years old and THEN apply for Financial Aid, you will be considered an "Adult Continuing Education" and the Financial Aid gropus; FAFSA, Federal Aid, etc. will not even LOOK at the parents assets. They only view the 22 year old adults income, and assets. If High School students would simply take a few years off, get a job, earn money and experience, perhaps even travel and see the world. THEN when they are 22 years old simply apply to college and apply for Financial Aid and the Government will give you 100% of the money you need either in loans or for free in the form of grants. Going to college right after High School just cost the family a TON of money that they could avoid paying at all if the student would just wait a few years and apply when they are 22 and considered an "Adult" by the government.

obama's policy on cutting subsidized loans? I just read that obama is planning to cut the subsidies paid on loans, in order to add more money for pell grants. How come we give free money to poor people. I think that even poor people should have to take out loans to go to school just like I do. I think money should be offered to poor people, but giving it to them. I am a college student, and i work in the business office so i often see people getting paid to go to school that have a 2.0 gpa, While i have a 3.6 gpa and get nothing because my parents make to much money. I pay my way with the help of some small student loans, but i have never been given any money by the government. If the government just gives these poor students free money to attend what incentive do they have to succeed in school. Some will argue that their going to college to make themselves better, while this may be true, how come they can not pay back some student loans like i will have to one day do. It just doesn't seem fair that the gov,t will give free money to below average students. If there were some kind of standard set like maybe have a 3.0 requiremnet to get federal money then I wouldn't have as big of a problem with it, but why is the gov't wasting money on below average students. I would compare it to investing in a company that you know for a fact that tommorrow it is going under. Seems like a waste, can someone tell me if I am dead wrong and/or show a different arguement. I just think that everyone should either get free money or everyone should have to pay back debt they owe

Just filled out my FASFA and my EFC is 0. What does this mean? I understand basically it mean that the government does not expect my family to be able to put any money towards my tuition (which my single mom cannot, besides some gas money). I'm planning on enrolling in a community college in Florida (I am a resident) for a 2 year AA in engineering. Can you get the pell grant at a community college? If the grants do not cover my entire expenses do you think it will be easy for me to get a student loan based on my FASFA results? I'm not hoping for an entirely 'free-ride', although I wouldn't mind it. I'm almost positive I will have to take out student loans, but with my EFC so low, will this help me in securing student loans? BTW I'm 21 and my credit is horrible right now (8,000 in debt with car and credit card). Can they hold my credit against me for federal student loans or private student loans? I am really hoping I can get into some sort of community college, my dreams would be crushed if I couldn't pay for it :/.

Is this a good program with teen moms getting younger, schools offer on-site help with free day care? It's lunch time at Lee High School, and several young girls — some with their boyfriends — bring their sandwiches to a classroom loaded with rocking chairs, cribs, books and toys. The teenage parents use these minutes between classes to play with their babies in the school's nursery. The Houston campus opened the free day care on site a few years ago to encourage young parents to keep coming to school. The offer hooked Tahys Diaz, a junior at Lee who got pregnant at 17 and now has a 1-year-old son named Anthony. Without the child care, Diaz said, she likely would have dropped out of school, just like four of her friends with babies have done. “I would have let him stay in school,” Diaz said of her boyfriend and son's father, Emerson Mejicano. “I would have stayed home with the baby.” “It would have been the other way around,” responded Mejicano, a senior at Lee. Most teen moms don't graduate high school, and national statistics show that far fewer — only 2 percent — go on to earn a college degree before age 30. The problem is particularly profound in Houston — where more girls under 15 give birth than in any other U.S. city, according to a report last week from the research nonprofit Child Trends.Texas has the third-highest teen birth rate in the nation, according to Child Trends' analysis of 2006 federal data. The state awards $10 million a year in grants to school districts to assist teen parents — to help subsidize daycare, transportation and parenting classes. Lauralea Bauer, the Texas Education Agency's director of counseling and pregnancy programs, said the main goal of the grant is simple: to prevent dropouts. Last year, 197 of the more than 1,000 Texas school districts received the grant. More districts have asked for money, Bauer said, but the Legislature capped the total for the last several years. The state also pays for teachers to go to students' homes for about four to six weeks after the baby is born. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6606083.html

Who funds or where does themoney come from for PHEAA: (PENNA> HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AGENCY?)? If most $ comes from state-where does anyother money come from? Grants tell me it is from Gov. Fed/State? They talk about adding HELP ($) from GeneralTax Fund. Grants are monies you do notneed topay back? So is the PHEAA a comp.tht (Got) free Grant $ to lend out to Students, with interest?? The staff in tern go out and herd our kids in for these loans and the ones with highest loaniees (Bush Vocab) Get 3-Fig.In the thousands Bonuses for their fine herding job. What does the CEO of a GRANT LOAN Comp. GET?

do i get any kind of tax return back for being a full time student while collecting unemployment benefits? i am currently tending college full time basis all year long in 2009 i have a 1098-T from the college. The amount billed for qualified tuition and expenses is $9,599.20. also the scholarships or grants portion on this form states $6,515.00. I am also on unemployment and have a 1099-G from them that is for $9,073.00. i didn't have any federal withholding taken out for that . i have one dependent for which i do claim every year on my taxes. i am also filing head of household. any other details let me know i can add more info to help you let me know if i am able to receive any return back like hope tax credit or the learning tax credits & higher education tuition and fees deductions. please any information is greatly appreciated i do my taxes online on irs free file website my self i just want to know if i am doing this right when i get my return amount back thanks again!

Do I have to claim my federal grants for college on my taxes? I get so much money from the government, that i basically go to school for free.. i get money back to pay for books, and i have taken out one loan last year. do i have to put this on my taxes? and will i still qualify for the student tuition credit since i didnt "earn" this money, and it is a grant?? thanks!

Can you handle the truth? recently have been filled with scenes of huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City. It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mounted the podium, but any hopes that he would quiet the crowds and defend the law were soon dashed. Villaraigosa, himself, has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration law. For law-abiding Americans without knowledge of the dark side of our current illegal immigration crisis, all this is unfathomable. For those who know the truth about the "La Raza" movement, these demonstrations were a prophecy fulfilled. It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of "La Raza" -- The Race. There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall "La Raza" movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza -- the Council of "The Race". To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. The Mexican flag flew over a crowd of pro-amnesty marchers in New York. Marches like this across the U.S. have been supported by the “La Raza” movement. (Reuters/Seth Wenig) Radical 'Reconquista' Agenda Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions. Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West. One of America's greatest strengths has always been taking in immigrants from cultures around the world, and assimilating them into our country as Americans. By being citizens of the U.S. we are Americans first, and only, in our national loyalties. This is totally opposed by MEChA for the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders, to whom they say: "Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny." (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006) MEChA isn't at all shy about their goals, or their views of other races. Their founding principles are contained in these words in "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan): "In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ... We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada." That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing." If these morally sickening MEChA quotes were coming from some fringe website, Americans could at least console themselves that it was just a small group of nuts behind it. Nearly every racial and ethnic group has some shady characters and positions in its past and some unbalanced individuals today claiming racial superiority and demanding separatism. But this is coming straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, University of Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country. MEChA was in fact reported to be one of the main organizers of those street demonstrations we witnessed over the past weeks. That helps explain why those hordes of illegal immigrants weren't asking for amnesty -- they were demanding an end to U.S. law, period. Unlike past waves of immigrants who sought to become responsible members of American society, these protesters reject American society altogether, because they have been taught that America rightfully belongs to them. MEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be extinguished. This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or reconquest, of the Western U.S. But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of "Aztlan." As Miguel Perez of Cal State-Northridge's MEChA chapter has been quoted as saying: "The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled -- opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power." MEChA Plants Members of these radical, anti-American, racist organizations are frequently smoothly polished into public respectability by the National Council of La Raza. Former MEChA members include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was officially endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza's Graciela Olivarez Award. Now we know why he refuses to condemn a sea of foreign flags in his city. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He delivered the keynote address at La Raza's 2002 Annual Convention. The National Council of La Raza and its allies in public office make no repudiation of the radical MEChA and its positions. In fact, as recently as 2003, La Raza was actively funding MEChA, according to federal tax records. Imagine Robert Byrd's refusing to disavow the views of the KKK, or if Strom Thurmond had failed to admit segregation was wrong. Imagine Heritage or Brookings Foundation making grants to the American Nazi Party. Is the National Council of La Raza itself a racist organization? Regardless of the organization's suspect ties, the majority of its members are not. When one examines all the organization's activities, they are commendable non-profit projects, such as education and housing programs. But even these defensible efforts raise the question of whether education and housing programs funded with federal tax dollars should be used in programs specifically targeted to benefit just one ethnic group. La Raza defenders usually respond by calling anyone making these allegations "a racist" for having called attention to La Raza's racist links. All the groups and public officials with ties to the La Raza movement can take a big step towards disproving these allegations by simply following the examples of Senators Byrd and Thurmond and repenting of their past ways. If they are unwilling to admit past misdeeds, they can at least state -- unequivocally -- that they officially oppose the racist and anti-American positions of MEChA, and any other groups that espouse similar views. Through public appearances, written statements, and on their respective websites, La Raza groups and allies must: 1. Denounce the motto "For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada," as repugnant, racist, and totally incompatible with American society or citizenship. 2. Acknowledge the right of all Americans to live wherever they choose in the U.S. without segregation. 3. Commit to sponsorship of nationwide educational programs to combat racism and anti-Semitism in the Hispanic community. 4. Denounce and sever all ties with MEChA and any other organizations with which they have ever been associated which held to the racist doctrines held by MEChA. 5. Acknowledge the internationally recognized borders of the U.S., the right of the citizens of the U.S. to determine immigration policy through the democratic process, and the right of the U.S. to undertake any and all necessary steps to effectively enforce immigration law and defend its border against unauthorized entry. 6. Repudiate all claims that current American territory rightfully belongs to Mexico. If the National Council of La Raza, other La Raza groups, and local and national political leaders with past ties and associations with the radical elements of the La Raza movement can publicly issue such a statement and live by every one of these principles, they should be welcomed into the American public policy arena, with past sins -- real or imaginary -- forgiven. If they cannot publicly and fully support these principles, Congress needs to take appropriate steps and immediately bar any group refusing to comply from receiving any future federal funds. Both the House and Senate should strike these groups from testifying before any committees, and the White House should sever all ties. Both political parties should disengage from any further contact with these groups and individuals. There are plenty of decent, patriotic Hispanic organizations and elected officials to provide Congress with necessary feedback on specific issues confronting Americans of Latino heritage. Any group or individual who can agree with the simple six points should be welcomed into that fold. If not, the American people will know there's a wolf in their midst, and take the necessary precautions to defend our Republic against an enemy.

Cons, quick -- what's wrong with this education reform proposal? Other than "because Obama proposed it." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/education/01child.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=print February 1, 2010 Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law By SAM DILLON The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency. Educators who have been briefed by administration officials said the proposals for changes in the main law governing the federal role in public schools would eliminate or rework many of the provisions that teachers’ unions, associations of principals, school boards and other groups have found most objectionable. Yet the administration is not planning to abandon the law’s commitments to closing the achievement gap between minority and white students and to encouraging teacher quality. Significantly, said those who have been briefed, the White House wants to change federal financing formulas so that a portion of the money is awarded based on academic progress, rather than by formulas that apportion money to districts according to their numbers of students, especially poor students. The well-worn formulas for distributing tens of billions of dollars in federal aid have, for decades, been a mainstay of the annual budgeting process in the nation’s 14,000 school districts. Peter Cunningham, a Department of Education spokesman, acknowledged that the administration was planning to ask Congress for broad changes to the education law, but declined to describe the changes specifically. He said that although the administration had developed various proposals, it would solicit input from Congressional leaders of both parties in coming weeks to create legislative language that can attract bipartisan support. Some details of the president’s proposals are expected to be made public on Monday, when the president outlines his $3.8 trillion budget for the 2011 fiscal year. The changes would have to be approved by Congress, which has been at a stalemate for years over how to change the policy. Currently the education law requires the nation’s 98,000 public schools to make “adequate yearly progress” as measured by student test scores. Schools that miss their targets in reading and math must offer students the opportunity to transfer to other schools and free after-school tutoring. Schools that repeatedly miss targets face harsher sanctions, which can include staff dismissals and closings. All students are required to be proficient by 2014. Educators have complained loudly in the eight years since the law was signed that it was branding tens of thousands of schools as failing but not forcing them to change. The secretary of education, Arne Duncan, foreshadowed the elimination of the 2014 deadline in a September speech, referring to it as a “utopian goal,” and administration officials have since made clear that they want the deadline eliminated. In recent meetings with representatives of education groups, Department of Education officials have said they also want to eliminate the school ratings system built on making “adequate yearly progress” on student test scores. “They were very clear with us that they would change the metric, dropping adequate yearly progress and basing a new system on another picture of performance based on judging schools in a more nuanced way,” said Bruce Hunter, director of public policy for the American Association of School Administrators, who attended one of the meetings. The current system issues the equivalent of a pass-fail report card for every school each year, an evaluation that administration officials say fails to differentiate among chaotic schools in chronic failure, schools that are helping low-scoring students improve and high-performing suburban schools that nonetheless appear to be neglecting some low-scoring students. Instead, under the administration’s proposals, a new accountability system would divide schools into more categories, offering recognition to those that are succeeding and providing large new amounts of money to help improve or close failing schools. A new goal, which would replace the 2014 universal proficiency deadline, would be for all students to leave high school “college or career ready.” Currently more than 40 states are collaborating, in an effort coordinated by the National Governors Association and encouraged by the administration, to write common standards defining what it means to be a graduate from high school ready for college or a career. The new standards will also define what students need to learn in earlier grades to advance successfully toward high school graduation. The administration has already made its mark on education through Race to the Top, a federal grant program i

What do u think of my Research? I know it's too long but plz read it if u can and tell me what do u think of it and how much do u rate it from 1 - 100? Thank you so so MUCH!! The American Educational Reform in the 1800s American reform movements in the early to mid 1800's strived at improving our developing society. America was growing larger, and with the expanding population, many new ideas sprang up. Conflicting opinions between the people of the United States caused the emergence of an Age of Reform, where people tried to change things such as the educational system and women rights. These movements were the result of our nation's self-determination and interest in improving the society we live in. Education is really important to every country and every civilization and it's noticeable that "Education is the transmission of civilization." (Ariel and Will Durant, The Lessons of History, 1968) Education reform means to make education better by removing faults and defects. True educators are always thinking of more effective ways to enhance and democratize the way children learn. With the continuous change of growing population, economics, culture, family, and global communication, there has to be continuous educational reforms to keep the society abreast with these changes. Home education was so common in America that most children knew how to read before they entered school. As Ralph Walker has pointed out, "Children were often taught to read at home before they were subjected to the rigours of school. In middle-class families, where the mother would be expected to be literate, this was considered part of her duties." (Ralph Walker, Old Readers: In Early American Life, October, 1980, p. 54.) In the early 1800’s education in America grew and developed rapidly, largely because of the works of three very important men: Noah Webster, William McGuffey, and Horace Mann. These three men were catalysts for the growth of education throughout the nineteenth century, and without them the large strides America took during this time would not have occurred. These great men all shared one goal: to educate the youth of America as well as possible. The first American schools opened during the colonial era. As the colonies began to develop, many began to institute mandatory education schemes. In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made "proper" education compulsory. Similar statutes were adopted in other colonies in the 1640s and 1650s. Virtually all of the schools opened as a result were private. The nation's first institution of higher learning was Harvard University, opened in 1636. Most of the universities which opened between 1640 and 1750 form the contemporary Ivy League, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and several others. After the American Revolution, the new national government passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, which set aside a portion of every township in the unincorporated territories of the United States for use in education. Public education in Massachusetts began when Horace Mann left his post as Senate president and became Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837. Mann did many things, but his main legacy was to convince people that public education was a public good that should be publicly funded. As a result, Massachusetts had the first system of public schools in the country. By 1860 the fruits of these efforts were impressive. The states were generally committed to providing free elementary education. For students who wished more than a grammar school education, there were 300 public high schools in the whole country, and almost 100 of these were in massachusetts. There were also about 6000 private academies, many of which charged only a small tuition to poor children. Colleges and universities were still small, few had over 100 students and ill equipped, but their numbers had increased since colonial times. Just as every instant city needed a newspaper and hotel, so it needed what was called a college. Julian Sturtevant, founder of Illinios College in 1830, said, "It was generally believed that one of the surest ways to promote the growth of a young city was to make it the seat of a college." (A History of the United States, p. 281) So before the Civil War 516 colleges were founded, many were little better and the private academies, but only 104 survived to the 1900s. The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 provided federal financial support to state universities. Many land-grant colleges and state universities were established through gifts of federal land to the states for the support of higher education. Financial support was extended to the universities and this in turn led to increased research. The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 sparked the growth of state institutions offering curricula in agriculture and the mechanical arts. The act created a variety of institutional arrangements such as A & M colleges, and even allowed some private colleges to provide the new curriculum. Women have been equally discriminated against in American schools. Even in coeducational schools, practically no encouragement was given to the girls. For countless centuries, the role of the American female was in the home. Domestic responsibilities such as devoting time for the home, preparing meals, and caring for the family rested in the hands of females. Mothers taught their daughters' responsibilities in the home to prepare them for their future. In colonial days girls were taught the household arts but were not expected to learn to read and write. People thought that "book learning" would put an undue stress on their delicate minds and bodies. Progress came slowly and step by step. Women's education and career options, especially for the middle and upper classes, were aided by the founding of academies and seminaries for girls. In Massachusetts girls began to attend summer sessions of the public grammar schools in the late 1700s. "In 1821, Emma Willard established the Troy Female Seminary in New York, the first endowed educational institution for women in the United States." (Education, p, 3) In 1823, Catharine Beecher opened the Hartford Female Seminary and later founded seminaries in Cincinnati and Milwaukee. In 1837, Mary Lyon established the Mount Holyoke Seminary with a curriculum that emphasized domesticity, piety, and teaching. Mount Holyoke enrolled girls from both wealthy and poor families; it was the first institution to challenge class discrimination. By 1840 the efforts of reformers where showing results, and nearly all New England women could read and write. Finally in 1836 (200 years after Harvard College was founded for men) Wesleyan College in Georgia was chartered as the first college for woman. As years rolled by "women protested that they too should have a right to learn and that it is unfair that men could go to college and they can't." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3) A new status for woman was "their opportunity for an adequated education and the right to speak out in public, would mean a richer life for all." (History of the United State, p.284) The rights of women seemed essential to a better America. "The brave reforming women that helped in education are our founding mothers of women education today." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3) Because of racial discrimination, African Americans not only struggled to acquire an education but had to combat stereotypes concerning what type of education was most suitable for them. The 1800s witnessed important changes in their education. The education of blacks remained very low until President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The Civil War and Reconstruction period had a profound effect on the education of blacks in the South. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments granted equal rights to freed slaves. Many sought to take advantage of their new freedoms, especially the opportunity to acquire an education. The reconstruction era witnessed major advances in segregated education for African Americans. Before the Civil War, education for blacks was practically non-existent in the South, and several southern states had laws against teaching slaves to read and write. Schools in the North were segregated. African American ingenuity and perseverance produced some notable exceptions. For instance, Milla Granson of Natchez, Mississippi, a slave who had learned to read and write from her master's children, operated a school late at night when her master slept and slaves had finished working in the fields. During the Civil War, both African American and white teachers began the arduous but rewarding task of educating southern blacks. Indeed, freedmen's education began in army camps. Many brave teachers such as "Mary S. Peake began teaching freed slaves at a Fort Virginia School in 1861. Susie King Taylor, a former slave who learned to read and write, taught black soldiers in the army." (African Americans: Freed People, p. 5) After the war, some white northern women used their education by moving south to teach the freed slaves. Laura Town was the first to do so; in 1862, she established the Penn School on the South Carolina Sea Islands, which she ran for forty years. The African American educator Charlotte Forten Grimke joined her. In her diary, Forten remarked "I never before saw children so eager to learn." Such was the case with most black children throughout the South. The number of black teachers increased as more African Americans became educated. The literacy rate was around 5% in the 1860s rose to 40% in 1890, but when many wealthy American men and woman, mostly from the North gave millions of dollars to help educate black people, the literacy rate by 1910 was at 70%. John D. Rockefeller an American industrialist and philanthropist, for example, "had contributed over $50 million, most of it to train more teachers for black schools." (History of the United States, p. 449) The South spent less money than other parts of the country on education of all kinds. And blacks there had to attend separate and inferior schools. But many black leaders did not agree about this situation. In 1881, an American educator, author and leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he trained thousands of blacks to be better farmers and mechanics, to make a good living, and to help build their communities. He did not want blacks to spend their efforts learning history, literature, foreign languages, science, and mathematics. Instead, he said that they should train quickly for jobs, and mostly for jobs they could do with their hands. Many who admired Booker T. Washington still did not agree with him because they did not want to wait for their rights. Twenty five years after Washington started his Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a group met at Niagara Falls. Their black leader was W. E. B. Du Bois. He was born in Massachusetts after the Civil War, he studied at the University of Berlin in Germany and then received a Ph.D.degree from Harvard University in 1895. "He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, was a professor at AtlantaUniversity and the leading black intellectual of his time." (Evitts,William. The Niagara Movement, p. 1) In 1905 the declaration by Du Bois's Niagara Movement expressed outrage. It demanded for blacks all their human rights, all their rights as Americans, and at once. It opposed all laws and all customs that treated blacks as if they were different from other people. And of course, it demanded the right to vote. As the United States entered the twentieth century, it had adopted a framework of publicly supported elementary and secondary schools and had seen a significant increase in the number of colleges and universities nationwide. The advancement in technology and learning methods has brought about a lot of change for the better in the public education. The American public school has always been looked upon as a system that inculcates the ideals of equality and freedom in the individual. It has changed historically according to the upheavals in the society.

Help! FAFSA question? I a a second year college student at UCSB and this came up at my fafsa: "Based on your answers to previous questions, you may skip certain income and asset questions, including: Your and your parents' income taxes and exemptions. Your and your parents' untaxed income and income exclusions. Your and your parents' assets. " i get money from cal grant federal pell grant acg grant and i dont remember this question being asked last year so if i skip these questions can it endanger any of my free aid? or do i just go ahead and answer them? it also says this: "Note: Some schools may require answers to these questions to determine your eligibility for school aid."

Need help with my financial aid? Ok, so I applied, got accepted to college, registered and all that. I guess I thought I had a basic free ride for college since I had a EFC of 0...plus i'm a single Mom. Today I went to the financial aid office for my college and they gave me what I would be getting. For winter 09 session: $2366 Federal Pell grant $400 Supplement Grant $3500 Stafford Loan $4496 Stafford Loan Unsub Now I may be an idiot...but I really thought I would not have to get student loans to pay for my tuition since I would have financial aid. I thought the grants were in addition to financial aid. Now as I'm looking at it....I basically am just getting a $2766 discount! My tuition alone is $5423! Books are close to $1000! so I'll have $4000 left for Spring and Summer? I don't understand! I know I get the 2nd half to the Pell in fall 09.....well what about Spring and summer? Will I have to take out more loans for them? If anyone can help me understand this, I would greatly appreciate it! I am not stupid by any means, but when you are told by many people that you don't have to pay your way then you start to believe it....now obviously that is not the case. HELP! Before I go insane! I also want to add this. I understand that what I will be receiving is a GREAT help. I am not someone who likes taking anything for free. I just do not understand how it works, that's all I'm looking for....I do not need to lecture in ungratefulness. Also...I'm looking for information on what I will do for the Spring/Summer classes. Since the college I will be attending is a Fall/winter based. when the time comes I will be able to get more loans for Spring/summer? Or will I have to wait until Fall again?

Test your knowledge/10 points!? What is an example of the restriction of the use of public funds in religious schools? Paying parochial teachers' salaries. Providing textbooks for students in parochial schools. Providing computers for parochial schools. Supplying lunches for parochial schools. Supplementing bus and other transportation back and forth from parochial school and the students' homes In Schenck v. United States (1919), Justice Holmes said that speech can be restricted when it: provokes "a clear and present danger" to people. is expressed on private property. advocates the violent overthrow of the United States. is spoken rather than non-verbal or symbolic. is unpublished. Obscenity is: not included in the area of constitutionally protected speech or press. protected by the First Amendment. clearly defined as it pertains to freedom of press and speech. a matter of federal standards rather than state or local standards. always protected except when children are involved. Time and time again, the Supreme Court has protected freedom of the press by: striking down prior restraint. relaxing due process procedures. refusing to allow the subpoena of reporters. ruling in favor of strict libel laws. not allowing shield laws to be created Which of the following has received the greatest amount of regulation by the federal government? Commercial speech. Symbolic speech. Television news. Newspapers. School publications. What does the Telecommunications Act of 1996 require? That cable television scramble or block channels with sexually oriented material when children are likely to be viewing. That cable channels require blocks on home sets so that children cannot see inappropriate material. That federal free speech guarantees do not apply on private property or cable channels. That obscenity on cable is subject to the same rules as if it were a general broadcast. That stations are required to devote a percentage of their shows to children's programming and news. Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination means that: you cannot be forced to be a witness against yourself. as a defendant you have a right to counsel. you can be granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for your testimony. you have a right to confront witnesses against you. you have a right to see a search warrant. Most cases are settled through: plea bargaining. judicial tribunals. trial by jury. pauper's petitions. deliberation The Constitution: does not specify the size of a jury. sets jury size at twelve. sets jury size according to the type of crime. sets jury size according to the type of court. does not mention the idea of a jury trial at all. The exclusionary rule, which was applied to state governments as well as the federal government in Mapp v. Ohio (1961), meant that: unlawfully obtained evidence could not be used in court. exceptions could be made for acting in "good faith." probable cause must be established prior to arrest. searches by police could not be made without a legal search warrant. defendants must be read their rights before an arrest occurs. The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to a lawyer was extended to state courts by the Supreme Court case of: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963). Miranda v. Arizona (1966). Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Gregg v. Georgia (1976). NAACP v. Alabama (1958). In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court for the first time: articulated the right to privacy. guaranteed the right to life. ruled in favor of abortion rights. suggested the right to die. called the death penalty "cruel and unusual punishment." In Roe v. Wade (1973), the Supreme Court: forbade state regulation of abortion during the first trimester. permitted states to allow abortion in the second trimester only to protect a mother's health. permitted states to forbid abortions in the third trimester. forbade states to forbid abortions in the third trimester when the mother's life or health was in danger. All of the above are correct. Which of these was a ruling that successfully limited abortion rights? Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989). Sternberg v. Carhart (2000). Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Roe v. Wade (1973). All of the answers are examples of rulings which restricted abortion rights.

Should I file my own taxes? I made less than 12,000. Worked the entire year part time. I also go to college full time. I get money from the gov for school. I really don't pay anything for school (fed $$ and scholarship). My expenses include about $1000 a year on school expenses (including books and permits). I pay a phone and a car bill (none under my name) (about 350 per month). I commute so I easily spend about $200 on gas a month. I don't have any money because I have to pay for all my random expenses (school travel, food, etc..) Would I benefit from filing? Do I have to file? I understand that my dad can claim me as a dependent since I am under 24 and a fulltime college student living at home. If my dad filed me as a dependent would I get less money for college? Basically, I just want to know how filing will affect the federal pell grant. I can't afford school without the government's assistance and I don't have any money at all. Should my dad claim me as a dependent (besides free rent, I don't get anything from him..not even food or anything).. So should I just file my own taxes?

Is it anti-immigrant to demand that students only speak English in an American school? A Catholic school in Wichita is being sued by four Hispanic families over a policy that requires students to speak English in school at all times. The Associated Press reports that the lawsuit filed against St. Anne’s Catholic School on Monday seeks to end the policy and to secure an order barring similar policies at other diocesan schools. The suit also seeks to allow the return of one student who was allegedly kicked out for refusing to sign the “English only” pledge. It asks for court costs and unspecified damages for discrimination and emotional suffering. Parents Mike and Clara Silva, Maria and Fermin Fernandez, Guadalupe Cruz-Tello and Alma Contreras filed the lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their minor children. The lawsuit names as defendants St. Anne Catholic School, Principal Margaret Nugent, St. Anne Catholic Parish, and the Catholic Diocese of Wichita. The diocese said the school instituted the policy in response to four students who were using Spanish to bully others and to put down teachers and administrators. The majority of the school’s 243 students are white, while 75 students are Hispanic, 27 are Asian, and two are black. According to court documents, the students named in the lawsuit are bilingual U.S. citizens with no disciplinary record. Lawyers for the students' parents claimed that bullying was not the initial reason the school enacted the policy, citing a letter the school sent home saying that students who are immersed in the English language improve their ability to improve and succeed. "One real problem that I think the plaintiffs have with the policy is not just that it's a bad policy, but that the justification keeps changing," said Christopher M. McHugh, an attorney for the families. "When one doesn't work, you move on to the next reason." "I think if one school is granted their wish by not allowing their students to speak another language, then other schools will follow suit," said parent Mike Silva, according to the Associated Press. Diocese of Wichita spokesman Fred Solis told the AP that the lawsuit was unfortunate because the church has historically offered services to minorities and has supported immigrant rights. The diocese’s attorney Jay Fowler suggested in a letter to the families’ lawyer that the lawsuit would divide the community. "The politicization of what basically is a disagreement between a parent and a school will most likely morph into an anti-immigrant sentiment, thereby undermining the effects of both our clients," he wrote. The lawsuit claims that because the school receives federal money for its free and reduced-price lunch program, it is subject to federal anti-discrimination laws. The school district argues that the students, not the school, receive the federal funding. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12708

Liberals are followers and Bush is a leader. Its better to be right than popular? President Bush's Accomplishments Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

Why do libs avoid President Bush's Accomplishments? President Bush's Accomplishments Spotted at Rightnation.us and GOPUSA.com reprinted here for your pleasure. I encourage people who support Bush to learn how effective our President has been, and liberals ought to browse this too. Just remember, the liberal media can't cover up the truth of his accomplishments. The Bush Administration 2001-2004 Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

Is this why the libs hate BUSH? President Bush's Accomplishments Spotted at Rightnation.us and GOPUSA.com reprinted here for your pleasure. I encourage people who support Bush to learn how effective our President has been, and liberals ought to browse this too. Just remember, the liberal media can't cover up the truth of his accomplishments. The Bush Administration 2001-2004 Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law ________________________________________ TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror KEYWORDS: bushlegacy; bushrecord; georgewbush; gwb2004 ________________________________________ 1 posted on 03/12/2004 4:23:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Bush is our President. He fixed our country. He brought back family values. He made us strong in the face of danger. He is looing out for my childrens education. He has reduced my income tax. That's why he gets my vote. 2 posted on 03/12/2004 4:43:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (60 Senate seats changes the world!! Bury Kerry in 04!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife someone one point to the Medicare section and the savings accounts, someone scream at the conservatives who cry about drugs and point out $28,000 for ulcer surgery vs $500 for medicine; Medical Savings Accounts as a way to have larger deductibles and more patient responsibility. THESE ARE CONSERVATIVE PROGRAMS!! Newt was all over TV praising this program one week after they passed it but RUSH who is a headline reader has gotten it wrong and cost Bush 10 points in the polls. 3 posted on 03/12/2004 4:53:54 AM PST by q_an_a [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Bookmark for future reference 4 posted on 03/12/2004 5:05:46 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (1 democrat + 1 democrat = 5 opinions, 6 tax increases, 2 more welfare programs & 0 solutions.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife wide open borders that allow narco terrorists al qaeda and chi coms open easy access to CONUS? 5 posted on 03/12/2004 5:26:59 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty). 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security. 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health< 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6.Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

If President Obama is so far to the left,why does his education platform sound so moderate? Volunteer in your neighborhood & we help pay for college. (Feb 2009) # $2,500 tax credit for all four years of college. (Feb 2009) # Quitting high school is quitting on your country. (Feb 2009) # Invest in early childhood education and higher education. (Aug 2008) # Fight for social & economic justice begins in the classroom. (Jul 2008) # Make math & science policy a national priority. (Jul 2008) # To compete, students need at least H.S. & college degree. (Jun 2008) # Pay for college education for those who commit to teaching. (Jun 2008) # We need real commitment to education; instead we got NCLB. (Jun 2008) # $10 billion to guarantee early childhood education for all. (Jun 2008) # Merit pay ok if based on career instead of a single test. (Apr 2008) # Evolution & science aren’t incompatible with Christian faith. (Apr 2008) # Mother home-schooled Obama in English while in Indonesia. (Apr 2008) # Children’s First Agenda: zero to five early education. (Feb 2008) # $4,000 college tuition for 100 hours’ public service a year. (Feb 2008) # Put billions of dollars into early childhood education. (Jan 2008) # Need after-school and summer programs with good parenting. (Jan 2008) # Get parents re-engaged in educating the children. (Dec 2007) # Nationwide program to reconstruct crumbling school buildings. (Sep 2007) # STEP UP: summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged. (Aug 2007) # We left the money behind for No Child Left Behind. (Aug 2007) # Pay “master teachers” extra, but with buy-in from teachers. (Aug 2007) # Supreme Court was wrong on school anti-integration ruling. (Jul 2007) # Incentives to hire a million teachers over next decade. (Jun 2007) # Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals. (Jun 2007) # Cut banks out and add $4.5 Billion to college loans. (Mar 2007) # More teacher pay in exchange for more teacher accountability. (Oct 2006) # Guarantee affordable life-long, top-notch education. (Jun 2006) # Sex education needed to help children discuss molestation. (Oct 2004) # Provide decent funding and get rid of anti-intellectualism. (Jul 2004) # Address the growing achievement gap between students. (May 2004) # Will add 25,000 teachers in high-need areas. (May 2004) # Free public college for any student with B-average. (Jul 1998) School Choice # I doubled charter schools in Illinois; but no vouchers. (Oct 2008) # Vouchers don’t solve the problems of our schools. (Oct 2008) # FactCheck: McCain for national reforms & also DC vouchers. (Oct 2008) # Supports charter schools; it’s important to experiment. (Feb 2008) # We need a sense of urgency about improving education system. (Sep 2007) # Sends kids to private school; but wants good schools for all. (Jul 2007) # Public school system status quo is indefensible. (Oct 2006) # Supports charter schools and private investment in schools. (Jul 1998) Voting Record # First Senate bill: increase Pell Grant from $4,050 to $5,100. (Aug 2007) # Sponsored legislations that recruit and reward good teachers. (Sep 2004) # Voted YES on $52M for "21st century community learning centers". (Oct 2005) # Voted YES on $5B for grants to local educational agencies. (Oct 2005) # Voted YES on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005 __________________________________________________________________________________ When I think of Obama's education platform,I don't picture small class sizes,entire federal funding,,or educational progressivism in general.Instead,I think of merit pay,unlimited charter schools, and the continuation of seeing teachers as the problem,as he advances a "reformed" NCLB and "Race to the Top."

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Here are my reasons not to vote Obama, can you give me reasons to vote Obama? This is a list that I personally have compiled over the course of the last couple of weeks. It is not complete by any means, but I think it does give a sampling of my concerns as well as the concerns of many. Due to the length of the posting, I have not included links but have included the dates if one wanted to look it up. ABORTION: 1.Voted against partial birth abortion ban- October 2007 2.He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive 3.Voted no on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP- March 2008 4.Voted no on prohibiting minors from crossing state lines for abortions- March 2008 5.Voted no on notifying parents of minors who get out of state abortions- July 2006 6.Voted against restrictions on public funding of abortion.- 2000 ECONOMIC ISSUES 7.Voted no on $40B in reduced overall federal spending- December 2005 8.Sponsored tax credit bill for providing 85% ethanol gas- April 2005 9.Voted no on CAFTA, Central America Free trade- July 2005 10.Mandates health care- February 2008 11.Voted to end $300 million worth of tax breaks for businesses.- 2004 (anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of economics understands that restrictive policy results in a reduction, not increase) 12.Believes that tax cuts on rich does not create jobs- May 2004 13.Voted to raise the minimum wage in Illinois from $5.15 an hour to $6.50 an hour over two years. – 2003 ( again, anyone with the slightest understanding of economics realizes that those adversely affected by such actions, are the individuals this measure is meant to help) 14.Favored single payer health care despite denial- January 2008 15.Successfully sponsored the Health Care Justice Act, a study of ways to implement a universal health care system statewide.- 2004 16.Free public college for any student with B average- July 1998 17.Voted against making permanent the repeal of the state's 5 percent sales tax on gasoline.- 2000 CRIME/ GUNS 18.Voted against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang. -2001 19.Deal with street level drug dealing as minimum wage affair- October 2006 20.Death penalty should not discriminate by gang membership- October 2004 21.Questions harsh penalties for drug dealing- October 2007 22.Endorsed Illinois handgun ban- April 2008 23.Respects 2nd amendment, but local gun bans ok- February 2008 24.Voted against letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home. -2004 25.Voted no on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers- July 2005 26.In 1999, Obama voted against a bill barring early release for (criminal) sex offenders 27.He unsuccessfully sponsored limit of one handgun purchase per month. - 200 28.Unsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals.- 2002 WAR ON TERROR 29.Restore habeas corpus for detainees in War on Terror- June 2007 30.Close Guantanamo and restore habeas corpus- June 2007 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION 31.Supports granting drivers license to illegal immigrants- November 2007 32.Voted yes on continued federal funds for ‘sanctuary cities’- March 2008 33.Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants- July 1998 34.Voted yes to allow illegal aliens to participate in social security- May 2008 35.Voted no on terminating legal challenges to English only job rules- March 2008 DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE 36.Opposed 1996 Illinois DOMA bill- March 2007 37.Opposes CA Prop. 8 define marriage as one man one woman- July 2008 MORAL AND COMMON SENSE ISSUES 38.Sponsored resolution rejecting photo ID for voting- September 2005 39.Obama voted “present” on a bill to keep pornographic book and video stores and strip clubs from setting up within 1,000 feet of schools and churches- 2001 40.Obama voted against filtering pornography on school and library computers 41.Obama voted for sex education for kindergarten children through the 5th grade 42.Include class based affirmative action with race based- October 2007 43.Supreme court was wrong on school anti-integration ruling- July 2007 44.Supports affirmative action in colleges and government- July 1998 45.National smoking bans only after trying local bans- September 2007 46.Voted no on declaring English as the official language of US government- June 2007 47.Voted against giving tax credits to parents who send their children to private school. - 1999 48.Jerusalem as joint Palestinian- Israeli capitol ok- July 2008 POLITICS 49.Statement: owes unions who endorse him, that’s why he’s in politics- October 2006 50.No money from lobbyist, but money from bundlers who lobby ok- July 2007 51.No money from lobbyist, but money from spouse of lobbyist ok- April 2007 52.Nearly $200,000,000 in unreported campaign contributions Regarding numbers 42-44, there have been many studies that have clearly shown quota systems and specifically in the higher educational institutions have created undue hardship on those who are supposed to benefit from such programs. Richard- I appreciate your openess, thank you. As far as points 11 and 12, research macroeconomic theory and you will find what it is that I am speaking of. There was however an attempt in relatively recent history to implement the same type of policies - commonly called restrictive- the individual at the helm at that point was Pres. Carter. Prior to that, we have another example for which the similarities are striking- we affectionately know this period as 'The Great Depression'. Though there are some, few, that would argue, it is generally accepted that the depression was prolonged due to the restrictive policies followed by FDR. Richard- just an additional side note regarding number 13. I have to assume that since you are in disagreement with 11 and 12, 13 would pose a problem as well. To understand the implications of number 13 you would need to look up microeconomic theory. Richard- your link is in regards to deficit spending. I would argue as would most economists, that there are some inherent benefits in regards to deficit spending, but yes, there are limitations as well. Points 11, 12, and conversely 13 are in respect to restrictive policies. Let’s put it this way; if you as an individual have just found out that your taxes are going to increase lets say 10%- the monies that you take in are going to decrease as well right? OK, so if you have 10% less money coming in, then it would be reasonable to expect that you would reduce the money going out on items not necessary right? Well, business is the same way. If business tax goes up then business is required to reduce costs to maintain profitability. Reducing costs for business may entail; reduced work force, less investment (infrastructure). This reduction results in reduced revenue (tax), higher unemployment. I have read reports regarding Senator Obama’s tax proposal and barring any unknown disclosures; the top 5% of earners would be taxed at a rate of 49-50%. In economic speak, this incentivizes that these earners would now transfer earnings to localities where penalties are not as great- in English, these people/ businesses would move their operations to countries that would allow them to keep as much of their profits as possible. Look at auto manufacturing as an example, the rustbelt states were taxing at such a high rate, that many manufacturers have moved to states or even countries with lower tax rates. Richard- I'm not making the claim that these individuals will move residence, but merely the home country of said business entity. Now this may entail a physical move or a paper move. Recently Senator Obama has referred to 1000 corporations having headquarters in one building in the Bahamas- I believe. This example is exactly what I am referring too. If the fed increases the incentive for businesses to move off-shore or even relocate, then tax revenue does in fact decrease. There is an overwhelming amount of historical data supporting this assertion and no, that I am aware of, data that would disprove it. I have been in the business world for twenty years and have watched the ebb and flow of business practice. The one constant has been that a correctly run business will by whatever means possible, try to remain profitable. One last bit of data, and this being purely anecdotal; During the 80's Michigan state and local governments began raising taxes. The assumption was increased tax revenue. What actually happened was that many businesses found that even with the loss of existing facilities, it was more beneficial for them to relocate and sell assets in Michigan. Many other businesses didn't have that opportunity and went into foreclosure. I, like many Michiganders, was forced by taxation and loss of jobs to move from my home. Prior to all of this, many Michigan communities were experiencing revitalization. Policies however quashed this growth. In fact, Michael Moore got his start there because of a film he did called "Me and Roger". Though a purely one sided view, it was the story of the death of Flint Michigan- and yes, I did live there at the time. If memory serves me correctly, Flint held the record for per capita murders during that time. So increased taxes do have affects- but are we ready for them?

Will you support the DREAM act? Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students The problem: Many American students graduate from college and high school each year, and face a roadblock to their dreams: they can't drive, can't work legally, can't further their education, and can't pay taxes to contribute to the economy just because they were brought to this country illegally by their parents or lost legal status along the way. It is a classic case of lost potential and broken dreams, and the permanent underclass of youth it creates is detrimental to our economy. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch has said: “In short, although these children have built their lives here, they have no possibility of achieving and living the American dream. What a tremendous loss for them, and what a tremendous loss to our society.” The solution: The federal DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), is a bipartisan legislation that would permit these students conditional legal status and eventual citizenship granted that they meet ALL the following requirements: --if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16, are below the age of 30, --have lived here continuously for five years, --graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED --have good moral character with no criminal record and --attend college or enlist in the military. Why should you care? There is no other pathway to citizenship for these students. Besides the injustice of punishing children for the alleged transgressions of their parents, throwing away the talent we have invested in from K-12 and accruing losses in human and financial capital by deporting talented students is bad public policy. The Social Security Administration has recently stated that we need a net increase of 100,000 immigrants each year to ensure Social Security solvency. Passing the DREAM Act would actually help solve the Social Security crisis by creating a larger taxable base of educated Americans that are already in the United States. It would also free some of the backlog that currently plagues the legal immigration system. Also, the DREAM Act in its latest form, does not grant in-state tuition to any student. Endorsements: Since 2001, almost a 1000 organizations have officially endorsed the bill. Barack Obama has stated that DREAM Act beneficiaries are “American children for all intents and purposes” and has called this a top priority. Tell President-Elect Obama to pass the DREAM Act in 2009. See DreamActivist.org to get more involved. please go to this site and vote, it only takes 30 seconds literally!! https://www.change.org/ideas/view/pass_the_dream_act_now Since when do we make children responsible for the crimes of their parents? if a 3 year old was in the car with your parents as they drove drunk hit and killed somebody, would we make that child responisble as well for the crime? no we wouldn't. these kids didn't choose to become undocumented, all they did was obey and follow there parents. in turn they inherited from them the title of "illegal immigrant". even our supreme court has acknoleged that education is an inalienable right GUARANTEED TO ALL uned the equal protection clause in the 14th amendment. so why are we not allowing them to continue on to higher education after high school? also think about this, if you deport all these children, you will be wasting all the tax money you all complain about, and sending it right back to a dirt poor 3rd world country. billions ( as some anit's claim) wasted. wouldn't make more sense to invest in the kids who WANT to be educated? just because im advocating the cause does not mean i am an undocumented student sasori. and as long as the kids are qualified then they should be able to go if they have higher SAT or ACT scores, more community services hours and extra curricular activites, and better grades than any american citizen they should be let into college.

What do you think of this political platform, what would you add? NATIONAL UNITY 1. Establish English as national language via Constitutional Amendment. ESTABLISHMENT OF JUSTICE 1. Clarify Federal abortion stance and establish such in US Code. - Legal up to the 15th week, after which the fetus will be granted status as an individual with all associated rights. - Allow stem cell research using any legally obtained fetus. 2. Case law will be revamped to represent the opinion, interpretation, and reference it is. As such it may be used to justify revamping actual US Code to clarify intent or close loopholes. PROVIDING FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE 1. End cold war posturing - Close all US bases on foreign soil. - Reduce overall nuclear arsenal to 3500 warheads. 2. Revamp National Guard / Air Guard / Coast Guard into purely defensive force in alignment with its militia heritage. - Mandatory two year service to be completed between 18th and 30th birthday. Voting privileges connected to service completion. 3. Revamp Army / Navy / Air Force into a retaliatory strike force. - Reduce Navy to eight carrier battle groups. - Restructure Army & Marines into Rapid Strike Force. - Establish nuclear arsenal as front line deterrent to attack. 4. End entangling alliances such as the UN, NATO, etc. 5. Initiate comprehensive individual treaties with any and all nations and establish non-interventionist policy. 6. Establish Barbary Pirates policy as the official means of dealing with piracy and terrorism, extending Congressional power to prosecute offenders here and abroad. 7. Streamline both the immigration process, but also the work visa process to allow easier access to legal immigration. 8. Prosecute illegal immigration: - Transporting illegal aliens into the country, knowingly hiring illegal aliens, knowingly providing shelter or housing to illegal aliens will be classified as a Class C felony. - Illegal aliens will not be eligible for any public support. - Medical professionals and organizations will be restricted from treating illegal aliens except in life or death situations. Any illegal aliens seeking treatment are to be turned over to the authorities. - A constitutional amendment that establishes that a child born in the US, but lacking at least one parent with legal status, will not be granted automatic citizenship. PROMOTING THE GENERAL WELFARE 1. Establish voluntary participation National Health Insurance Program. - Promote State level financial aid program with coverage up to a family of four. - Government regulated, non-profit managed. - Built in standards to promote competition. - Pricing on a per person basis. - Not employer specific. - Medical professionals are not required to care for those not demonstrating an ability to pay. 2. Transition Unemployment Assistance program to State level. 3. Transition Disability Assistance program to State level. 4. Establish comprehensive educational program. - Constitutional amendment granting Congress authority to establish minimum educational criteria, leaving management in the hands of the States. - Schools will be ranked at county, state, and Federal levels. - Funding follows students. - Parents can opt for either public or private schools. 5. Establish Federal educational program for military service members. 6. Push for State programs to assist the poorest citizens in acquiring a higher education. 7. Eliminate all other Federal charity programs. - States are advised to initiate charity programs as they deem appropriate and as their Constitutions allow. MAINTAINING LIBERTY 1. Legalize unions between consenting adults, including same sex and polygamy. Religious institutions will not be required to conduct services or even recognize unions counter to their system of belief. 2. Constitutional amendment to clarify separation of church and state / metaphysical neutrality in government affairs. 3. Enforce Bill of Rights and eliminate unconstitutional prior restraint laws. - Establish strict penalties when abuse of rights infringes on others. 4. Legalize the use of any chemical substance by an adult. - Establish severe punishments when the abuse of chemical substances places the health and/or lives of others in danger. 5. Minimize regulations on business / commerce. 6. Promote balanced free trade. - Restrictions will be matched to counter actions taken by partner nation as may unfairly affect trade, such as artificially controlling currency values or tariffs. TAXES: 1. Establish Flat Federal Income Tax - Offer one standard deduction equal to minimum wage x 2080. - Offer retirement investment deduction. - Offer small business expense deduction (limited use). - Eliminate all other deductions. 2. Promote simplified State Tax Program: - Flat Income Tax (similar to Federal Income Tax) - Simplified property tax based on flat value assigned per square foot of land area occupied. - Licensing / Permit fees used to charge only those using the services in question. 3. Eliminate all ot What would you change? NOTE: This is of course a bullet list as YA won't allow a 15 page document to be uploaded :) Erick: What points do you disagree with? Why? Princess K: As far as the mandatory service goes, that is really based on whether or not you want the privilege of voting. Note this service is in the defensive national guard, not the regular military. Our Founders said defense of this country is the duty of every citizen and if you were unwilling to do so, we neither want nor ask for your council. Istainjaa: You pay for the voluntary health care. The program is based on using the buying power of an entire state to create a lower price structure, much like a larger company can get lower rates than my little business with 10 employees. Currently the Federal government supports unemployment. Federal charity is unconsititutional. Malcolm Equis: I've sent you an email to help clarify since my response is to long winded for an "edit". Erick: It is a Federal insurance program you pay into. Actually our proposal uses non-profit insurance providers that bid for States. So technically the federal government only outlines the minimum program requirements and monitors performance - the providers do the rest. Federal charity is unconstitutional, so any assistance programs would have to exist at the State level. Pampoulmouse: The 15th week was selected based on the development cycle of a fetus. During the 15th - 18th weeks the fetus develops a cerebral cortex, which allows an individual consciousness to form and therefore the possiblity of emotional harm develops. Prior to that it is little more than a growth. James L: I do not support isolationism. I do support non-interventionism. The internal affairs of another nation are not our concern, and we should respect their national sovereignty if we expect them to respect ours. Trade is the key to diplomacy. Most of our current issues on the world stage evolved from interference and maintaining a cold war military structure. Bad ideas. My attitude is we will leave you alone until you give us a valid reason not to. Then we should punish you for it. Spock for Prez: 1. Why the need to add the bit about transfer of custody? We already have systems in place to allow adoption of a foreign child. My neighbors just adopted a Russian baby. 2. How does your marriage amendment protect liberty? 3. Interesting thoughts on the religion issue. Wyomugs: 1. Yes. Yes I expect that if you are going to log into Yahoo Answers, at whatever time you choose to do so, that you will be able to comprehend the questions posted there - regardless of their depth. Considering I posted this closer to 1am in my time zone, at 11:50 you should be rested and ready to go. 2. Yes. Yes I know the agenda set forth here is hard. Does the fact that something is hard make it less worthwhile to do? Where would we be if our Founders had said, "Revolution is hard, we probably shouldn't."? How many doctors would we have if they said,"Meical school is hard, I think I'll quite before I start."? Those who focus on the obstacles never see the goal. 3. No. I am not a Libertarian, but I am an individualist. I'm certainly not a Democrat or Republican. I support the Constitution and the political ideals of our Founding Fathers, but I'm not a Constitutionalist - to much church and state. 4. Are you saying I'm right-wing or you are?

How does this make you feel? In Maine, many people don't know this but poverty runs high, well above what national statistics have it at. At my school over 80% of students qualify for free lunch, which if you had to pay for it would cost 1.50 every day. I live in the poorest town of Maine's poorest county. Washington County, Maine is very impoverished. You hear of these mansions on the midcoast and in southern maine, but up here it's either 1970s trailers that are fire prone and falling apart or 200 year old houses that are impossible to heat and are also falling down, and everything in them is rotten. Nobody up here has the money to repair them, and everyone I know this year applied for federal fuel assistance. A very high percentage of the population has some relation to illegal drugs, even with a population under 2000 people. There is no work, the labor that people do here is backbreaking, and you do tons of work for little pay. These odd jobs can also end in tragedy, several people die annually trying to make a living to support their families. The average lifespan for women in my county was one of few in the nation to fall in recent years, as women here cannot afford to keep up with the health trends that other places can. Many women here don't make it out of their 50s and early 60s. But do you think this is bad. The generation before me, my mom and dad, worked in this same town at canning plants for so many cents per rod of herring they skinned, work that was being done by machine anywhere else you could name in the country. Some nights they were lucky to afford to eat a can of sardines they snuck from work and a potato. They couldn't afford to heat their homes, and lived in 19th century houses that weren't insulated and had no walls and ceilings and rotten floors. MY grandmother had to warm her bed with hot bricks when she was younger, you could set a glass of water next to her bed and in the morning it would be thoroughly frozen. They had no ceilings and had to walk across the roof beams to where their beds sat on wooden slats to hold them up. They farmed and clammed, and did EVERYTHING they could to survive. Few people had running water and while color tvs had been out for decades, my parents families still could only afford a black and white tv that was nearly 30 years old, there was no cable and you could pick up only channels 4, 9, and 13, of which 2 were canadian signals. That was in the late 70s early 80s. My mom nor dad never owned a bike, and on christmas they were lucky their parent's were even sober, let alone they had anything under a tree. But they managed through the holidays, and my mom's side of the family did get something, always something they needed. My mom told me a story that when she was in a grocery store she was slapped hard in front of many people for asking for a small candy bar, knowing they couldn't afford it. They were raised tough, and in that time when controversy was breaking out about the whole "slapping your kids" debate, the slightest mistakes in families here were given harsh punishments. If you didn't like what was for supper, the stove was there, and because they couldn't afford toasters, they threw a piece of bread over the open flame, toast for supper. There were no special meals set out for you. But they were family, and because of that everyone loved each other, and they learned to take NOTHING for granted. Think you got it rough? Think about this a little, how does this make you feel and how would you feel if you were living like this today? How am I able to be on a computer, because of the State of Maine everyone in grades 7+ is provided with a laptop computer. And the just of this is what my Parents and their parents lived like. And this didn't necessarily mean me parsay (misspelled), and my neighbors have wireless internet :P

Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students ? Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students The problem: Many American students graduate from college and high school each year, and face a roadblock to their dreams: they can't drive, can't work legally, can't further their education, and can't pay taxes to contribute to the economy just because they were brought to this country illegally by their parents or lost legal status along the way. It is a classic case of lost potential and broken dreams, and the permanent underclass of youth it creates is detrimental to our economy. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch has said: “In short, although these children have built their lives here, they have no possibility of achieving and living the American dream. What a tremendous loss for them, and what a tremendous loss to our society.” The solution: The federal DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), is a bipartisan legislation that would permit these students conditional legal status and eventual citizenship granted that they meet ALL the following requirements: --if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16, are below the age of 30, --have lived here continuously for five years, --graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained a GED --have good moral character with no criminal record and --attend college or enlist in the military. Why should you care? There is no other pathway to citizenship for these students. Besides the injustice of punishing children for the alleged transgressions of their parents, throwing away the talent we have invested in from K-12 and accruing losses in human and financial capital by deporting talented students is bad public policy. The Social Security Administration has recently stated that we need a net increase of 100,000 immigrants each year to ensure Social Security solvency. Passing the DREAM Act would actually help solve the Social Security crisis by creating a larger taxable base of educated Americans that are already in the United States. It would also free some of the backlog that currently plagues the legal immigration system. Also, the DREAM Act in its latest form, does not grant in-state tuition to any student. Endorsements: Since 2001, almost a 1000 organizations have officially endorsed the bill. Barack Obama has stated that DREAM Act beneficiaries are “American children for all intents and purposes” and has called this a top priority. Tell President-Elect Obama to pass the DREAM Act in 2009. See DreamActivist.org to get more involved. people that have criminal history, will not be able to to benefit from this. this bill helps out students who want to contribute back to society but in order to do so they have to prove that they really want it. either go to college or join the military. simple as that it is not amnesty is a path way to citizenship meaning if this bill is passed it dos not mean automatic citizenship. it means that they have to eran it to be able to the process.

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Does former ONDCP advisor Calvina Fay run most of the groups supporting Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids? It looks like a large portion of the groups on the home page of "Citizens Protecting Michigan's Children" ( www.nopotshops.com ) are only divisions of the Drug Free America Foundation, which is run by former ONDCP advisor Calvina Fay: Students Taking Action Not Drugs-- http://www.studentstakingaction.org/about.php Institute on Global Drug Policy -- http://www.dfaf.org/globaldrugpolicy.php International Scientific and Medical Forum on Drug Abuse -- http://www.dfaf.org/forum.php International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy -- http://www.itfsdp.org/pdfs/hrstatementbrussels.pdf Save Our Society From Drugs -- http://www.saveoursociety.org/aboutus.php National Drug-Free Workplace Alliance -- http://www.ndfwa.org/aboutus.php Drug-Free Workplace Network, Jerome L. Houfek, President. This group is a member of the National Drug-Free Workplace Alliance (a division of the Drug Free America Foundation of which Calvina Fay is executive director) The following groups and persons are strongly affiliated with Calvina Fay: The Student Drug-Testing Coalition (Calvina Fay is one of the directing members of this coalition) -- http://www.studentdrugtesting.org/Manual2l.pdf Drug Prevention Network of the Americas (Stephanie Haynes is president of this group and before that co-founded Straight, Inc. which changed its name to the Drug Free America Foundation, which is run by Calvina Fay.)-- http://www.thestraights.com/articles/dpna.htm Drug Free Schools Coalition -- "The Drug Free Schools Coalition. David Evans is executive director of the this coalition along with the likes of Colleen Wienhoff, former Vice Chairman of the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA). She gets paid to do drug testing. Evans is also with the The Legal Foundation Against Illicit Drugs, an organization co-founded by Calvina Fay, Executive Director of DFAF." -- http://www.thestraights.com/drugpolicy.htm New Jersey Federation for Drug-Free Communities' Geraldine Silverman, is a board member of Drug Watch International of which Calvina Fay was former President -- http://www.drugwatch.org/Board%20SUMMARY%20BIOS.htm The following groups are sending the wrong message to our children by breaking federal law. They are 501(c)3 education organizations that receive grants from the government and can receive tax-deductible donations under the regulations of the IRS and are not allowed to directly participate with groups that are trying to influence political elections, such as "Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids." Michigan Family Forum The Troy Community Coalition Michigan Prevention Association Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition of Southeast Michigan

What do u think of my essay? Hi! I'm a 12th grade Student. My essay is about the Reconstruction Period. What do u think of it? How much do u rate it from 1-100? Are there any errors? What are they? Thank you so Much! Reconstruction was the process in U.S. history from 1865-1877 that attempted to resolve the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. At the end of the Civil War , the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction wrought by the invading Union forces was enormous, and the old social and economic order founded on slavery had collapsed completely, with nothing to replace it. The 11 Confederate states somehow had to be restored to their positions in the Union and provided with loyal governments, and the role of the emancipated slaves in Southern society had to be defined. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. The North's victory settled two important issues. First, it established that states were not allowed to leave, or secede from, the United States. Second, it put an end to slavery throughout the country. But the end of the war also raised a whole new set of issues. For example, federal lawmakers had to decide whether to punish the Confederate leaders, what process to use to readmit the Southern states to the Union, and how much assistance to provide in securing equal rights for the freed slaves. Because these complicated issues carried a great deal of importance for the future of the nation, Reconstruction was a time of great political and social turmoil. President Andrew Johnson who took office after Abraham Lincoln, controlled the earliest Reconstruction efforts. But the U.S. Congress felt that the president's Reconstruction policies were too lenient (easy) on the South. Led by members of the Republican Party, Congress enacted stricter Reconstruction policies beginning in 1866 and sent in federal troops to enforce them. The ongoing dispute between Johnson and Congress led to the president's impeachment in 1868. On Mar. 2, 1867, Congress enacted the Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. Johnson continued to oppose congressional policy, and when he insisted on the removal of the radical Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton , in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act , the House impeached him (Feb., 1868). The radicals in the Senate fell one vote short of convicting him (May), but by this time Johnson's program had been effectively scuttled. Under the terms of the Reconstruction Acts, new state constitutions were written in the South. By Aug., 1868, six states (Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida) had been readmitted to the Union, having ratified the Fourteenth Amendment as required by the first Reconstruction Act. The four remaining unreconstructed states—Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia—were readmitted in 1870 after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the black man's right to vote. By 1876 only Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana remained under Republican domination. The Republican presidential candidate that year, Rutherford B. Hayes , promised to alleviate conditions in the South, but the feeling there had already led to the formation of the "solid South" in support of his Democratic opponent, Samuel J. Tilden . In those three states the presidential contest was the occasion for a determined effort to throw off Republican rule, and on their electoral votes (and on one disputed electoral vote in Oregon) hung the fate of the famous disputed election of 1876. It is practically certain that at least one of the three gave a majority, and thus the presidency, to Tilden, but two sets of returns were sent in from each of the three states. A specially constituted electoral commission (composed of eight Republicans and seven Democrats) accepted the Republican returns, and Hayes was given the presidency. Reconstruction officially ended as all federal troops were withdrawn from the South. White rule was restored, and black people were over time deprived of many civil and political rights and their economic position remained depressed. The radicals' hopes for a basic reordering of the social and economic structure of the South, beyond the abolition of slavery, died. The results, instead, were the one-party "solid South" and increased racial bitterness. They didn't ask me to mention resources. Do i need them if they didn't ask me to mention them? Thank you!

Editing help......??? If you have a few minutes to spare, could anyone please, please help me edit my paper. For many years, people have been debating how medical insurance should be paid: Whether private payment or government payment or some combination. Private payment means one would pay for ones own insurance. Government payment would mean the government pays for ones insurance. If the government were to pay for ones insurance, it would limit ones abilities. Also, Government already has to cover Medicare, Social Security, Government housing, the Federal Housing Committee, and the collapse of the Financial Institutions. To a lot of thoughtful people, the only way to fix the health insurance crisis in the United States is to get the federal government to cover everyone. In most states, individuals can be denied coverage for any number of reasons, so it is wise to request and compare more than one individual health insurance quote. The extra short-term effort that's required to apply for individual medical insurance plans is easily worth the long-term savings. If one is insuring ones family, as opposed to just oneself, there are some additional considerations to take into account. Even if one does receive coverage through an employer-sponsored health plan, one should consider the cost-saving benefits of switching to a family medical insurance policy or moving some of your family members off of your group policy into a family policy. Most Americans receive their health coverage through some type of group health insurance. Although large corporations with hundreds or even thousands of employees have the bargaining power to negotiate with medical insurance companies for custom health plans for their workers, the small business owner must still research options and compare prices from multiple providers. Since small business health insurance offers guaranteed coverage to all employees in a given company, it can be difficult and time consuming for a small business owner to find the best policy. Most major colleges and universities require their full-time students to have medical insurance. While many of these same schools also offer their own student health plan, it is wise to explore his or her options. Typically the school will provide the minimum requirements that a health policy must meet in order to waive coverage under the school's policy. As a senior over 65, one is likely covered under some combination of Medicare plans. Changes in recent years to the federal government's medical insurance program for seniors has created a complex system with rigid enrollment timelines. Currently, we have a mixed system, where the government heavily intervenes in health care. In Canada and Great Britain, they have fully governmental health care systems, but a black market of private medicine exists. The government regulates which drugs are available on the market, through the FDA and through the agencies that fight its War on Drugs. Currently, drug companies are granted monopoly privileges called "patents" that give them the exclusive right to sell their drug for 17 years. A few years ago, Congress passed legislation which actually outlawed the importation of cheaper drugs from other countries and prohibited the federal government's health insurance programs (such as Medicare and Medicaid) from negotiating for lower prices. This provision was repealed by the Democrats after they won control of Congress. Britain, Canada, Japan and a number of other rich countries do so, and they each spend less money on health care than the United States does. They also do not have major companies, like General Motors, flirting with bankruptcy in large part because of the cost of health benefits Health insurers made $100 billion in profits last year, and industries of that size are just not legislated out of business, said Jonathan Gruber, an economist. The party that controls the White House and Congress also opposes the idea. Republicans have their own utopian notions, which generally involve letting loose the free market for Americans to demand better care on their own. The discussion has basically been paralyzed for years. In the meantime, the problem has grown worse. In the United States, forty-six million people lack health insurance, according to the most recent estimate, up from thirty-one million in 1987. Massachusetts changed the terms of the debate. Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, and the State Legislature, controlled by the Democrats, reached a deal to cover almost everyone in the state. The plan will cut the cost of health insurance for families that do not have it and make it free for many poor families. The state will also require every resident to have insurance or face a stiff fine. The plan breaks free of the usual ideological shackles by dealing with both of the big reasons that nearly one- sixth of the U.S. population lacks insurance. One, many people cannot afford it. Two, some who can afford it imagin

Would someone plz post an Accomplishments BIO of OBama as I am of Hillary?

really need help? 1: Which was NOT a major success of Reconstruction in the South? an end to racist government policies the transformation into an industralized, urban region an end to tensions between the North and South all of the above 2: The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights gain control of the state legislatures restore the Confederacy improve the conditions for poor whites 3: The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that changed the way a President could hire government officials ensured the civil rights of African Americans restored the balance of power between the President and Congress shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court 4: Reconstruction succeeded in rebuilding many of the South's plantations forts railroads banks 5: The expansion of American industry was sparked mainly by public welfare programs technological advances and financial investments a decline in productivity in Europe government involvement in the economy 6: One thing a person could do in 1900 but not in 1865 was ride on a train sew a dress play a phonograph read at night 7: How did John D. Rockefeller gain control of the oil industry? He formed a trust. He practiced vertical consolidation. He joined a cartel. He practiced free trade. 8: The nation's first major labor strike was begun by railway workers angered about wage cuts and unsafe trains steel workers upset by the use of scabs women protesting lack of advancement in factories Pinkerton agents who threw a bomb at police 9: What was the one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act? They had to live on the land all year long. They had to farm the land for five years in a row. They had to file a claim with a bank. They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot 10: What was a major incentive in the settling of the West? the legal, private ownership of land the award of large land grants to the railroads the desire to limit slavery the refuge offered for outlaws and the oppressed 11: One reason that the United States became more urban during the late 1800s is that farm machines and factory-made goods reduced the need for farm labor nobody wanted to live on farms anymore immigrants did not know how to do farm work union organizing of farm workers had not yet begun 12: Where did European immigrants often settle in the United States? in western railroad towns in their ports of entry in the South near lakes 13: Prohibition groups saw a link between drinking and abuses by big business lower public morals anti-Asian feelings high tariffs 14: Reformers who tried to solve social problems by helping the needy believed that immoral behavior should be punished by deportation stricter laws were needed to discourage unacceptable behavior prosperous Americans should lead reform efforts the cultures of immigrant groups should be respected 15: During the late 1800s and early 1900s, what segment of American society was most likely to attend college? wealthy white men New Englanders gifted students middle-class women 16: During the early 1900s, most African Americans who went to college attended fully integrated universities African American colleges religious-based schools separate branches of white colleges 17: How did southern states keep African Americans from gaining political power? lynching segregation voting restrictions de facto discrimination 18: Why was the Open Door Policy important to the United States? It gave the United States territory in China It gave the United States access to millions of consumers in China It increased Chinese investments in the United States It kept European goods out of China 19: The United States followed a policy of expansionism in the late 1800s because European nations were eager to sell rights to their colonies many Americans were demanding high-quality foreign goods US factories needed foreign laborers the nation sought more markets for its goods 20: The first action of the Spanish-American War took place in the Philippines the Gulf of Mexico the harbor at Santiago, Cuba Puerto Rico 21: Among Latin Americans, United States actions related to the Panama Canal created hope for a prosperous future ill will toward the United States calls for Roosevelt's impeachment a long-lasting economic crisis 22: Progressivism was halted by the efforts of the NAACP World War I the repeal of the prohibition amendment the victory of the Bull Moose Party 23: Which belief was held by most Progressives? The government should be more accountable to its citizens. Housing and healthcare should remain private. The government should protect agricultural interests. The government should intervene in unfair business practices. 24: One goal that Progressives did not seek was the moral improvement of society the reduction of government corruption a ban on strikes child labor laws 25: One way reformers hoped to end corruption in government was to establish an income tax give voters more direct say in lawmaking provide more welfare services use the army to oust political machines 26: The platform of the Bull Moose Party supported unregulated competition the 12-hour work day women's suffrage a Federal Trade Commission 27: Under the terms of the Sussex pledge, the German government promised that the German navy would not attack any American ships German ships would not blockade Britain and France German U-boats would warn ships before attacking the German army would never invade Russia 28: The United States decided to enter World War I in response to Germany's return to unrestricted submarine warfare France's fall to the Central Powers the Czar's growing support in Russia a filibuster by United States senators 29: German submarines aimed to atack ships that were carrying weapons to the Allies passengers to the United States food to the Central Powers oil to Mexico 30: At the Paris Peace Conference, President Wilson's program for peace angered the Russians met no resistance among the Allies was backed only by France underwent several changes 31: After Wilson presented the treaty to the United States Senate, the Senate ratified it only the "irreconcilables" backed it the Senate rejected it only the "reservationists" backed it 32: One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was an increase in alcoholism a decline in dancing and socializing the rise of organized crime the creation of urban artistic colonies 33: Which of the following was a long-term effect of Prohibition? the consumer economy the growth of organized crime an end to alcoholism in the United States the rise of fundamentalism 34: William Jennings Bryan took up the cause of fundamentalist Christians at speakeasies in Chicago on new buses to the suburbs at the Scopes trial in Hollywood studios 35: Key features of Republican administrations of the 1920s included expansionism and business regulation isolationism and laissez-faire business policy a buildup of armaments and armed forces reduction of quotas and increased immigration 36: Why did many Americans fear Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers, the Bolsheviks? They promoted a system that was hostile to American values They refused to pay back Russia's war debts They had abolished the Russian monarchy They encouraged other nations to reject socialism 37: Generally, the 1920s were marked by rising farm prices rising stock prices falling production falling wages 38: One sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was uneven distribution of national wealth underproduction of consumer goods an increase in personal savings the collapse of large corporations 39: Which statement best describes the American economy in the 1920s? Wages decreased and the economy appeared weak Unemployment was at an all-time high Stock prices rose and the economy appeared healthy Small businesses dominated American industry 40: In the fall of 1929, a wave of panic selling gripped the stock market as a result of a sudden fall in stock prices corruption among stockbrokers business failures government limits on speculation 41: Not long after Black Tuesday, the stock market crash was affecting only those who had invested heavily in stocks wealthy industrialists almost exculsively millions of Americans, many of whom had never owned stocks mainly stockbrokers and banks 42: Why did FDR declare a "bank holiday" early in his administration? to cut of the use of cash to weaken the banking industry to inspect the financial health of the banks to give people in the banking industry a well-earned vacation 43: Which New Deal agency was created to help businesses? Federal Reserve Board National Recovery Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Home Owner's Loan Corporation 44: Which of the following did New Deal programs fail to address? protection of domestic workers low prices for agricultural products the decline of industrial prices Native Americans' need for schools, hospitals, and irrigation systems 45: All of the following New Deal agencies still endure today except the Tennessee Valley Authority Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Civilian Conservation Corps Securities and Exchange Commission 46: What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s? They overturned traditional governments and established democracies. They were economic giants and together controlled world trade. They sought to solve their nations' problems through conquest They angered other nations by their persecution of the Jews 47: Although Communists and Fascists have traditionally been enemies, in 1939 which Fascist made a pact with which Communist? Hitler with Chamberlain Hitler with Stalin Hitler with Franco Stalin with Franco 48: Nazism was an extreme form of communism fascism nationalism none of the above 49: During the 1930s, the United States focused largely on preparing for war domestic affairs international affairs international and domestic affairs 50: Congress passed Neutrality Acts that were designed to support other neutral states around the world support other nations in the Western Hemisphere limit international involvement allow nations to purchase weapons on credit I know this is a whole lot i have done all this i just dont wanna turn it in untill i know its totally right please helpp &&&& please if you have nothin good to say and if your going to yell at me not comment.. THANX