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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.

Would you support a political contender if they stood unwavering for these promises? End the Wars of Aggression: The U.S. should withdraw all forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and all other occupied nations. End the War on Drugs: The federal government should repeal all laws against the use and trade of "controlled substances." The states and local communities should also permit people to freely choose what substances they wish to consume without government intervention End the Abuses of Liberty: Congress should repeal the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act & FISA Acts and abolish the NSA, TSA, CIA and any other federal agency that infringes on individual rights. Congress should review and revoke the emergency powers granted to the President in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks. The U.S. should restore privacy by forbidding warrant-less wiretapping of phone and internet communication. The U.S. must restore habeas corpus, allowing all detainees, foreign and domestic, a speedy and public trial. No physical or environmental discomfort should be used to influence the interrogation of suspects for any crime. The U.S. government must respect the rights of all people, regardless of place of birth, status of citizenship, or suspicion of criminality. End the Immigration Fiasco: Rather than suddenly decide to enforce long-ignored immigration laws, the U.S. should open the borders to trade and travel. We should loosen restrictions on citizens and visitors alike, allowing people of many backgrounds and cultures to coexist in a society of social and economic freedom and prosperity. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agencies at all levels of government should be abolished and dismantled immediately. Privacy: We must protect the privacy and civil liberties of all persons under US jurisdiction. We must repeal or radically change the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, elimination of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the people for the benefit of the government. We must reject the unitary presidency, the illegal use of signing statements and excessive use of executive orders. The National Debt: We believe that there should be no increase in the national debt. The burden of debt placed on the next generation is unjust and already threatening our economy and the value of our dollar. We must pay our bills as we go along and not unfairly place this burden on a future generation. Who runs on this platform? Do you know?

What do U think of this Court Says Ok To Deny Illegal Alien Public Service Isn’t it a federal law against? In a rare case for a state that has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary, an appellate court in Oregon has ruled in favor of a state agency that denied an illegal alien costly public services based on her immigration status. Oregon's largest regulatory agency, the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS), rejected a claim to provide and illegal immigrant vocational assistance benefits after a 2005 work injury that resulted in a permanent impairment. The DCBS, which administers state workers' compensation and occupational safety laws, still awarded the illegal alien an undisclosed award for the impairment. However, the woman (Carmen Carreon) wanted more taxpayer-financed perks in the form of vocational assistance. The agency determined that she was ineligible for the benefit because she was not authorized to work in the United States. Carreon had the audacity to sue the DCBS for denying her the services, claiming that the agency's director overreached by creating an eligibility requirement not granted by Oregon's legislature. The Oregon Court of Appeals disagreed, ruling this week that state law grants the agency's director the authority to establish additional conditions for providing vocational assistance. Imposing a rule that requires a person to be legally authorized to work in the United States is a valid exercise of the authority granted to the director, the court said in its decision. Public agencies seldom reject illegal immigrants in Oregon, which has a statewide sanctuary law prohibiting police agencies and local governments from using any resources to apprehend or report illegal aliens. The state's largest city-Portland-has its own official sanctuary ordinance aside from the blanket measure. These sorts of protections have evidently emboldened illegal immigrants who are increasingly taking legal action against government agencies for denying their "rights." In the last few months alone, illegal aliens across the nation have sued various law enforcement agencies for violating their constitutional rights. Among them is an Ohio sheriff who helped deport a Mexican with false identification cards, a Maryland sheriff who arrested an illegal Salvadoran woman and federal agents who apprehended a group of illegal aliens in a Connecticut immigration raid. http://www.rightsidenews.com/201001318462/border-and-sovereignty/court-says-ok-to-deny-illegal-alien-public-service.html What do U think of this Court Says Ok To Deny Illegal Alien Public Service ?Isn’t it a federal law against coming into this country illegally - yet the politicians prevent local law enforcement from enforcing the law - setting up sanctuary cities?

How would I summarize this article help please? How Would i summarize this article? The Court Confronts a Grievous Injury For years, the Bush administration has worked with industry to try to water down the public’s protections by preventing states from enforcing rules and regulations tougher than those required by the federal government. It has tried to apply this policy of pre-emption to rules issued by a slew of federal agencies and is now asking the Supreme Court to approve its improper ideological stand when it comes to drug safety On Monday, the court heard arguments in the case of a Vermont musician who lost her arm after being injected with an anti-nausea drug. There is no doubt that Diana Levine was badly injured by a drug made by Wyeth. The only question is whether the Supreme Court will uphold her right to sue the company over its failure to adequately warn of a drug’s dangers. Or will it buy the arguments of the industry and the Bush administration that companies like Wyeth should be protected from such lawsuits in state courts if the products that caused the injury met federal regulatory standards? The administration wants approval by the Food and Drug Administration to be the final word in these cases, not state laws like Vermont’s that often require the manufacturer to meet a higher standard in warning doctors and patients about potential dangers. The court should rule in favor of Ms. Levine. Ms. Levine went to a clinic seeking relief for a migraine headache. She received Demerol for her headache and Wyeth’s Phenergan to combat nausea, both administered by injections into the muscle, which is the preferred route of administration. When the headaches persisted, she returned for more treatment. This time, the same medicines were administered by an intravenous “push” technique that is known to be risky — using a needle inserted into a vein. A physician’s assistant mistakenly hit an artery, with catastrophic results. Ms. Levine quickly developed gangrene; her hand and lower arm had to be amputated. She sued the physician’s assistant, the supervising physician and the clinic for malpractice and won an out-of-court settlement, as well she should have. Then she sued Wyeth for failing to warn the clinicians to use the much safer “IV drip” technique, in which the drug is injected into a stream of liquid flowing from a hanging bag that already has been safely connected to a vein, making it highly unlikely that the drug will reach an artery. A trial court awarded her $6.7 million, and the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Now Wyeth, supported by the Bush administration, has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict on the grounds that Wyeth complied with federal regulatory requirements. We do not buy Wyeth’s argument that it did everything it needed to, or could have done, to warn doctors about the dangers involved in the treatment Ms. Levine received. Wyeth did warn of some dangers of the drug treatment, in words approved by the F.D.A., but the state court was well within its rights to conclude that those warnings were insufficient. And that is the greater point. When Congress revised the federal law governing the F.D.A. in 2007, drug companies wanted, but did not get, a provision shielding them from this sort of lawsuit. The drug industry and its administration allies now want the court to ignore the absence of express legal language and grant drug companies immunity based on a phony assertion that state lawsuits improperly usurp federal regulatory authority. For the court to broadly endorse the concept of “implied pre-emption” in this case would show disrespect for the considered decisions of Congress and could foreclose injury suits involving not only drugs, but also motor vehicles, household products and other things. The ultimate effect would be to undermine consumer safety. Far from usurping the F.D.A.’s power, litigation aimed at holding drug companies liable for problems like those in this case complement the agency’s efforts to protect the public. For many years the F.D.A. welcomed state failure-to-warn suits as reinforcing those efforts; two former commissioners, David Kessler and Donald Kennedy, made that point in a brief in the case. Only under President Bush did the agency overrule its top staff members and try to pre-empt such suits. We hope this business-friendly Supreme Court will preserve the consumer protection that state tort actions often provide. Otherwise, the incoming president and Congress will need to pass corrective legislation. How would I summarize this article? Im not so sure on what its talking about and how I would analyze it. Please help

Are You Considering Joining or Forming a Labor Union? Know your Employee Rights : EMPLOYEE RIGHTS UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT The NLRA guarantees the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers, and to engage in other protected concerted activity. Employees covered by the NLRA* are protected from certain types of employer and union misconduct. This Notice gives you general information about your rights, and about the obligations of employers and unions under the NLRA. Contact the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal agency that investigates and resolves complaints under the NLRA, using the contact information supplied below, if you have any questions about specific rights that may apply in your particular workplace. Under the NLRA, you have the right to: • Organize a union to negotiate with your employer concerning your wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. • Form, join or assist a union. • Bargain collectively through representatives of employees’ own choosing for a contract with your employer setting your wages, benefits, hours, and other working conditions. • Discuss your terms and conditions of employment or union organizing with your co-workers or a union. • Take action with one or more co-workers to improve your working conditions by, among other means, raising work-related complaints directly with your employer or with a government agency, and seeking help from a union. • Strike and picket, depending on the purpose or means of the strike or the picketing. • Choose not to do any of these activities, including joining or remaining a member of a union. Under the NLRA, it is illegal for your employer to: • Prohibit you from soliciting for a union during non-work time, such as before or after work or during break times; or from distributing union literature during non-work time, in non-work areas, such as parking lots or break rooms. • Question you about your union support or activities in a manner that discourages you from engaging in that activity. • Fire, demote, or transfer you, or reduce your hours or change your shift, or otherwise take adverse action against you, or threaten to take any of these actions, because you join or support a union, or because you engage in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, or because you choose not to engage in any such activity. • Threaten to close your workplace if workers choose a union to represent them. • Promise or grant promotions, pay raises, or other benefits to discourage or encourage union support. • Prohibit you from wearing union hats, buttons, t-shirts, and pins in the workplace except under special circumstances. • Spy on or videotape peaceful union activities and gatherings or pretend to do so. http://www.dol.gov/olms/regs/compliance/EmployeeRightsPoster11x17_Final.pdf No how many times that you cowardly anti-union Fascists delete me, I will repost.

How Would i summarize this article? The Court Confronts a Grievous Injury For years, the Bush administration has worked with industry to try to water down the public’s protections by preventing states from enforcing rules and regulations tougher than those required by the federal government. It has tried to apply this policy of pre-emption to rules issued by a slew of federal agencies and is now asking the Supreme Court to approve its improper ideological stand when it comes to drug safety On Monday, the court heard arguments in the case of a Vermont musician who lost her arm after being injected with an anti-nausea drug. There is no doubt that Diana Levine was badly injured by a drug made by Wyeth. The only question is whether the Supreme Court will uphold her right to sue the company over its failure to adequately warn of a drug’s dangers. Or will it buy the arguments of the industry and the Bush administration that companies like Wyeth should be protected from such lawsuits in state courts if the products that caused the injury met federal regulatory standards? The administration wants approval by the Food and Drug Administration to be the final word in these cases, not state laws like Vermont’s that often require the manufacturer to meet a higher standard in warning doctors and patients about potential dangers. The court should rule in favor of Ms. Levine. Ms. Levine went to a clinic seeking relief for a migraine headache. She received Demerol for her headache and Wyeth’s Phenergan to combat nausea, both administered by injections into the muscle, which is the preferred route of administration. When the headaches persisted, she returned for more treatment. This time, the same medicines were administered by an intravenous “push” technique that is known to be risky — using a needle inserted into a vein. A physician’s assistant mistakenly hit an artery, with catastrophic results. Ms. Levine quickly developed gangrene; her hand and lower arm had to be amputated. She sued the physician’s assistant, the supervising physician and the clinic for malpractice and won an out-of-court settlement, as well she should have. Then she sued Wyeth for failing to warn the clinicians to use the much safer “IV drip” technique, in which the drug is injected into a stream of liquid flowing from a hanging bag that already has been safely connected to a vein, making it highly unlikely that the drug will reach an artery. A trial court awarded her $6.7 million, and the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Now Wyeth, supported by the Bush administration, has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict on the grounds that Wyeth complied with federal regulatory requirements. We do not buy Wyeth’s argument that it did everything it needed to, or could have done, to warn doctors about the dangers involved in the treatment Ms. Levine received. Wyeth did warn of some dangers of the drug treatment, in words approved by the F.D.A., but the state court was well within its rights to conclude that those warnings were insufficient. And that is the greater point. When Congress revised the federal law governing the F.D.A. in 2007, drug companies wanted, but did not get, a provision shielding them from this sort of lawsuit. The drug industry and its administration allies now want the court to ignore the absence of express legal language and grant drug companies immunity based on a phony assertion that state lawsuits improperly usurp federal regulatory authority. For the court to broadly endorse the concept of “implied pre-emption” in this case would show disrespect for the considered decisions of Congress and could foreclose injury suits involving not only drugs, but also motor vehicles, household products and other things. The ultimate effect would be to undermine consumer safety. Far from usurping the F.D.A.’s power, litigation aimed at holding drug companies liable for problems like those in this case complement the agency’s efforts to protect the public. For many years the F.D.A. welcomed state failure-to-warn suits as reinforcing those efforts; two former commissioners, David Kessler and Donald Kennedy, made that point in a brief in the case. Only under President Bush did the agency overrule its top staff members and try to pre-empt such suits. We hope this business-friendly Supreme Court will preserve the consumer protection that state tort actions often provide. Otherwise, the incoming president and Congress will need to pass corrective legislation. How would I summarize this article? Im not so sure on what its talking about and how I would analyze it. Please help

How would I summarize/analyze this article? How Would i summarize this article? The Court Confronts a Grievous Injury For years, the Bush administration has worked with industry to try to water down the public’s protections by preventing states from enforcing rules and regulations tougher than those required by the federal government. It has tried to apply this policy of pre-emption to rules issued by a slew of federal agencies and is now asking the Supreme Court to approve its improper ideological stand when it comes to drug safety On Monday, the court heard arguments in the case of a Vermont musician who lost her arm after being injected with an anti-nausea drug. There is no doubt that Diana Levine was badly injured by a drug made by Wyeth. The only question is whether the Supreme Court will uphold her right to sue the company over its failure to adequately warn of a drug’s dangers. Or will it buy the arguments of the industry and the Bush administration that companies like Wyeth should be protected from such lawsuits in state courts if the products that caused the injury met federal regulatory standards? The administration wants approval by the Food and Drug Administration to be the final word in these cases, not state laws like Vermont’s that often require the manufacturer to meet a higher standard in warning doctors and patients about potential dangers. The court should rule in favor of Ms. Levine. Ms. Levine went to a clinic seeking relief for a migraine headache. She received Demerol for her headache and Wyeth’s Phenergan to combat nausea, both administered by injections into the muscle, which is the preferred route of administration. When the headaches persisted, she returned for more treatment. This time, the same medicines were administered by an intravenous “push” technique that is known to be risky — using a needle inserted into a vein. A physician’s assistant mistakenly hit an artery, with catastrophic results. Ms. Levine quickly developed gangrene; her hand and lower arm had to be amputated. She sued the physician’s assistant, the supervising physician and the clinic for malpractice and won an out-of-court settlement, as well she should have. Then she sued Wyeth for failing to warn the clinicians to use the much safer “IV drip” technique, in which the drug is injected into a stream of liquid flowing from a hanging bag that already has been safely connected to a vein, making it highly unlikely that the drug will reach an artery. A trial court awarded her $6.7 million, and the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Now Wyeth, supported by the Bush administration, has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict on the grounds that Wyeth complied with federal regulatory requirements. We do not buy Wyeth’s argument that it did everything it needed to, or could have done, to warn doctors about the dangers involved in the treatment Ms. Levine received. Wyeth did warn of some dangers of the drug treatment, in words approved by the F.D.A., but the state court was well within its rights to conclude that those warnings were insufficient. And that is the greater point. When Congress revised the federal law governing the F.D.A. in 2007, drug companies wanted, but did not get, a provision shielding them from this sort of lawsuit. The drug industry and its administration allies now want the court to ignore the absence of express legal language and grant drug companies immunity based on a phony assertion that state lawsuits improperly usurp federal regulatory authority. For the court to broadly endorse the concept of “implied pre-emption” in this case would show disrespect for the considered decisions of Congress and could foreclose injury suits involving not only drugs, but also motor vehicles, household products and other things. The ultimate effect would be to undermine consumer safety. Far from usurping the F.D.A.’s power, litigation aimed at holding drug companies liable for problems like those in this case complement the agency’s efforts to protect the public. For many years the F.D.A. welcomed state failure-to-warn suits as reinforcing those efforts; two former commissioners, David Kessler and Donald Kennedy, made that point in a brief in the case. Only under President Bush did the agency overrule its top staff members and try to pre-empt such suits. We hope this business-friendly Supreme Court will preserve the consumer protection that state tort actions often provide. Otherwise, the incoming president and Congress will need to pass corrective legislation. How would I summarize this article? Im not so sure on what its talking about and how I would analyze it. Please help

What political party should I be? I don't feel I fit well in any of the political party choices, but I am open to helpful feedback. Here are my views in several areas: Personal/Civil Liberties and Rights: Very libertarian. Adults ought to be allowed to do as they please as long as no one is hurt. Ex: Abolish the wasteful/useless War on Drugs--legalize and regulate so-called soft drugs, hard drugs treat as a public health treatment issue similar to Portugal. Economics: Revisit an old idea called distributism which says ownership should be expanded to include all citizens through ESOPs, cooperative enterprises, capital accounts for all citizens--just as there are social security accounts for all, community investment and development corporations to encourage co-ownership in the economy. Consolidate many federal agencies into more efficient ones, abolish many and use the negative income tax paired with some version of a flat tax or graduated flat tax to set a floor for subsistence. Allow for the partial privatization of social security under realistic guidelines. Allow for fully funded voucher systems in education to allow people to choose their child's school. Community based schools could be reorganized as teacher-owned cooperatives in education which, if efficient, could even turn a profit for the teacher-owners. Turn the Dept. of Education into a technical resource clearinghouse for ideas. Privatize many government agencies using either private sector contractors carry out those functions or use a cooperative model and allow cross-community collaboration. The Feds should oversee these to assure quality compliance at the federal level, the states at the state level. Healthcare: Reform the new healthcare law to allow and require states to create a healthcare/insurance system for all their citizens using block grants from the feds as needed. Set targets and goals to assure coverage and basic standards. Invest in scientific research through a clearinghouse of public and heavily-based private research dollars. Develop collaboration models for space exploration with other countries or through international and private institutions. Foreign Policy: Draw down US military presence in non-conflict areas such as Europe, parts of Asia, and around the world. Insist that allies begin to take on their own burden for defense while increasing the use of international institutions to promote peaceful conflict resolution, address worldwide poverty and illness. Share the cost, share the burden, share the love. Other issues: Abortion--split the differences. Ban 3rd trimester abortions unless medically compelling. Allow 1st trimester abortions--up to the woman, turn 2nd trimester over to each state to decide. Government innovation--encourage and allow state and local governments to experiment with collaborative efforts across jurisdictional lines to offer services and improve quality of life issues. Anyway, thoughtful answers are appreciated.

Is the Department of Justice supposed to enforce United States laws? (Judicial Watch) — The Obama Justice Department has recently awarded millions of dollars in politically-motivated grants with a chunk of the money going to community groups that help illegal immigrants, a Judicial Watch investigation has found. “Nonprofits” that share the administration’s anti-capital punishment stance also got quite a bit of money from the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to grant announcements posted on the government’s spending website and analyzed in the course of JW’s probe. In fact, just last month the DOJ gave the Innocence Project of Texas its first federal grant, a whopping quarter of a million dollars. The group has worked endlessly to abolish the death penalty in the Lone Star State. . . . Outrageous as those may seem, the federal agency charged with enforcing the law and defending the nation’s interests dedicated even more taxpayer money to help illegal aliens in the last few months, JW found. Just last month the New York-based Vera Institute of Justice got nearly $3 million for a “legal orientation program” for detained aliens. The group, which gets significant funding from leftwing billionaire George Soros, had previously received millions of dollars in federal contracts in the last several years. Other open borders groups also got money from the DOJ, including the California-based National Immigration Law Center, which is dedicated to fighting “draconian restrictions on immigrants’ rights” and boasts about having a “strong presence in Washington D.C.” The DOJ gave it $66,000 this year for “immigration-related employment discrimination public education.” Last spring the group got a similar DOJ grant for $65,453.

Do you agree that SB1070 isn’t Just Racist It’s Unconstitutional and Counterproductive? Do you think Arizona is getting more attention then they wanted by signing this ridiculous bill? The boycott is going viral, and now even violence towards hispanics has sparked on the streets of Phoenix. What do you think? http://qwstnevrythg.com/2010/04/arizonas-vicious-new-anti-im/ Arizona’s Vicious New Anti-Immigrant Law Isn’t Just Racist; It’s Unconstitutional and Counterproductive The conservative “states’ rights” mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them if they fail to produce their papers. What constitutes “reasonable suspicion”? When asked what an undocumented person looks like, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last week, said, “I don’t know what an undocumented person looks like.” The bill does not prohibit police from relying on race or ethnicity in deciding who to stop. It is unlikely that officers will detain Irish or German immigrants to check their documents. This law unconstitutionally criminalizes “walking while brown” in Arizona. Former Arizona attorney general Grant Woods explained to Brewer that SB 1070 would vest too much discretion in the state police and lead to racial profiling and expensive legal fees for the state. By establishing a separate state crime for anyone who violates federal immigration law, the new Arizona law contravenes the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which grants the federal government exclusive power to regulate U.S. borders.**** The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police also criticized the legislation, saying it will “negatively affect the ability of law enforcement agencies across the state to fulfill their many responsibilities in a timely manner;” the group believes the immigration issue is best addressed at the federal level. Ironically, expelling unauthorized immigrants from Arizona would be costly. The Perryman Group calculated that Arizona would lose $26.4 billion in economic activity, $11.7 billion in gross state product, and approximately 140,324 jobs if all undocumented people were removed from the state. “This bill does nothing to address human smuggling, the drug cartels, the arms smuggling,” according to Democratic Senator Rebecca Rios. SB 1070 is the latest, albeit one of the worst, racist attacks on undocumented immigrants. The federal program called 287(g) allows certain state and local law enforcement agencies to engage in federal immigration enforcement activities. “SB 1070 is tearing our state into two,” said Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who called the bill “bitter, small-minded and full of hate.”

Why should DC be recession-proof? It's a fact that Dems and Repubs have fed this monster but I think we the people (or 'the subjects' as they see us) should find some common ground and put the monster on a diet. Excerpts "No matter how far the economy falters, there is always a winner. And no city does better when the nation is at the brink of disaster than Washington, DC. Since December 2007, when the current recession formally began, the nation has lost approximately 6 million jobs. Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, have lost a smaller percentage of jobs than Washington, DC, which has seen a job loss of 0.6%, or 4,400. Simply put, Washington has done better in this recession than 48 of the fifty states when it comes to job performance." "Washington has always been a one industry town: that’s why it has an intrinsically self-absorbed monotonic culture. Everyone there depends on government for their livelihood. It is fundamentally not a city of competitive industries, but a giant taxpayer-funded office park, surrounded by museums and memorials. The great presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson, have their own monuments, while more recent leaders have concert halls and office buildings named after them. Today Washington, DC appears much as the twenty-first century version of a gold mining town, even if the gold, so to speak, is coming from taxpayers as well as foreign buyers of our increasingly debased US currency. The Bush Administration kicked off this boom when it created the third largest cabinet department, the Department of Homeland Security, (by consolidating unrelated federal agencies into one super-sized department) and made it the employer of airport baggage and security inspectors across the nation. A new federal agency deserves a new headquarters, of course. DHS is now rising on the site of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in southeast Washington DC, a pre-stimulus stimulus for the District of Columbia. The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act may be only slowly stimulating the nation’s economy but it is already working wonders in DC. Everyone wants a piece of the action. There is a surge in the lobbying industry, with every school board, regional transit agency and county government hiring a lobbyist to guide them through the new federal grant programs." http://www.newgeography.com/content/00902-washington-dc-the-real-winner-recession _________________________________________________________________________________ On a personal note, a friend of mine Boris who fled the Soviet Union says this is a familiar story. He says there were really just two classes. He's very intelligent and had the right connections and could have had it made, but he has a rebellious streak. For example, rather than putting his name on a waiting list for a govt issued car, he went to scrap yards and built his own. He says 'I was never destitute..usually had some money in my pocket, but the store shelves were bare for the most part, unless you were on the inside..then you had it made. You didn't stand in line and didn't even shop those stores. The good stuff was delivered to your door and you could run a tab on a monthly govt account.'

Is it time for a Roosevelt style New Deal in Order to save this country? Franklin D. Roosevelt's program was known as the New Deal. Under it, the federal government took far more responsibility for the economic welfare of the people than it had in any previous administration. One amendment to the Constitution was passed—the 21st (1933), which repealed the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment. Relief Measures The nation's economic system was almost at a standstill when Roosevelt became President on March 4, 1933. Nearly every state government had declared a banking holiday, or moratorium, to prevent depositors from withdrawing all their funds and ruining the banks. Roosevelt declared a four-day national banking holiday. He then obtained, in one day, legislation from Congress that permitted reopening of most banks under certification by the federal government that they were sound. Later banking reforms included insuring of deposits through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The New Deal provided large sums of federal money for direct payments to needy citizens through grants (rather than loans) to the states. It also established various new agencies to provide government-sponsored work for the unemployed. Through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) special projects were devised to provide employment for skilled and unskilled labor and for such persons as writers, artists, actors, and musicians. A vast program of public works—the construction of public buildings, highways, dams, and similar projects—was begun under the Public Works Administration (PWA). Young men were employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to work on conservation projects. A basic goal of the New Deal was to raise both wages and prices, which had dropped lower and lower as the depression continued. The National Industrial Recovery Act called for the cooperation of labor and management in setting prices, minimum wages, and working hours within various industries. The act also gave workers the right to join unions without interference from employers. To increase the income of farmers, the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed. It included provisions for paying farmers to reduce the acreage of certain crops and to limit livestock holdings. These measures were intended to reduce surpluses, which caused low prices. Both the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act later were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. However, the right of workers to organize was reinforced by the National Labor Relations Act (1935), the constitutionality of which was upheld by the court. Later legislation restored other gains for labor that originally had been part of the Recovery Act. A revised Agricultural Adjustment Act, passed in 1938, retained the basic provisions of the farm relief program and was later sustained by the Supreme Court. Other New Deal Programs Along with its relief program, the New Deal enacted various measures for the reform of business practices, many of which resulted in increasing the scope of government activity. The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933. The Securities and Exchange Commission was established to regulate the stock market. The Social Security Act of 1935 provided for unemployment insurance and old-age pensions. In 1936 Roosevelt was reelected, carrying every state except Maine and Vermont against the Republican candidate, Alfred M. Landon. During Roosevelt's second term, the United States Housing Authority was established to advance funds to cities for replacing slums with low-rental housing projects for low-income families. In 1937, in order to get a Supreme Court more receptive to his policies, Roosevelt asked Congress to enact legislation increasing the number of justices. He was accused of trying to "pack" the court and the plan was defeated. However, the court eventually became more sympathetic toward the New Deal. In 1940 Roosevelt sought election to an unprecedented third term—no President had ever served more than two terms. He went on to defeat Republican candidate Wendell Willkie.By 1940, the New Deal crusade for economic reform had all but ended. War in Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia caused the Roosevelt administration to shift its main attention to foreign policy and national defense. In September Congress authorized the first peacetime military draft in the nation's history. In October, 16,300,000 men registered and the draft began soon afterwards. Because of the New Dael My Grandfather went to school as an Electrician He wired Hoover Damn Later in life he managed a Power plant here in the South West My other Grand Father became a Fireman and later a Fire chief Both were strong Union Men Because Obama and Democrats pandered too much to the right the recovery act did not work as well and was not nearly enough .

american history homework help? wat is the term for... 1. common term for the blacks newly liberated from slavery 2. federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts 3. the largest african american denomination (church) after slavery 4. lincoln's 1863 program for rapid reconstruction of the south 5. the constitutional amendment freeing all the slaves 6. the harsh southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a stable black labor supply 7. the constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former confederates from office 8. republican reconstructionists who favored a more rapid restoration of southern state governments and opposed to radical plans for drastic economic transformation of the south 9. republican reconstructionists who favored keeping the south out of the federal government until a complete social and economic revolution was accomplished in the region 10. the black political organization that promoted self-help and defense of political rights 11. supreme court ruling that military tribunals could not try civilians when the civil courts were open 12. derogatory term for white southerners who cooperated with the republican reconstruction governments 13. derogatory term for Northerners who came to the south during reconstruction and sometimes took part in republican state governments 14. constitutional amendment guaranteeing blacks the right to vote 15. "seward's folly," acquired in 1867 from russia

Why aren't Environmentalists protesting the biggest polluter of all - Uncle Sam? The single biggest polluter is the Military. However, they are hardly the only government agency to harm the environment. President Obama's Stimulus Program is building more roads, which will only encourage more people to drive their pollution machines. Other government agencies that hurt the environment include the IRS and the Federal Reserve, both of which are notorious for their waste of paper. I have almost certainly forgot numerous other government programs that hurt the environment. Besides all of this, it was Uncle Sam who granted businesses the right to pollute on other peoples' property in the first place (until about a century ago, it was illegal to pollute on another person's property without their permission). Shouldn't Environmentalists be focusing on Uncle Sam's pollution instead of going after small-time polluters?

When WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TAKE BACK THEIR REPUBLIC FROM THE CONTROL OF US CORPORATE GOVERNMENT? DUN & BRADSTREET listings of government units, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities. No doubt about the search results regarding the complete ‘federalization’ or ‘corporatization’ of the purported ‘government’. Nothing about the “United States” or “UNITED STATES” is as it appears or is commonly presumed to be. It is a ‘de facto’ ‘doctrine of necessity’ by ‘occupation’ in ‘bankruptcy’ operating for the benefit of undisclosed third-party Principals who also allege to be Holders in Due Course as “Prime Creditors”. Lawful government was deconstructed when after the Civil War the states and the ten southern states were ‘Reconstructed’ during and within the Reconstruction Acts. The current form of ‘government’ has nothing to do with lawful ‘government’ or ‘governance’ of/by/for the people or the de jure union of several American states. Every aspect of the idea of ‘government’ has been incorporated and operates as an implied ‘resultant’ equity constructive TRUST and commercial franchise of the UNITED STATES, having no fixed or pre-determined rules to run by, because the organic rules operated ‘without the United States’-District of Columbia, ‘within the United States of America’, which is a diverse and distinctly different entity at law in commerce. This subject can be elaborated ad nauseam, but the gist is what you may have already summarized and concluded. How can a corporate executive of a non-Constitutional entity be held accountable to his actions under a Constitutional standard, where there is no one in any aspect of the same CORPORATION that has authority to do so? Furthermore, the CORPORATION itself has no nexus to the Organic Constitution for the United States of America, where exist the only mechanisms and constructs for ‘lawful government’ and protections of un/in-a-lien-able Rights under the Bill of Rights. The CORPORATION is itself an abomination. The Federal Convention 1787, September 14. The state delegates voted on the motion to delegate authority to Congress to incorporate or to grant charters of incorporation, and it was explicitly rejected. (BELOW IS THE BEGAINING OF ALL THE US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES LISTED ON DUN AND BRADSTREET) < PreviousShowing 1 of 1Sort by: Next > HQEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQOFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY Also Traded as EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT750 17TH ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, OFFICE OF OLD EXECUTIVE OFFICE BLDG, RM 431, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 725 17TH ST NW RM 4208, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 725 17TH ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1724 F ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1700 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, RM 100 EEOB, WASHINGTON, DC HQEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQCONSOLIDATED EXECUTIVE OFFICE CONSOLIDATED EXECUTIVE OFFICE 950 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQTRUSTEES, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR THE US TRUSTEES, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR THE US 20 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, WASHINGTON, DC HQATTORNEYS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR UNITED STATES 600 E STREET NW STE 8302, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 444 N CAPITOL ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 1140, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 216, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF UTAH EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF UTAH 444 N CAPITOL ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE 444 N CAPITOL CITY STE 230, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 444 N CAPITOL ST NW # 134, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 332, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 224, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMEN Dun and Bradstreet is not a world wide recognized reporting agencies according to an educated person !!!

1977 National Women's Conference Plan of Action success? The plan of action adopted at the 1977 National Women’s Conference featured 26 resolutions, or planks, on the following topics: By a topic by topic breakdown how successful have each of these been? Arts and humanities: Women should have equal opportunities in federal posts and equal access to arts grants. Battered women: A national clearinghouse must be created to support local organizations helping battered women and working to prevent domestic violence. Business: More government contracts to women-owned businesses, which numbered less than one percent in 1977. Child abuse: More prevention, treatment and protective services. Child care: Care must be low cost and high quality. Credit: The Equal Credit Opportunity Act must be enforced to make sure that women are no longer denied credit on the basis of gender. Disabled women: Equal access to education, training, employment and child custody rights. Education: More women in leadership positions and in textbooks. Title IX must be enforced. Elective and appointive office: More representation of women. Employment: More job opportunities and less discrimination. Equal Rights Amendment: The ERA must be ratified. Health: Health insurance benefits must include family planning and other concerns relevant to women. Homemakers: Must be covered under Social Security and have greater economic security, especially in the event of divorce or the death of a spouse. Insurance: Eliminate practices that deny women coverage on the basis of gender. International affairs: Increase the number of women in the departments of state and defense, aid women in developing nations and promote nuclear disarmament. Media: More women in media jobs, especially in leadership positions. Minority women: Eliminate discrimination, support affirmative action, guarantee tribal rights and prevent deportation of mothers of American-born children. Offenders: Improve health services and educational and vocational training. Older women: Help older women live with dignity. Rape: Expand the definition of rape to include married men who abuse their wives and reduce legal burdens on victims. Reproductive freedom: Support Roe v. Wade, promote family planning and allow Medicaid payments for abortion. Rural women: Create a federal rural education policy and expand ownership rights for farm wives. Sexual preference: Implement legislation to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sexual preference and repeal state laws restricting private sexual behavior between consenting adults. Statistics: Federal agencies should collect and analyze data in ways that assess the impact on women. Women, welfare and poverty: Improve social security and retirement systems, raise minimum wage, provide child care and focus on welfare and poverty as major women’s issues. Continuing committee of the conference: Create a committee to follow up on recommendations and take steps to convene a Second National Women’s Conference.

Do you fear that one day the government will take over and invade your privacy? Wouldn't you agree that the following executive orders (which are associated with FEMA) would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen: - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

Any lawyers out there? 1. Which of the following is beyond the enforcement power of an agency? A) imposing civil penalties. B) issuing a cease-and-desist order. C) requiring proof of compliance with agency regulations. D) convicting of criminal violations. 2. An administrative agency is barred from examining the records of a business enterprise by the Constitutional guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. A) True B) False 3. Which statement is true concerning administrative hearings? A) It generally is necessary to give notice and to allow affected persons to be present. B) Denial of a jury trial is a denial of due process. C) Traditional courtroom rules of evidence must be applied. D) An existing business has the right to challenge the granting of a license to a potential competitor. 4. The term constitution may refer to the structure of the government or to the written document setting forth that structure. A) True B) False 5. Administrative agencies generally are not subject to the rules of evidence. A) True B) False 6. When the President negotiates a treaty with a foreign country and submits it to the Senate for approval, the President's action is based on: A) an amendment by judicial interpretation. B) an amendment by practice. C) the power of manifest destiny. D) an express Constitutional amendment. 7. Concerning administrative investigations: A) a person does not have protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. B) papers and records generally may be subpoenaed by the agency. C) a search warrant always is required to search premises. D) agencies are severely limited by the Constitution. 8. The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) requires each federal agency to publish a statement of the rules, principles, and procedures followed by that agency. A) True B) False 9. An administrative agency is a governmental body charged with administering and implementing legislation. A) True B) False 10. Before an appeal can be taken to a court concerning a determination of an agency, all administrative remedies must be exhausted. A) True B) False 11. In reviewing agency action, courts generally apply the: A) rational relationship standard. B) preponderance of the evidence standard. C) arbitrary or capricious standard. D) beyond a reasonable doubt standard. 12. Which of the following powers is NOT reserved solely to the national government? A) power to tax B) power to regulate interstate commerce C) power to borrow money on the credit of the United States D) power to coin money 13. Because the power to regulate interstate commerce has been interpreted broadly, Congress has great power to adopt regulatory laws affecting the economy. A) True B) False 14. When we speak of government regulation of business we ordinarily mean state government regulation, not federal government intervention. A) True B) False 15. A system in which a central government is given power to administer to national concerns and individual states administer to local concerns is called: A) federal. B) constitutional. C) bicameral. D) tripartite. 16. An administrative agency: A) acts as a specialized court of limited jurisdiction. B) is not empowered to act as a court with regard to its own regulations. C) cannot impose penalties for violation of its regulations. D) can hear complaints only in the presence of a jury. 17. Agency investigations of possible violations of agency rules are handled through independent enforcement agencies. A) True B) False 18. Judges of the United States: A) are elected by the public. B) serve fore life. C) cannot be impeached. D) are appointed by the Senate. 19. The states may coin money as long as it backed by gold. A) True B) False 20. The federal supremacy refers to: A) the power of the President. B) the power of the Federal Government to legislate in certain areas. C) all of the above. D) the power of the Supreme Court to make decisions. 21. An administrative agency cannot hold a hearing without a jury. A) True B) False 22. Changes to the Constitution have been brought about by interpretation, amendment, and practice. A) True B) False 23. The commerce clause of the Constitution: A) was declared unconstitutional in 1937. B) has been expanded by Supreme Court interpretations to give the U.S. government the power to regulate the general welfare of the nation. C) prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in interstate commerce. D) prohibits the U.S. government from regulating interstate commerce. 24. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the national and state governments from depriving any person of property without due process of law. A) True B) False 25. The due-process clause: A) does not apply to state governments. B) is, by liberal interpretation, held to be a guarantee of protection from unreasonable legal procedures. C) allows a state to take private property without due process. D) allo

History help, please, i don't understand? 13. What was Nixon’s New Federalism designed to do? A) Give more power to the executive branch B) Restructure how the government passed legislation C) Build stronger ties between state governments and the federal government D) Make the federal government more effective 14. A Native American group known as the American Indian Movement protested the lack of government efforts on their behalf by A) riding into Washington by horse. B) taking over Alcatraz for 19 months. C) holding several government officials hostage for 3 weeks. D) setting up teepees on the White House lawn. 4. As part of New Federalism, Congress passed a series of bills that granted federal funds to state and local agencies known as A) civil rights fund laws. B) the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Acts. C) revenue-sharing bills. D) the Ethical Spending in Government Acts. only 3 i have left, hel please ^^?

How does Obama represent Change? Over the past 60 years the Federal government has grown much larger and has seized rights not granted to it by the constitution from both the states and the people. Obama has promised to continue this trend, higher taxes, more government agencies, more welfare and deficit spending. If Obama really wanted to change things for the better he would promise to give up all of the powers that past presidents, including Bush have unconstitutionaly seized. He would call for term limits for congress, and he would look for ways to put power back in the hands of the people not in the hands of career politicians. Please give examples of ways in which he differs from every other politician. McCainus, did you not understand the question? How will Obama be any different than Bush? Bush was all about more government, more spending, you haven't given any reason why Obama would be any different. The problem is not Dems vs. Reps, it's about big corrupt government vs. the people.

Do these Executive Orders suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...

Do these Executive Orders associated with FEMA suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Christian's? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the... National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities. 1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy. Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.

Do these Executive Orders associated with FEMA suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the... National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities. 1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy. Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency. International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

Do you agree with new recommendations that all police across America cannot ask about immigrations this means? Do you agree with new recommendations that all police across America cannot ask about immigrations this means the police could not arrest anyone suspected of being illegal or could not even issue a ticket to a suspected illegal for no drivers licenses or insurance and the police would be powerless to even arrest any suspected illegal until a fatal crime happens until then illegals are off limits to all law enforcement ,why are illegals now not even held to the same laws as us, they are accountable when it is a serious crime until then the police would subject to being fired for U.S. government task force recommended Wednesday that the federal Department of Homeland Security scale back an initiative that allows local authorities to enforce the country’s immigration law. The so-called 287(g) program — named after the section of law that created it — should be limited to identifying illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails and exclude any efforts to track them down outside of criminal investigations, the Southwest Border Task Force said. The proposal came as part of the group’s first report to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which sought input in June from several border politicians, law enforcement officials, academics and business leaders. The task force presented 18 other proposals Wednesday on issues ranging from streamlining the border crossing process to ongoing cooperation with Mexican law enforcement. “Our goal is to get all of the Southwest border on the same playing field and draw out the realities on the border versus the rhetoric,” said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño, the task force’s vice chairman. Civil rights and Hispanic groups have urged President Barack Obama’s administration in recent months to end the 287(g) program amid mounting evidence that some participating police departments have used the newly granted authority to justify racial profiling. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose jurisdiction includes unincorporated areas outside Phoenix, has been accused of targeting individuals for immigration review based solely on their appearance and is currently facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation into alleged civil rights violations stemming from his participation in the program. Treviño, a staunch critic of 287(g) in its current form, said Wednesday that assuming a role in enforcing federal immigration law distracts local authorities from their primary duties and can cause problems with illegal immigrants in their communities. “We do not want a repeat of what has happened in Maricopa County,” he said. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced during the summer that her department would review 287(g)’s scope. Since then, the number of participating law enforcement agencies has swelled to nearly 70. In addition to changing the 287(g) program, the Southwest Border Task Force also urged Wednesday that Homeland Security place more emphasis on recruiting customs agents for the nation’s land ports of entry. Although Congress has appropriated money to expand the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol by 8,200 since 2006, hiring for customs agents has not kept pace. Homeland Security budgets for fiscal year 2009 included funds for 2,200 new Border Patrol agents but only 22 additional customs agents. Other task force recommendations include: >> Creating a White House office to coordinate approving applications for new border ports of entry such as the soon-to-open Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission. Currently, local entities must complete 13 steps before winning approval and deal with four government agencies outside of Congress and the White House. >> Adopting clear definitions for terms such as “spillover violence,” which the task force suggested should be narrowly defined as violence originating within a Mexican criminal organization that plays out north of the border. >> Setting up a federal government grant program that would routinely provide money to border-area law enforcement. Homeland Security is not bound to implement any of the recommended policy changes, but Treviño, the vice chair, said he is hopeful they will receive fair consideration. “If DHS — or any other federal law enforcement agency — is going to meet their mission, they are going to have to have the 100 percent cooperation of local law enforcement,” he said. “I think this is a good first step.” http://www.themonitor.com/articles/federal-31189-force-task.html

If the Recovery & Reinvstment Act of 2009 (aka "Stimulus Package") passes in its form by President's Day? How much will the 'stimulus package" cost next year, because we know that these government agencies getting the cash will fritter it away without anything to show for it, right? They have until 2013 to spend this money, but if it is available tomorrow, it will be gone by December 31, 2009. That is how this works. This is truly the opiate of the people, but only for the selected people in high-up jobs: Copied from Bill SEC. 1107. APPROPRIATIONS FOR INSPECTORS GENERAL. In addition to funds otherwise made available in this Act, there are hereby appropriated the following sums to the specified Offices of Inspector General, to remain available until September 30, 2013, for oversight and audit of programs, grants, and projects funded under this Act: (1) ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Office of Inspector General’’, $22,500,000. (2) ‘‘Department of Commerce—Office of Inspector General’’, $10,000,000. (3) ‘‘Department of Defense—Office of the Inspector General’’, $15,000,000. (4) ‘‘Department of Education—Departmental Management—Office of the Inspector General’’,$14,000,000. (5) ‘‘Department of Energy—Office of Inspector General’’, $15,000,000. (6) ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—Office of the Secretary—Office of Inspector General’’, $19,000,000. (7) ‘‘Department of Homeland Security—Office of Inspector General’’, $2,000,000. (8) ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Development—Management and Administration—Office of Inspector General’’, $15,000,000. (9) ‘‘Department of the Interior—Office of Inspector General’’, $15,000,000. (10) ‘‘Department of Justice—Office of Inspector General’’, $2,000,000. (11) ‘‘Department of Labor—Departmental Management—Office of Inspector General’’, $6,000,000. (12) ‘‘Department of Transportation—Office of Inspector General’’, $20,000,000. (p. 9-10) It goes on and on and on and on for pages of appropriation for Inspectors General of every conceivable Department of the Federal Government and the "oversight" of such appropriations of these funds, which costs $25,000,000. When will the waste stop? Please let your senators know if you are outraged with this hemoragge of our taxpayer money. Is this a method of creating Private Sector Jobs? If it passes, be sure to apply for grants. It is the only way to get money without having to work. That is fast becoming the American Way!

Does my essay have a strong thesis? Is it acceptable grammatically? Is the conclusion acceptable? I missed 3 days of school since my grandmother just passed away. I have no idea how to really write a division/classification essay. Below is what I wrote. I'm not even sure if it's a division/classification essay. Please read it and help with any suggestions or corrections needed. Thank you! With over 291 million people in the United States, the United States government has the tremendous responsibility to govern all its citizens efficiently through new laws, ensuring laws are carried out properly, and promoting democracy. In order to complete this tremendous task, the United States government is divided into three branches—the judicial, legislature, and executive branch. The division of the United States government into three branches is helpful to promoting democracy and ensuring laws are carried out properly through check and balances. The federal judicial branch of government includes the Supreme, lower, and special courts. The judicial branch of government is accountable for rendering the laws passed by the legislative branch and executing by the executive branch. The judiciary system try criminal—cases which a law may have been violated—and civil cases—disputed between parties over rights or responsibilities. In order to protect the guaranteed rights of each United States citizen under the United States Constitution, the judicial system tries to resolve transgressions within the bound of justice. Whenever the police search the home of an individual, they must first have first obtained a search warrant—an approval from a judge under the judiciary system—in order to have lawfully executed the search. Also, when the Health Care Reform Act was passed and signed into law, several states took it to the Supreme Court because they did not want to accept it and believe it was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court under the Judiciary system now will examine the act to review whether or not it abides by the United States Constitution. The judicial branch can’t create it’s own laws though. The legislative branch, or Congress—composed of the House of Representatives and Senate—is a key contributor to the government of the United State of America. The Constitution grants Congress the sole authority to enact legislation and declare war, the right to confirm or reject many Presidential appointments, and substantial investigative powers. The House has several powers assigned exclusively to it, including the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach federal officials, and elect the President in the case of an electoral college tie. (WhiteHouse.gov). Bills passed by the legislative branch can be classified as unconstitutional by the judicial branch. The executive branch is the branch of government that the United States President and Vice President administer with fifteen other branches of the executive branch. The President of the United States of America acts as the head of state and Commander-in-Chief. The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Vice President is also part of the Executive Branch, ready to assume the Presidency should the need arise (WhiteHouse.gov). The executive branch of government can’t create laws, only propose them, nor can the branch render laws. Without the three branches of government in the United States under the federal system, laws would not be able to be carried out properly and democracy couldn’t be promoted through check and balances. The judicial system enforces the laws; the legislative branch makes the laws, and the executive carries out the laws. Each branch has its own duties; therefore, there isn’t any confusion and malpractice in the government.

What's with Homeland Security? I just read an article from the Washington Times that says Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement officials about right wing extremist activity. They not only included such things as hate groups or racist groups but also "groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority." What does that mean? According to the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution all powers not granted to the national government are reserved to the states. So is Obama and his administration now saying that "although they are stepping on the states' sovereign powers those who disagree with them will be considered a right wing extremist and dangerous? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/ I'm very excited that my state representatives are standing up for our rights but could they now get into trouble for boldly stating that the federal goverment must cease and desist? Texas Representative Creigton and co-authors introduced HCR 50 affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment... (you will have to read it if you are interested). I just want to know your thoughts on the orders given to Homeland Security and what their real agenda is. Are we going to all get busted at the Tea Party tomorrow. Certainly that falls under right wing extremist because we aren't in agreement with what Obama and his Democratic Congress are doing. http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/

Can census takers enter your home when you aren't there? "Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence | The Barr Code By Belisarius on May 27, 2010 11:33 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing "American Community Survey" conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out. What many Americans don't realize, is that census workers -- from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee -- are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for "the collection of statistics." If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00. That's right -- not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must give them access to your apartment whether you're there or not, in order to gather whatever "statistics" the law permits. In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and demanding -- and receiving -- private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them. Isn't it great to live in a "free" country?" I think this article is BS....I read through all of Title 13 of the US Code and I find NOWHERE that it states census workers can enter your home while you are not there, in fact they are not even allowed to ask for permission to enter your home if you ARE there..... I suppose, for purposes of the article, that it just depends on what your definition of "can" is.... Um, "cool guy", I posted the exact same article that you did so that wasn't exactly any help....can you point out in Title 13 of the US Code where it says they can do that? It says they must be granted access to the property (apartment complexes, gated communities, etc....), it doesn't say that they can enter your living quarters....

Do you really think that OWS is the democrat version of the tea party? If so, read the following comment by their general assembly: Title: Crucial for the Occupy Crucial for the Occupy movement to understand that taxpayers service debt on fiat money created by the privately-owned Federal Reserve. As of August 3rd, the Federal Reserve has 2.85 /trillion/ dollars worth of assets on its balance sheet, of which 1.64 trillion is U.S. Treasury securities. The Fed purchased that debt not with collateral of any kind, but with an accounting entry, granted by the Federal reserve Act of 1913. On that gargantuan sum, at a modest coupon rate of 2%, the Fed receives coupon payments, funded by taxpayers, to the tune of $32.8 billion per year. At 3%, that's $49.2 billion. From these revenues, the Fed skims to fund its own substantial operations and "returns" the rest to the Treasury. So taxpayers are footing the bill for this privately-owned banking consortium, which is not a federal agency, and the IRS is the enforcement arm. And there is nothing "voluntary" about citizen's income tax obligations -- tax is extracted from the citizen by the state with economic threats and ultimately the threat of incarceration. The Fed also owns $897 billion of bundled mortgage-backed debt, debt which they also purchased with the government-sanctioned money supply expansion privilege. The Federal Reserve posts no collateral to make these purchases -- they only have to print money. And what are they doing with all the coupon revenue from the bundled mortgaged-backed securities? What we've got is a financial system that allows banks to borrow at zero percent from the Fed, and charge U.S. taxpayers 2% (the current intermediate-term coupon rate on US T-bills) for the privilege of their government issuing sovereign debt. I wish I could borrow ten times my liquid net worth to buy nearly risk-free US Treasuries and collect the coupon! If I could get five-percent return on that US government debt every year, and then borrow on /that/, in a few years I'd be wealthy, from doing nothing other than borrowing at a 10:1 ratio. The only snafu would be if the US defaulted on its debt I own. As a nation, we don't need the intermediary of the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply or borrow. We can expand the money supply directly without a central bank as the domestic economy grows. We can issue a national currency without the Federal Reserve that takes its place along other currencies issued privately or by sub-national governments. We can preserve the purchasing power of a national currency that it is favored by citizens (for convenience) and foreigners (for purchasing power). We are not compelled to service debt owned by banks purchased with fantasy money that is the questionable contract of fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve system. Plain and simple, this system is an illegal, immoral giveaway, a wealth transfer mechanism from citizens to banks who have been awarded the unearned right to maintain only 10% actual reserves and profit on an imaginary 90%. No citizen has a similar right, because if each of 125 million US households could lend at a 10:1 ratio, the supply of credit would go to near infinity. Banking loan revenue is essentially profit on 90% phony assets. So many problems can be solved by reducing the Federal Reserve to a check-clearing operation, requiring banks to maintain a one-to-one reserves/loan ratio, and making the Treasury the rightful issuer of national currency. The press wants tangible reform demands from the Occupy movement, and as far as the financial system is concerned, these are the basics. National Tobin-style taxes, global carbon taxes, et cetera, are not reform, they are globalist control mechanisms. And domestic tax policy reform won't be terribly effective until you decisively end the grift that is our Federal Reserve banking system.

What does Congress do with our money? Why do we think the President can change this? The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power "to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States." In Article I, Section 9, the original document made clear that "no Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census of Enumeration herein before directed to be taken." It is moreover established that "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." Since 1913, our Constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property have been abridged and diminished by the imposition on each of us of Federal income, payroll, and estate taxes. This is an unconstitutional Federal assumption of direct taxing authority. The Internal Revenue Service is the enforcement arm of the Federal government's present unjust tax system. Citizens, both in groups and as individuals, have repeatedly sought responses from the IRS bureaucracy as to the basis for the agency's tax policies and procedures. No answers have been forthcoming although a responsible government must be answerable to the people and has a duty to those it is supposed to serve. We propose legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and will veto any authorization, appropriation, or continuing resolution which contains any funding whatsoever for that illicit and unconstitutional agency. We are opposed to the flat-rate tax, national sales tax, and value added tax proposals that are being promoted as an improvement to the current tax system. The Sixteenth Amendment does not provide authority for an un-apportioned direct tax. Moreover, it is our intention to replace, with a tariff based revenue system supplemented by excise taxes, the current tax system of the U.S. government (including income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate taxes.) To the degree that tariffs on foreign products, and excises, are insufficient to cover the legitimate Constitutional costs of the federal government, we will offer an apportioned "state-rate tax" in which the responsibility for covering the cost of unmet obligations will be divided among the several states in accordance with their proportion of the total population of these United States, excluding the District of Columbia. Thus, if a state contains 10 percent of the nation's citizens, it will be responsible for assuming payment of 10 percent of the annual deficit. The effect of this "state-rate tax" will be to encourage politicians to argue for less, rather than more, federal spending, and less state spending as well. To the extent permitted by the Constitution, we believe that the taxation of corporations is an appropriate source of government revenue. The Supreme Court has defined "income" as a "gain or increase arising from corporate activity or privilege." People are not corporations, and corporations need not be treated as "people" for the purposes of taxation. There is substantial evidence that the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified. When elected, we will act to cease collection of direct Federal personal income taxes. We also support ratification of the Liberty Amendment which would repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, and provide that "Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts." We support the use of motor fuel excise taxes, at rates not in excess of those currently imposed, to be used exclusively for the erection, maintenance, and administration of Federal highways. These taxes should never be used for "demonstration projects", mass transit, or for other non-highway purposes. We support the use of excise taxes to curb the use of tax dollars for media advertising, and to provide so-called "tax abatements," "tax incentives," and "economic development grants," which are pretexts to raid the public treasury and rob the workingman for the benefit of wealthy interests favored by the politicians.

Obama I said let the illegals go free but Fed agents frustrated by judges’ immigration decisions? In March, Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Sandoval — who had committed serious crimes in the United States since 1998 — stood before Florence, Ariz., Immigration Judge Bruce Taylor on a deportation hearing. That day the judge canceled his removal proceedings, allowing him to stay in the United States. Four months later, Sandoval was arrested again on an outstanding warrant but was released. Three days after that release he led police on a 100 mph car chase. Then in August, in response to a 911 call from his family, he shot at Arizona deputies who came to his home. That night, he escaped. He later turned himself into authorities after they began a public manhunt for him. Sandoval, who had resident status, is only one example of a legal system that lacks working mechanisms for deporting criminal aliens, said Rep. Ted Poe, a Texas Republican and former judge. “The federal government has the responsibility, the moral duty to send these criminal aliens back where they came from after they do their prison time and before they commit more crimes,” said Poe, who is co-chair of the Victims’ Rights Caucus. He said both the Obama and Bush administrations handled the issue ineffectively, hiding facts from the American people and “sugar-coating” the truth regarding the deportation of criminal aliens. This month, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced that the Obama administration is planning to dismiss thousands of illegal alien deportation cases, possibly 17,000, if the immigrants have a potential path to legal residency or overstayed their visas. But critics say many illegal aliens with long criminal records composed of what some courts consider to be lesser charges will see their deportation cases dismissed as well. They cite Sandoval as an example. “The system is skewed to release these criminals,” said Poe, a former judge. He recalled many times he saw repeat criminal offenders back in his courtroom after issuing detainers, which required the federal government to deport them after they served their U.S. sentences. “The detainers don’t work, because we either don’t have enough federal agents, the administration doesn’t make it a priority and there isn’t any accountability when alien criminals are released back into society,” Poe said. ICE, Border Patrol and local law enforcement officers told The Washington Examiner that law enforcement agencies are frustrated by the judicial system’s approach to handling immigrants charged with crimes. “In the case of Sandoval, ICE did the right thing,” said a federal official who spoke on the condition that he not be named. “They checked his long criminal history, he had two or more crimes involving morale turpitude and should have been deported and had his residency taken away. What does the administration have to say about this? He’s only one of thousands of bad guys that get away with this.” Said an ICE agent: “What can we do when immigration judges are granted this huge discretionary authority? There is no oversight. This case could have resulted in the death of a police officer.” Kathryn Mattingly, with the Executive Office for Immigration Reform, said, “The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge regularly monitors immigration judge performance and conduct through EOIR’s performance management program and through its daily supervision of the courts.” She said that in “instances where concerns regarding an immigration judge’s conduct arise ... any allegations are investigated and resolved in a fair and expeditious manner,” adding that “such investigations could include scenarios where an immigration judge consistently makes ill-advised decisions.” Sandoval’s Department of Homeland Security arrest record history was obtained by The Examiner. He had used an alias, Samuel Mendoza, and as early as 1998 he had been arrested for damage to private property and simple assault. Since then he has been arrested for drunken driving, drug charges multiple aggravated assaults, multiple endangerment charges and use of a deadly weapon. In many cases, he was not prosecuted, simply fined and released, according to the documents. The federal law governing criminal immigrants states that “if you have been convicted of two crimes involving moral turpitude not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct,” you are supposed to be deported. However, judges have repeatedly used their own discretion not to deport him. “There is no legal liability on the part of the judge, and you can’t charge a judge for using their discretion,” Poe said. “The judge is morally responsible to follow through with the law because if someone is killed or injured, the blood is on the judge’s hands. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Fed-agents-frustrated-by-judges-immigration-decisions_08_31-101840693.html#ixzz0y8qKvvie

Chuck Norris can figure out 0bamacare can you? Chuck Norris is a columnist and impossible to kill. http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development." Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? Their own? Certain experts'? From what field and theory of childhood development? As if there are one-size-fits-all parenting techniques! Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own? Are we to assume the state's mediators would understand every parent's social or religious core values on parenting? Or would they teach some secular-progressive and religiously neutered version of parental values and wisdom? And if they were to consult and coach those who expect babies, would they ever decide circumstances to be not beneficial for the children and encourage abortions? One government rebuttal is that this program would be "voluntary." Is that right? Does that imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent needing parenting skills said, "I don't think I'll call my parents, priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I'll go down to the local government offices"? To the contrary, the bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state "shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families." Are we further to conclude by those words that low-income families know less about parenting? Are middle- and upper-class parents really better parents? Less neglectful of their children? Less needful of parental help and training? Is this "prioritized" training not a biased, discriminatory and even prejudicial stereotype and generalization that has no place in federal government, law or practice?

Essay...please help!? I need to have 300 words...I have 248 at the moment. Can someone please help me in figuring out how to get more words? Here's the topic of the essay: You are the judge in Blather County, and you are listening to a very important case. This is a lawsuit among several different groups. The lawsuit developed because, over the past three years, there has been very little rainfall, and no snow. The Lottawatta River is very low, and water is scarce. In the river lives the Bluemouth Salmon, which is an endangered species. The government has said that there will be no water for irrigation use this year because the water is needed for the salmon to be able to reproduce. Farmers in the area have filed the lawsuit arguing that they will go out of business if there is no water. Environmental groups are defending the action saying the salmon must be protected. The farmers say that the government cannot cause them to go out of business or destroy their way of life. Native Americans say the salmon is sacred to them and must be preserved according to treaties. You must decide who wins. Give your verdict and justify your decision. The justification must be strong because this case will be appealed. Here is the essay: According to the Endangered Species Act, the U.S.Government is required to take necessary actions towards the conservation of threatened and endangered species within the United States of America. The Endangered Species Act states that “these species of fish, wildlife, and plants are of esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value to the Nation and its people”. In addition, the government must follow the regulations of Native American treaties. If the Bluemouth salmon is sacred to the Natives, and treaties insist the species be protected, these rules must be followed with respect to the Natives and their rights. It is understood that sometimes the methods used by the government to protect wildlife may be inconvenient to landowners. This issue is also recognized in the Endangered Species Act, stating that, “Federal agencies shall cooperate with State and local agencies to resolve water resource issues in concert with conservation of endangered species.” The farmers can most likely request a grant from the government to aid them in their economic hardships. The farmers might also consider switching over to drought resistant crops until the drought is over. If the farmers continue to irrigate their land and crops using water from the Lottawatta River, this will jeopardize an endangered species and possibly drive it to extinction. The impact of this loss on future generations would be much greater than the financial loss of the farmers. The effects of extinction are irreversible, devastating, and permanent, and therefore must be prevented at all costs. If you have any tips and suggestions, especially on how to get more words, i would appreciate it! thanks!

Have you seen Ron Paul's bill ensuring that TSA employees are subjected to the same laws as everyone else? "Touch my junk and I'll have you arrested" is a good example. Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation's airports. We have seen the videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories of Americans being subjected to humiliating body imaging machines and/or forced to have the most intimate parts of their bodies poked and fondled. We do not know the potentially harmful effects of the radiation emitted by the new millimeter wave machines. In one recent well-publicized case, a TSA official is recorded during an attempted body search saying, "By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights." I strongly disagree and am sure I am not alone in believing that we Americans should never give up our rights in order to travel. As our Declaration of Independence states, our rights are inalienable. This TSA version of our rights looks more like the "rights" granted in the old Soviet Constitutions, where freedoms were granted to Soviet citizens -- right up to the moment the state decided to remove those freedoms. The incident of the so-called "underwear bomber" last Christmas is given as justification for the billions of dollars the federal government is spending on the new full-body imaging machines, but a Government Accountability Office study earlier this year concluded that had these scanners been in use they may not have detected the explosive material that was allegedly brought onto the airplane. Additionally, there have been recent press reports calling into question the accuracy and adequacy of these potentially dangerous machines. My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the rest of us. Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries. I warned at the time of the creation of the TSA that an unaccountable government entity in control of airport security would provide neither security nor defend our basic freedom to travel. Yet the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats then in Congress willingly voted to create another unaccountable, bullying agency-- in a simple-minded and unprincipled attempt to appease public passion in the wake of 9-11. Sadly, as we see with the steady TSA encroachment on our freedom and dignity, my fears in 2001 were justified. The solution to the need for security at US airports is not a government bureaucracy. The solution is to allow the private sector, preferably the airlines themselves, to provide for the security of their property. As a recent article in Forbes magazine eloquently stated, "The airlines have enormous sums of money riding on passenger safety, and the notion that a government bureaucracy has better incentives to provide safe travels than airlines with billions of dollars worth of capital and goodwill on the line strains credibility." In the meantime, I hope we can pass this legislation and protect Americans from harm and humiliation when they choose to travel.

Why do people constantly say Republicans are against clean air? Pelosi opposes EPA clean air decision WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday that Congress would closely scrutinize its decision to reject California's request to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions. ADVERTISEMENT Pelosi, D-Calif., said she strongly disagreed with the agency's rationale for the decision and would support an investigation by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. He is seeking all documents related to the state's request for a waiver to implement fuel efficiency rules for vehicles that it says will work faster than the federal government's. "The actions of the EPA in denying the California request cannot help but raise serious questions about the support of the Bush administration for state efforts to safeguard the environment and the health of their residents," Pelosi wrote in a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. EPA's announcement Wednesday that it would bar California and at least 16 other states from regulating tailpipe emissions from new cars and trucks was swiftly criticized by state leaders and environmental groups. Several states have said they will appeal the decision. Johnson said California's emissions limits were not needed because Congress approved energy legislation raising fuel efficiency standards nationwide to an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020. California officials say their state's law was tougher and acted faster. White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto defended Johnson's decision Friday: "He made that based on what he thought was best for the nation in addressing this issue, and he pointed to the really significant policy changes that are going to come through from the energy bill that we signed last week." "There's always a balance, and he (the president) does have a healthy respect for states' rights," Fratto added, "but these decisions need to be made in terms of what is best for the country." It was the first time the agency had completely denied a Clean Air Act waiver request from California after granting more than 50. The state adopted tailpipe standards in 2004 that would have required car makers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016. Under the Clean Air Act, California needed a waiver to put in place the rules, and other states could then adopt them, too. Twelve other states — Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — have adopted the standards. The governors of Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Utah have said they also plan to adopt them. 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was Reagan responsible for the problems we have now? This is very long.....but a worthy read. There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition. Granted, the very idea of rating Reagan as one of the worst presidents ever will infuriate his many right-wing acolytes and offend Washington insiders who have made a cottage industry out of buying some protection from Republicans by lauding the 40th President. But there's a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency. There's also a grudging reassessment that the "failed"- presidents of the 1970s--Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter--may deserve more credit for trying to grapple with the problems that now beset the country. Nixon, Ford and Carter won scant praise for addressing the systemic challenges of America's oil dependence, environmental degradation, the arms race, and nuclear proliferation--all issues that Reagan essentially ignored and that now threaten the America's future. Nixon helped create the Environmental Protection Agency; he imposed energy-conservation measures; he opened the diplomatic door to communist China. Nixon's administration also detected the growing weakness in the Soviet Union and advocated a policy of détente (a plan for bringing the Cold War to an end or at least curbing its most dangerous excesses). After Nixon's resignation in the Watergate scandal, Ford continued many of Nixon's policies, particularly trying to wind down the Cold War with Moscow. However, confronting a rebellion from Reagan's Republican Right in 1976, Ford abandoned "détente." Ford also let hard-line Cold Warriors (and a first wave of young intellectuals who became known as neoconservatives) pressure the CIA's analytical division, and he brought in a new generation of hard-liners, including Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. After defeating Ford in 1976, Carter injected more respect for human rights into U.S. foreign policy, a move some scholars believe put an important nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union, leaving it hard-pressed to justify the repressive internal practices of the East Bloc. Carter also emphasized the need to contain the spread of nuclear weapons, especially in unstable countries like Pakistan. Domestically, Carter pushed a comprehensive energy policy and warned Americans that their growing dependence on foreign oil represented a national security threat, what he famously called "the moral equivalent of war." However, powerful vested interests--both domestic and foreign--managed to exploit the shortcomings of these three presidents to sabotage any sustained progress. By 1980, Reagan had become a pied piper luring the American people away from the tough choices that Nixon, Ford and Carter had defined. Cruelty with a Smile With his superficially sunny disposition--and a ruthless political strategy of exploiting white-male resentments--Reagan convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in Moscow, and the do-good federal government. In his First Inaugural Address in 1981, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." When it came to cutting back on America's energy use, Reagan's message could be boiled down to the old Bob Marley lyric, "Don't worry, be happy." 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Over the years, "supply side" would evolve into a secular religion for many on the Right, but Reagan's budget director David Stockman once blurted out the truth, that it would lead to red ink "as far as the eye could see." While conceding that some of Reagan's economic plans did not work out as intended, his defenders--including many mainstream journalists--still argue that Reagan should be hailed as a great President because he "won the Cold War," a short-hand phrase that they like to attach to

Boy hitting a schoolmate and taking 46 cents why would the gov award them green cards is this right? (04-21) 17:34 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco bus driver's wife and two stepsons won the right to remain in the United States on Wednesday after nearly being deported because of a schoolyard punching and a city immigration crackdown, their lawyer said. Immigration officials learned that Tracey Washington and her sons, ages 13 and 5, were here on expired visa waivers after police arrested the older boy in January for hitting a schoolmate and taking 46 cents. They were reported under Mayor Gavin Newsom's July 2008 policy that required juvenile authorities to notify federal agents after the felony arrest of any youth suspected of being in the country illegally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered the mother and children, who had a legal-residency application pending, to leave for their native Australia by March 5. Two days earlier, after the family and their lawyer held a news conference, the agency granted a reprieve to give another government bureau time to consider the application. They learned that their application had been accepted when the mother and her older son received green cards Wednesday, said attorney Angela Chan of the Asian Law Caucus. Washington's husband, Charles Washington, used the occasion to criticize Newsom, whose spokesman said last month that the case vindicated the mayor's policy. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/21/BA8Q1D2DAA.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0lmqs9u5K

Does America Know about these??????? Although all presidents have sign executive orders, pResident Bush has signed numerous Executive Orders which the American people need to made aware of: •Executive Order Number 12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry. •Executive Order 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. •Executive Order 10995 allows Seizure of all communications media in the United States. •Executive Order 10997 allows Seizure of all electric power fuels and minerals, public and private. •Executive Order 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. •Executive Order 10999 allows Seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control of highways, seaports and waterways. •Executive Order 11000 allows Seizure of all American people for work forces under federal supervision including the splitting of families if the government finds it necessary. •Executive Order 11001 allows seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, public and private. •Executive Order 11002 empowered the postmaster general to register all men, women and children in the U.S. •Executive Order 11003 allows seizure of all airports and aircraft. •Executive Order 11004 allows seizure of all housing and finance authorities to establish Forced Relocation Designated areas to be abandoned as “unsafe.” •Executive Order 11005 allows seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, public and private. •Executive Order 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. •Executive Order 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. Go to the White house website...and your an idiot to trust anyone with the right to be able to split your family up for their own agenda...and I am glad that you are not my parent!

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!!!!!!

Is Rush Limbaugh endorsing Ron Paul? Rush was asked by a caller on his program how any of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates were going to seriously address our looming fiscal crisis once they reached the White House. The man was looking for answers — and Rush gave it to him: “You’re not going to believe my answer. Ron Paul has a good idea.” Limbaugh chuckled with the caller a bit, but then got serious as he outlined Paul’s budget proposal, quoting Kevin Williamson, who wrote an article about the proposal for National Review Online: Ron Paul is about to show the Republican presidential field what a serious fiscal reform plan looks like. He is going to propose $1 trillion in real spending cuts. He is going to propose immediately freezing spending by numerous government agencies back to 2006 levels … Beyond that the EPA would see a 30% cut. The Food and Drug Administration would see a 40% cut. Foreign aid would be zeroed out immediately. And he would take an ax to Pentagon funding for wars. Medicaid, food stamps, family support programs, children’s nutrition programs would all be block-granted to the states and be removed from the mandatory spending column of the federal budget. Some functions of the eliminated departments, such as Pell grants, would be continued elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy. The federal workforce would be reduced by 10% … Rush concluded: What this indicates is something, folks, that we have got to face, if we are serious about this. Fooling around the margins isn’t going to get it done. A 2% tax cut here, or a 3% tax variation over there is not going to fix what’s wrong. Genuine, big spending cuts are the only thing that is going to bring us back … Limbaugh then said something interesting: that Paul’s ideas were just conventionally conservative ideas. Explained Rush: Now, these are not really Ron Paul’s ideas. On this program I myself have suggested freezing spending at 2008 levels. Let’s freeze spending back to Clinton’s years. Paul is stealing that idea. Cutting the EPA? We’ve long been an advocate of this … eliminating whole bureaucracies. But nobody on our side has ever seriously proposed this and Ron Paul is going to. He finished: “We have called for everything that Paul is suggesting. He will be the first candidate to actually do so.” Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/17/rush-limbaugh-is-right-about-ron-paul/#ixzz1c7Vt7BAn

Could you help me with my history? 31. The clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to stretch its delegated powers to cover many other subjects is known as the elastic clause. A. True B. False 32. Since the beginning of the U.S., only one president has resigned from office. A. True B. False 33. The president has the power to appoint cabinet members and judges. A. True B. False 34. The legislative branch is the interpreter of the country's laws. A. True B. False 35. From where does Congress gets its power limitations? A. Article I, Section 9. B. The Preamble. C. Article I, Section 8. D. The President. 36. The Senate and House of Representatives have passed different versions of an air pollution bill. The kind of committee that would most likely be formed to work out a compromise would be a A. standing committee. B. select committee. C. conference committee. D. subcommittee. 37. Regulatory Commissions A. are independent of the executive departments. B. make rules but cannot enforce them. C. have exactly the same function as independent agencies. D. are headed by chairpersons elected by the people. 38. Which of the following is NOT an officer-training school that is supervised by the Department of Defense? A. U.S. Military Academy at Westpoint B. U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis C. Virginia Military Institute D. U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut 39. Where are impeachment trials held? A. House of Representatives B. Supreme Court C. the Senate D. state court 40. Which of the following limits on the powers of Congress ensures that people will get a trial before receiving a prison sentence? A. Passing Ex Post Facto Laws B. Granting Titles of Nobility C. Passing Laws that violate the Bill of Rights D. Passing Bills of Attainder 41. What does it mean when we say the President is the Commander-in-Chief? A. He appoints Supreme Court Justices and federal judges, grants reprieves and pardons, and has power of commutation. B. He secures friendly relations with foreign governments and signs treaties. C. He is the symbol of the United States, greets foreign visitors, travels to foreign countries. D. He is the head of all U.S. armed forces and can send military forces abroad. 43. Who called the position of vice president "the most insignificant" office ever invented? A. George Washington B. John Adams C. James Madison D. George Bush 44. Executive departments A. are strictly outlined in the Constitution. B. are permanent departments established by the framers. C. can be established, reorganized, or eliminated by Congress. D. have become increasingly insignificant since the early 1900s. 45. Only the President can declare war. A. True B. False 46. If Congress is not in session and the President does not sign the bill within 10 days, it does not become a law. A. True B. False

Why do American politics (and politics in general) always have to be one extreme or the other? It seems as if though, the health care debate aside, that every election and every issue is argued and debated from either a liberal stance or a conservative stance. either a left stance or a right stance. Why can't we find people who are neither only liberal or only conservative? Why can't we find someone who doesn't follow the strict path of either the left or the right? I believe everything should be in moderation. While it is true that many historical actions have occurred throughout history because people fought on one side versus the other. But, this tug of war feels redundant. Things can get done without being so close minded as to reject change or to be so open minded as to desire change at all cost. It's allowing progression through moderation that I believe would allow liberals and left minded individuals to eventually gain what they want and would allow a slow enough pace to not force conservative and right wing individuals to accept immediate changes to their 1950's ideology. Which is why I think you should vote for me as the next president. I promise that nothing will be forced down your throat. It will all happen in a slow progression of moderate changes. My policies will allow those stuck in the 16Th century to catch up to us while slowing down the radicals from trying to change everything all at once. I'll cut government costs by passing legislation that would grant all city, county, state, and federal agencies to have access to all records that each has. This would cut millions of dollars in unnecessary spending for bureaucracy when it comes to having to fill out multiple forms to obtain different things. That is just for starters. I have all kinds of ideas as how we can save money. As far as the issues, I'm for whatever your for. Don't like it? Neither do I. My campaign slogan would be: "A brighter future yesterday!" Now, wouldn't you vote for me?

all the complaints about fema handing out money seems to be wrong,,the agency was actually acting too fast? what is your opinion of this?? By FRANK BASS and MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time. Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region.  The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 Louisiana households improperly received $309.1 million in grants, and officials acknowledge those numbers are likely to grow. In the chaotic period after two deadly hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005 _ Katrina making landfall in late August, followed by Rita in late September _ federal officials scrambled to provide help in hard-hit areas such as submerged neighborhoods near the French Quarter. But an Associated Press analysis of government data obtain please understand I am NOT complaining about our government

What do you think Boston judge blasts leak in Obama aunt asylum case? BOSTON (AP) - A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization, making her a potential target for persecution in her native Kenya. U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro blasted the leak by the unnamed official in his 29-page ruling granting asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May. His written decision was released this week through the Freedom of Information Act and first was reported by The Boston Globe. Shapiro found that a federal government official disclosed Onyango's immigration status and her relationship to Obama to The Associated Press three days before the November 2008 election in which Obama was elected as the first black president. The AP's story stated that Onyango, the half sister of Obama's late father, had been living illegally in the United States after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years earlier. Information about Onyango's case was disclosed and confirmed by two sources, one of them a federal law enforcement official. Onyango, 58, has been living in public housing in Boston. Shapiro called the disclosure "a reckless and illegal violation of her right to privacy which has exposed her to great risk," and he criticized the official for using the information for political reasons. "The disclosure intentionally linked the Respondent's status as an asylum applicant with President Obama's presidential campaign, and the effect was to politicize confidential information about the Respondent which the United States government had no authority to release," Shapiro wrote. "The illegality and political ramifications of this breach were made apparent when, following the breach, President (George W.) Bush swiftly issued a directive requiring federal agents to obtain high-level approval before arresting fugitive immigrants." Shapiro found that because Onyango's identity and status were disclosed, she would be a target in Kenya not only for those who oppose the United States and Obama but for members of the Kenyan government "who oppose President Obama's politics and/or his ethnicity, which the Respondent shares." A Department of Homeland Security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue said an internal investigation launched into the leak in 2008 is expected to come to an end soon. In his ruling, Shapiro said the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged Onyango was identified in the media as an asylum applicant but did not concede the disclosure was made by a U.S. government official. DHS argued the disclosure "did not create a new risk of harm" to Onyango because the AP article did not reveal any facts about her asylum claim and because she and her attorney later gave some details about the claim to the media. The agency said the disclosure did not put her at risk, citing other family members in Kenya who have not been harmed. It also noted the Kenyan government celebrated Obama's election as president and sponsored a delegation of several family members to travel to the 2009 presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. Shapiro, however, said Onyango's relationship to Obama is distinct from her Kenyan family members' relationships to him because she has lived in the United States since 2000 and applied for U.S. asylum. One of Onyango's Cleveland-based lawyers, Scott Bratton, said the asylum process is confidential, in part to protect people who may be sent back to their home countries. Leaking the information just before the election put Onyango at greater risk, he said. "She is known to everybody now," he said. "She is known to have applied for asylum. She's been thrust into the spotlight, and because of that she has a fear of returning." In Obama's memoir, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," he affectionately referred to Onyango as Auntie Zeituni and described meeting her during his 1988 trip to Kenya. Onyango's case inflamed the national debate over immigration, with some questioning whether Onyango had been given special treatment because of her relationship with the president. The White House has said Obama had no involvement in the case. Bratton also said the president played no role. "This wasn't a favor to the president," he said. "The president wasn't involved in this case at all. She went through the asylum process just like anybody else would, and the case was granted." Onyango initially came to the U.S. in 2000. Her first request for political asylum in 2002 was rejected, and she was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in Boston. A judge later agreed to suspen

WHY DOES THIS VIOLATE YAHOO ANSWERS POLICY? I found this list on the White House website right before Obama became president. This is the 3rd time Im going to post this list and Im curious if they erase it again. This was on the White House website... Why does it violate the terms of service? I wonder if they ban you if you get alot of Q&A erased.. because Ive had alot. hehehe. Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the... National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities. 1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy. Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency. International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979. haha.. I agree they are haters on here.. Just look at my questions and answers. They erase atleast 20% of mine. Anyone know if there is a limit? Because Im probably getting close to it. =)

Aren't a lot of the executive orders unconstitutional? Wouldn't you agree that the following executive orders (which are associated with FEMA) would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen: - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. - EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

Should states have to provide full marriage benefits to homosexuals that are married outside of their state? Federal law says your state must honor marriages from all states. ALBANY, N.Y. - Opposition is forming against Gov. David Paterson's directive to state agencies to recognize gay marriages legally performed in other states and countries. The Rev. Duane Motley of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms says the Democratic governor is circumventing the Legislature and courts and slapping New Yorkers in the face. Motley says granting government benefits to gay couples will come at a cost to the state even as Paterson calls for cuts in spending because of looming deficits. Motley says Paterson shouldn't force the state to recognize gay marriages when they remain illegal in New York. Paterson is directing agencies to recognize gay marriages performed legally elsewhere when granting state employment and other benefits. Is denying rights for budgetary reasons a valid point? Could that lead to: "I'm not going to let you vote because ballots cost too much." gcbtrading: While I'm not sure of the exact clause that makes a marriage in one state valid in another, I take it to be common sense. For example, people get divorced in states other than the ones they got married in. That wouldn't be possible if states didn't recognize marriages from other states. Also, it would create situations where people where breaking the law. Married people who moved to another state couldn't claim married status on their taxes or they'd be breaking the law by doing so. gcbtrading: You are correct. The public policy exception to the "full faith and credit" clause basically says that states don't have to allow something that is not legal in their state. Thank you for getting me to correct myself. Legally speaking, I'd have to say until NY passes a law for same-sex marriages, they shouldn't provide the benefits. It would be a slap in the face of gays that are already living there.

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

Do you define Marriage as between a Man and a Woman? ? After reading CA Family Code 297.5. can someone explain, why marriage for gays? The code for registered domestic partners is clearly explained..... 297.5. (a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses. (b) Former registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon former spouses. (c) A surviving registered domestic partner, following the death of the other partner, shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon a widow or a widower. (d) The rights and obligations of registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of spouses. The rights and obligations of former or surviving registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of former or surviving spouses. (e) To the extent that provisions of California law adopt, refer to, or rely upon, provisions of federal law in a way that otherwise would cause registered domestic partners to be treated differently than spouses, registered domestic partners shall be treated by California law as if federal law recognized a domestic partnership in the same manner as California law. (f) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights regarding nondiscrimination as those provided to spouses. (g) No public agency in this state may discriminate against any person or couple on the ground that the person is a registered domestic partner rather than a spouse or that the couple are registered domestic partners rather than spouses, except that nothing in this section applies to modify eligibility for long-term care plans pursuant to Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 21660) of Part 3 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (h) This act does not preclude any state or local agency from exercising its regulatory authority to implement statutes providing rights to, or imposing responsibilities upon, domestic partners. (i) This section does not amend or modify any provision of the California Constitution or any provision of any statute that was adopted by initiative. (j) Where necessary to implement the rights of registered domestic partners under this act, gender-specific terms referring to spouses shall be construed to include domestic partners. (k) (1) For purposes of the statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, and any other provision or source of law governing the rights, protections, and benefits, and the responsibilities, obligations, and duties of registered domestic partners in this state, as effectuated by this section, with respect to community property, mutual responsibility for debts to third parties, the right in particular circumstances of either partner to seek financial support from the other following the dissolution of the partnership, and other rights and duties as between the partners concerning ownership of property, any reference to the date of a marriage shall be deemed to refer to the date of registration of a domestic partnership with the state. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for domestic partnerships registered with the state before January 1, 2005, an agreement between the domestic partners that the partners intend to be governed by the requirements set forth in Sections 1600 to 1620, inclusive, and which complies with those sections, except for the agreement's effective date, shall be enforceable as provided by Sections 1600 to 1620, inclusive, if that agreement was fully executed and in force as of June 30, 2005.

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.

How would you like for some of the OSW to take camp in your town; say right in front of your home? How astute was Ann Coulter; being 100% prescient with her book "Demonic." She got out right in front of the whole mob behaviour.That being→ go easy on the violence, more erupts. {once given free food, they then demand free food as another type of new entitlement.} Amazing, isn't it? <••> Bloomberg's,Obama's & especially the MSM's cuddling coverage & support of these smelly,rapacious,thieving mobs. I think these protesters need to be educated.The education I have in mind would not be in academia, but in the real business world. What the OWS protesters simply do not “get” & therefore can’t understand is that “crony capitalism” is a result of government. The “evil” corporations & their executives including Wall Street bankers & market movers go to the government in search of favoritism (i.e., crony capitalism, preferential treatment, etc.), & it is the government via whatever that representative that may be (congressman, senator, fed. agency executive/administrator) has the power to grant or decline that request. To show how naïve the protesters & movement really is, they suggest more government regulation is the solution when in actuality giving more power to government to regulate crony capitalism will result in more crony capitalism. As government & their representatives acquire more power to regulate, they increase their tendency to use that power in a corrupt fashion to gain favoritism in return. Example: If you give a congressman the power to overturn common sense & enact collective bargaining “rights” for public sector unions, then they will do so in return for those unions funding their campaigns &/or funneling funds to the congressman’s self interests. That is crony capitalism in action. It’s not the grantee; it’s the grantor (government) ! Also.... Kinda of "odd"→Take notice that these mobs haven't built up much "steam" in states allowing citizens to carry guns. Attempting rape.{there have been close to 10 "REPORTED" rapes so far}. Attempting rape upon an armed woman never seems to work out very well for the would to be rapist..!

Why did Obama choose not to show the OBL pics? I fully understood his response to why it was that he decided to go the direction he chose to go,in not releasing photographic evidence of Bin Laden's death. However,there are problems that will arise with this move he and his cabinet members have decided to make. I voted for Mr. Obama,and for all the right reasons, I thought; but this seems like a pretty bad move on his part. Now,keep in mind,I am not implying that the President of the U.S. is lying.If Obama says he is dead,well I guess that should be good enough for me- But,I was not at ground zero.I was not at the Pentagon. I was not in the plane that went down in Shanksville,PA. I lost no friends or family members in the events that took place on Tuesday,September 11,2001. Fortunately,this has nothing to do with me. But it has everything to do with the 60 police officers,the 2,674 employees,the 343 EMT and firefighters,and hundreds of others who were lost in this tragedy.Thousands of families had been left to reel after this atrocity unfolded. And this was a senseless attack,no doubt.I'm sure,whoever was responsible,had their reasons for why they believed it needed to be done. But at such a high price? You would have to ask yourself;would the reward outweight the suffering? Unless suffering was your goal in the first place. I have my own theories as to why 9/11 happened. But will not go into it.I will say this though, it's a truly feasible scenario. The decision to not release footage or pics of the corpse of America's #1 foe,was/is a mistake. The credibility of the U.S Government has been waning for the past 64 years. Ever since the incident,in Roswell, NM,the American psyche has been shown a reason to question authority. In 2000,a Presidential election was "proven" to be rigged,resulting in the unfair advantage former Pres.{Bush} had insuring his victory over Al Gore. Machines that were supposed to give people the feeling of reassurance in that election proved to be erroneous. We live in an era where movies are so violent,brutal,and gruesome-it baffles me that,if people can handle watching stuff like that on either cable TV or the big screen,what makes these politicians think we can't handle a few bloody images of a dead terrorist leader? Besides,are we not,as American citizens, entitled to the FOIA (Freedom of Info Act)? The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States Government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines "mandatory disclosure" procedures and grants 9 exemptions to the statute. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 4, 1966 (Public Law 89-554, 80 Stat. 383; Amended 1996, 2002, 2007)... I'd say information like this,would qualify as a "mandatory disclosure"! What say you?

What do you think about this? Will you be receiving a refund? Dissapointed or happy? Six Reasons You Shouldn't Count on Rebate Check Before It's Cut by Marshall Loeb Sunday, March 30, 2008provided byMarketWatch Most Americans will soon receive rebate checks from the IRS worth anywhere between $300 to $1,200 or more, and many businesses have already launched marketing campaigns hoping to lure those potential customers. Yet, many folks will not be eligible for a check at all and could end up in a bind if they've already hit the mall and put extra charges on their credit cards, counting on the rebate cash. More from MarketWatch: • Stay on Top of Your Taxes • Stimulus Payment Mail Schedule • Beware These Top Tax Scams The global tax firm of Grant Thornton says if you belong to any of the following six categories of taxpayers, you should think twice before charging a purchase with plans to pay it off with that "free" government money. You may not be eligible for a rebate -- or at least not for a full or timely one -- if: 1. You owe the tax man money. The IRS has acknowledged that it will deduct from all rebate checks any federal tax debt. The agency will also withhold on behalf of all 50 states, and even Puerto Rico and American Samoa, any money owed in state or territory taxes. If you owe back taxes to the IRS or any state government, you could see your rebate reduced or gone altogether. 2. You make too much money. The rebate payments will begin to phase out for individuals with gross incomes above $75,000, and for married couples filing jointly with incomes over $150,000. If your adjusted gross income is above those levels, calculate your rebate carefully before going on a spending spree. Payments to high-income taxpayers will be reduced by 5% of all income above the phase-out thresholds. 3. You don't make enough money. If you have less than $3,000 in qualifying income, don't expect a rebate. Only those with $3,000 or more of income will be eligible. However, you will be able to count income typically exempt from taxation, like Social Security or veteran's benefits, to reach that minimum. 4. You don't file a tax return. If you don't file a tax return, you won't receive a rebate. Many people with low incomes are not required to file a return, but will need to in order to receive a rebate. If you have over $3,000 in qualifying income, file a return even if you don't have to. Want More Money-Saving Tax Tips? Visit our 2008 Tax Center 5. You're just unlucky. The IRS's recently released rebate payment schedule is based on the last two digits of return filer's Social Security number. However, the IRS warns that a small percentage of tax returns will require additional time to process. For these returns, stimulus payments will not be made according to schedule. Taxpayers who put purchases on their credit cards in anticipation of a quick rebate check may be forced to pay unexpected interest if their return processing is held up. 6. You don't have a valid Social Security Number. Some taxpayers without Social Security numbers file tax returns using an IRS-generated Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. These people will not be eligible for a rebate. If married and filing jointly, each spouse must have a valid SSN to receive the rebate. Copyrighted, MarketWatch. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of MarketWatch content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of MarketWatch. MarketWatch shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

Californian's, are you voting Yes on 8 ? After reading CA Family Code 297.5. can someone explain, why marriage? 297.5. (a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses. (b) Former registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon former spouses. (c) A surviving registered domestic partner, following the death of the other partner, shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon a widow or a widower. (d) The rights and obligations of registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of spouses. The rights and obligations of former or surviving registered domestic partners with respect to a child of either of them shall be the same as those of former or surviving spouses. (e) To the extent that provisions of California law adopt, refer to, or rely upon, provisions of federal law in a way that otherwise would cause registered domestic partners to be treated differently than spouses, registered domestic partners shall be treated by California law as if federal law recognized a domestic partnership in the same manner as California law. (f) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights regarding nondiscrimination as those provided to spouses. (g) No public agency in this state may discriminate against any person or couple on the ground that the person is a registered domestic partner rather than a spouse or that the couple are registered domestic partners rather than spouses, except that nothing in this section applies to modify eligibility for long-term care plans pursuant to Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 21660) of Part 3 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (h) This act does not preclude any state or local agency from exercising its regulatory authority to implement statutes providing rights to, or imposing responsibilities upon, domestic partners. (i) This section does not amend or modify any provision of the California Constitution or any provision of any statute that was adopted by initiative. (j) Where necessary to implement the rights of registered domestic partners under this act, gender-specific terms referring to spouses shall be construed to include domestic partners. (k) (1) For purposes of the statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, and any other provision or source of law governing the rights, protections, and benefits, and the responsibilities, obligations, and duties of registered domestic partners in this state, as effectuated by this section, with respect to community property, mutual responsibility for debts to third parties, the right in particular circumstances of either partner to seek financial support from the other following the dissolution of the partnership, and other rights and duties as between the partners concerning ownership of property, any reference to the date of a marriage shall be deemed to refer to the date of registration of a domestic partnership with the state. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for domestic partnerships registered with the state before January 1, 2005, an agreement between the domestic partners that the partners intend to be governed by the requirements set forth in Sections 1600 to 1620, inclusive, and which complies with those sections, except for the agreement's effective date, shall be enforceable as provided by Sections 1600 to 1620, inclusive, if that agreement was fully executed and in force as of June 30, 2005.

How come Obama's "brilliant highly intellectual" leader of MMS failed miserably on her job? March 2008 - The mineral rights to drill for oil were purchased by BP at the MMS's Lease Sale #206, held at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. MMS's 2009 decision that acoustically-controlled shut-off valve (BOP) would not be required as a last resort against underwater spills at the site MMS's failure to suggest other “fail-safe” mechanisms after a 2004 report raised questions about the reliability of the electrical remote-control devices Prior to Director Birnbaum's appointment, MMS granted a categorical exclusion waiver on April 6, 2009 to BP exempting it from National Environmental Policy Act's requirements including a detailed environmental analysis, concluding the spill risk in that part of the Gulf was “minimal or nonexistent.” Such NEPA waivers have become routine at MMS, and the Interior department approves 250 to 400 per year for Gulf of Mexico projects. MMS gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA) that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from NOAA about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf. Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers and resulting in thousands of barrels of oil spilling into the gulf each day MMS routinely overruled its staff biologists and engineers who raised concerns about the safety and the environmental impact of drilling proposals in the Gulf and in Alaska Since 20 April 2010, when an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers, 27 new offshore drilling projects have been approved by MMS. All but one project was granted similar exemptions from environmental review as BP. Two were submitted by the UK firm, and made the same claims about oil-rig safety and the implausibility of a spill damaging the environment A May 2010 inspector general investigation revealed that MMS regulators in the Gulf region had allowed industry officials to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil and then turned them over to the regulators, who traced over them in pen before submitting the reports to the agency. MMS staff had routinely accepted meals, tickets to sporting events, and gifts from oil companies.[37] Staffers also used government computers to view pornography.[38] In 2009 the regional supervisor of the Gulf region for MMS pled guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation in federal court for lying about receiving gifts from an offshore drilling contractor. "This deeply disturbing report is further evidence of the cozy relationship between MMS and the oil and gas industry," Salazar said. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Management_Service All under Obama's watch except for the signing agreement in 2008, how pathetic to have a "leader" like Obama who plays the blame game, its HIS WATCH and Obama said he was in charge since DAY ONE.

What do U think Committee: Make Iowa City illegal immigrant sanctuary city? The Rev. Rudolph Juarez wants to provide a sense of security that many Iowa City residents take for granted. Juarez is a member of the Sanctuary City Committee, an organization striving to provide basic needs to immigrants in Iowa City, regardless of legal status. “We’re looking at people’s rights,” said Juarez, a pastor at St. Patrick’s Church, 4330 St. Patrick’s Drive. Juarez and other committee members said they want Iowa City to adopt a sanctuary ordinance that would ban employers and, in some cases, police agencies from asking people about their legal status. Immigrants would be able to report crimes or call authorities without fear of having to provide legal documentation, Juarez said. “We want to make the Iowa City and Coralville area a welcoming community for all people regardless of status,” he said. The first step is education and awareness, he said. The Sanctuary City Committee plans to take that step in a public forum at 7 p.m. today in the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St. “This is our first sort of coming-out meeting,” said Sarah Swisher, a member of the Sanctuary City Committee. Planning and organization of the committee began in early 2009, she said. She noted that two of the largest illegal immigration raids in the United States occurred in Iowa — the 2006 Swift & Co. raid in Marshalltown and Postville’s Agriprocessors Inc. raid in 2008 — and raised the need for action. There are more than 50 sanctuary cities in the United States, she said, including Chicago, Minneapolis, and Madison, Wis. There are none in Iowa. The designation is often meant to show that the local government will not become actively involved with federal immigration matters. Adding Iowa City to the list of sanctuary cities would not only give struggling immigrants security and potential for employment, it would also make the area a more enticing community, said Pastor Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler, also a member of the Sanctuary City Committee. “We’re encouraging an attitude of welcome for all ethnicities and origins,” she said. But Robert Ussery, director of the Des Moines chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps — an organization dedicated to seeing the U.S. borders secured against unlawful and unauthorized entry — opposes sanctuary cities. “It’s a slap in the face to all hardworking immigrants who came here legally,” he said, and, in his opinion, sanctuary cities are a violation of federal law. Ussery argued that cities taking sanctuary status will see such repercussions as boycotts at businesses or athletics events. The Iowa City City Council will make a decision regarding a sanctuary ordinance. Members of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission believe Iowa City residents and officials need ample information before making a decision, said Dianne Day, the vice chairwoman of the commission http://www.dailyiowan.com/2010/01/21/Metro/15112.html

So Bush was / is a Great President RIGHT? I mean let's just look at how well he's done managing the national finances for us, I mean Yesterday, President Bush announced his $700 billion plan to buy out troubled financial institutions. Demanding enormous faith in his administration’s stewardship, the plan “would place no restrictions on the administration other than requiring semiannual reports to Congress, granting the Treasury secretary unprecedented power to buy and resell mortgage debt,” and to hire outside firms “to help manage its purchases.” Further, the proposal provides no oversight mechanism: Sec. 8. Review: Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency. Bush is demanding unprecedented control over billions of dollars — with no oversight. His history of mismanaging taxpayer dollars should make Americans skeptical of his buyout plan: IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION -$142 million wasted on reconstruction projects that were either terminated or canceled. [Special Inspector General for Iraq, 7/28/08] -“Significant” amount of U.S. funds for Iraq funneled to Sunni and Shiite militias. [GAO Comptroller, 3/11/08] -$180 million payed to construction company Bechtel for projects it never finished. [Federal audit, 7/25/07] -$5.1 billion in expenses for Iraq reconstruction charged without documentation. [Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report, 3/19/07] -$10 billion in spending on Iraq reconstruction was wasteful or poorly tracked. [GAO, 2/15/07] -Halliburton overcharged the government $100 million for one day’s work in 2004. [Project on Government Oversight, 10/8/04] KATRINA -Millions wasted on four no-bid contracts, including paying $20 million for an unusable camp for evacuees. [Homeland Security Department Inspector General, 9/10/08] -$2.4 billion in contracts doled out by FEMA that guaranteed profits for big companies. [Center for Public Integrity investigation, 6/25/07] -An estimated $2 billion in fraud and waste — nearly 11 percent of the $19 billion spent by FEMA on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as of mid-June. [New York Times tally, 6/27/06] -“Widespread” waste and mismanagement on millions for Katrina recovery, including at least $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used. [GAO, 3/16/06] DEFENSE CONTRACTS -A $50 million Air Force contract awarded to a company with close ties to senior Air Force officers, in a process “fraught with improper influence, irregular procedures, glaring conflicts of interest.” [Project on Government Oversight, 4/18/08] -$1.7 billion in excessive fees and waste paid by the Pentagon to the Interior Department to manage federal lands. [Defense Department and Interior Department Inspectors General audit, 12/25/06] -$1 trillion unaccounted for by the Pentagon, including 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. [GAO, 5/18/03] heckuva a job Bushie, doncha think? Hey Obamaism (figures a stupid person would choose a stupid name) you get the education I'm talking about the he's squandered can you even read you illiterate fool WHC would that be this Johnny Mcsame 26 MCCAIN ADVISORS & FUNDRAISERS LOBBIED FOR Fannie Mae Or Freddie Mac 11 OF THEM LOBBY RIGHT NOW SIXTEEN FANNIE MAE LOBBYISTS (SIX CURRENTLY LOBBYING) 1. Wayne L Berman, National Finance Co-Chair* 2. Aquiles Suarez, Economic Advisor 3. John Green, Capitol Hill Liaison 4. Dan Crippen, Health Care Policy Adviser 5. AB Culvahouse, VP Selection 6. Kirk Blalock, Young Professionals for McCain National Chair* 7. Kate Hull, Young Professionals for McCain Fundraiser * 8. Aleix Jarvis, Bundler* 9. Kirsten Chadwick, Bundler* 10. Richard Hohlt, Bundler* 11. Tom Loeffler, Bundler, Former General Chairman, National Finance Chair 12. Nicholas Calio, Bundler 13. Alberto Cardenes, Bundler 14. Michael Kennedy, Bundler 15. Peter Madigan, Bundler 16. Alison McSlarrow, Bundler *currently lobbying (as of 7/31/08, no termination filed) 10 FREDDIE MAC LOBBYISTS (FIVE CURRENTLY LOBBYING) 1. Charlie Black, Senior advisor, Bundler 2. Bill Timmons Sr., Senior advisor for transition* 3. Carlos Bonilla, Former Economic Advisor* 4. Mark Buse, Senate Chief of Staff 5. David Crane, Senior Policy Adviser 6. Al D'Amato, Bundler* 7. Melissa Edwards, Young Professionals for McCain Fundraiser* 8. Susan Molinari, Women for McCain Steering Committee* 9. Juleanna Glover Weiss, Bundler 10. Don Sundquist, Tennessee Co-Chair *currently lobbying (as of 7/31/08, no termination filed)

Refugees from USA, what can we do? To those who say "If you hate america so much, why don't you leave?" The answer of course is, we are people who have been abused by our government and society. We do not have the means to leave. But, since it would be to our mutual benefit to leave, I have come up with a solution to everyone's problem! The creation of a new non-profit organization to help people escape as political refugees of america. Jobs and shelter and food would be provided for those who need to escape america. Why do we want to escape america? It has a massive focus on money, and nothing else. Corporations and politicians get away with things that the normal citizen would be in jail for dozens of years for. Our government treats civil rights like a pogo-stick (something to jump up and down on). Our foreign policy is something that would make Hitler gasp in shock and disgust. A complete lack of morals seems to rule the majority of uneducated fools in this country. Religion and fear seem to rule the mind of citizens more than common sense or decency. American culture seems to be along the lines of: Be like us, or be imprisoned or killed. How is this any different than the terrorists we so claim to hate? Or the nazis that we frown upon in history? The fact is, there is no difference. The only difference is that people in america are trained to believe its a different situation. However, wrong is still wrong. Just because we won World War II doesn't give us the right to trample the rest of the world in the name of consumerism and minimum wage jobs. Like many of you, I voted for Obama. That is something I greatly regret now. Not to say McCain would have been better, but at least he didn't lie during his campaign. Obama said he didn't believe in the wars, and now he has sent more troops (with the dollars we need to escape this totalitarianism) to Afghanistan. Why? To promote more terroristic attacks against our country by people who wish to be left alone. He said he would cut programs and agencies that didn't work from the federal budget. He lied. He increased spending on these failed programs. He is the same as any other politician, regardless of our dreams and hopes that he would fix things. He won't, he will just perpetuate the downgrade of society into pure evil. Since so many people claim "If you hate america so much, why don't you leave?", I have been granted the vision of creating an organization to help people escape america as political refugees to another country. Anything else is nothing short of inhumane. Email me at: Americasrefugees@gmail.com with any ideas, praises, offers of organizational or financial help, or any other way to help free us of american control. A one-size-fits-all mandatory culture is the sign of a totalitarian regime.

AP Government Review Help.? So I have a review for Ap Government and I need help filling it out. I know its a lot but it would really help me out so here it is. AP GOV. SECOND SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW (I didnt write this so the spelling mistake are from my teacher) If you can help that would be great :D IF THE PRESIDENT SUFFERS A STROKE AND WANTS TO STAY IN OFFICE, EVEN WHEN OTHERS THINK IT IS NOT WISE, WHO DECIDES? REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY SUCCESS IS DUE TO? WHAT WERE THE COLONISTS FIGHTING FOR THE AGENCY THAT ADVISES CONGRESS ABOUT ECONOMIC EFFECTS IS SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE HAVE A LOT OF POWER BECAUSE WHEN DID THE GOVERNMENT START TO REGULATE THE ECONOMY THE AGENCY THAT RONALD REGAN WAS NOT ABLE TO ABOLISH WHAT WAS THE CENTRAL ISSUE OF THE FRAMING OF THE CONSTITUTION WHAT IS THE PRIMACY OF A WRITTEN CHARTER OF GOVERNMENT THREE AREAS OF RULE-CHANGES APPROVED BY THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WHAT INCREASES THE ODDS THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL REVIEW A CASE KNOW MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND ALMOND AND VERBA FOUND THAT THE CITIZENS OF WHAT COUNTRY ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE WILLING TO GO TO WAR FOR THERE COUNTRY KNOW MARBURY V. MADISON STATE POWERS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONSTITUTION BUT WERE ADDED LATER BY WHAT WHAT DOES POLITICAL ELITE MEAN AND WHAT DOES IT CONSIST OF HOW MANY CASES DOES THE SUPREME COURT GIVES REVIEW TO HOW MANY PETITIONS UNDER THE ARTICLES OF FEDERATION WHO WOULD HAVE HANDLED THE ISSUE OF ACID RAIN WHY WAS SLAVERY DEBATE SO IMP0RTANT IN THE SENATE KNOW MAX WEBER AND C. WRIGHT MILLS ANDREW JACKSON CHANGED THE VETO IN WHAT WAY ADVANTAGE OF THE MERIT SYSTEM TO THE PRESIDENT SUPERDELEGATE MEANS 1990 MANDATES KNOW GRANTS IN AID WHO IS GARY JACOBSON AND WHAT DID HE BELIEVE A LAWYER’S BRIEF JUSTIFYING A REVOLUTION MEANS WHAT WHAT IS THE JUDICIAL SYSTEMS BIGGEST WEAPON IN CHECKS AND BALANCES WHO DECIDES WETHER A PRESIDENT IS IMPEACHED INTERNAL EFFICACY MEANS WHAT PRESIDENTIAL AGENCY THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN PROVIDING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE WHAT IS A RIDER WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY ABOUT A PRESIDENT’S RIGHT TO IMPOUND FUNDS WHO IS EDMUND MUSKIE AND WHAT IS “MODEL CITIES” WHAT IS A APPROPRIATION FEDERAL COURTS CIVIL WORK LOAD IS GROWING THE FASTEST WHERE WHY ARE INTEREST GROUPS IMPORTANT A LIBERAL FRESHMAN SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WOULD BE MOST LIKELY TO FIND THEMSELVES APPOINTED TO A COMMITTEE DOMINATED BY WHO VETO POWER AND EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE ALLOW A PRESIDENT TO BLOCK ACTION AND WHAT ELSE WHAT PROCESS ALLOWS THE SPEAKER TO SEND A BILL TO A SECOND COMMITTEE AFTER THE FIRST IS FINISHED UNTIL THE 1930s THE PATTERN OF US LEGISLATION WAS WHAT UNLIKE THE HOUSE THE SCHEDULING OF LEGISLATION IN THE SENATE HAPPENS HOW WHAT GAVE THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT THE POWER TO RUN A POSTAL SERVICE

Refugees from USA, a potential NPO? To those who say "If you hate america so much, why don't you leave?" The answer of course is, we are people who have been abused by our government and society. We do not have the means to leave. But, since it would be to our mutual benefit to leave, I have come up with a solution to everyone's problem! The creation of a new non-profit organization to help people escape as political refugees of america. Jobs and shelter and food would be provided for those who need to escape america. Why do we want to escape america? It has a massive focus on money, and nothing else. Corporations and politicians get away with things that the normal citizen would be in jail for dozens of years for. Our government treats civil rights like a pogo-stick (something to jump up and down on). Our foreign policy is something that would make Hitler gasp in shock and disgust. A complete lack of morals seems to rule the majority of uneducated fools in this country. Religion and fear seem to rule the mind of citizens more than common sense or decency. American culture seems to be along the lines of: Be like us, or be imprisoned or killed. How is this any different than the terrorists we so claim to hate? Or the nazis that we frown upon in history? The fact is, there is no difference. The only difference is that people in america are trained to believe its a different situation. However, wrong is still wrong. Just because we won World War II doesn't give us the right to trample the rest of the world in the name of consumerism and minimum wage jobs. Like many of you, I voted for Obama. That is something I greatly regret now. Not to say McCain would have been better, but at least he didn't lie during his campaign. Obama said he didn't believe in the wars, and now he has sent more troops (with the dollars we need to escape this totalitarianism) to Afghanistan. Why? To promote more terroristic attacks against our country by people who wish to be left alone. He said he would cut programs and agencies that didn't work from the federal budget. He lied. He increased spending on these failed programs. He is the same as any other politician, regardless of our dreams and hopes that he would fix things. He won't, he will just perpetuate the downgrade of society into pure evil. Since so many people claim "If you hate america so much, why don't you leave?", I have been granted the vision of creating an organization to help people escape america as political refugees to another country. Anything else is nothing short of inhumane. Email me at: Americasrefugees@gmail.com with any ideas, praises, offers of organizational or financial help, or any other way to help free us of american control. A one-size-fits-all mandatory culture is the sign of a totalitarian regime.

Do you know what Obama HAS accomplished in 6 months? Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees. Reversed restrictions on stem cell research. Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Reducing discrimination based on gender, age, religion, or race. Signed an executive order reversing the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions. Gag rule revoked (Mexico City policy). Creates the White House Council on Women and Girls "to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families." Signed a Presidental Memorandum extending federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers and announced support for the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009. Reverses U.S. position on LGBT Issues at the UN: At the "Durban Review Conference," U.S. supports language condemning “all forms of discrimination and all other human rights violations based on sexual orientation.” Signed executive order requiring federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change. Reversed a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives. Signed executive order preventing federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses meant to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining. Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners. Expanded eligibility for the refinancing portion of the Making Home Affordable plan to help Americans struggling with distressed mortgages refinance at lower interest rates, even if they owe up to 25 percent more than their homes are now worth. Established a credit card "bill of rights". Expanded loan programs for small businesses. Extended and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch. Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP). Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners. Created a new White House task force on the problems of middle-class Americans, and installed Vice President Joe Biden as its chairman. Appoints Vice President Joe Biden to Oversee Stimulus Plan Payouts. Granted a reprieve to Liberian immigrants facing imminent expulsion. Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq. Allowing Caskets to be photographed when the return from Iraq with family approval. Released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism. On Arab TV Network, Obama Urges Dialogue. Gave a speech in Cairo engaging the Muslim and Arab world. Bars independent contractors from conducting interrogations of terror suspects. Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba. Ordered the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush. Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program. Released presidential records. Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions. Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors. Invites gay families to the Easter Egg Roll as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities. Created a White House Office on Urban Policy. Increased funding for the NEA. Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy. Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps. Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees. Investment in all types of alternative energy. Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars. Support for high-speed rail. Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes. Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits. Created the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers to help auto industry workers transition to new manufacturing opportunities, including jobs in alternative energy. Stopped raids on medical marijuana dispensers. Nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Supreme Court. Appointed more than 60 openly LGBT persons to positions in the executive branch. Issues Presidential Proclamation for Pride, proclaiming June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. Signed a mercury reduction pact with 14

Why do conservatives in Texas want to ban oral and anal sex? http://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/FINAL_2010_STATE_REPUBLICAN_PARTY_PLATFORM.pdf http://washingtonindependent.com/88487/texas-gop-unveils-brand-new-far-right-platform We oppose the legalization of sodomy. We demand that Congress exercise its authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy. Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights. We believe Congress should repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. We strongly believe that the United States of America must protect and defend its national sovereignty as given in the Constitution to the people and remain free of external control or influence and be governed independently of any foreign power, especially with regard to the formation of the North American Union/Community as proposed by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). We call upon the President, Senators and Representatives to defend our national sovereignty in accordance with their oaths of office. Our policy [on Israel] is based on God’s biblical promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and we further invite other nations and organizations to enjoy the benefits of that promise. We oppose a one-world government in direct opposition to our basic principles and eroding our sovereignty. We oppose the implementation of one world currency. We demand Congress stop funding the IMF and any other international financing agencies. We believe it is in the best interest of the citizens of the United States that we immediately rescind our membership in, as well as all financial and military contributions to, the United Nations. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/26/texas-gop-comes-out.html I thought you guys were for small government? The morality police for all this would be huge! Get out of our bedrooms you perverts!

Don’t you know what the 45 Communist Goals are? The 45 Communist Goals has always been a popular topic on this site, and so I thought I’d see how many of the goals have been endorsed by Obama himself, or his policies. In 1963 Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla. testified before Congress. She read the 45 Communist Goals as written by Cleon Skousen in his book “The Naked Communist.” CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. – Obama – Obama said he would not further develop nuclear weapons, and wants to eliminate them altogether. Even though modern technology might better harness control over collateral damage. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. – Obama — See above. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. – Obama — Obama stated that he would double foreign aid to poor countries to prevent terrorism. Many of these poor countries are communist or dictator lead. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Do away with all loyalty oaths. – Obama — His whole flag pin thing is enough, but how about his church only pledging allegience to the continent of Africa. While the latter is an oath, it isn’t an oath that benefits the US. (Notice: The church’s website no longer has the page dedicated to Africa Allegiance. It was removed shortly after it became an issue.) Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. – Obama — The Democrat party has already been captured by extreme socialists. Traditional Democrats no longer have a party. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. – Obama — Obama supports, and will push hard, the Mathew Sheppard Act. This will greatly expand federal law enforcement authority to bypass local law enforcement to investigate hate crimes. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. – Obama — Obama already has a chapter in textbooks, and there is a long history of Democrat issues making their way into our kids’ textbooks. But forget all that … just read his education policy from his website, but read it carefully. Gain control of all student newspapers. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. – Obama — The editorial writing is done, and indisputable. Obama is also cencoring news agencies who ask his people tough questions, and kicking reporters out who work for papers that endorsed McCain. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. – Obama — Does WGN being censored, attacked, and savaged by Obama’s campaign sound familiar? No, how about Obama stealing a supporter’s Myspace page? Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.” Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.” Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. – Obama – See Above (WGN). Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

Isn't this proof that Obama is a very bad President, probably the worst in American history? A CRISIS OBAMA WON'T WASTE By DICK MORRIS Published on TheHill.com on April 7, 2009 This economic crisis is too useful for Obama to want it to end. When Rahm Emanuel -- and later Hillary Clinton -- spoke of never letting a good crisis "go to waste," many people were shocked. But now Obama seems to embody the corollary: that the crisis should continue until he has thoroughly milked it to reshape American politics, society and the economy. Like Faust, he seems to wish that this "given moment" will "endure forever." Unlike Faust, however, he will not lose his "life and soul" to such a wish. He'll sacrifice ours instead. First came the "stimulus package." With only about $185 billion of its $800 billion in spending to be spent in 2009, Obama clearly never intended the spending to be about stimulus but wanted the need for a stimulus to trigger the spending he wanted anyway. Then came the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funding, often forced down banks' throats. Now comes word that even as banks want to return the money, the Treasury is making them keep it. One source at a TARP bank reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is insisting that banks go through their "stress test" before refunding the TARP money. As Stuart Varney speculates, in The Wall Street Journal, Obama wants the banks to keep the money so he can enforce his regulations on them. Now comes Geithner's plea for extra regulatory powers and Obama's concession to global economic regulation at the G-20 summit. Both moves are game-changers for any major American business. Geithner wants the power to take over any business -- presumably in any field -- whose failure would imperil the national economy. Today it's banks, brokerage houses, car companies and insurance firms. Tomorrow? Who knows? And Obama agreed to agree on international "high standards" for the regulation of all "systemically important" companies to be promulgated by the new global Financial Stability Board (FSB). The United States, occupying one of 20 chairs on the FSB board (21 if we count the EU), will come to a consensus with other central bankers from the G-20 nations on what these regulations should say. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve and the other regulatory arms of the U.S. government will impose them on our economy. (Some have objected that Congress needs to be consulted, but as long as the agreements are "voluntary" and the U.S. agencies are merely "asked" to impose the regulations, no further grant of congressional authority is needed. But, of course, there will be nothing voluntary about the administration's demand that the agencies implement the coming FSB directives, no matter how intrusive they may be.) And, finally, there is Obama's delegation of a total overhaul of the tax code to a commission headed by Paul Volcker with a mandate to report back in December of this year. So with the tax code totally changing, Europe about to formulate regulations for our economy, the U.S. government empowered to take over any large company, the deficit and spending reaching unbelievable levels and the feds insisting on continued control of banks, what businessman in his right mind is going to invest in anything? How could even the most foolish optimist pull the trigger on a business investment without knowing the tax consequences, the regulatory framework and the policy of the banks on lending? But Obama knows all this. He knows that his steps will delay economic recovery. But he wants these changes, not as means to an end, but as the end itself. And he is determined to get them passed and set in stone while the rubric of "crisis" justifies his doing so. He is not unlike a leader who takes his country into war, knowing that by "wagging the dog" he can reinforce his power. But ultimately, does Obama care if he is reelected? Doesn't he know that he needs a good economy to extend his mandate to eight years? Yes, of course he does. But he probably figures that he can turn the economy around as Election Day 2012 draws nearer and reap all the credit then. In the meantime, no good crisis should ever go to waste. IT IS GOING TO BE A MIRACLE IF THE COUNTRY SURVIVES THIS GUY.

American Goverment help!!? 1. American revolutionary leaders were deeply influenced by this man's writings. (2 points) Richard Nixon Chief Justice Roger B. Taney John Locke Karl Marx 2. Signed by the Pilgrims in 1620, this item was the first American government document. (2 points) Constitution Mayflower Compact Petition of Rights Magna Carta 3. This concept is the basis of the Constitution. (2 points) popular sovereignty Supreme Court justice Congressional powers executive privilege 4. These powers belong to both the national and the state governments. (2 points) reserved powers delegated powers concurrent powers implied powers 5. Civil laws that are passed by state legislatures are called (2 points) sunshine laws. sunset laws. civil suits. public acts. 6. This stops a filibuster. (2 points) caucus gerrymander closed rule cloture 7. The presiding officer of the House is the (2 points) Speaker. majority whip. majority leader. Senate leader. 8. This presidential power was granted by Congress to help control spending but would require a constitutional amendment. (2 points) censure pocket veto line-item veto gerrymander 9. Most of the work on tax laws takes place in the (2 points) executive offices. hearings. Senate Appropriations Committee. House Ways and Means Committee. 10. These are the key power centers in Congress. (2 points) hearings committees sessions caucuses 11. The commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces is the (2 points) national security advisor. president. attorney general. secretary of defense. 12. Civil servants who work for the federal government are known as (2 points) procurement specialists. executive workers. bureaucrats. whistleblowers. 13. Congress has two major tools to influence decision making in federal agencies: (2 points) new legislation and the budget. DEA and the FBI. lobbying and election money. contact with the people and the president. 14. This is an example of an iron triangle. (2 points) president, Senate, House of Representatives executive, legislative, judicial branches federal agency, client group, congressional committee president, vice president, cabinet 15. The right of the president to refuse to testify before Congress or a court is called (2 points) executive privilege. executive mandate. executive orders. de facto. 16. This is a friend of the Supreme Court. (2 points) litigant petit jury amicus curiae appellate 17. Most of the Supreme Court's cases come (2 points) by amicus curiae. through presidential appointment. through Congressional hearings. as appeals from lower courts. 18. This is the Senate's control over the Supreme Court. (2 points) override power amendment power confirmation power veto power 19. The United States is divided into 12 regions, each one with (2 points) district courts. United States Tax Courts. concurrent courts. U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 20. The decision in this case gave the Supreme Court judicial review. (2 points) Slaughterhouse Case Marbury v. Madison McCulloch v. Maryland Plessy v. Ferguson

I need help on American History! (: Please and Thanks!? 1. Andrew Johnson belonged to which political party? A. Democratic B. Republican C. Whig D. Independent 2. After 1865, slaves often worked as A. sharecroppers B. slaves C. builders D. politicians 3. For whom did President Johnson have the most sympathy? A. wealthy Southern plantation owners B. poor white Southerners C. freedmen D. abolitionists 4. During the Compromise of 1877, Republicans could claim the Presidency if the federal government agreed to . . . A. make Tilden the Vice- President. B. revoke the Thirteenth Amendment. C. not enforce civil rights for blacks. D. pay each plantation owner for the loss of slave labor. 5. The Reconstruction Act, written by Andrew Johnson, focused on . . . A. working with Congress for the good of the nation. B. equality for all. C. increasing the number of poor whites in government. D. keeping white remaining in a position of power. 6. What did the Fourteenth Amendment do? A. ended the black codes B. granted civil rights to all citizens C. stopped the violence of the Ku Klux Klan D. granted each person the right to vote 7. What were the local laws that the South created to keep blacks inferior to and separate from whites? A. black codes B. freedmen laws C. white codes D. supremacy laws 8. Who were the Radical Republicans? A. people who had wanted the death of Lincoln B. people who wanted rights for blacks and stricter readmission to the Union for Southern whites C. people who backed the Reconstruction plan written by Johnson D. people who wanted to keep the North and South states from reuniting 9. Which Amendment gave blacks the right to vote? A. sixteenth B. fifteenth C. fourteenth D. thirteenth 10. What is the name of the agency that the government founded to help the newly freed slaves? A. The Reconstruction Agency B. The Salvation Army C. The Welfare Department D. The Freedmen’s Bureau I Need Help!! :( I Think 1. is A and 2. is B and 10. is D

When WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TAKE BACK THEIR REPUBLIC FROM THE CONTROL OF US CORPORATE GOVERNMENT? DUN & BRADSTREET listings of government units, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities. No doubt about the search results regarding the complete ‘federalization’ or ‘corporatization’ of the purported ‘government’. Nothing about the “United States” or “UNITED STATES” is as it appears or is commonly presumed to be. It is a ‘de facto’ ‘doctrine of necessity’ by ‘occupation’ in ‘bankruptcy’ operating for the benefit of undisclosed third-party Principals who also allege to be Holders in Due Course as “Prime Creditors”. Lawful government was deconstructed when after the Civil War the states and the ten southern states were ‘Reconstructed’ during and within the Reconstruction Acts. The current form of ‘government’ has nothing to do with lawful ‘government’ or ‘governance’ of/by/for the people or the de jure union of several American states. Every aspect of the idea of ‘government’ has been incorporated and operates as an implied ‘resultant’ equity constructive TRUST and commercial franchise of the UNITED STATES, having no fixed or pre-determined rules to run by, because the organic rules operated ‘without the United States’-District of Columbia, ‘within the United States of America’, which is a diverse and distinctly different entity at law in commerce. This subject can be elaborated ad nauseam, but the gist is what you may have already summarized and concluded. How can a corporate executive of a non-Constitutional entity be held accountable to his actions under a Constitutional standard, where there is no one in any aspect of the same CORPORATION that has authority to do so? Furthermore, the CORPORATION itself has no nexus to the Organic Constitution for the United States of America, where exist the only mechanisms and constructs for ‘lawful government’ and protections of un/in-a-lien-able Rights under the Bill of Rights. The CORPORATION is itself an abomination. The Federal Convention 1787, September 14. The state delegates voted on the motion to delegate authority to Congress to incorporate or to grant charters of incorporation, and it was explicitly rejected. (BELOW IS THE BEGAINING OF ALL THE US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES LISTED ON DUN AND BRADSTREET) < PreviousShowing 1 of 1Sort by: Next > HQEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQOFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY Also Traded as EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT750 17TH ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, OFFICE OF OLD EXECUTIVE OFFICE BLDG, RM 431, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 725 17TH ST NW RM 4208, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 725 17TH ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1724 F ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1700 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, RM 100 EEOB, WASHINGTON, DC HQEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQCONSOLIDATED EXECUTIVE OFFICE CONSOLIDATED EXECUTIVE OFFICE 950 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC HQTRUSTEES, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR THE US TRUSTEES, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR THE US 20 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, WASHINGTON, DC HQATTORNEYS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR UNITED STATES 600 E STREET NW STE 8302, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 444 N CAPITOL ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 1140, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 216, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF UTAH EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF UTAH 444 N CAPITOL ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE 444 N CAPITOL CITY STE 230, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 444 N CAPITOL ST NW # 134, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 332, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY 444 N CAPITOL ST NW STE 224, WASHINGTON, DC BREXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMEN chad p - I will leave bombing to the Corporate US Government

Do these Executive Orders suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter

Do these Executive Orders associated with FEMA suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:... EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the... National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities. 1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy. Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.

Which of these countries is more capitalist? Country A has a guranteed public education for all its citizens(regardless of the social class they were born into ) all the way through 12th grade. It also has state owned and subsidized universities, student grants, subsidized student loans, job training, healthcare for the poor and elderly, a pension system for the elderly, 40 hour work weeks, minimum wage, overtime pay, work place safety standards, worker's compensation, temporary unemployment insurance, the right to unionize, consumer protection laws and agencies (FDA, FTC, etc), environmental protection laws and agencies (EPA), anti-trust laws, public health utilities, forces banks to insure with the federal government, manipulates interest rates to control inflation, and regulates its stock market to prevent abuse. Country B has none of that and instead has legal corporate pollution, legal sweat shop labor, no food sanitation standards, and pretty much let's corporations do as they please. Country B does not use government to regulate the economy. I forgot this one. Country A has state parks, government owned land protected from corporate development for the benifit of the people. Country B doesn't believe in conserving. All land can be sold to the highest bidder.

Chuck Norris can figure out 0bamacare can you? Chuck Norris is a columnist and impossible to kill. Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development." Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? Their own? Certain experts'? From what field and theory of childhood development? As if there are one-size-fits-all parenting techniques! Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own? Are we to assume the state's mediators would understand every parent's social or religious core values on parenting? Or would they teach some secular-progressive and religiously neutered version of parental values and wisdom? And if they were to consult and coach those who expect babies, would they ever decide circumstances to be not beneficial for the children and encourage abortions? One government rebuttal is that this program would be "voluntary." Is that right? Does that imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent needing parenting skills said, "I don't think I'll call my parents, priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I'll go down to the local government offices"? To the contrary, the bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state "shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families." Are we further to conclude by those words that low-income families know less about parenting? Are middle- and upper-class parents really better parents? Less neglectful of their children? Less needful of parental help and training? Is this "prioritized" training not a biased, discriminatory and even prejudicial stereotype and generalization that has no place in federal government, law or practice? @antagonist How very insulting of you to answer with such passion. I do know that insurance companies do some of the same things, but there is a HUGE difference between a company and the federal government. The most pronounced difference (that you seem to not understand) is that I can choose not to do business with the company. I can't refuse to do business with federal government, unless I want to risk jail time.

Could you help me with my history? 31. The clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to stretch its delegated powers to cover many other subjects is known as the elastic clause. A. True B. False 32. Since the beginning of the U.S., only one president has resigned from office. A. True B. False 33. The president has the power to appoint cabinet members and judges. A. True B. False 34. The legislative branch is the interpreter of the country's laws. A. True B. False 35. From where does Congress gets its power limitations? A. Article I, Section 9. B. The Preamble. C. Article I, Section 8. D. The President. 36. The Senate and House of Representatives have passed different versions of an air pollution bill. The kind of committee that would most likely be formed to work out a compromise would be a A. standing committee. B. select committee. C. conference committee. D. subcommittee. 37. Regulatory Commissions A. are independent of the executive departments. B. make rules but cannot enforce them. C. have exactly the same function as independent agencies. D. are headed by chairpersons elected by the people. 38. Which of the following is NOT an officer-training school that is supervised by the Department of Defense? A. U.S. Military Academy at Westpoint B. U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis C. Virginia Military Institute D. U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut 39. Where are impeachment trials held? A. House of Representatives B. Supreme Court C. the Senate D. state court 40. Which of the following limits on the powers of Congress ensures that people will get a trial before receiving a prison sentence? A. Passing Ex Post Facto Laws B. Granting Titles of Nobility C. Passing Laws that violate the Bill of Rights D. Passing Bills of Attainder 41. What does it mean when we say the President is the Commander-in-Chief? A. He appoints Supreme Court Justices and federal judges, grants reprieves and pardons, and has power of commutation. B. He secures friendly relations with foreign governments and signs treaties. C. He is the symbol of the United States, greets foreign visitors, travels to foreign countries. D. He is the head of all U.S. armed forces and can send military forces abroad. 43. Who called the position of vice president "the most insignificant" office ever invented? A. George Washington B. John Adams C. James Madison D. George Bush 44. Executive departments A. are strictly outlined in the Constitution. B. are permanent departments established by the framers. C. can be established, reorganized, or eliminated by Congress. D. have become increasingly insignificant since the early 1900s. 45. Only the President can declare war. A. True B. False 46. If Congress is not in session and the President does not sign the bill within 10 days, it does not become a law. A. True B. False

Could you help me with my history? 31. The clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to stretch its delegated powers to cover many other subjects is known as the elastic clause. A. True B. False 32. Since the beginning of the U.S., only one president has resigned from office. A. True B. False 33. The president has the power to appoint cabinet members and judges. A. True B. False 34. The legislative branch is the interpreter of the country's laws. A. True B. False 35. From where does Congress gets its power limitations? A. Article I, Section 9. B. The Preamble. C. Article I, Section 8. D. The President. 36. The Senate and House of Representatives have passed different versions of an air pollution bill. The kind of committee that would most likely be formed to work out a compromise would be a A. standing committee. B. select committee. C. conference committee. D. subcommittee. 37. Regulatory Commissions A. are independent of the executive departments. B. make rules but cannot enforce them. C. have exactly the same function as independent agencies. D. are headed by chairpersons elected by the people. 38. Which of the following is NOT an officer-training school that is supervised by the Department of Defense? A. U.S. Military Academy at Westpoint B. U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis C. Virginia Military Institute D. U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut 39. Where are impeachment trials held? A. House of Representatives B. Supreme Court C. the Senate D. state court 40. Which of the following limits on the powers of Congress ensures that people will get a trial before receiving a prison sentence? A. Passing Ex Post Facto Laws B. Granting Titles of Nobility C. Passing Laws that violate the Bill of Rights D. Passing Bills of Attainder 41. What does it mean when we say the President is the Commander-in-Chief? A. He appoints Supreme Court Justices and federal judges, grants reprieves and pardons, and has power of commutation. B. He secures friendly relations with foreign governments and signs treaties. C. He is the symbol of the United States, greets foreign visitors, travels to foreign countries. D. He is the head of all U.S. armed forces and can send military forces abroad. 43. Who called the position of vice president "the most insignificant" office ever invented? A. George Washington B. John Adams C. James Madison D. George Bush 44. Executive departments A. are strictly outlined in the Constitution. B. are permanent departments established by the framers. C. can be established, reorganized, or eliminated by Congress. D. have become increasingly insignificant since the early 1900s. 45. Only the President can declare war. A. True B. False 46. If Congress is not in session and the President does not sign the bill within 10 days, it does not become a law. A. True B. False

Is the Federal Reserve a private bank? The following is a conversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the Public Information Department of the San Francisco, Federal Reserve Bank. This is an account of that conversation reconstructed to the best of my ability from notes taken during the conversation on October 8, 1992. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALLER - Mr. Supinski, does my country own the Federal Reserve System? MR. SUPINSKI - We are an agency of the government. CALLER - That's not my question. Is it owned by my country? MR. SUPINSKI - It is an agency of the government created by congress. CALLER - Is the Federal Reserve a Corporation? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Does my government own any of the stock in the Federal Reserve? MR. SUPINSKI - No, it is owned by the member banks. CALLER - Are the member banks private corporations? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Are Federal Reserve Notes backed by anything? MR. SUPINSKI -Yes, by the assets of the Federal Reserve but, primarily by the power of congress to lay tax on the people. CALLER - Did you say, by the power to collect taxes is what backs Federal Reserve Notes? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - What are the total assets of the Federal Reserve? MR. SUPINSKI - The San Francisco Bank has $36 Billion in assets. CALLER - What are these assets comprised of? MR. SUPINSKI - Gold, the Federal Reserve Bank itself and government securities. CALLER - What value does the Federal Reserve Bank carry gold per oz. on their books? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't have that information but the San Francisco Bank has $1.6 billion in gold. CALLER - Are you saying the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has $1.6 billion in gold, the bank itself and the balance of the assets is government securities? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes. CALLER - Where does the Federal Reserve get Federal Reserve Notes from? MR. SUPINSKI - They are authorized by the Treasury. CALLER - How much does the Federal Reserve pay for a $10 Federal Reserve Note? MR. SUPINSKI - Fifty to seventy cents. CALLER - How much do they pay for a $100.00 Federal Reserve Note? MR. SUPINSKI - The same fifty to seventy cents. CALLER - To pay only fifty cents for a $100.00 is a tremendous gain, isn't it? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - According to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve pays $20.60 per 1,000 denomination or a little over two cents for a $100.00 bill, is that correct? MR. SUPINSKI - That is probably close. CALLER - Doesn't the Federal Reserve use the Federal Reserve Notes that cost about two cents each to purchase U.S. Bonds from the government? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, but there is more to it than that. CALLER - Basically, that is what happens? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, basically you are correct. CALLER - How many Federal Reserve Notes are in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - $263 billion and we can only account for a small percentage. CALLER - Where did they go? MR. SUPINSKI - Peoples mattress, buried in their back yards and illegal drug money. CALLER - Since the debt is payable in Federal Reserve Notes, how can the $4 trillion national debt be paid-off with the total Federal Reserve Notes in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know. CALLER - If the Federal Government would collect every Federal Reserve Note in circulation would it be mathematically possible to pay the $4 trillion national debt? MR. SUPINSKI - No CALLER - Am I correct when I say, $1 deposited in a member bank $8 can be lent out through Fractional Reserve Policy? MR. SUPINSKI - About $7. CALLER - Correct me if I am wrong but, $7 of additional Federal Reserve Notes were never put in circulation. But, for lack of better words were "created out of thin air " in the form of credits and the two cents per denomination were not paid either. In other words, the Federal Reserve Notes were not physically printed but, in reality were created by a journal entry and lent at interest. Is that correct? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Is that the reason there are only $263 billion Federal Reserve Notes in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - That is part of the reason. CALLER - Am I mistaking that when the Federal Reserve Act was passed (on Christmas Eve) in 1913, it transferred the power to coin and issue our nations money and to regulate the value thereof from Congress to a Private corporation. And my country now borrows what should be our own money from the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) plus interest. Is that correct and the debt can never be paid off under the current money system of country? MR. SUPINSKI - Basically, yes. CALLER - I smell a rat, do you? MR. SUPINSKI - I am sorry, I can't answer that, I work here. CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been independently audited? MR. SUPINSKI - We are audited. CALLER - Why is there a current House Resolution 1486 calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the G.A.O. and why is the Federal Reserve resisting? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know. CALLER - Does the Federal Reserve regulate the value of Federal Reserve Notes and interest rates? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Explain how the Federal Reserve System can be Constitutional if, only the Congress of the U.S., which comprises of the Senate and the House of Representatives has the power to coin and issue our money supply and regulate the value thereof? [Article 1 Section 1 and Section 8] Nowhere, in the Constitution does it give Congress the power or authority to transfer any powers granted under the Constitution to a private corporation or, does it? MR. SUPINSKI - I am not an expert on constitutional law. I can refer you to our legal department. CALLER - I can tell you I have read the Constitution. It does NOT provide that any power granted can be transferred to a private corporation. Doesn't it specifically state, all other powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the citizens? Does that mean to a private corporation? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't think so, but we were created by Congress. CALLER - Would you agree it is our country and it should be our money as provided by our Constitution? MR. SUPINSKI - I understand what you are saying. CALLER - Why should we borrow our own money from a private consortium of bankers? Isn't this why we had a revolution, created a separate sovereign nation and a Bill of Rights? MR. SUPINSKI - (Declined to answer). CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court? MR. SUPINSKI - I believe there has been court cases on the matter. CALLER - Have they been Supreme Court Cases? MR. SUPINSKI - I think so, but I am not sure. CALLER - Didn't the Supreme Court declare unanimously in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. and Carter vs. Carter Coal Co. the corporative-state arrangement an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power? ["The power conferred is the power to regulate. This is legislative delegation in its most obnoxious form; for it is not even delegation to an official or an official body, presumptively disinterested, but to private persons." Carter vs. Carter Coal Co.] MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know, I can refer you to our legal department. CALLER - Isn't the current money system a house of cards that must fall because, the debt can mathematically never be paid-off? MR. SUPINSKI - It appears that way. I can tell you have been looking into this matter and are very knowledgeable. However, we do have a solution. CALLER - What is the solution? MR. SUPINSKI - The Debit Card. CALLER - Do you mean under the E.F.T. Act (Electronic Funds Transfer)? Isn't that very frightening, when one considers the capabilities of computers? It would provide the government and all it's agencies, including the Federal Reserve such information as: You went to the gas station @ 2:30 and bought $10.00 of unleaded gas @ $1.41 per gallon and then you went to the grocery store @ 2:58 and bought bread, lunch meat and milk for $12.32 and then went to the drug store @ 3:30 and bought cold medicine for $5.62. In other words, they would know where we go, when we went, how much we paid, how much the merchant paid and how much profit he made. Under the E.F.T. they will literally know everything about us. Isn't that kind of scary? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, it makes you wonder. CALLER - I smell a GIANT RAT that has overthrown my constitution. Aren't we paying tribute in the form of income taxes to a consortium of private bankers? MR. SUPINSKI - I can't call it tribute, it is interest. CALLER - Haven't all elected officials taken an oath of office to preserve and defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic? Isn't the Federal Reserve a domestic enemy? MR. SUPINSKI - I can't say that. CALLER - Our elected officials and members of the Federal Reserve are guilty of aiding and abetting the overthrowing of my Constitution and that is treason. Isn't the punishment of treason death? MR. SUPINSKI - I believe so. CALLER - Thank you for your time and information and if I may say so, I think you should take the necessary steps to protect you and your family and withdraw your money from the banks before the collapse, I am. MR. SUPINSKI - It doesn't look good. CALLER - May God have mercy on the souls who are behind this unconstitutional and criminal act called the Federal Reserve. When the ALMIGHTY MASS awakens to this giant hoax, they will not take it with a grain of salt. It has been a pleasure talking to you and I thank you for your time. I hope you will take my advice before it does collapse. MR. SUPINSKI - Unfortunately, it does not look good. CALLER - Have a good day and thanks for your time. MR. SUPINSKI - Thanks for calling.

Proof your government is corrupt? The following is a conversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the Public Information Department of the San Francisco, Federal Reserve Bank. This is an account of that conversation reconstructed to the best of my ability from notes taken during the conversation on October 8, 1992. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALLER - Mr. Supinski, does my country own the Federal Reserve System? MR. SUPINSKI - We are an agency of the government. CALLER - That's not my question. Is it owned by my country? MR. SUPINSKI - It is an agency of the government created by congress. CALLER - Is the Federal Reserve a Corporation? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Does my government own any of the stock in the Federal Reserve? MR. SUPINSKI - No, it is owned by the member banks. CALLER - Are the member banks private corporations? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Are Federal Reserve Notes backed by anything? MR. SUPINSKI -Yes, by the assets of the Federal Reserve but, primarily by the power of congress to lay tax on the people. CALLER - Did you say, by the power to collect taxes is what backs Federal Reserve Notes? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - What are the total assets of the Federal Reserve? MR. SUPINSKI - The San Francisco Bank has $36 Billion in assets. CALLER - What are these assets comprised of? MR. SUPINSKI - Gold, the Federal Reserve Bank itself and government securities. CALLER - What value does the Federal Reserve Bank carry gold per oz. on their books? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't have that information but the San Francisco Bank has $1.6 billion in gold. CALLER - Are you saying the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has $1.6 billion in gold, the bank itself and the balance of the assets is government securities? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes. CALLER - Where does the Federal Reserve get Federal Reserve Notes from? MR. SUPINSKI - They are authorized by the Treasury. CALLER - How much does the Federal Reserve pay for a $10 Federal Reserve Note? MR. SUPINSKI - Fifty to seventy cents. CALLER - How much do they pay for a $100.00 Federal Reserve Note? MR. SUPINSKI - The same fifty to seventy cents. CALLER - To pay only fifty cents for a $100.00 is a tremendous gain, isn't it? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - According to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve pays $20.60 per 1,000 denomination or a little over two cents for a $100.00 bill, is that correct? MR. SUPINSKI - That is probably close. CALLER - Doesn't the Federal Reserve use the Federal Reserve Notes that cost about two cents each to purchase U.S. Bonds from the government? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, but there is more to it than that. CALLER - Basically, that is what happens? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, basically you are correct. CALLER - How many Federal Reserve Notes are in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - $263 billion and we can only account for a small percentage. CALLER - Where did they go? MR. SUPINSKI - Peoples mattress, buried in their back yards and illegal drug money. CALLER - Since the debt is payable in Federal Reserve Notes, how can the $4 trillion national debt be paid-off with the total Federal Reserve Notes in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know. CALLER - If the Federal Government would collect every Federal Reserve Note in circulation would it be mathematically possible to pay the $4 trillion national debt? MR. SUPINSKI - No CALLER - Am I correct when I say, $1 deposited in a member bank $8 can be lent out through Fractional Reserve Policy? MR. SUPINSKI - About $7. CALLER - Correct me if I am wrong but, $7 of additional Federal Reserve Notes were never put in circulation. But, for lack of better words were "created out of thin air " in the form of credits and the two cents per denomination were not paid either. In other words, the Federal Reserve Notes were not physically printed but, in reality were created by a journal entry and lent at interest. Is that correct? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Is that the reason there are only $263 billion Federal Reserve Notes in circulation? MR. SUPINSKI - That is part of the reason. CALLER - Am I mistaking that when the Federal Reserve Act was passed (on Christmas Eve) in 1913, it transferred the power to coin and issue our nations money and to regulate the value thereof from Congress to a Private corporation. And my country now borrows what should be our own money from the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) plus interest. Is that correct and the debt can never be paid off under the current money system of country? MR. SUPINSKI - Basically, yes. CALLER - I smell a rat, do you? MR. SUPINSKI - I am sorry, I can't answer that, I work here. CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been independently audited? MR. SUPINSKI - We are audited. CALLER - Why is there a current House Resolution 1486 calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the G.A.O. and why is the Federal Reserve resisting? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know. CALLER - Does the Federal Reserve regulate the value of Federal Reserve Notes and interest rates? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes CALLER - Explain how the Federal Reserve System can be Constitutional if, only the Congress of the U.S., which comprises of the Senate and the House of Representatives has the power to coin and issue our money supply and regulate the value thereof? [Article 1 Section 1 and Section 8] Nowhere, in the Constitution does it give Congress the power or authority to transfer any powers granted under the Constitution to a private corporation or, does it? MR. SUPINSKI - I am not an expert on constitutional law. I can refer you to our legal department. CALLER - I can tell you I have read the Constitution. It does NOT provide that any power granted can be transferred to a private corporation. Doesn't it specifically state, all other powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the citizens? Does that mean to a private corporation? MR. SUPINSKI - I don't think so, but we were created by Congress. CALLER - Would you agree it is our country and it should be our money as provided by our Constitution? MR. SUPINSKI - I understand what you are saying. CALLER - Why should we borrow our own money from a private consortium of bankers? Isn't this why we had a revolution, created a separate sovereign nation and a Bill of Rights? MR. SUPINSKI - (Declined to answer). CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court? MR. SUPINSKI - I believe there has been court cases on the matter. CALLER - Have they been Supreme Court Cases? MR. SUPINSKI - I think so, but I am not sure. CALLER - Didn't the Supreme Court declare unanimously in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. and Carter vs. Carter Coal Co. the corporative-state arrangement an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power? ["The power conferred is the power to regulate. This is legislative delegation in its most obnoxious form; for it is not even delegation to an official or an official body, presumptively disinterested, but to private persons." Carter vs. Carter Coal Co.] MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know, I can refer you to our legal department. CALLER - Isn't the current money system a house of cards that must fall because, the debt can mathematically never be paid-off? MR. SUPINSKI - It appears that way. I can tell you have been looking into this matter and are very knowledgeable. However, we do have a solution. CALLER - What is the solution? MR. SUPINSKI - The Debit Card. CALLER - Do you mean under the E.F.T. Act (Electronic Funds Transfer)? Isn't that very frightening, when one considers the capabilities of computers? It would provide the government and all it's agencies, including the Federal Reserve such information as: You went to the gas station @ 2:30 and bought $10.00 of unleaded gas @ $1.41 per gallon and then you went to the grocery store @ 2:58 and bought bread, lunch meat and milk for $12.32 and then went to the drug store @ 3:30 and bought cold medicine for $5.62. In other words, they would know where we go, when we went, how much we paid, how much the merchant paid and how much profit he made. Under the E.F.T. they will literally know everything about us. Isn't that kind of scary? MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, it makes you wonder. CALLER - I smell a GIANT RAT that has overthrown my constitution. Aren't we paying tribute in the form of income taxes to a consortium of private bankers? MR. SUPINSKI - I can't call it tribute, it is interest. CALLER - Haven't all elected officials taken an oath of office to preserve and defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic? Isn't the Federal Reserve a domestic enemy? MR. SUPINSKI - I can't say that. CALLER - Our elected officials and members of the Federal Reserve are guilty of aiding and abetting the overthrowing of my Constitution and that is treason. Isn't the punishment of treason death? MR. SUPINSKI - I believe so. CALLER - Thank you for your time and information and if I may say so, I think you should take the necessary steps to protect you and your family and withdraw your money from the banks before the collapse, I am. MR. SUPINSKI - It doesn't look good. CALLER - May God have mercy on the souls who are behind this unconstitutional and criminal act called the Federal Reserve. When the ALMIGHTY MASS awakens to this giant hoax, they will not take it with a grain of salt. It has been a pleasure talking to you and I thank you for your time. I hope you will take my advice before it does collapse. MR. SUPINSKI - Unfortunately, it does not look good. CALLER - Have a good day and thanks for your time. MR. SUPINSKI - Thanks for calling.

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

Martial law in U.S.? Rule by fear power? does power corrupt? by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead DIGG THIS "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it." ~ George Santayana On May 9, 2007, with little attention from the snoozing media, George W. Bush issued a "presidential directive" that allows him to assume control of the federal government following a "catastrophic emergency." Although the directive doesn't specifically identify the types of emergencies that would qualify as "catastrophic," it is vague enough to encompass "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function." As Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive noted, it could include "another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California." In fact, the language is so broad that it could include almost anything the public is led to believe might have a major impact on the country. Not surprisingly, the president's order comes neatly packaged within the trappings of national security and safety. This directive followed on the heels of a bill, which I have previously written about, that was pushed through Congress and which gave the president the power to declare martial law and establish a dictatorship. Under these provisions, the president can now use the military as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any "other condition." In other words, the groundwork has been laid for the president of the United States to do away with our democracy, such as it is, and establish a dictatorship. The president, in effect, has become a power unto himself. Having said that, I'm aware that I have opened myself up to accusations of paranoia and alarmist sentiment. However, if it is paranoid or alarmist to recognize the potential for abuse and urge Americans to guard against it, then so be it. It's time to sound the alarm. If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end. After all, it is a tale that has been told time and again throughout history. For example, over 70 years ago, the citizens of another democratic world power elected a leader who promised to protect them from all dangers. In return for this protection, and under the auspice of fighting terrorism, he was given absolute power. This leader went to great lengths to make his rise to power appear both legal and necessary, masterfully manipulating much of the citizenry and their government leaders. Unnerved by threats of domestic terrorism and foreign invaders, the people had little idea that the domestic turmoil of the times – such as street rioting and the fear of Communism taking over the country – was staged by the leader in an effort to create fear and later capitalize on it. In the ensuing months, this charismatic leader ushered in a series of legislative measures that suspended civil liberties and habeas corpus rights and empowered him as a dictator. On March 23, 1933, the nation's legislative body passed the Enabling Act, formally referred to as the "Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation," which appeared benign and allowed the leader to pass laws by decree in times of emergency. What it succeeded in doing, however, was ensuring that the leader became a law unto himself. The leader's name was Adolf Hitler. And the rest, as they say, is history. Yet history has a way of repeating itself. Hitler's rise to power should serve as a stark lesson to always be leery of granting any government leader sweeping powers. But we are clearly not heeding that lesson. Americans are being lulled to sleep by the government's constant warning that terror and destruction lurk around the corner. Color-coded terrorism threat levels and reports of alleged terrorism plots are constantly paraded before us. Indeed, since 9/11, the American people have been kept in a state of constant fear and expectation of yet another terrorist attack or, more subtly, another Katrina. Thus, while the recent spate of directives giving the U.S. president broad powers to supposedly ensure America's safety and security from terrorism and natural disaster should serve as a warning, they have caused barely a ripple among the media or the masses. President Bush has assured us that he will do whatever it takes to keep America safe, and Americans have blindly trusted him. How did he reward that trust? First, he claimed the authority to permanently imprison American citizens alleged to be so-called "enemy combatants." Then he asserted his right to order government intelligence agencies to not only spy on America's enemies but also on Americans. Now he has quietly and unobtrusively granted himself the power to take control of the government in the event of a vaguely defined national emergency. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, said that Americans should take alarm at the first experiment upon their liberties. But this latest "presidential directive" is not the first attack on our liberties, and I dare say it will not be the last. We'd better open our eyes soon, lest we wake up one morning and find that we live under a new regime. Only, this time, it will be one of our own making.

Does Anyone Question G W Bush's Greatness!!!!? THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT GEORGE W BUSH -the most socially conservative president of recent decades -the defeat of the Democrats’ Senate leader Tom Daschle in 2004 -the nominations of Justices Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 -Banned Partial Birth Abortion -Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy -By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. -By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services -Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. -Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. -Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman -Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools -Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms) -Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline -Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs -Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. Signed trade promotion authority. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 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 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. 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. 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.) Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers. 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. 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. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida 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 Qaida 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. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 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. 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. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 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. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. 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). Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 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. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 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. 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.* Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes 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. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law and the list goes on and on...... but need i say more??

some questions 30? 1: The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to: control all new appointments to the Supreme Court stop the growing influence of Secretary of State Kissinger assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972 control inflation in the US during the early 1970s 2: The invasion of Cambodia by US and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1970: resulted in a crushing defeat of the US forces led to large demonstrations in the US was the last major encounter of the war involving US troops led to Chinese intervention on the side of the North Vietnamese 3: Richard Nixon's approach to China was to: isolate the mainland government because of its support for North Vietnam pressure the nationalist government of Taiwan to seek reunification with the mainland open to contact for the first time since 1949 by visiting China and beginning diplomatic relations try to stir the Soviet-Chinese border conflict to reduce their tensions with the US 4: All of the following occurred during the Nixon Presidency EXCEPT: the policy of “Vietnamization” diplomatic overtures to China, including a presidential visit the Watergate break-ins and later Congressional hearings the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese 5: Which of the following is generally regarded as THE major accomplishment of the Nixon administration? new social programs environmental regulations Supreme Court appointments detente with the Soviet Union and China 6: The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971: revealed President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal exposed the deception that had led the US into the Vietnam War was the first the American public knew of the Nixon Doctrine exposed President Nixon's bombing war of Cambodia 7: The reporters who broke the story of the Watergate break-in were… Kissinger and Agnew Cronkite and Johnson Woodward and Bernstein Koppel and Brokaw 8: President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to: get the Soviet Union to stop shipping military supplies to North Vietnam build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops rely on the United Nations to end the Vietnam War through diplomacy build support for the South Vietnamese government through a land redistribution program 9: What was considered especially devastating about the Watergate scandal? The President was the known leader of a burglary ring Democrats exaggerated the scandal and caused a lack of confidence in the political system It was justified by radicals in the Democratic Party It represented subversive action against the American political process 10: Nixon’s Presidency ended when… he was impeached he resigned from office his term expired he died 11: Name the federal agency established to enforce US laws to protect the nation's land, air, and water from pollution. CIA FBI EPA FDA 12: In relation to his involvement in the Watergate scandal, Nixon… was absolved of any crime he may have committed on September 8, 1974 when President Ford granted Nixon a full and complete pardon was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in federal prison was impeached from his office as President was forced to testify in Supreme Court against his own staff 13: What term is defined as the relaxation of strained political relations and Cold War tensions between the US and USSR? Defense Detente Glasnost Perestroika 14: These ended the war between North Vietnam and the US in 1973. Geneva Accords SALT Treaties Paris Peace Accords Strategic Defense Initiative 15: Which of the following made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States? the vice president was also the Attorney General President Ford made no appointments to the Supreme Court Neither the president nor the vice president had been elected to office Congress asserted power in the field of foreign policy 16: Which of the following was NOT a major issue during the presidency of Jimmy Carter? Iranian hostage crisis inflation the unilateral withdrawal of US troops from Europe energy 17: Jimmy Carter's success in the election of 1976 resulted in large part because: President Ford refused to choose a running mate who appealed to the Republican right Carter seemed to possess honesty, piety, and an outsider's skepticism of the federal government Carter's considerable service in Washington assured voters of an experienced administrator Ford's personality had generated an atmosphere of bitterness in Washington 18: "Reaganomics" was based upon which of the following theories? Cutting taxes would stimulate investment which would in turn increase employment and tax revenue Government must "prime" the economic pump by large expenditures in order to produce prosperity The government must turn to tight controls on the money supply in order to cut inflation The government must institute wage and price controls in order to control inflation 19: All of the following contributed to President Ronald Reagan's election victory in 1980 EXCEPT: The Iranian hostage crisis The state of the domestic economy President Carter's Vietnam policy The domestic energy crisis 20: The costly and highly criticized Reagan program known as "Star Wars" proposed to: arm the Contras in order to bring down the Sandinista regime create a defensive missile system in space to shield the US from any foreign missile attack place the Marines in the Middle East in order to defend access to Middle East oil move beyond limiting the growth of nuclear weapons to negotiating actual reductions 21: Ronald Reagan's political objectives as president included all of the following EXCEPT: an increase in military spending a balanced budget the expansion of the welfare state the appointment of a conservative judiciary 22: Reagan and Gorbachev met three times in three years, with discussions focusing on: environmental issues the sharing of computer technology arts and cultural exchanges arms reduction 23: The stunning victory of the Republican Party in the 1980 election was due primarily to the fact that: many Democratic votes went to third party candidates the American public wanted to elect a more conservative government Ronald Reagan was a more effective debater than Jimmy Carter after 12 years of Democratic rule, the voters were ready for a change 24: In the Reagan Doctrine, the Reagan administration declared that it would: end restrictive trade policies allow all nations to determine their own political and economic future openly support anti-Communist forces fighting the Soviets or Soviet-backed governments respect the sovereignty of all nations 25: The effect of Reagan’s economic policy was that… Americans saw themselves with more money in their pockets The nation faced a period of extreme poverty and high rates of unemployment There was no noticeable economic difference between Carter’s time in office and Reagan’s time in office Americans tended to hoard their money in fear of another depression 26: The policy of reducing taxes in order to leave business with more money to invest in productive enterprises: Vietnamization Reaganomics Glasnost Perestroika 27: In general, Conservatives… Favor greater government intervention in the economy Favor economic freedom Support greater social welfare programs Support abortion rights and gay marriage 28: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed this major arms limitation treaty in 1987, dismantling all short-range and intermediate-range nuclear missiles. SALT I INF EPA KGB 29: She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court. Ruth Ginsburg Geraldine Ferraro Sandra Day O'Connor Nancy Reagan 30: Better known as "Star Wars", this was the attempt by the Reagan administration to create a missile defense system. SDI SALT SKY SDD

The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to:? I know this is a lot of questions but i need help checking these Thanks. The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to: control all new appointments to the Supreme Court stop the growing influence of Secretary of State Kissinger assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972 control inflation in the US during the early 1970s 2: The invasion of Cambodia by US and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1970: resulted in a crushing defeat of the US forces led to large demonstrations in the US was the last major encounter of the war involving US troops led to Chinese intervention on the side of the North Vietnamese 3: Richard Nixon's approach to China was to: isolate the mainland government because of its support for North Vietnam pressure the nationalist government of Taiwan to seek reunification with the mainland open to contact for the first time since 1949 by visiting China and beginning diplomatic relations try to stir the Soviet-Chinese border conflict to reduce their tensions with the US 4: All of the following occurred during the Nixon Presidency EXCEPT: the policy of "Vietnamization" diplomatic overtures to China, including a presidential visit the Watergate break-ins and later Congressional hearings the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese 5: Which of the following is generally regarded as THE major accomplishment of the Nixon administration? new social programs environmental regulations Supreme Court appointments detente with the Soviet Union and China 6: The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971: revealed President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal exposed the deception that had led the US into the Vietnam War was the first the American public knew of the Nixon Doctrine exposed President Nixon's bombing war of Cambodia 7: The reporters who broke the story of the Watergate break-in were… Kissinger and Agnew Cronkite and Johnson Woodward and Bernstein Koppel and Brokaw 8: President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to: get the Soviet Union to stop shipping military supplies to North Vietnam build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops rely on the United Nations to end the Vietnam War through diplomacy build support for the South Vietnamese government through a land redistribution program 9: What was considered especially devastating about the Watergate scandal? The President was the known leader of a burglary ring Democrats exaggerated the scandal and caused a lack of confidence in the political system It was justified by radicals in the Democratic Party It represented subversive action against the American political process 10: Nixon’s Presidency ended when… he was impeached he resigned from office his term expired he died 11: Name the federal agency established to enforce US laws to protect the nation's land, air, and water from pollution. CIA FBI EPA FDA 12: In relation to his involvement in the Watergate scandal, Nixon… was absolved of any crime he may have committed on September 8, 1974 when President Ford granted Nixon a full and complete pardon was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in federal prison was impeached from his office as President was forced to testify in Supreme Court against his own staff 13: What term is defined as the relaxation of strained political relations and Cold War tensions between the US and USSR? Defense Detente Glasnost Perestroika 14: These ended the war between North Vietnam and the US in 1973. Geneva Accords SALT Treaties Paris Peace Accords Strategic Defense Initiative 15: Which of the following made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States? the vice president was also the Attorney General President Ford made no appointments to the Supreme Court Neither the president nor the vice president had been elected to office Congress asserted power in the field of foreign policy 16: Which of the following was NOT a major issue during the presidency of Jimmy Carter? Iranian hostage crisis inflation the unilateral withdrawal of US troops from Europe energy 17: Jimmy Carter's success in the election of 1976 resulted in large part because: President Ford refused to choose a running mate who appealed to the Republican right Carter seemed to possess honesty, piety, and an outsider's skepticism of the federal government Carter's considerable service in Washington assured voters of an experienced administrator Ford's personality had generated an atmosphere of bitterness in Washington 18: "Reaganomics" was based upon which of the following theories? Cutting taxes would stimulate investment which would in turn increase employment and tax revenue Government must "prime" the economic pump by large expenditures in order to produce prosperity The government must turn to tight controls on the money supply in order to cut inflation The government must institute wage and price controls in order to control inflation 19: All of the following contributed to President Ronald Reagan's election victory in 1980 EXCEPT: The Iranian hostage crisis The state of the domestic economy President Carter's Vietnam policy The domestic energy crisis 20: The costly and highly criticized Reagan program known as "Star Wars" proposed to: arm the Contras in order to bring down the Sandinista regime create a defensive missile system in space to shield the US from any foreign missile attack place the Marines in the Middle East in order to defend access to Middle East oil move beyond limiting the growth of nuclear weapons to negotiating actual reductions 21: Ronald Reagan's political objectives as president included all of the following EXCEPT: an increase in military spending a balanced budget the expansion of the welfare state the appointment of a conservative judiciary 22: Reagan and Gorbachev met three times in three years, with discussions focusing on: environmental issues the sharing of computer technology arts and cultural exchanges arms reduction 23: The stunning victory of the Republican Party in the 1980 election was due primarily to the fact that: many Democratic votes went to third party candidates the American public wanted to elect a more conservative government Ronald Reagan was a more effective debater than Jimmy Carter after 12 years of Democratic rule, the voters were ready for a change 24: In the Reagan Doctrine, the Reagan administration declared that it would: end restrictive trade policies allow all nations to determine their own political and economic future openly support anti-Communist forces fighting the Soviets or Soviet-backed governments respect the sovereignty of all nations 25: The effect of Reagan’s economic policy was that… Americans saw themselves with more money in their pockets The nation faced a period of extreme poverty and high rates of unemployment There was no noticeable economic difference between Carter’s time in office and Reagan’s time in office Americans tended to hoard their money in fear of another depression 26: The policy of reducing taxes in order to leave business with more money to invest in productive enterprises: Vietnamization Reaganomics Glasnost Perestroika 27: In general, Conservatives… Favor greater government intervention in the economy Favor economic freedom Support greater social welfare programs Support abortion rights and gay marriage 28: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed this major arms limitation treaty in 1987, dismantling all short-range and intermediate-range nuclear missiles. SALT I INF EPA KGB 29: She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court. Ruth Ginsburg Geraldine Ferraro Sandra Day O'Connor Nancy Reagan 30: Better known as "Star Wars", this was the attempt by the Reagan administration to create a missile defense system. SDI SALT SKY SDD

History help please!!!!!!!!? hey I need some help in history. Here you go. The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to: control all new appointments to the Supreme Court stop the growing influence of Secretary of State Kissinger assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972 control inflation in the US during the early 1970s 2: The invasion of Cambodia by US and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1970: resulted in a crushing defeat of the US forces led to large demonstrations in the US was the last major encounter of the war involving US troops led to Chinese intervention on the side of the North Vietnamese 3: Richard Nixon's approach to China was to: isolate the mainland government because of its support for North Vietnam pressure the nationalist government of Taiwan to seek reunification with the mainland open to contact for the first time since 1949 by visiting China and beginning diplomatic relations try to stir the Soviet-Chinese border conflict to reduce their tensions with the US 4: All of the following occurred during the Nixon Presidency EXCEPT: the policy of "Vietnamization" diplomatic overtures to China, including a presidential visit the Watergate break-ins and later Congressional hearings the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese 5: Which of the following is generally regarded as THE major accomplishment of the Nixon administration? new social programs environmental regulations Supreme Court appointments detente with the Soviet Union and China 6: The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971: revealed President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal exposed the deception that had led the US into the Vietnam War was the first the American public knew of the Nixon Doctrine exposed President Nixon's bombing war of Cambodia 7: The reporters who broke the story of the Watergate break-in were… Kissinger and Agnew Cronkite and Johnson Woodward and Bernstein Koppel and Brokaw 8: President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to: get the Soviet Union to stop shipping military supplies to North Vietnam build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops rely on the United Nations to end the Vietnam War through diplomacy build support for the South Vietnamese government through a land redistribution program 9: What was considered especially devastating about the Watergate scandal? The President was the known leader of a burglary ring Democrats exaggerated the scandal and caused a lack of confidence in the political system It was justified by radicals in the Democratic Party It represented subversive action against the American political process 10: Nixon’s Presidency ended when… he was impeached he resigned from office his term expired he died 11: Name the federal agency established to enforce US laws to protect the nation's land, air, and water from pollution. CIA FBI EPA FDA 12: In relation to his involvement in the Watergate scandal, Nixon… was absolved of any crime he may have committed on September 8, 1974 when President Ford granted Nixon a full and complete pardon was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in federal prison was impeached from his office as President was forced to testify in Supreme Court against his own staff 13: What term is defined as the relaxation of strained political relations and Cold War tensions between the US and USSR? Defense Detente Glasnost Perestroika 14: These ended the war between North Vietnam and the US in 1973. Geneva Accords SALT Treaties Paris Peace Accords Strategic Defense Initiative 15: Which of the following made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States? the vice president was also the Attorney General President Ford made no appointments to the Supreme Court Neither the president nor the vice president had been elected to office Congress asserted power in the field of foreign policy 16: Which of the following was NOT a major issue during the presidency of Jimmy Carter? Iranian hostage crisis inflation the unilateral withdrawal of US troops from Europe energy 17: Jimmy Carter's success in the election of 1976 resulted in large part because: President Ford refused to choose a running mate who appealed to the Republican right Carter seemed to possess honesty, piety, and an outsider's skepticism of the federal government Carter's considerable service in Washington assured voters of an experienced administrator Ford's personality had generated an atmosphere of bitterness in Washington 18: "Reaganomics" was based upon which of the following theories? Cutting taxes would stimulate investment which would in turn increase employment and tax revenue Government must "prime" the economic pump by large expenditures in order to produce prosperity The government must turn to tight controls on the money supply in order to cut inflation The government must institute wage and price controls in or

30 days Plan to resemble a command economy in 30 days: free market and progress for all? Rockwell's Thirty-Day Plan By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. When Eastern Europe broke free in 1989, we all realized just how little thought had been given to the transition from socialism to capitalism. Mises had told us the collapse was coming, and we should have been prepared. As America comes to resemble a command economy, we need a transition plan here too. Yuri Maltsev proposed a "One-Day Plan" for the U. S. S. R. We're not in that bad a shape (yet), so we could do it in 30 days. DAY ONE: The federal income tax is abolished and April 15th is declared a national holiday. The 40% reduction in federal revenues is matched by a 40% cut in spending. The budget is still almost twice as big as Jimmy Carter's. DAY TWO: All other federal taxes are abolished, including the corporate income tax, the capital gains tax, the gasoline tax, "sin" taxes, excise taxes, etc. Businesses boom, and the few legitimate federal functions are funded with an inexpensive head tax. People who choose not to vote need not pay it. (Note: this was a mainstream view in the 19th century.) DAY THREE: The federal government sells all its land, freeing up tens of millions of acres for development, mining, farming, forestry, oil drilling, private parks, etc. The government uses the revenue to pay off the national debt and other liabilities. DAY FOUR: The minimum wage is reduced to zero, creating jobs for ex-federal bureaucrats at their market wage. All pro-union laws and regulations are scrapped. The jobless rate falls dramatically. DAY FIVE: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, like the rest of the Labor Department, is sent to that big hiring hall in the sky. Without detailed economic statistics, future economic planners will be blind and deaf. DAY SIX: The Department of Commerce is abolished. Big business has to make its own way in the world, without subsidies and privileges at the expense of its competitors and customers. DAY SEVEN: The plug is pulled on the Department of Energy. Oil and gas prices plummet. DAY EIGHT: All regulatory agencies, from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Federal Trade Commission, are deep-sixed. Competition is legalized. DAY NINE: HUD is squashed like a bug. There's a buiding boom in cheap, private, apartments. DAY TEN: The interstate highways reopen as private businesses. Road entrepreneurs price travel according to consumer demand. Using modern technology, drivers get bills once a month. Credit risks-and drunks and dangerous drivers- aren't allowed on the road. Non-drivers no longer subsidize car owners. DAY ELEVEN: Government welfare is wiped out. Bums work or starve. The deserving poor find a cornucopia of private services designed to make them independent. Private charity explodes, as the American people, already the most generous in the world, find their incomes almost doubled, thanks to the tax cuts. DAY TWELVE: The Federal Reserve closes its open-market operations and stops protecting the banking industry from competition. But banks can now engage in all the non-bank financial activities previously forbidden to them. The business cycle, which is caused by monetary expansion through the credit markets, is liquidated. DAY THIRTEEN: Federal deposit insurance is scrapped. All insured deposits are redeemed from federal assets, which include the personal assets of high-level government employees. The threat of bank runs forces banks to keep 100% reserves for their demand deposits, and prudent reserves on all other accounts. There are no more inherently bankrupt banks propped up by the government, at taxpayer expense, and no more bail outs. DAY FOURTEEN: The shaky fiat dollar is defined in terms of gold, with the ratio determined by dividing the government's gold stock by all existing dollars on that day. DAY FIFTEEN: The federal government sells National and Dulles airports to the highest bidder, and stops all subsidies to other socialist airports around the country. All constraints on airline prices and service cease. It costs more to fly during peak hours than off-peak, but overall, air travel drops in price. DAY SIXTEEN: All government regulations that create and sustain cartels are abolished, including those for the post office, telephones, television, radio, and cable TV Prices plummet, and a host of new and unforeseen services becomes available. DAY SEVENTEEN: Centrally planned agriculture, as imposed by Hoover and Roosevelt, is repealed: there are no more subsidies, payments-in-kind, marketing orders, low-interest loans, etc. Farm prices drop. Entrepreneurial farmers get rich. Welfare farmers go into another line of work. The poor eat like kings. DAY EIGHTEEN: The Justice Department shutters its anti-trust division. Companies, big and small, are free to merge – up, down, or sideways. Stockholders can buy any other company, or sell their stock to anyone else. Marginal producers can no longer battle their competitors with bureaucratic weapons. DAY NINETEEN: The Department of Education flunks the constitutionality test, and is kicked out. Private charities set up remedial reading and writing programs for the former bureaucrats. Federally subsidized sex education and other anti-family programs go out of business. Local school districts become responsive to parents or close, pressured by a fast-growing private school sector (which many more parents can now afford). DAY TWENTY: All federal monuments are sold, in some cases to non-profit groups based on the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, which owns and runs George Washington's home. The VFW buys the Vietnam memorial. There is much bidding for the Jefferson and Washington monuments. Nobody wants FDR's, so it's torn down and the land sold to a farmer. (With the federal government cut back to its constitutional size, much of Washington reverts to productive uses like agriculture, as in late 18th century.) DAY TWENTY-ONE: The computerized financial and political dossier maintained by the government on every American is erased. The public wanders through the federal offices to make sure, in a reprise of the East Berliners' visits to Stasi headquarters. DAY TWENTY-TWO: Equal rights are granted to all Americans, even members of non-victim groups. There is no affirmative action, no quotas, no set-asides, no public accommodations laws. Private property and freedom of association are fully restored. DAY TWENTY-THREE: The EPA is cleaned out, with all "clean air" and similar big-government laws repealed. Ten thousand lawyers leap from their balconies. Private property is established in air and water. Americans harmed by pollution are free to sue the polluters, who are no longer protected by the federal government. DAY TWENTY-FOUR: Americans are given complete freedom of contract, restoring rationality to malpractice and product liability law. DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Government scrambles for more assets to sell (i.e., the National Zoo, also known as Washington, D.C.) to pay off the liabilities of the privatized Social Security system. DAY TWENTY-SIX: Porno artists have to earn their own livings, as the National Endowment for the Arts tries to raise its budget through sidewalk painting sales. DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: Foreign aid is outlawed as unconstitutional, unjust, and un-economic. Foreign politicians have to steal their own money. The World Bank, IMF, and United Nations close their super- luxurious doors. DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: The American people are given the unrestricted right to keep and bear arms. DAY TWENTY-NINE: The Defense Department is reoriented towards defense. American troops come home from all around the world. We adopt a policy of armed neutrality, remembering the Founding Fathers' teaching that we could not have an empire abroad and a constitutional republic at home. DAY THIRTY: All tariffs, quotas, and trade agreements are put through the shredder. Americans can trade with anyone in the world, without barriers or subsidies. Japanese car prices drop an immediate 25%. In just 30 exhilarating days, we have established the outlines of free market. Radical? Maybe so. Me, I can't wait until Month Two. __________ Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is president of the Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com. rockwell@mises.org. This article appeared in The Free Market, March 1991. Please Read This : http://www.mises.org/story/2685

Who still believes Global Warming is caused by man? Global warming ethics, pork and profits By Paul Driessen web posted February 12, 2007 The ink has barely dried on its new code of conduct, and already Congress is redefining ethics and pork to fit a global warming agenda. As Will Rogers observed, "with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law. And every time they make a law, it's a joke." However, life-altering, economy-wrecking climate bills are no laughing matter. That's why we need to recognize that the Kyoto Protocol and proposed "climate protection" laws will not stabilize the climate, even if CO2 is to blame. It's why we must acknowledge that money to be made, and power to be gained, from climate alarmism and symbolism is a major reason so many are getting on the climate "consensus" bandwagon. In accusing ExxonMobil of giving "more than $19 million since the late 1990s" to public policy institutes that promote climate holocaust "denial," Senate Inquisitors Olympia Snowe and Jay Rockefeller slandered both the donor and recipients. Moreover, this is less than half of what Pew Charitable Trusts and allied foundations contributed to the Pew Center on Climate Change alone over the same period. It's a pittance compared to what US environmental groups spent propagating climate chaos scare stories. It amounts to 30 cents for every $1,000 that the US, EU and UN spent since 1993 (some $80 billion all together) on global warming catastrophe research. And it ignores the fact that the Exxon grants also supported malaria control, Third World economic development and many other efforts. Aside from honest, if unfounded, fears of climate disasters, why might others support climate alarmism? Scientists who use climate change to explain environmental changes improve their chances of getting research grants from foundations, corporations – and US government programs that budget a whopping $6.5 billion for global warming in 2007. They also increase the likelihood of getting headlines and quotes in news stories: "Climate change threatens extinction of rare frogs, scientist says." Climate disaster skeptics face an uphill battle on grants, headlines and quotes. Politicians get to grandstand green credentials, cement relationships with activists who can support reelection campaigns and higher aspirations, magically transform $14-billion in alternative energy pork into ethical planetary protection, and promote policies that otherwise would raise serious eyebrows. Corporate actions that cause even one death are dealt with severely; but praise is heaped on federal mileage standards that cause hundreds of deaths, as cars are downsized and plasticized to save fuel and reduce emissions. High energy prices are denounced at congressional hearings, if due to market forces – but praised if imposed by government "to prevent climate change." Drilling in the Arctic or off our coasts is condemned, even to create jobs, tax revenues and enhanced security; but subsidizing wind power to generate 2% of our electricity is lauded, even if giant turbines despoil millions of acres and kill millions of birds. Alarmist rhetoric has also redefined corporate social responsibility, created the Climate Action Partnership and launched the emerging Enviro-Industrial Complex. Environmental activists have turned climate fears into successful fund-raising tools – and a brilliant strategy for achieving their dream of controlling global resource use, technological change and economic development, through laws, treaties, regulations and pressure campaigns. Recent developments promise to supercharge these efforts. Environmental Defense is collaborating with Morgan Stanley, to promote emission trading systems and other climate change initiatives – giving ED direct monetary and policy stakes in the banking, investment and political arenas, and in any carbon allowance or cap-and-trade programs Congress might enact. Other environmental groups, companies and Wall Street firms will no doubt follow their lead. ED designed and led the disingenuous campaign that persuaded many healthcare agencies to ban DDT, resulting in millions of deaths from malaria. Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, ED and other groups still post deceitful claims about DDT on their websites, further delaying progress against this killer disease. By blaming climate change for malaria, they deflect criticism for their vile actions. Climate catastrophe claims enable activists to gain official advisory status with companies and governments on environmental issues. They also make it "ethical" for Rainforest Action Network and other pressure groups to oppose power generation in Third World countries, where few have access to electricity – and thereby keep communities perpetually impoverished. Meanwhile, Prince Charles gets lionized for appropriating 62 first class jetliner seats for his entourage of 20, on a trans-Atlantic trip to receive an environmental prize and lecture Americans on saving the Earth – because at least he didn't use his private jet. Companies in the CAP and EIC can develop and promote new product lines, using tax breaks, subsidies, legal mandates and regulatory provisions to gain competitive advantages. They get favorable coverage from the media, and kid-glove treatment from members of Congress who routinely pillory climate chaos skeptics. Some worry that this could become a license to further redefine corporate ethics, present self-interest as planet-saving altruism, and profit from questionable arrangements with environmental groups and Congress. Certainly, cap-and-trade rules will create valuable property rights and reward companies that reduce CO2 emissions, often by replacing old, inefficient, high-polluting plants that they want to retire anyway. DuPont and BP will get money for biofuels, GE for its portfolio of climate protection equipment, ADM for ethanol, Lehman Brothers for emission trading and other deals. Environmental activists will be able to influence corporate, state and federal policy, and rake in still more cash. Insurance companies can blame global warming for rate increases and coverage denials. Lobbying and deal-brokering will enter a new era. As Thenardier the innkeeper observed in Les Miserables, "When it comes to fixing prices, there are lots of tricks he knows. Jees, it's just amazing how it grows." Indeed, the opportunities to "game the system" will be limited only by one's "eco-magination." To determine the losers, look in the mirror. Activists and politicians are creating a Frankenstein climate monster on steroids. Were it real, we'd need to dismantle our economy and living standards to slay the beast. How else could we eliminate 80–90% of US and EU fossil fuel emissions by 2050, to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions and (theoretically) a climate that has always been anything but stable? Think lifestyles circa 1900, or earlier. Ponder the British environment minister's latest prescription: World War II rationing, no meat or cheese, restrictions on air travel, no veggies that aren't grown locally. France wants a new government agency that would single out, police and penalize countries that "abuse the Earth." Others want to put little solar panels on African huts, while kleptocratic dictators get millions of dollars for trading away their people's right to generate electricity and emit CO2. We should improve energy efficiency, reduce pollution, and develop new energy technologies. But when we demand immediate action to prevent exaggerated or imaginary crises, we stifle debate, railroad through programs that don't work, create enough pork to fill 50 Chicago stockyards, and impose horrendous unintended consequences on countless families. That is shortsighted and immoral.

Is this one of the Rights the dems say conservatives are taking away from the citizens? WORCESTER— A pair of nationally recognized lawyers have been retained to argue First Amendment issues in a criminal case involving an Islamic charity and two of its officers who are charged with misrepresenting the charity’s work. Susan R. Estrich, a lawyer, author and media pundit, who managed Michael S. Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign, and Harvey A. Silverglate, a noted Cambridge criminal defense lawyer, entered appearances Thursday as counsel for Emadeddin Z. Muntasser of Brookline. He is accused of misleading the government about the nature of Care International Inc., a charity the government claims supported jihadist and mujahedin organizations. Muhammed Mubayyid of Shrewsbury is also charged in the case, which is being heard in U.S. District Court in Worcester. Mr. Silverglate said he and Ms. Estrich were drawn to the case because of several First Amendment issues, including freedom of religion and freedom of speech. He said criminal cases rarely involve First Amendment issues. “This is a case involving free speech,” Mr. Silverglate said. “All of the conduct outlined in the indictment is protected by the Constitution…. You don’t get that many criminal cases that are directly in violation of the First Amendment.” ... In recent court filings, the defense lawyers called the case a prime example of the government trying to “rewrite history” to suit its purposes after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. They contended that it also shows the government prefers other religions, including Christianity and Judaism, over Islam, and that the alleged criminal activity was actually the exercise of a religious right. Last Thursday, Mr. Muntasser and Mr. Mubayyid’s lawyers submitted a motion to dismiss the indictment against them. The lawyers made several arguments for a dismissal, including that the U.S. government supported and organized charities that also supported jihadist and mujahedin organizations in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation there, and, that it is a constitutionally-protected right to solicit or promote such religious efforts. “Religion permeates this entire case,” the memorandum in support of the motion said. “Care was set up to advance religious goals; jihad is a religious concept; zakat (giving to charity) is a religious obligation; support for the mujahedin is, according to certain interpretations of the Koran, a religious command. It is absolutely clear that the government is not free to prefer one religion over another: If Jews and Catholics are free to raise money and support their chosen causes domestically and internationally, no different rules may be applied … “At the heart of this case is the right of an established religious charity to collect funds and distribute literature. That right has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the Supreme Court, even where municipalities and other local governments found the message of the charities offensive and their fundraising downright reprehensible. That speech protection is at its greatest when the underlying cause is religious in nature; and it does not matter that solicitation of funds is involved.” Both men were indicted in May 2005. Mr. Mubayyid, a Lebanese national, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, aiding and abetting a scheme to conceal material facts from the Internal Revenue Service, and to three counts of filing false tax returns. Mr. Muntasser, a Libyan national, pleaded not guilty to charges of engaging in a scheme to conceal material facts from the government, conspiring to defraud the government and making false statements. Both men are free on bond while awaiting trial. The men are not charged with providing material support to terrorist organizations. Rather, they are charged with scheming to conceal the fact that Care was an “outgrowth of and successor to the Al-Kifah Refugee Center,” an organization that was implicated in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York on Feb. 26, 1993. The government contends that had the IRS known that Care’s activities were listed as distributing information about jihad and raising money for various jihadi groups, it would not have been granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. The memorandum raised many controversial issues, including the U.S. government’s role in establishing charities in the 1980s to support mujahedin and the jihad against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The memorandum cites several charities given 501 c(3) status by the IRS for promoting and aiding the Afghan jihad, including, the National Endowment for Democracy, The American Friends of Afghanistan, and, The Free Afghanistan Alliance, among others. “Activities that were considered charitable in 1985, 1989, 1991, or 1992 do not become non-charitable in 1993 because the identity of the donor changes, or because the United States’ strategic interest in jihad has lessened,” according to the memorandum. The court filing also takes issue with the government’s classification of “zakat” which is a Muslim obligation to donate a portion of their earnings to charitable causes. According to the memorandum, the teachings of the Quran says Muslims have an obligation to give “zakat” and that “the mujahedin are widely interpreted to be one of the eight categories of recipients entitled to zakat.” ... The FBI claims that Care International raised about $1.7 million from 1993 to 2003, when it ceased to operate. Care International claimed it raised money for widows and orphans, but it also raised money for terror groups, according to the FBI. Court records in the Worcester case say checks deposited into Care International accounts had phrases such as “for jihad only” and “Bosnia Jihad fund” and “Chechen Muslim Fighters” handwritten on the memo lines of donors’ personal checks. Mr. Muntasser told a member of the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force that he visited Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1994 for humanitarian purposes. He later told a federal immigration officer that he traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan seven times between March 1993 and November 1997, including one 30-day trip to the two countries from December 1994 to January 1995.

ok i hate this subject i dont undr stand it a bit lol so can u help plz!!? If you were a specialist working for the National Security Agency, your main job would likely be A. electronic surveillance. B. analyzing and breaking coded messages. C. analyzing data from spy satellites. D. working in the field to carry out covert operations. 2. The largest proportion of federal revenues comes from A. social insurance taxes. B. excise taxes. C. borrowing. D. personal income taxes. 3. Which one of the following individuals would be most likely to vote? A. A 19-year-old high school graduate who likes to complain about the government B. A 22-year-old computer programmer C. A 30-year-old college graduate who has just moved to a new state D. A 50-year-old corporate executive who holds a master's degree in business 4. Which one of the following statements is most accurate for law enforcement? A. Law enforcement agencies are employed by the court system. B. Ordinary police officers aren't required to understand how to gather evidence. C. Law enforcement officers are mainly required to uphold the law. D. There is no county law enforcement department. 5. Suppose you're interested in finding information on your senators and representatives and on current bills before Congress. Which one of the following resources would be best for this purpose? A. Your public library B. Your local newspaper C. Television D. History books 6. Under the Constitution of the United States, you may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without A. due process of law. B. being charged with a crime. C. due respect for law. D. being suspected of a crime. 7. A war in Mexico would be under the _______ Command. A. Central B. Pacific C. Southern D. Northern 8. The outcome of the 2000 presidential election was decided by a A. careful recount of the Florida votes. B. majority of the popular vote. C. majority vote of the electoral college. D. decision of the Supreme Court. 9. You don't really approve of the idea of political parties. However, you're known as a Federalist and are soon associated with that party. Chances are good that your name is A. James Madison. B. Abraham Lincoln. C. Thomas Jefferson. D. George Washington. 10. The XYZ PAC operates on behalf of the XYZ interest group. Which campaign behavior of the XYZ PAC would be against current law? A. The PAC creates its own campaign for candidate Kroll and contributes to the campaign of candidate Loon. B. The PAC contributes $6,000 to candidate Kroll and $2,000 to candidate Loon. C. The PAC contributes $4,000 to the campaigns of Kroll, Loon, Marble, and Noonkester for a total of $16,000. D. The PAC contributes $2,000 to Kroll and $4,000 to Loon because both claim to support the PAC's legislative goals. 11. During the Cold War, the United States foreign policy of containment consisted of A. wars and covert operations. B. wars and mutual assured destruction. C. deterrence and covert operations. D. deterrence and mutual assured destruction. 12. To become a citizen of the United States, you must A. be at least 21 years old. B. pass an English and government test. C. have lived in the United States for at least six months. D. file a request form in a federal court. 13. A basic position in American foreign policy has been that America must defend its foreign interests related to trade and security. The main foreign policy position opposed to this American policy is called A. federalism. B. imperialism. C. militarism. D. isolationism. 14. You're most likely to pay your county or town taxes in the form of a/an _______ tax. A. property B. excise C. sales D. income 15. Which one of the following political interest groups falls into the organized labor category? A. National Education Association B. American Rifle Association C. National Broadcasting Corporation D. National Audubon Society 16. By tradition, when does the presidential campaign begin? A. When a candidate is officially nominated at the national convention B. After a candidate has gained enough electoral votes in the primaries C. In September, following the national convention D. With the New Hampshire primary 17. Which one of the following is an example of an entitlement? A. The right to vote B. Receiving Social Security C. Freedom of speech D. Serving in the military 18. In the United States, your legal right to express your political opinions to government officials is granted under the _______ Amendment. A. First B. Second C. Fourth D. Fourteenth 19. Why does the Central Intelligence Agency have more freedom of action than other federal agencies? A. Both its budget and operations are secret. B. It carries out U.S. foreign policy under the FBI. C. It answers to Congress only for its financial needs. D. The agency doesn't report to anyone. 20. In general, you would expect the platform of a political party to A. lead to a national convention. B. guide the political issues of the party's candidate. C. consist of party leaders called planks. D. determine the outcome of a general election.

civics questions! help? 17. Which one of the following is an example of an entitlement? A. The right to vote B. Receiving Social Security C. Freedom of speech D. Serving in the military 18. In the United States, your legal right to express your political opinions to government officials is granted under the _______ Amendment. A. First B. Second C. Fourth D. Fourteenth 19. Why does the Central Intelligence Agency have more freedom of action than other federal agencies? A. Both its budget and operations are secret. B. It carries out U.S. foreign policy under the FBI. C. It answers to Congress only for its financial needs. D. The agency doesn't report to anyone. 20. In general, you would expect the platform of a political party to A. lead to a national convention. B. guide the political issues of the party's candidate. C. consist of party leaders called planks. D. determine the outcome of a general election.

What percentage of Cars & emissions stem from CA. 10th largest economy in WORLD? Bush defends EPA's rejection of California plea template_bas template_bas The president insists that 'a national plan' on emissions standards is more effective at combating climate change. Meanwhile, Rep. Waxman asks the agency for documents on how the decision was made. By Richard Simon and Janet Wilson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 9:43 AM PST, December 20, 2007 WASHINGTON -- President Bush today defended the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny California's bid to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, saying that a national strategy toward climate change is more effective than a state-by-state approach. "The question is how to have an effective strategy," Bush said at a year-end news conference. "Is it more effective to let each state make a decision as to how to proceed in curbing greenhouse gases, or is it more effective to have a national strategy?" Bush said. Related Stories - EPA denies California's right to mandate emissions With the enactment this week of a landmark energy bill raising automobile gas mileage standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020, Bush said, "We know have a national plan. It's one of the benefits of Congress passing this piece of legislation." EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson on Wednesday denied the state's request to implement its own landmark law, dealing a blow to the state's independent attempts to combat global warming and prompting an immediate vow from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to take the decision to court. "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution, not a confusing patchwork of state rules," Johnson said in announcing his decision. The decision infuriated public officials and environmentalists from Washington to Sacramento, who fired the first shots in what is expected to be a pitched legal and political battle through the 2008 presidential campaign. At least 16 other states, with nearly half the nation's population, have adopted or are considering California's emission limits and could join in challenges to Wednesday's decision. And with distrust toward the Bush administration rampant on Capitol Hill, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) fired off a letter to the EPA today, requesting that the agency preserve and produce all documents relating to the decision. "Your decision appears to have ignored the evidence before the agency and the requirements of the Clean Air Act," Waxman says in the letter. Noting that the committee has opened into an investigation into whether EPA's director "overruled the unanimous recommendations of EPA's legal and technical staffs in rejecting California's petition," Waxman requested that the EPA turn over all documents relating to the request by next month. Schwarzenegger assailed the EPA for "standing in our way" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "California sued to compel the agency to act on our waiver, and now we will sue to overturn today's decision and allow Californians to protect our environment," he said in a prepared statement. California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, whose agency requested the waiver two years ago, said there was no "patchwork" of standards. "There is a California greenhouse gas standard . . . which 16 other states would adopt, whereas there is no federal greenhouse gas standard," she said. "The Supreme Court told EPA it has to take action on global warming. It affects our health and our environment. It's not just about fuel economy." Congress is likely to weigh in, although lawmakers may not be able to craft legislation that could survive a presidential veto. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called the decision "disgraceful." David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's chief climate counsel, vowed to take the fight to court. "These guys are 0 and 4 in court," he said. "And they're about to go 0-5." Bookbinder was referring to the Supreme Court's decision this year that greenhouse gas regulation fell under the purview of the EPA and to several lower court decisions rebuffing the auto industry's efforts to head off states' regulation of tailpipe emissions. The EPA waiver decision was a victory for the auto industry. David McCurdy, president and chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a prepared statement that a "patchwork quilt of inconsistent and competing fuel economy programs at the state level would only have created confusion, inefficiency and uncertainty for automakers and consumers." The federal Clean Air Act allows California to set anti-pollution standards stricter than those of the federal government, subject to EPA permission. California had been waiting for the EPA to act since the state petitioned the agency in 2005, and at least 16 other states had been hoping to follow California's lead. Johnson, who telephoned Schwarzenegger shortly before announcing his decision Wednesday, said that with the energy bill, there was no need for separate state regulations that would cover only part of the country. Under the energy bill, fuel efficiency for new cars and light trucks will increase 40% by 2020, for a fleet-wide average of 35 mpg, the biggest congressionally ordered increase since the fuel economy program was created in 1975. Cars and light trucks, including SUVs, account for about a fifth of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. "I believe that Congress by passing a unified federal standard of 35 mpg delivers significant reductions that are more effective than a state-by-state approach," Johnson said. "This applies to all 50 states, not one state, not 12 states, not 15 states. It applies to all 50 states, and that's great for the economy, for national security and for the environment." Johnson said California's request was unlike others that had been granted by his agency that covered "pollutants that predominantly impacted local and regional air quality."

Accounting??? help???? PART I — MULTIPLE CHOICE Instructions: Designate the best answer for each of the following questions ____1.Mutual agency means that a.assets of the partnership are owned jointly by all partners. b.the partnership must carry life insurance. c.partners share income equally. d.any partner can create a binding contract for the partnership. ____2.When the assets of a partnership are sold to liquidate a partnership, the cash received is a.divided among the partners based upon their income-sharing ratios. b.divided among the partners in proportion to their loss-sharing ratios. c.used to pay partnership creditors after partners have recovered all of their capital. d.none of the above. ____3.Inwood had a capital deficiency of $20,000 and Flynn had a credit balance of $200,000 in his capital account before the entry to record final distribution of cash to partners. When the final distribution of cash is made, the amount of cash Flynn should receive is a.$90,000. b.$100,000. c.$160,000. d.$180,000. ____4.Jill, Ann, and Mary formed a partnership with income-sharing ratios of 50%, 30%, and 20%, respectively. Cash of $180,000 was available after the partnership's assets were liquidated. Prior to the final distribution of cash, Jill's capital balance was $120,000, Ann's capital balance was $90,000, and Mary had a capital deficiency of $30,000. Based upon a safe cash payments schedule, Jill should receive a.$105,000. b.$101,250. c.$78,750. d.$120,000. ____5.Unlimited liability a.is a concept that explains how assets will be divided in the event of the partner's death. b.exists for general partners. c.may be eliminated for all partners. d.means that the partnership agreement places no limit on the amount of money the partnership can borrow. ____6.Restrictions of retained earnings may result from each of the following except a.contractual restrictions. b.legal restrictions. c.prior period adjustment restrictions. d.voluntary restrictions. ____7.Manner, Inc. has 10,000 shares of 6%. $100 par value, noncumulative preferred stock and 20,000 shares of $1 par value common stock outstanding at December 31, 2005. There were no dividends declared in 2004. The board of directors declares and pays a $100,000 dividend in 2005. What is the amount of dividends received by the common stockholders in 2005? a.$0. b.$60,000. c.$100,000. d.$40,000. ____8.Peterson Corporation issued 8,000 shares of $10 par value common stock in exchange for a truck. The truck had a fair market value of $150,000. The entry to record this transaction includes a credit to Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par for a.$150,000. b.$40,000. c.$70,000. d.$80,000. ____9.Moller Manufacturing declared a 10% stock dividend when it had 350,000 shares of $3 par value common stock outstanding. The market price per common share was $12 per share when the dividend was declared. The entry to record this dividend declaration includes a credit to a.Retained Earnings for $105,000. b.Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par for $315,000. c.Common Stock for $105,000. d.Common Stock Dividends Distributable for $420,000. ____10.Glaser Company paid $48,000 to buy 3,000 shares of its $5 par value common stock for the treasury. The stock was originally sold for $36,000. The entry to record the purchase includes a a.debit to Treasury Stock for $36,000. b.credit to Treasury Stock for $20,000. c.debit to Treasury Stock for $48,000. d.credit to Common Stock for $36,000. ____11.The officer who is responsible for maintaining the company’s cash position is the a.vice-president of finance.b.treasurer. c.president.d.controller. ____12.Kiner Corporation issued 800 shares of $25 convertible preferred stock for $20,000. Each share of preferred stock was convertible into one share of $10 par value common stock. The entry to record the conversion of 64 shares of convertible preferred stock into common stock includes a credit to a.Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par on Common Stock for $800. b.Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par on Preferred Stock for $1,600. c.Common Stock for $640. d.Preferred Stock for $1,600. ____13.The purchase of treasury stock a.increases total assets and decreases total stockholders' equity. b.decreases total assets and decreases total stockholders' equity. c.increases total assets and increases total stockholders' equity. d.decreases total assets and increases total stockholders' equity. ____14.The resale of treasury stock for an amount greater than its cost a.increases net income. b.increases total assets and decreases total stockholders' equity. c.decreases total assets and increases total stockholders' equity. d.increases total assets and increases total stockholders' equity. ____15.Each of the following decreases retained earnings except a.cash dividends. b.large stock dividends. c.small stock dividends. d.stock splits. ____16.Treasury stock is reported in the balance sheet as a deduction from a.capital stock. b.additional paid-in capital. c.retained earnings. d.paid-in capital and retained earnings. ____17.Andrews, Inc. paid $30,000 to buy back 6,000 shares of its $1 par value common stock. This stock was sold later at a selling price of $6 per share. The entry to record the sale includes a a.credit to Paid-in Capital from Treasury Stock for $6,000. b.credit to Common Stock for $6,000. c.debit to Paid-in Capital from Treasury Stock for $30,000. d.debit to Retained Earnings for $30,000. ____18.Restrictions of retained earnings a.are reported on the balance sheet as liabilities. b.provide insurance coverage for contingencies. c.do not change total stockholders' equity. d.are reported as expenses on the income statement. ____19.Ownership of common stock ordinarily carries the right to a.declare dividends. b.establish a drawing account. c.enter into contracts for the corporation. d.vote on corporate actions that require stockholder approval. ____20.A corporation is formed when a.it borrows money. b.it receives a charter from its president. c.it is granted by-laws by the federal government. d.none of the above ____21.Which of the following may either increase or decrease retained earnings? a.Stock dividends b.Prior period adjustments c.Net income d.Disposals of treasury stock ____22.Common Stock Dividends Distributable is reported in the balance sheet a.as an addition to retained earnings. b.in additional paid-in capital. c.in paid-in capital as an addition to common stock issued. d.as a liability.

What do people think about this news article and it's solutions to illegals in the USA? Solutions to the illegal immigration crisis http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Crime-Examiner~y2009m7d2-Solutions-to-the-illegal-immigration-crisis July 2, 5:16 AM There are a few, painfully simple measures we could take to stop the current invasion and expel those who have no respect for our borders, nor for our citizens. Truthfully, if any combination or even one of the following actions were taken by our federal government, most illegal aliens in this country would leave, effectively deporting themselves. 1) Place the military on the border. Rather than sending a few hundred National Guardsmen to the 2,000 mile-long border under orders to never stop anyone entering this country illegally, the way President George Bush did, if say 20,000 troops along with their tanks, helicopters, and U.S. Air Force over flights were utilized along the border (the same way we do for other countries), illegal entries would come to a screeching halt. We could simply take the troops from Germany, where 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed or any number of other locations around the world and use our military to protect our border! The Mexican border could and should be made a permanent duty station. This would allow the Border Patrol to full staff the official entry checkpoints which would greatly reduce the amount of drugs and criminals coming into this country. 2) Prison sentences for CEO’s who hire illegal aliens. Whether it is a landscaping company run-out of someone’s den in Cicero, IL; a 30-unit independent hotel in Virginia Beach, VA; or a corporate giant such as Tyson Foods Inc., once caught with illegal aliens in their employ, the head of that company should spend the next ten years of their life in prison. Additionally, a percentage of that company’s profits commensurate to the percentage of their employees who are illegal aliens should be seized. 3) Cut off all federal funds to cities which continue or adopt ‘sanctuary policies’ for illegal aliens. If a city such as Chicago, IL which has such a policy in place, refuses to cooperate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement by not allowing police officers to inquire into, nor report the immigration status of arrestees, shielding criminal aliens from notification and eventual deportation, their funds will be immediately suspended. No more federal money for roads, schools, no special grants, no construction projects funded with federal money…Nothing. Only once all municipal agencies in that city are found to be in compliance, will federal funds be restored. 4) Require anyone registering a child in a public school to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Illegal aliens have been getting a free education for their children on the backs of American taxpayers for far too long. The practice has led to overcrowded classrooms, and ‘English as a second language’ courses in all of the border states. The amount of money spent per child in public school annually varies from state to state, as well as district to district. However, it averages several thousands of dollars per child. Why should American taxpayers be subsidizing the families of illegal aliens? If parents were required to provide proof of citizenship to register the child, many illegal aliens would simply leave the country. You take away the things that draw them here and most will deport themselves. The state of California is now bankrupt largely due to years of allowing Mexicans to illegally move their families to the state. Overwhelmed with Spanish-only speaking children, they can no longer provide a decent education for American children. 5) Begin mass deportations. Again, if you take away the goodies (jobs, free education, in-state college tuition, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.), most will return to Mexico on their own. However, there will remain a number of Mexican nationals who will refuse to leave, a great many of them will be hardcore criminals (gang bangers, drug dealers, etc.). These human predators will only return home, if forcibly removed. We have heard so many times that it is “impossible to deport 12 million people.” First, the number of illegal aliens in this country is closer to 40 million, second, nothing is impossible. As I said, most will leave after they are denied the services which they now steal with ease. The rest would be deported upon arrest for other crimes. This is the same nation which defeated both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. This is the same nation which invented the airplane and the telephone. And, this is the same nation that can do anything which we choose to do. We have the infrastructure, resources, and the right to deport as many illegal aliens from this nation as we want. The only thing we are lacking is a federal government with the courage to do it. We must change that and take back this great country. If we do not, future generations of Americans will reside in a Third World nation, and it will be a mirro

I dont understand this USA work can someone help me? Which of the following federal law enforcement agencies does not operate under the Department of the Treasury? A. Investigative Division for Counterfeiting and Forgery B. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) C. The Secret Service D. The Division of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) 2. The largest proportion of federal revenues comes from A. social insurance taxes. B. excise taxes. C. borrowing. D. personal income taxes. 3. A war in Mexico would be under the _______ Command. A. Central B. Northern C. Pacific D. Southern 4. Among third-party candidates, which one is thought to have split the conservative vote in a recent election? A. Pat Buchanan B. Ross Perot C. John Edwards D. Ralph Nader 5. Regarding use of the media, spin can best be defined as A. deliberately fabricating information. B. arguments based on emotion rather than reason. C. casting a positive light on negative facts. D. meaningless arguments. 6. Which of the following statements is true of al-Qaida? A. It encourages Western economic interests in Afghanistan. B. Its leader is a wealthy Saudi Arabian. C. It's a branch of the Taliban. D. It participates in nation building in the Middle East. 7. To become a citizen of the United States, you must A. file a request form in a federal court. B. pass an English and government test. C. have lived in the United States for at least six months. D. be at least 21 years old. 8. A primary source for getting specific information on a particular bill is A. Washington daily newspapers. B. the Congressional Record. C. the Constitution. D. your state representative. 9. You don't really approve of the idea of political parties. However, you're known as a Federalist and are soon associated with that party. Chances are good that your name is A. Abraham Lincoln. B. Thomas Jefferson. C. James Madison. D. George Washington. 10. New Groton, Connecticut, is the location of the A. Air Force Academy. B. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. C. Coast Guard Academy. D. Naval Command Center. 11. If you were a specialist working for the National Security Agency, your main job would likely be A. electronic surveillance. B. working in the field to carry out covert operations. C. analyzing and breaking coded messages. D. analyzing data from spy satellites. 12. A basic position in American foreign policy has been that America must defend its foreign interests related to trade and security. The main foreign policy position opposed to this American policy is called A. isolationism. B. federalism. C. militarism. D. imperialism. 13. In general, you would expect the platform of a political party to A. guide the political issues of the party's candidate. B. lead to a national convention. C. consist of party leaders called planks. D. determine the outcome of a general election. 14. Under the Constitution of the United States, you may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without A. being charged with a crime. B. due respect for law. C. being suspected of a crime. D. due process of law. 15. The main downside of political action committees is A. the powerful influence of PAC lobbies on legislation. B. their support of the military-industrial complex. C. their opposition to democracy. D. the corporate groups can outspend the citizen groups. 16. Regarding the Electoral College, which of the following statements is false? A. The electoral college is located in Washington, D.C. B. Electors vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. C. If there were 600 electors, 301 electoral votes would win the presidential election. D. The electoral vote results are transmitted to the Secretary of State. 17. Which one of the following individuals would be most likely to vote? A. A 50-year-old corporate executive who holds a master's degree in business B. A 30-year-old college graduate who has just moved to a new state C. A 22-year-old computer programmer D. A 19-year-old high school graduate who likes to complain about the government 18. In the United States, your legal right to express your political opinions to government officials is granted under the _______ Amendment. A. Second B. First C. Fourth D. Fourteenth 19. Which one of the following political interest groups falls into the organized labor category? A. National Education Association B. American Rifle Association C. National Broadcasting Corporation D. National Audubon Society 20. By tradition, when does the presidential campaign begin? A. When a candidate is officially nominated at the national convention B. After a candidate has gained enough electoral votes in the primaries C. With the New Hampshire primary D. In September, following the national convention This is not home work and I dont understand this because I just moved here from Trinidad Sangre Grande so this work On penn foster I really hard sorry If I dont get this shit

Is something FINALLY being done to prevent illegals sneaking across our border?? Go Back Email this storyPrint this storyLetter to the editorDiscussThe waiver Arizona borderlands that are covered: • More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County. • More than 55 miles on the Tohono O'odham Reservation from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to about 21/2 miles west of Sasabe. • More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville. • More than 20 miles from about seven miles east of Douglas to about 11/2 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico state line. • 13.3 miles along the Colorado River near Yuma. • 61/2 miles south of Sierra Vista near the Coronado National Monument. • 6.9 miles starting 10 miles west of Naco going east. • 6.4 miles starting just east of Naco running east. • 5.3 miles starting from about 31/2 miles west of Lukeville to east of the town. • 3.8 miles from Yuma County south of Somerton toward San Luis. • 21/2 miles from a couple of miles west of Sasabe to east of the town. • 1.6 miles on the western edge of the Tohono O'odham Reservation south of the village of Ali Ak Chin. • A one-mile section west of Douglas. Sources: Department of Homeland Security, International Boundary and Water Commission. Other articles by Howard Fischer: Fining gov. in ELL case floated Domestic-partner benefits get boost Guest-worker bill runs up against legislative barrier Legislation rebuilds legal shield for people acting in self-defense Rancher to face charges of violating entrants' rights Other articles by Brady Mccombs: Arson destroys North Side apartment Man is shot by police in domestic dispute Passport rule delayed El camino legal hacia E.U. más costoso y complejo de lo que se piensa New U.S. immigration chief for AZ intends to stick around Trades/Construction Sonora Enviromental Scale & Dispatcher Office and Clerical RECEPTIONIST/OFFICE SUPPORT General Heath Consultants Inc Pipeline Safety Inspectors General Assistant Director & Teachers Trades/Construction Arizona Underground Fuel Service Driver Sales and Marketing NW Publishing Advertising Sales Rep Education Flowing Wells Schools Principal/Walter Dougls Elem. Tucson Region Rules waived to add security along 220 miles of AZ border By Brady McCombs and Howard Fischer Arizona Daily Star Capitol Media Services Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.02.2008 advertisementThe Department of Homeland Security laid claim Tuesday to at least 220 of the 350 miles of U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona to build fences, roads and towers without having to comply with environmental regulations. A congressionally mandated deadline to have 670 miles of fences, barriers, roads and lighting along the U.S.-Mexico border in place by the end of the year drove Secretary Michael Chertoff to invoke the waiver. To date, the agency has completed 309 miles of projects, leaving it with 361 miles to complete in nine months. What Tuesday's order does, Chertoff said, is ensure that the rest of what is necessary can be built without having to complete full-blown environmental-impact statements — and without fearing that one or more sections will become tied up in court. The announcement, however, was greeted by disdain from local environmental-protection groups and a pair of Arizona legislators. "I think every American should be up in arms that the federal government is waiving these laws," said Sean Sullivan, co-chairman of the Sierra Club Rincon Group, which covers Southeastern Arizona. "They are just going to bulldoze ahead in order to get all the projects they had lined up completed." The waiver encompasses nearly two-thirds of Arizona's international border, including swaths of land from as far west as Yuma to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. Some of the larger expanses revealed by Homeland Security include: ● More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County. ● More than 55 miles on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to near Sasabe. ● More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville. ● More than 20 miles from east of Douglas to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. In total, Homeland Security identified 13 areas in Arizona. The detailed plans — or what's already under construction or has been completed — for each of the areas weren't available Tuesday. None is a new project, said Amy Kudwa, Homeland Security spokeswoman. "We are simply moving forward with their expeditious construction," Kudwa said. The projects will fall under the general category of "pedestrian and vehicle fence construction, towers, sensors, cameras, detection equipment and roads in the vicinity of the border," Homeland Security said. It's the fourth time Chertoff has used the waiver, created in the 2005 Real ID Act to waive compliance with federal regulations for all border projects. He invoked the waiver on the previous three occasions for individual projects: in October 2007 for construction of two miles of fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in Southeastern Arizona; in January 2007 on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Southwestern Arizona; and in 2005 in San Diego. Each use has elicited harsh criticism from environmentalists and critics who say no one person should have such overreaching power. Chertoff's use of that 2005 waiver authority "has created a lawless border," said Matt Clark, Southwest representative of Defenders of Wildlife. The waiver continues a pattern of neglecting important environmental, health and safety laws to build an ineffective and environmentally damaging border wall, Clark said. "That arbitrary deadline has resulted in lawlessness along the border and a disregard for environmental health and safety laws," he said. In a statement, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., called the use of the waiver "outrageous," saying neither her office nor local or state elected officials were consulted. "This is unacceptable," Giffords said. "A federal government construction project of this magnitude will impact significantly on local residents, communities and the environment. Those of us who live on the border and represent border communities deserve a seat at the table." U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., called such a broad and poorly conceived waiver lazy. "Secretary Chertoff is abusing the authority granted him by the Congress with this ham-handed waiver," Grijalva said in a statement. "With the stroke of his pen, he overturns 36 laws — some of which have been protecting our resources and our health for more than a century — in an area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean." In a prepared statement Tuesday, Chertoff said his actions are justified. "The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of terrorists, and exposes our border communities and the rest of the United States to the ill effects of drug smuggling, human smuggling and gang activity," he said. "Illegal border traffic has also caused severe and profound impacts to the environment." Invoking the waiver will prevent legal wrangling that could delay projects, he said. That's exactly what happened last year when two environmental groups sought to halt construction of fences and vehicle barriers along the southern edge of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Challengers said federal officials did not properly consider ways to minimize the impact of the new construction. Chertoff eventually invoked the waiver, and construction continued. Chertoff denied that environmental concerns are being ignored. He said that there is at least a "draft environmental assessment or environmental impact statement" for all of the miles where his agency is erecting new pedestrian fencing. And he said most of the other projects — aside from fences to keep pedestrians out — also will have those kinds of assessments.

Bush - dictator, or defender... of... something? And if he's defending something what is it - it doesn't seem to be democracy? Do you think your candidate will repeal any of these laws and restore the core values of the US constitution... or simply continue the Bush legacy? http://www.libertyforlife.com/eye-openers/us_executive_orders.htm EXECUTIVE ORDER 13233 Makes crimes, actions and records of President and former Presidents secret EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11490 Assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the: National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities. 1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy. Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency. International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979 The Military Commissions Act of 2006 the bill governing the treatment of detainees, was adopted with lightning speed, and empowers the President to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens and "unlawful enemy combatants." The bill also strips habeas corpus rights from 'enemy combatants'.

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

What is the relationship between 911 and Saddam? By The Numbers On September 11th, 2001 4 Flights were hijacked. American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.American Airlines Flight 77 which left Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into the Pentagon. United Airlines Flight 93 which left Newark, N.J., bound for San Francisco before crashing in Stony Creek Township, Pa United Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Why did the mastermind behind the attacks on America of September 11th, 2001 choose these particular flight numbers? MY THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. "White House Was Flight 93 Target http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml May 23, 2002 Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP) The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S. fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44 people aboard were killed. (CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is believed to be the source of the information. He is being interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location. Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board Flight 93. United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers before it went down. The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S. fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44 people aboard were killed. Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va., near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training. He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a Phoenix FBI agent. The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo. Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml The first attack on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993. The February 26th, 1993 attack marked the 11th anniversary to the day of the declaration by the Reagan-Bush Administration of February 26th, 1982 that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and as such was eligible for American loans and grants, which it subsequently got. The February 26th, 1993 attack also marked the 2nd anniversary to the day of the liberation of Kuwait by the U.S. in the first Gulf War. Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait (US Embassy) February 26, 2001 The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists associated with Sheik Rahman on February 26th, 1993. It was Sheik Rahman's group that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the 8th anniversary to the day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 6th. Sheik Rahman's son was subsequently found with bin Laden's group in Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan. "White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit the White House." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912- 8.html#intended-targets American Airlines Flight 77 which left Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into the Pentagon. 7/7 is one way to write the date July 7th On July 7th, 1994 Yasser Arafat, PLO chairman drove from Egypt into Gaza, after 27 years in exile. What Arafat was doing was using the date of July 7th to re-write a perceived wrong he had felt some years earlier on another July 7th. It was on July 7th 1986 that the government of Jordan closed the offices of Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah. Because a bus bombing occurred in London on July 7th, 2005 it struck me that the nation that has endured more bus bombings than any other nation is Israel. There may be a connection between the July 7th, 2005 attacks in London and the terrorists who have targeted Israel with bus bombings for years. Recently terrorists in Iraq murdered Egypt's envoy to Iraq. "Zarqawi group reportedly killed Egyptian ambassador in Iraq Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 7/7/2005 News reports from al-Jazeera and al-Arabia satellite TV stations said that Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq to Iraq, Eyhab al-Sharif, had been executed. Meantime, Al-Qaida organization in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, had threatened in a statement on the Internet to execute the chairman of the Egyptian diplomatic mission al-Sharif. The threat to execute Sharif came a short time after al-Qaida organization in Iraq issued pictures for the identity cards of the Egyptian diplomat as an evidence that they are the ones which kidnapped him. The statement said the legitimate court of al-Qaida organization in Mesopotamia decided to "send the ambassador of the state of Egypt to the Mujahideen (indivduals from Egypt and other states that go to Iraq to fight with the insurgents) to execute the death penalty against him." The statement considered that "the embassies in Baghdad are but monitoring sites to snipe the arriving Mujahideen and preventing them from having access to their brothers in Jihad in the land of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and in Afghanistan." In an attempt to prove that the Egyptian ambassador is their possession, al-Qaida organization published documents including a driving Sharif's license and a work card for him at the foreign ministry and another one for health insurance. On Tuesday the organization claimed responsibility for kidnapping Sharif." American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Saddam Hussein assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old. Fixated on the number 11 ever since then he easily focused on the World Trade Center as a target because it looked so much like a number 11 that WPIX TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World Trade Center in its logo for years. The World Trade Center also housed an office of the Bank of Kuwait. Saddam used Rahman's group to punish Sadat for failing to defeat Israel in the attack on Israel of October 6th, 1973. Saddam also used Sheik Rahman's group to hit the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament during the first Gulf War when Egypt sided with America against Iraq. Saddam, acting like a child who is deprived of a toy, who subsequently breaks that toy, set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields as he was being driven out of Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991. "Aired 9/11/2001 "Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World Trade Center] Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following a series of explosions." "CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush) LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade Center.)" "CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A couple of other things: Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!) LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech, and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to Minneapolis." http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html "September 11th, 2001 - The White House is evacuated. White House Sealed" http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg "try to avoid having the principal travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The Art of Executive Protection" http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html " Saddam tried to kill former President Bush in 1993. Former President Bush's Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11 years to the day before September 11th 2001 "In the early morning hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait. The crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit the White House." "White House Was Flight 93 Target A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the source of the information." Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th 2001: "Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S. President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile clientele." "The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from the south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument, and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this, but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall, would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot." To indicate September 1990 one might well write or type 9/90 It was in September of 1990 that President George Herbert Walker Bush spoke to Congress on Iraq. On September 11th, 1990 in fact. What of EgyptAir Flight 990? Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed deliberately." "The co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just before the doomed airliner went down" "Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary radar data seems to indicate." An example of terrorists striking on an anniversary came on October 7th, 2004 in Taba. "Images of Destruction | Taba Hilton Before and After Terrorist Attack on October 7, 2004" According to initial findings Naveh said, a car bomb blew up at the entrance to the Hilton Taba Hotel and there was a combined bomb and shooting attack in two restaurants usually frequented by Israelis in Ras Al-Satan." http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4020867.html On October 7th,2001 "America Retaliates for the September 11 Attacks. October 7, 2001 President George W. Bush Speaks to America After the Strikes Begin. "On October 7th, 1959, Saddam and others attempted, but failed, to assassinate the prime minister of Iraq. Wanted by the Iraqi government, Saddam was forced to flee. He lived in exile in Syria for three months and then moved to Egypt where he lived for three years." http://history1900s.about.com/od/saddamhussein/p/saddamhussein.htm "President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th Cabinet Session Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2001 INA President Saddam Hussein chaired on Sunday the 48th Cabinet session. The Cabinet discussed recent events of Palestinian Intifadha and praised Palestinians brave and persistent struggle for liberating their lands. The cabinet reviewed the current international situation, especially the U.S aggression on Afghanistan. The Cabinet brought back a historic stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when it condemned the military Soviet invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq had then deep relations with the Soviet Union and there was a friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary decisions and recommendations." Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of our Glorious Arab Nation…" "Middle East Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing of the two embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?" "The 12th of October 2002 will for the rest of Australian history be counted as a day when evil struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery," "On October 12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives carried out a suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In what President Clinton described as a "despicable and cowardly act," 17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded." After the liberation of Iraq terrorists struck the Baghdad Hotel on October 12th. If you add 1 to 9 you get 10. If you add 1 to 11 you get 12. Thus the 9/11/2001 attack was presaged by the attack on the U.S.S. Cole on 10/12/2000. The terrorists were engaging in what to them was a private joke regarding their plans for 9/11/2001. "Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush Senior in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the attack on the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have been an Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack. Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a torpedo or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist organizations, and which may have come from a military stockpile." 4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA "Authorities said Saffi" (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags for four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator; training at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." "Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers." "US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated charges that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993." "Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal, Europe October 4, 2001 [With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News] PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in Prague before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the investigation said." United Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 15 December 1988 43/175. Question of Palestine RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 43/175 A: 123-2-20 Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004 What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979, invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order."US plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government." The World Trade Center looked so much like the number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat, criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas, November 22, 1963 Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November 22nd, 2004, the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some examination. BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had offices in Peru, where coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and Baathist Iraq. Banks did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval of the tyrant. "Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a top Colombian official said on Saturday. "According to informants and various sources, we had information indicating that various members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of the threat. The White House had no immediate comment. The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does not comment or release information regarding our protective intelligence and protective methods." "We do not discuss any alleged threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service spokesman. There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops were shuttered." Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5 "In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI, describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22 Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the transaction, which was to take place in August or September of 1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash" customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia...." Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm "The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti." Page 22 "The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February 1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq, where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members immediately collaborated with the new regime..." Pgs 25-26 "7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein, escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist regime..." Pages 312-313 "Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943" (when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) "by two Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German national socialism" (Nazism) "and on Italian fascism." Page 199 "After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End'). Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This was the Jihaz Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup. Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni." Pages 201-203 "The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested. Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings. This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours..." Page 206 Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991 ISBN 0-312-06530-2 "Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad. In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio, and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole. The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old message was simple