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What are the most commonly used FAR federal acquisition regulations used in government contracts? I need this info asap

What Can An Obama Campaign Donor Expect In Return For His Investment? I certainly can't afford to buy President Obama, but for those who do, what do they expect in return? Can they buy a combination pack, consisting of favored status for government contracts, regulation and rule-making favorable to your business at the expense of others and special, easy loans, guaranteed by the taxpayer? Or are these items sold a la carte? What is the minimum entry fee to buy a piece of Obama and what is the effective rate of return on investment? What does someone get for $100,000?

how can i see Government of India Notification dt June 27,1969 of section16 of the Securities Contracts? In exercise of the powers conferred under section 16 of the Securities Contracts ( Regulation) Act, 1956 vide Government of India Notification No. dated June 27,1969 of the Act banned forward trading in securities

Why is government in the marriage regulation business at all? If you think marriage is a religions institution, does not the precedent of separation of church and state prohibit government's involvement in that spiritual union. If it's a relationship / interpersonal contract, doesn't government's involvement violate constitutional protections ensuring our rights to free association? All and all, who things government should get out of the marriage regulatory business all together? Caj. That's why I used the word “Precedent” Karen, courts mediate disputes over contract breaches every day that didn't require people entering the contracts to have a government issued license to have entered the contract.

What do you think about Federal Government regulation of industry? I always think about the most heavily regulated industries and why we have the most problems with them: 1) Financial Industry: If you think they were ever deregulated in a meaningful way, you were misled. They have the most regulation of any industry to deal with even today. Proof: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/documents/OHalloranRegulationLessons.pdf 2) Energy Industry: We even have a Cabinet level appointment and Federal Department, and we can all agree that things are not getting better. 3) Health Care: Government regulates this industry heavily, everything from what plans have to offer to who you can buy them from. The have regulations for every aspect of the health care / insurance industry. Now think of an industry with little regulation, like the high tech industry. They are world leaders in many fields and touch our lives in important and serious ways every day, yet they function fine with almost no regulation. I am not saying we need to get rid of all regulation, I am all for some regulation but with enforcement of contracts and transparency for the markets. What do you think about regulation? And can you ever trust regulation not to degenerate into crony capitalism (i.e. the Government picks the winners in the market)? ryoshi10: Little known fact is that the companies themselves pay for the FDA inspectors. brown 950: The high tech industry sells many services, in fact these days the high tech industry is almost a total service industry. IBM no longer makes computer's they sell services.

what is so wrong with a little more government regulation? if mccain cuts government regulation does anybody believe the economy will go down the toilet due to greed? predatory lending practices i believe are a big reason we are in the housing crisis we are now. yeah i do know there are people who are idiots about signing contracts they cant afford, but what about my mother in laws case where the mortgage payment can jump $3-400 dollars in one month? come on now thats rediculous. and there are so many loopholes for them to go through. why does anybody believe mccain will do anything better? and how is it restricting freedom by atleast a little government regulation on big corporations........do we really want the corporations to own this country? how does a $150billion tax break to joe blow's fortune 500 company help the economy when he's outsourcing all the jobs he can to maximize prophets and getting away with it? profit*.................. i didnt hear any of you complaining when they signed the patriot act making it pretty much legal for law enforcement to do whatever the fuk they want to whomeever.....where were all you whiners then? brad m couldnt agree with you more. you will get the best answer. and thats what i was trying to get across was there needs to be some basic protection for people seeing as these rate hikes come with little to no warning. the people that spend entirely too much i could give a rats ass about, but the people that did plan and did get what they could afford are having the rugs ripped right out from under them.

nazi policies- government regulations? I am studying a-level history and have been given a sheet with information relevant to an essay that we have to do. It has a table showing the positive and negative impacts of the different policies on the different groups of society. Because of this, there is no explanation to the statement. So what is meant by government regulations in terms of business and industry? Also, there is another one which says Government contracts, does this mean contracts brought in by the government with big business connected with rearmament and war supplies?

Are republicans finally admitting that less regulation, smaller government, can be dangerous? From Reuters: "Lax regulation has been widely blamed for permitting a flood of inadequately documented loans to be made during the boom years of a U.S. housing market that has since soured and now threatens to drag the economy into a deep recession." Read the article at http://news.yahoo.com - search: U.S. seeks enhanced financial authority for Fed Deregulation of lending has allowed credit card companies to go wild with ever increasing fees, rates, penalties hidden in million word incomprehensible contracts - essentially financing designed to enslave unwary consumers into financial devastation. Leading economists blame lack of regulation for the greatest threat to the US economy since the Great Depression! Lack of regulation allowed lead into toys, poisons into toothpaste, pet foods, adulteration of medications that have caused numerous deaths, unsafe air travel, etc., etc. When will people realize we need our govt to protect us, we need better govt, not less govt? The republican focus on deregulation since Reagon has turned the middle class into prey for predatory and unscrupulous corporations while depriving us of rights under bankruptcy & civil laws. Are republicans finally recognizing that their actions have led the US to the brink of another great depression, endangered our lives, wrecked the job market and taken the greatest country in the world into a giant mess all in the name of increasing the wealth of the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us? Not to mention the devastation of our position as a moral leader in the world? This is Bush's plan for more regulation in order to save the economy from completely collapsing. This is not a democratic or liberal plan - it is a republican calling for more regulation. Some of you can't read, apparently.

Is government responsible for the widening income gap? Do the regulations that cause small businesses not to be able to afford to compete increase the income gap? What about all the government contracts, insider deals, lobbyists, subsidies and others seeking government favor? What about the Federal Reserve accommodating the Federal Government's spending and deficits killing the purchasing power of our money? What affect do these have on the widening income gap?

By what means are *compensation contracts* legally voided or altered by an employer? if this ever occurs, i don't know. given: the terms of the contract are met. there is no overt fraud or non-performance under current internal rules and government regulations, just extraordinary circumstances reasonably prompting the employer to want to re-negotiate.

Which is Obama more likely to accomplish: Ending Tax Cuts to the Rich,or Ending No-Bid contracts to Haliburton? The same goes for regulations on government contracts. In the past, Democratic and Republican administrations issued some contracts without competitive bidding for speed and to save money. When seeking the highest office in the land, Mr. Obama explicitly stated that he would not tolerate such practices. "I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all," he thundered to a Grand Rapids, Mich., audience on Oct. 2, 2008. "The days of sweetheart deals for Halliburton will be over when I'm in the White House." After becoming president, Mr. Obama continued the attack and promised on March 4 to "end unnecessary no-bid and cost-plus contracts. ... In some cases, contracts are awarded without competition. ... And that's completely unacceptable." That was then; this is now. Last week, the Army revealed that KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through next year. This deal was announced only hours after the Obama Justice Department informed the public that it was joining a suit filed by whistleblowers who allege KBR used kickbacks to get foreign contracts. This isn't the first time the O Force broke its pledge against no-bid contracts. On Jan. 4, Checchi & Company Consulting, a Washington-based firmed owned by Democratic donor Vincent V. Checchi, was awarded a no-bid contract of more than $24 million to train lawyers and judges in Afghanistan. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/obamas-mounting-hypocrisy/

Has the US gone past the point of no return for having a huge, intrusive, and omnipresent government? has personal responsibility, self-sufficiency, and personal initiative been permanently replaced by government assistance, subsidies, regulation, mandates, controls and limits on our freedom of contract?

Has any nation ever successfully implemented a libertarian government? By "libertarian government" I mean a government that implements the general philosophy that "respect for individual choice and individual liberty as the foundation of the ideal society," and that "seeks to minimize or abolish the coercive actions of the state." (quoting Wikipedia) Such a society would prohibit any government interference with commerce or social life--no regulation of industry, no regulation of personal behavior (including drug use, prostitution, etc.), and no attempt to control the economy. Government activities would be limited to at most a military and a few essential services such as enforcement of criminal and contract law. Has any nation ever implemented such a policy? If so, what happened as a result? If libertarianism has not been implemented anywhere, what does that mean?

i need someone to help me put this in my "own words" (:? The legal system affects nearly every aspect of our society, from buying a home to crossing the street. Lawyers form the backbone of this system, linking it to society in numerous ways. They hold positions of great responsibility and are obligated to adhere to a strict code of ethics. Lawyers, also called attorneys, act as both advocates and advisors in our society. As advocates, they represent one of the parties in criminal and civil trials by presenting evidence and arguing in court to support their client. As advisors, lawyers counsel their clients about their legal rights and obligations and suggest particular courses of action in business and personal matters. Whether acting as an advocate or an advisor, all attorneys research the intent of laws and judicial decisions and apply the law to the specific circumstances faced by their clients. The more detailed aspects of a lawyer’s job depend upon his or her field of specialization and position. Although all lawyers are licensed to represent parties in court, some appear in court more frequently than others. Trial lawyers, who specialize in trial work, must be able to think quickly and speak with ease and authority. In addition, familiarity with courtroom rules and strategy is particularly important in trial work. Still, trial lawyers spend the majority of their time outside the courtroom, conducting research, interviewing clients and witnesses, and handling other details in preparation for a trial. Lawyers may specialize in a number of areas, such as bankruptcy, probate, international, elder, or environmental law. Those specializing in environmental law, for example, may represent interest groups, waste disposal companies, or construction firms in their dealings with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other Federal and State agencies. These lawyers help clients prepare and file for licenses and applications for approval before certain activities may occur. Some lawyers specialize in the growing field of intellectual property, helping to protect clients’ claims to copyrights, artwork under contract, product designs, and computer programs. Other lawyers advise insurance companies about the legality of insurance transactions, guiding the company in writing insurance policies to conform to the law and to protect the companies from unwarranted claims. When claims are filed against insurance companies, these attorneys review the claims and represent the companies in court. Most lawyers are in private practice, concentrating on criminal or civil law. In criminal law, lawyers represent individuals who have been charged with crimes and argue their cases in courts of law. Attorneys dealing with civil law assist clients with litigation, wills, trusts, contracts, mortgages, titles, and leases. Other lawyers handle only public-interest cases—civil or criminal—concentrating on particular causes and choosing cases that might have an impact on the way law is applied. Lawyers are sometimes employed full time by a single client. If the client is a corporation, the lawyer is known as “house counsel” and usually advises the company concerning legal issues related to its business activities. These issues might involve patents, government regulations, contracts with other companies, property interests, or collective bargaining agreements with unions. A significant number of attorneys are employed at the various levels of government. Some work for State attorneys general, prosecutors, and public defenders in criminal courts. At the Federal level, attorneys investigate cases for the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies. Government lawyers also help develop programs, draft and interpret laws and legislation, establish enforcement procedures, and argue civil and criminal cases on behalf of the government. Other lawyers work for legal aid societies—private, nonprofit organizations established to serve disadvantaged people. These lawyers generally handle civil, rather than criminal, cases. Lawyers increasingly use various forms of technology to perform more efficiently. Although all lawyers continue to use law libraries to prepare cases, most supplement conventional printed sources with computer sources, such as the Internet and legal databases. Software is used to search this legal literature automatically and to identify legal texts relevant to a specific case. In litigation involving many supporting documents, lawyers may use computers to organize and index material. Lawyers must be geographically mobile and able to reach their clients in a timely matter, so they might use electronic filing, web and videoconferencing, and voice-recognition technology to share information more effectively. 10 points to the first use-able answer (: thanks in advance*

What does "government would derive its power from the consent of the governed." mean? "the Mayflower Compact was in essence a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the rules and regulations of the government for the sake of survival. The government, in return, would derive its power from the consent of the governed." I was researching on the Mayflower Compact and I find that last sentence pretty difficult to understand. So if anyone can please help give me briefly on what that phrase means. I'd appreciate that.

Is the United States finally run by corporations who own most of the politicians on both sides? It seems as if corporations all have divisions that rely on multi million dollar government contracts and heavy legislation to prevent competition in several key basic needs markets . The only thing slowing ethanol production is regulatory prohibitions as with hydrogen production and facilities licensed to distribute it . Forget that auto manufacturers also build tanks trucks and government vehicles and will not make simple adjustments to make vehicles compatible with alternative fuels. . We also have strong subsidies in our food markets and strict trade agrements on clothing imports . Our electrical costs are regulated and access to the grid is restricted with only .002% of customers selling back energy to the grid . They talk a good game but when it comes right down to it free enterprise has been buried under government restrictions regulations and red tape . All this and the buying of politicians is destroying this nation of free people .

Did u c this, "Is Government Too Big to Succeed" by Ron Paul? " Last week, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission kicked off their first round of hearings on the causes of the economic meltdown on Wall Street. The commission is being compared to the the Pecora Commission launched in 1932 to investigate the causes of the Great Depression. The Pecora commission is beloved by those who believe the solution to every problem is more laws because it was used to justify a number of new laws, including Glass-Steagall. Of course, none of those laws addressed the real causes of the Great Depression. It was the introduction of unsound monetary policy and central economic planning pursued by the Federal Reserve that really threw everything off balance. The Fed was founded in 1913 to stabilize the economy and prevent a recurrence of the short-lived Panic of 1907, but instead it promptly produced the Great Depression which lasted more than 15 years. The Pecora Commission was stacked with big government sympathizers who blamed the free market and the gold standard without question, and without any consideration of government interference in the economy. This panel is no different. Never will they contemplate how government steered us into this crisis, and what perverse incentives can be removed or repealed so that the market will function more smoothly. Never will they discuss how investment should come from savings, not debt. Never will it occur to them that fiat money, artificially low interest rates and the whole Federal Reserve System might be unwise and unstable, not to mention unconstitutional. The answer will always be more government regulation and oversight. It is predictable that this government panel will eventually come to the firm conclusion that government needs to be bigger, and that the market is just too free. How sad is this when exactly the opposite is true? It is big government that gives out tax breaks to engineer behavior, often creating large pockets of malinvestments. It is government that created the FDIC and the Fed as lender of last resort which all encourages moral hazard. It is big government that gives bureaucrats the ability to bail out cronies with taxpayer dollars while screaming that the economic sky is falling if they don’t. It is big government that every year adds new layers to the already labyrinthine regulatory code that smaller businesses can’t keep up with while simultaneously preventing new businesses from emerging. It is big government that misdirects economic productivity into bankrupt businesses that they consider to be too big to fail. If this panel was serious about understanding the root of the problem, as they claim to be, they would have people testify who understand the crisis and saw it coming. To my knowledge, none of them have received a phone call. The problem is those people would say too many things the government panel would find inconvenient. They would point fingers at too many of the state’s anointed. They would recommend getting government out of the way of the free market and getting back to simply protecting contracts and punishing fraud. But the biggest fraud is perpetrated by the Federal Reserve. No one on this panel takes that viewpoint seriously. Instead, they will be asking people who are still scratching their heads at how they could have missed the housing bubble what new regulations they can put in place to prevent future bubbles. Thus, I don’t expect much real wisdom to come out of this current investigation. What do you think? Does ignoring root causes mean this 'search for solutions' is doomed to only create a new round of problems?

Do government retirement and insurance plans essentially amount to . . .? the government saying 'pay us what we ask for and we will give you the coverage we deem appropriate?" Are there specific contract rights with respect to Social Security and Medicare? Are the rights assets of the individual, which can be borrowed against or left to loved ones? Government regulations control private insurance and retirement plans. Who oversees the government plans?

Do anybody have experience with the required wireless equipment update by home security monitoring company? I subscribed to monitoring service with a Home Security Monitoring company. I have wireless security equipment installed. Recently they told me that the government require them to replace the analog radio tower system with digital radio tower system. This results in I need to replace my wireless security equipment as well, otherwise it won't be able to connect to the new radio tower. They charged me $100 for that. Since I'm still in a contract with them, I think I shouldn't pay that $100. So, do anybody have experience in this matter? Is the new regulation for real? Do the customers really have to pay for that required upgrade by the government regulation even when they're still in a contract? Thanks! I appreciate any inputs.

What is the difference between a DEPARTMENT of GOVERMENT and an AGENCY of the government.? I recall back in grade school the difference between the two concepts were very clear... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency . See also http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070415182438AAhAqyJ If I may adapt this very good answer... think of a 'Department' as an office of government RUN by the government - on it's own payroll, that is, and an 'Agency' as an independent company contracted and funded by the government, but with a Sep-a-rate accounting "department", if you will, and a payroll somewhat more independent of government regulation. A search of the California State Constitution and the California Government Code revealed no clear definition or comparison of the terminology. It seems that the definitions have blurred or even been DELETED by "Operation of Law!"

Which of the following actions would be most likely to reduce conflicts between stockholders and bondholders? Which of the following actions would be most likely to reduce conflicts between stockholders and bondholders? A) A government regulation that banned the use of convertible bonds. B) The passage of laws that make it harder for hostile takeovers to succeed. C) Compensating managers with more stock options and less cash income. D) Including restrictive covenants in the company’s bond indenture (which is the contract between the company and its bondholders). E) The firm begins to use only long-term debt, e.g., debt that matures in 30 years or more, rather than debt that matures in less than one year.

Will E-verify become mandatory for companies doing business with government agencies or receiving subsidies? E-Verify is a voluntary program for employers, with limited exceptions. E-Verify is an essential tool for employers committed to maintaining a legal workforce. The E-Verify system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration. E-Verify is mandatory for some employers, such as those employers with federal contracts or subcontracts that contain the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) E-Verify clause and employers in certain states. Will E-verify be mandatory for all companies receiving federal subsidies too ...like the large transnational agricultural corporations.

To the guy saying Ron Paul is "owned" by corporations: which corporations? Which corporations would those be? You realize virtually all his funding is grassroots money? (From people who understand that regulation is what's killing the economy, AND that regulations DON'T WORK as intended when you look at the unintended consequences.) Large corporations support politicians who create regulations which hurt their competition by making it more expensive for them to compete and harder to create a competing startup company. Sarbanes-Oxley is a perfect example. Regulation as a method of preventing bad things from happening has a terrible track record of failure. Protecting property rights, contracts, and consumer/market regulation has a much better track record. Ron Paul isn't for NO regulation - he's for non-government regulation. Let consumers, nonprofits, bankruptcy of bad companies, and defense of property rights be the regulation. Still don't follow? www.mises.org Or google Thomas Woods, Peter Schiff, Robert Murphy for books and Youtube videos which explain how BOTH parties have sold us out. Actually Obama does get a lot of corporate support, big time. No pass for him either..

What is a service contract? The major criticism of service contracts is: a.) poor service from repair companies. b.) limited coverage of repairs. c.) weak government regulation of service contract companies. or d.) high costs and a low chance of need. I could really, really use help with this.

If the Soviet Union collapsed due to too little Capitalism didn't the British Empire collapse due to too much? In other words, isn't it true that the British Empire's economic model, which was a laissez faire-understanding of mercantilism, overstretched their debt borrowings to finance their overseas ventures? And didn't the British Empire's economy essentially contract because of the mounting debt burden? So doesn't that imply that a balance of government regulation is necessary in order prevent excessive capital flight?

Do you TRULY understand how bad the American Government is? They are right there with the Wall Street crowd. It doesn't matter if you are a Rep or a Dem, they both do this. Recently, Prez Obama talks about getting jobs for our Disabled Veterans (DV). The Veteran's Administration (VA) has a program called, "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business" (SDVOSB). The program SOUNDS interesting and easy, but it is far from it! This is so these companies can bid on set-aside government contracts (set-aside contracts are those that are set-aside for SDVOSM, women owned businesses, 8(a) companies, etc.). So, the rules say, you must have a DV owning 51% of the business and ACTIVELY running the business. So, how many DV's leave the military with the knowledge of how to run their own business? How many know how to put bids together for a contract? How many know that, in order to get a government contract, you must be bonded and insured and to get that, you have to have CAPITAL! How much capital? Well, typically, you get one-third the money on your bond for what you have in capital. As an example, if you have $1 million dollars in capital, you are lucky to receive a bond of $300,000! There's not too many contracts that are that low. So, think about all of this for a minute, is it any wonder why the VA did not meet their quotas for the number of SDVOSB's last year? And you would THINK the VA is there to HELP the DV, right? YOU WOULD BE WRONG!! So, you may be thinking, well, I'll just join up with a General Contractor, who already owns his own business, and use him to help me, right? Sounds logical, right? Well, you can't do that because the Small Business Administration (SBA) has a rule call "Affiliation", which you are not allowed to have. The funniest part of this is their definitions of "Affiliation"...here's two items: 13 C.F.R part 121.103: (4) Affiliation may be found where an individual, concern, or entity exercises control indirectly through a third party. (5) In determining whether affiliation exists, SBA will consider the totality of the circumstances, and may find affiliation even though no single factor is sufficient to constitute affiliation. "...and MAY FIND affiliation even thought NO SINGLE FACTOR is sufficient to constitute affiliation"??? What? Why don't they just say, "Look, if we do not want you to have a company, we'll just fall on this rule and then you CAN'T have it!" This is what many of us American's are saying when you hear us talk about TOO MUCH REGULATIONS! They write regulations to cancel other regulations so they can control who they do and do not want to be successful!!

A way to FIX the U.S. Economy - Regulation of Financial Industry? A way to FIX the U.S. Economy - Regulation of Financial Industry I am a conservative and I know all you conservatives cringe with the word "Government Regulation", but our economy has gotten out of whack by financial institutions who prey on the following: 1. Low income people looking for a quick fix. Offering loans with hidden fees. Milking these people dry. 2. College Students, all students have been solicited by at least 2 CC's. I ask the financial insitutions why should this group qualify? No job, already in debt with student loans, etc., and here they are preying on this group. By the time the student realizes they made a bad deal, their more in debt. Giving money to U.S. citizens as Congress proposed yesterday is a very BAD idea! They are just enabling the problem even more. If you want to fix the economy, regulation of financial institutions MUST be mandated. Limits on interest rates-10%, no hidden fees, a contract less than 1 page long, etc. TIME TO GET TOUGH ON THESE LOAN SHARKS!!!!!

At what point does the government regulating marriage cross the line? Inspired by facade's answer to my earlier question: 'I think you started out talking about relationships, but then took a swerve and mentioned something about a legally binding government-issued contract instead. So, to summarise: Relationships based on mutual love, trust, and respect: Good. Government contract regulating your relationship and finances: Bad.' This seems to be what a lot of the MRAs on here would like, if taken to the extreme. Of course, if we didn't regulate marriage at all, there would be no alimony or child support, and it would be legal for mothers or fathers to abandon their children and refuse to provide for them, or for one spouse who's working to leave another one who hasn't worked for years to fend for themselves. And this is why we have these laws, but many feel they've been taken too far and now infringe on the rights of men. How much regulation is good, and at what point do you say this has gone too far and now it's trampling on our rights as citizens?

A way to FIX the U.S. Economy - Regulation of Finance Industry? I am a conservative and I know all you conservatives cringe witht he word "Government Regulation", but our economy has gotten out of whack by financial institutions who prey on the following: 1. Low income people looking for a quick fix. Offering loans with hidden fees. Milking these people dry. 2. College Students, all students have been solicited by at least 2 CC's. I ask the financial insitutions why should this group qualify? No job, already in debt with student loans, etc., and here they are preying on this group. By the time the student realizes they made a bad deal, their more in debt. Giving money to U.S. citizens as Congress proposed yesterday is a very BAD idea! They are just enabling the problem even more. If you want to fix the economy, regulation of financial institutions MUST be mandated. Limits on interest rates-10%, no hidden fees, a contract less than 1 page long, etc. TIME TO GET TOUGH ON THESE LOAN SHARKS!!!!!

Is the Presidents lifting of the off shore drilling ban in response to Americas selling of oil contracts? to foregn governments so they can make TRILLIONS more without regulation? or? Is it just a big corp play to fill in the dollars to those overseas contracts?

Wages may be sticky in the short run due to? a. so few workers being unionized b. firms wanting to make a profit at the expense of employees c. government regulation d. some wages being governed by long-term contracts

Government contractors are required by law to comply with many regulations, which .? has become more stringent under the Obama administration. There is now a draft Executive Order requiring Federal contractors to declare political donations when bidding on government contracts. The question is, do you view this as an unnecessary intrusion or, is it an attempt to influence the selection of contractors? http://www.cooley.com/draft-executive-order-could-force-contractors-to-discluse-political-contributions @ Cardinal - I had not even considered that this would s @ Cardinal - I had not even considered that this would show Union donations and support. What you suggested is even of more concern than I realized. @ LordGodGoose. Government contractors are required to run background checks on all employees to find out exactly what you are describing. Many of the regulations make utter sense. The one about disclosing political donations does not put children at risk, just politicians.

Isnt it safe to say that Gingrich supporters are big government NeoCons like him? http://thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/6323-newts-contract-with-the-earth-offers-pseudo-science-big-government-and-earth-worship Anyone who seriously believes that Gingrich is a small-government conservative in the mold of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, should look at the new Contract with America-style manifesto that Newt has proposed as the basis for Republicans to campaign on. Gingrich would expand No Child Left Behind to create national teacher competency standards, and he does not actually call for any specific spending cuts. What he proposes is budget legislation that would lead to a balanced budget in seven years. Perhaps balancing the budget takes so long because he wants to spend so much more on a national energy policy. Gingrich proposes an array of subsidies to every conceivable energy interest group and project from ethanol to hydrogen-powered cars. Of course, there’s nothing in Gingrich’s manifesto about reforming entitlement programs. That’s hardly surprising; Gingrich supported the Medicare prescription drug benefits. It is within this context of fiscal liberality that Gingrich’s environmentalism finds a logical dwelling place, and many believe that it is these beliefs which resulted in his dismal, single-digit performance in the 2010 and 2011 CPAC straw polls. Like his big-government manifesto, his treatise on environmentalism is merely another declaration of unconstitutional policies and ineffective, wasteful mechanisms to implement such proposals, including the continuation of unconstitutional federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, the strengthening of the United Nations and other global government enforcement bodies, and even the suggestion that the military ought to be used to enforce environmental policies, a picture Gingrich vividly paints in his book. A Contract with the Earth differs from other stereotypically-liberal environmentalist treatises only in that it does offer some challenges to the left on the issues of regulation, global warming, and free enterprise. Gingrich does express some disdain for what he calls liberals’ failed reliance on legislation and litigation in environmental protection; he argues in favor of taxpayer-funded rewards to business, rather than government punitive regulations, as means by which an environmentalist agenda can be implemented. He seems to support measures such as tax incentives, rather than policies which curtail free enterprise, such as binding emissions limits. He calls for public-private partnerships in advancing the environmentalist agenda, and does not call for reducing the size of government, instead advocating making big government somehow more “efficient”: “…[O]ur government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector,” (p.196).

Economics test prep..? I have a econ test comming up and this was given as study material. Only prob is there was no answer key given and my test is in 2 days. Ive answerd all the q's but need to double check them. If anyone can answer a few id be very greatful. Thanks! a. A stockholder can completely diversify its market risk. (1 pt) b. A cost benefit study does not attempt to measure all costs and benefits (e.g., the value of human life) (1 pt) c. Assume a cost benefit study initially uses a 10% discount rate; if the analyst used a lower discount rate (e.g., 1%) this will decrease the value of costs and benefits far into the future relative to using a 10% discount rate. (1 pt) d. In a monopolistically competitive market firms will enter as long as an economic profit exists which implies that in the long‐run the equilibrium price will fall to marginal cost. (1 pt) e. An oligopoly is a market structure in which there are few firms, but the firmsmake decisions that are completely independent of the decisions that otherfirms make. (1 pt) f. Firms cannot use advertising as a barrier to entry because only firms in a perfectly competitive market will advertise. (1 pt) g. Advertising will always increase the profit of a firm. (1 pt) h. The key analysis underlying transaction cost economics is comparing the cost of using the market with the cost of using a firm (i.e., a hierarchy) to allocate resources. (1 pt) i. Transaction cost economics uses the same behavioral assumptions as neoclassical economics (i.e., the economics we learned in Module 1). (1 pt) j. A contractual hazard is the name economists give to the first clause in a contract. (1 pt) k. Transactions costs economics can be applied to the “make or buy” decision because it is always more costly to buy something than make it. (1 pt) l. A static model of the economy attempts to model how resources are allocated over time. (1 pt) m. Joseph Schumpeter argued that monopoly profits were an unnecessary evil as firms will use those profits only to enrich the owners of capital at the expense of consumers. (1 pt) n. Antitrust regulation concerns the government’s regulation of contracts because contracts require “trust” between the parties to the contract. (1 pt) o. The HHI is calculated by summing the market shares of the leading four firms in the industry. (1 pt) p. A market is only defined by the geographical region in which the product is sold. (1 pt) q. Merger review by the FTC explicitly ignores any possible efficiency benefits from the merger. (1 pt) r. Consider a small town in a rural area. If a large box store selling hardware entered the market and sold hammers at 1/10 the price that hammers are being sold by the local hardware store, the hardware store might try to claim that this is an anticompetitive practice known as a tie‐in. (1 pt) s. A natural monopoly is defined as an industry in which a firm owns some natural resource that is in short supply. (1 pt) t. Cost‐based regulation of natural monopolies applies a formula that allows the firms price to change with the change in inflation and productively. (1 pt) u. Regulated utilities (e.g., an electric company) are allowed a fair return minus 2% because they are protected by the government. (1 pt)

Guide to ethical spending of taxpayer money? My firm recently got a government contract, and we want to be sure we adhere to all federal regulations and ethical guidelines in how it is spent. We already have some budget categories and common sense in how it should be spent (e.g., not on trips to Vegas), but is there a set of ethical guidelines, written by the government, on how to spend taxpayer money that we can refer to? Links to guidelines will be appreciated . . U.S. government

Did I answers these Economic questions right you can answer only one - thanks? Are my Economic questions correct? Answers at bottom.? 1.Which of the following is likely to have the most monopoly power? Ford Motor Corporation your local water company Mobil Oil Corporation Avon products (cosmetics) a fast food restaurant 2. To maximize profits, a competitive firm produces the output level at which its total receipts are greatest its total costs are minimum its marginal cost equals its marginal revenue its total costs equal its total receipts none of the above 3. The most common forms of nonprice competition are profit maximization and loss minimization monopolization and output restriction advertising and changes in product quality and design inflation and unemployment none of the above 4. A perfectly competitive firm’s supply curve is its demand curve marginal revenue curve total revenue curve marginal cost curve total cost curve 5. With a natural monopoly, the long-run average cost curve of the firm declines over the range of production government regulation ensures that consumer’s interests will be served government regulation will fail there are no significant economies of scale in producing the good none of the above 6. General Motors more closely resembles a monopoly than does your local electric company. True False 7. If its marginal revenue is less than its marginal cost, a firm should reduce its output product. True False 8. Monopoly power in the U.S. does not pose a significant economic problem. True False 9. Without barriers to entry, a high-profit monopoly is unlikely to be able to maintain its monopoly status. True False 10. With natural monopolies, consumers may be better off with a monopoly than competition. True False 11. Which of the following is NOT necessary for a successful cartel? Members must produce most of the industry’s output produce a homogeneous output produce heterogeneous outputs be able to divide the market have a way to prevent cheating 12. A monopsony is a market with only one buyer employer product all of the above a) and b) 13. Which of the following releases professional athletes from some of the monopsony powers of the sports leagues? player drafts long-term contracts free agency expanded playing seasons minimum wage laws 14. The average baseball player earns a salary greater than the average college professor because baseball players contribute more to society’s general well-being college professors contribute less to their employer’s revenues than baseball players colleges are better able to enforce their monopsonistic market positions the market for baseball players is more competitive colleges are owned by the state 15. A professional sports league can maximize the revenue it generates from selling broadcast rights by playing enough games such that demand equals supply total revenue equals total costs marginal revenue equals marginal costs marginal revenue equals total costs total revenue equals marginal costs 16. Tickets and broadcast rights to baseball games are bought and sold in the product market. True False 17. A cartel is a “shared monopoly.” True False 18. Unlike other workers, it is difficult to measure the productivity of a professional athlete. True False 19. A recently drafted player will most likely command a higher salary than a free agent. True False 20. The reserve clause helped to raise the salaries of professional baseball players. True False 1 is two 2 is four 3 is one 4 is four 5 is one 6 is false 7 is true 8 is true 9 is false 10 is true 11 i s econd 12 is first 13 is second 14 is second 15 is third 16 is false ? ? ? ?

Which Presidential candidate can address this WITHOUT anything more than a one-time, $700 billion bailout? READ THIS - YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! Everything You Wanted to Know About the Credit Crisis But Were Afraid to Ask (by Ben Stein) http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/109609 In other words, if this is TRULY a "bottomless pit" (e.g. $56-59 TRILLION IN CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP *LIABILITIES*, per the below), WE MUST ENSURE OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES DO *NOT* MAKE OUR DOLLAR WORTHLESS. They *might* be able to avoid a fiasco if they make this bailout contingent on: a. NO FUTURE BAILOUTS, NO MATTER WHAT! (Holders of credit default swaps need to be told that the writer of the swap is BANKRUPT and their payoff is NOTHING!!!) b. Any CEOs that take government money in this bailout get no more than the average taxpayer's salary; c. No bank or mortgage company can offer a mortgage with less than TWENTY PERCENT (20%) down and proof of 3 times the income of a monthly mortgage payment (P&I); the ONLY exception should be for those who can show proof of being at the same employer for the most recent five years AND makes 6 times the income of a monthly mortgage payment (e.g. a minimum 10% down would be allowed in this case). KEY EXCERPTS: The headlines scream doom. There are endless references to the economic situation being "the worst since The Great Depression." Immense names in finance have collapsed and sunk beneath the waves of the financial crisis. Please allow me to try to explain a bit of what's going on. First of all, all you have to do is look around you to see that in terms of daily life, we are not anywhere near The Great Depression. Unemployment is barely about six percent. It was 25 percent at the nadir of The Great Depression. Real per capita incomes adjusted for inflation are at least five times what they were during The Great Depression. Airplanes are full. High-end restaurants are full. Prices are painfully high for food. These are not signs of a Great Depression. . First, the alert reader will notice that Ben Stein said many times that the amount of money at risk in the subprime meltdown was just not enough to sink an economy of this size. And I was right...to a point. The amount of subprime that defaulted was at most - after recovery in liquidation - about $250 billion. A huge sum but not enough to torpedo the US economy. The crisis occurred (to greatly oversimplify) because the financial system allowed entities to place bets on whether or not those mortgages would ever be paid. You didn't have to own a mortgage to make the bets. These bets, called Credit Default Swaps, are complex. But in a nutshell, they allow someone to profit immensely - staggeringly - if large numbers of subprime mortgages are not paid off and go into default. The profit can be wildly out of proportion to the real amount of defaults, because speculators can push down the price of instruments tied to the subprime mortgages far beyond what the real rates of loss have been. As I said, the profits here can be beyond imagining. . These Credit Default Swaps have been written (as insurance is written) as private contracts. There is nil government regulation of them. Who writes these policies? Banks. Investment banks. Insurance companies. They now owe the buyers of these Credit Default Swaps on junk mortgage debt trillions of dollars. It is this liability that is the bottomless pit of liability for the financial institutions of America. Because these giant financial companies never dreamed that the subprime mortgage securities could fall as far as they did, they did not enter a potential liability for these CDS policies anywhere near their true liability - which again, is virtually bottomless. They do not have a countervailing asset to pay off the liability. ... This is what all of the big investment banks and banks and insurance companies missed. This is what the federal government totally and utterly missed. This is what the truly brilliant speculators in these instruments did not miss. They could insure a liability they could also create and control. It is as if they could insure a Cadillac for its value upon theft - but they could control what the value the insurer had to pay off was. The insurer thought it might be fifty thousand dollars - but it was manipulated into being two million. This is the whirlpool sucking down finance. Now, we are about to have a similar phenomenon happen with commercial mortgage debt, debt from mergers and acquisitions, credit card debt, and car loan debt. Many trillions of dollars in Credit Default Swaps have been sold on all of this, and the prices of all of them have fallen and can be made to fall more. As I said, the pit of loss is bottomless. Warren Buffett, the smartest man of all time in the world of finance, has called financial derivatives - of which Credit Default Swaps are a prime example - "weapons of financial mass destruction." And so they are. As with the hydrogen bomb, no one thought they would ever

How to explain this to the general public, in layman's terms? Credit crisis explanation (by Ben Stein) The crisis occurred (to greatly oversimplify) because the financial system allowed entities to place bets on whether or not those mortgages would ever be paid. You didn't have to own a mortgage to make the bets. These bets, called Credit Default Swaps, are complex. But in a nutshell, they allow someone to profit immensely - staggeringly - if large numbers of subprime mortgages are not paid off and go into default. The profit can be wildly out of proportion to the real amount of defaults, because speculators can push down the price of instruments tied to the subprime mortgages far beyond what the real rates of loss have been. As I said, the profits here can be beyond imagining. (In fact, they can be so large that one might well wonder if the whole subprime fiasco was not set up just to allow speculators to profit wildly on its collapse...) These Credit Default Swaps have been written (as insurance is written) as private contracts. There is nil government regulation of them. Who writes these policies? Banks. Investment banks. Insurance companies. They now owe the buyers of these Credit Default Swaps on junk mortgage debt trillions of dollars. It is this liability that is the bottomless pit of liability for the financial institutions of America. Because these giant financial companies never dreamed that the subprime mortgage securities could fall as far as they did, they did not enter a potential liability for these CDS policies anywhere near their true liability - which again, is virtually bottomless. They do not have a countervailing asset to pay off the liability. This should never have happened. Now that it did happen, should the taxpayer pay to make the billionaire speculators whole on their bets? What the heck is to be done? Thank you Chebrew And to whoever downvoted her - please explain yourself, don't just downvote w/out giving us your input.....

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Did the Government cause the Great Depression? (I did not write this. However, a very, very intelligent person did and I couldn't have said it better.) Most people have been duped into believing the Great Depression was caused by a free market. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was government intervention in the market that set the stage for the Great Depression and made it much worse than it would have been otherwise. Here's a brief list of some of the government intervention and regulation in the economy prior to 1929: The first labor unions, then called federations were active in 1820. National labor union - 1866. American Federation of Labor - 1886. Dept. of Labor, 1913. Dept. of the Interior 1849. Dept. of Agriculture - 1862. Anti-Trust Acts 1902. Dept. of Commerce 1903. Shift from private to state-funded education began in the 1800's. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. Federal Highway Act of 1916. Air Commerce Act of 1926. The Income Tax and Federal Reserve Act- 1913 (the graduated income tax and centralized bank are both planks of The Communist Manifesto). Also had the estate tax act in 1916. Corporate Tax Act of 1909. Zoning laws and regulations, which the Supreme Court ruled constitutional in 1921. And we had federal ownership of land throughout the history of our country. Contrary to what some might say, this constitutes a heavily regulated and unfree market. This is anything BUT unregulated capitalism. The Great Depression was caused by government influence in the economy (http://www.shambhala.org/business/goldocean/causdep.html), not unregulated capitalism. Primarily, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act - which even a liberal like Al Gore admits was a major factor, the increase of the income tax (the top rate went from 25% to 63%), and the manipulation of credit, specifically the shrinking of the money supply, through the government central bank, the Federal Reserve. "And, of course, there was the political regime of Franklin D. Roosevelt. To finance government expenditures to pay for his beloved New Deal welfare programs, Roosevelt and his cohorts began printing massive amounts of government notes. To ensure that gold would not expose what they were doing, legal-tender laws were enacted. But that wasn't the worst of it. The Roosevelt people next canceled — nullified — extinguished — every single gold clause in every single contract, public and private. And even that wasn't the worst of it. Roosevelt and his cronies nationalized — confiscated — the gold coins of the American people and then made it illegal for Americans to own gold. Imagine — after 150 years of the strongest monetary system in history — a system free from government assault — a system that was a bulwark for American liberty — the American people became subject to serving time in a U.S. federal penitentiary for owning a gold coin! What about the Constitution? What about enumerated powers? Unfortunately, Roosevelt had sufficient cronies on the Court to sustain his policies, especially after his infamous and shameful court-packing scheme." http://www.fff.org/freedom/0596a.asp

Could you please find any grammatical errors in this sentence? -------------- FORCE MAJEURE: What is referred to by Force Majeure here is the events that are beyond the power of the PARTIES which directly and materially cause the termination or the delay of the implementation of this Contract, including but not limited to, earthquake, epidemics, fire, floods, chaos, strikes, war, embargo, change in government’s regulations, or the local authorities that direclty influences the implementation of this contract.

Would you violate Federal regulations to keep your job? If you worked for a contracting company that made a side deal with someone that works for the federal government to do a job that is illegal and in violation of the federal governments rules and regulations, would you do it based upon the fact that the contracting company will fire you if you don't?

Government help please??!!?? need to get caught up...[INSIGHT]? I'm not being lazy i got really behind because i got really really sick and i need to get caught up fast so i can pass this semester...please please help??!!! Match the Following A. The lawmaking body of a city B. The power of a city to write its own charter and manage its own affairs C. A __________________ is the largest type of municipality. D. Under the mayor-council plan of government, the voters in some cities elect several ______________________ to serve on the city council. E. Form of direct democracy in which citizens gather together to vote on issues F. A unit of government formed to meet a special need G. A ____________________ is the elected official who is the chief law enforcement officer for a county. H. ____________________ such as running water, fire protection, and good roads are provided by local government. I. A basic plan for a local government unit that defines its powers, responsibilities, and organization J. A unit of local government that is incorporated by the state and has a large degree of self-government K. ____________________ or boroughs are created when rural communities grow and need local government. charter city council villages sheriff home rule counsel members at large municipality town meeting city services special district 2. All local governments are established by and receive their powers from the federal government. A) True B) False 3. Regulations protecting people eating in local restaurants are often required by state law and enforced by local inspectors. A) True B) False 4. Villages or towns under home rule have no organized government. A) True B) False 5. Municipalities are authorized by their state government to own property and make contracts. A) True B) False 6. Once a village becomes a municipality it can collect taxes and provide services to its residents A) True B) False 7. Under a mayor-council system, the lawmaking body is called the A) city council. B) city congress. C) referendum group. D) county seat. 8. Counties serve as court districts and help carry out state laws. They also A) provide jails for municipal districts. B) enforce city ordinances. C) fund private schools. D) conduct elections. 9. A role of city government is not described by which of the following statements? A) The city government exists to provide education to its citizens. B) The city government helps resolve domestic disputes. C) The role of the city government is to determine where it can generate revenue for its citizens. D) The role of the city government is to provide police and fire protection and other types of community services. 10. The role of county government is not described by which of the following statements? A) County government provides services such as health care and police protection. B) County government controls city governments. C) The county government provides services such as welfare and recreation. D) The county government is formed to enforce laws in areas that are not part of a city. 11. State, federal, and local governments cooperate in A) collecting taxes. B) providing education. C) attracting industry. D) setting voting requirements. 12. A charter is A) a condensed version of the state constitution. B) a basic plan that defines the powers, responsibilities, and organization of a local government. C) a document required by each citizen wishing to build a home outside of city limits. D) issued by the federal government to local government officials. 13. Which of the following describes the role of government in towns? A) Allow citizens to share their views B) Hold town elections C) Manage town affairs D) All of the above 14. Which of the following is NOT a role of government in villages? A) Collect taxes B) Carry out laws C) Set up fire departments D) Select a governor

What do you think can you please scrutinze this? Resolved that an unjust government is more desirable than no government. I agree that an unjust government is more desirable than no government. I will offer the following definitions. According to New World Dictionary it defines unjust, "as unfair." Another word to clarify is desirable which is defined, "as worth wanting or being useful.” Government is defined as exercising authority over a state such as a district, organization or an institution. To some, the idea of forcing everyone to accept the same leader is unjust. Since all governments do this, all governments are unjust. My value is order, according to the definition in general, order is a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. Without order you have chaos. With chaos liberty is impossible. For a government to operate effectively there must be order. Order translates to laws or rules of the land and laws are needed to provide liberty. My criteria use is the social contract, which it is a theory that is used to explain the relationships of the people and the government. The idea of social contract is that the citizens agree to be governed by the government and in return the government is obligated to provide order for its citizens. Like for example, the people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the justice system, which they protect us by enforcing laws and order. Contention 1: The social contract theory is important within itself because without this there wouldn’t by any justice. To not have a government in this world today means no order, no schools, no nationality, no public works (water, electricity, etc), no roads, no jobs and perhaps most importantly no way to improve the standard of living here and around the world. No government would not work for long because the social contract exists because the people were tired of no government in the first place, before there was government there was no government. Secondly, an unjust government can be improved, on the other hand in no government there's no room for improvement because if people work together to establish body of laws it would be considered a government. The Government exists not only to serve the needs and wants of the people but most importantly to protect the natural rights of people. The government establishes the laws of the land to bring justice to those who violate the law. This justice would never happen in a land with no government where everyone had to fend for themselves. A government enforces laws and protects rights of people; unlike in anarchy a person’s protection is never guaranteed. Therefore a government that protects your rights, by enforcing laws, is better. Contention 2: No government is a terrible idea and those who believe in no government are misguided and have no idea how the real world works and all of the services that governments provide. Anybody that thinks no government is a good idea needs to take a look at no government it is a lack of any agreed upon laws that help the society function as a whole, bonded by common interest. In no government it breaks society down to where there is no such thing as a crime, because there is no law to define it, or anything to enforce it. If your neighbor happens to like a new car of yours in the driveway, he can take it. Go ahead because there is no one to stop him from taking it, there isn’t anyone to call because there will be no phone service or the police. No government is a bad idea and people who experienced that bad idea established the social contract, that’s why there are governments of every country in the word. This is why the United States was formed as a Constitutional Republic and to preserve individual rights but to maintain a sense of law. In no government there is no funding to pay for schools. Therefore no schooling will be available to people within anarchy, which is bad because education leads to more economic and political success, which is proven in the U.S., China, Japan, France and many other countries.

The Age of European Enlightenment? 1. This English author stressed the importance of government as a contract. His writing deeply influenced Thomas Jefferson. 2. This multi-volumed work was the major instrument spreading Enlightenment ideas. The concept is still used today. 3. Ruler of the Austrian Habsburg lands, this son of Maria Theresa provoked a series of revolts with his reforms. See http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-33358/Austria 4. This German born Empress of Russia partitioned Poland along with Austria and Prussia. Interested in the ideas of the philosophes, she did little actually reforming in Russia. 5. This Scottish economists attacked the traditional mercantalism of his day. He stressed the importance of foreign trade, division of labor, and less government regulation. Full name please.

Ap Us History...HELP? If you know the answers to any of this questions it would help me out a lot. The economic theory of mercantilism would be consistent with which of the following statements? a. Economies will prosper most when trade is restricted as little as possible. b. A government should seek to direct the economy so as to maximize exports. c. Colonies are of little economic importance to the mother country. d. It is vital that a country imports more than it exports. e. Tariff barriers should be avoided as much as possible. The immediate issue in dispute in Bacon’s Rebellion was a. the jailing of individuals or seizure of their property for failure to pay taxes during a time of economic hardship b. the under-representation of the backcountry in Virginia’s legislature c. the refusal of large planters to honor the terms of their contracts with former indentured servants d. the perceived failure of Virginia’s governor to protect the colony’s frontier area from the depredations of raiding Indians e. the colonial governor’s manipulation of tobacco prices for the benefit of himself and small clique of his friends The primary motive of those who founded the British colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century was the a. desire for economic gain b. desire for religious freedom c. desire to create a perfect religious commonwealth as an example to the rest of the world d. desire to recreate in the New World the story of feudalistic society that was fading in the Old e. desire to increase the power and glory of Great Britain The purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas was a. to divide the non-European world between Spain and Portugal b. to specify which parts of North America should be French and which should be Spanish c. to create an alliance of France, Holland, and England against Spanish designs in the New World d. to divide the New World between France and Spain e. to exclude any Portuguese colonization from the Western Hemisphere During the 1760s and 1770s the most effective American tactic in gaining the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts was a. tarring and feathering British tax agents b. sending petitions to the king and Parliament c. boycotting British goods d. destroying private property, such as tea, on which a tax was to be levied e. using death threats to intimidate British tax agents The Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted their settlement to be primarily a. a place where they could get away from persecution b. an example to the rest of the world c. a place where they would have the opportunity to prosper free from government regulation d. a society that practiced complete separation of church and state e. a pluralistic society in which all would be free to practice and teach their beliefs The Molasses Act was intended to enforce England’s mercantilist policies by a. forcing the colonies to export solely to Great Britain b. forcing the colonists to buy sugar from other British colonies rather than from foreign producers c. forbidding the colonists to engage in manufacturing activity in competition with British industries d. provided a favorable market for the products of the British East India company e. creating an economic situation in which gold tended to flow from the colonies to the mother county Congress’s most successful and effective method of financing the War of Independence was a. printing large amounts of paper money b. obtaining grants and loans from France and the Netherlands c. levying heavy direct taxes d. issuing paper securities backed by the promise of western land grants e. appealing to the states for voluntary contributions The Mayflower Compact could best be described as a. a detailed frame of government b. a complete constitution c. a business contract d. a foundation for self-government e. an enumeration of the causes for leaving England and coming to the New World In founding the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn’s primary purpose was to a. provide a refuge for persecuted English Quakers b. provide a refuge for persecuted Christians of all sects from all parts of Europe c. demonstrate the possibility and practicality of establishing truly friendly relations with the Indians d. make a financial profit e. provide a refuge for English debtors All of the following were main principles of the Navigation Acts EXCEPT a. trade in the colonies was limited to only British or colonial merchants b. it prohibited the colonies from issuing their own paper currencies, greatly limiting their trading capabilities c. all foreign goods bound for the colonies had to be shipped through England where they were taxed with British import duties d. the colonists could not build or export goods that directly competed with British export products e. colonial enumerated goods could only be sold in England The reason slavery flourished in the Southern English colonies and not in New England is a. mos

economics help-PLEASE? 1. Why has American been referred to as "the land of opportunity"? (1 point) It provides anyone from any background the possibility of success through hard work. It provides farmers with the ability to farm without levying taxes on the farmland. It provdes jobs for all citizens. It provides paving surfaces made of gold. 2. What is the purpose of free enterprise? (1 point) to allow businesses free rein to give consumers freedom of choice to keep government out of business to influence economic policies 3. In what two ways does the Bill of Rights protect and guarantee individuals' freedom to engage in business activities? (1 point) Recognizes property rights and limits on taxation. Encourages legal equality and provides free contracts. Denies the government the ability to regulate commerce. Provides each industry with a competitive edge. 4. How does information provided by the government influence consumer decisions? (1 point) Consumers prevent companies from selling products revealed to be dangerous. Consumers do not buy products revealed to be dangerous. Consumers use the information to test new products for themselves. Consumers buy produts regardless of government information. 5. What is considered a negative effect of government regulations? (1 point) They cut into company profits. They stifle competition. They cause higher prices for consumers. All of the above.

Long list of questions, i need help! These are the only ones i need help on out of 150 questions.? 1.What policy did the United States employ to help influence and control the governments and economies of Latin American countries in the early 1900's? A. Socialism B.Dollar Diplomacy C.Manifest Destiny D.Utopianism These ones are true and false. 1.During the age of reason people thought that both the physical world and human society were governed by natural laws 2.The social contract theory of government described by john locke influenced the writers of the united states Declaration of Independence. 3. Florence nightingale gained fame as a nurse caring for wounded soldiers during the franco-prussian war. 4.many people left ireland in the years 1845-1851 because of a famine caused by the failure of the potato crop. 5.during the industrial Revolution, power-driven machines increasingly took the place of skilled laborers using hang tools. 6.people who believed in laissez-faire capitalism supported government regulation of business. 7.romanticism and nationalism had almost no influence on the art, music and literature of the 19th century. 8. the agrarian revolution took place before the industrial revolution. 9.before the industrial revolution workers worked in large factories where groups of workers did different tasks. 10.in britain, unions eventually convinced the government to improve conditions in factories. 11.by the early 20th century the labor union movenment had died out. 12. one of the most important results of the industrial revoluton is global economy that exists today.

Are my Economic questions correct? Answers at bottom.? 1.Which of the following is likely to have the most monopoly power? Ford Motor Corporation your local water company Mobil Oil Corporation Avon products (cosmetics) a fast food restaurant 2. To maximize profits, a competitive firm produces the output level at which its total receipts are greatest its total costs are minimum its marginal cost equals its marginal revenue its total costs equal its total receipts none of the above 3. The most common forms of nonprice competition are profit maximization and loss minimization monopolization and output restriction advertising and changes in product quality and design inflation and unemployment none of the above 4. A perfectly competitive firm’s supply curve is its demand curve marginal revenue curve total revenue curve marginal cost curve total cost curve 5. With a natural monopoly, the long-run average cost curve of the firm declines over the range of production government regulation ensures that consumer’s interests will be served government regulation will fail there are no significant economies of scale in producing the good none of the above 6. General Motors more closely resembles a monopoly than does your local electric company. True False 7. If its marginal revenue is less than its marginal cost, a firm should reduce its output product. True False 8. Monopoly power in the U.S. does not pose a significant economic problem. True False 9. Without barriers to entry, a high-profit monopoly is unlikely to be able to maintain its monopoly status. True False 10. With natural monopolies, consumers may be better off with a monopoly than competition. True False 11. Which of the following is NOT necessary for a successful cartel? Members must produce most of the industry’s output produce a homogeneous output produce heterogeneous outputs be able to divide the market have a way to prevent cheating 12. A monopsony is a market with only one buyer employer product all of the above a) and b) 13. Which of the following releases professional athletes from some of the monopsony powers of the sports leagues? player drafts long-term contracts free agency expanded playing seasons minimum wage laws 14. The average baseball player earns a salary greater than the average college professor because baseball players contribute more to society’s general well-being college professors contribute less to their employer’s revenues than baseball players colleges are better able to enforce their monopsonistic market positions the market for baseball players is more competitive colleges are owned by the state 15. A professional sports league can maximize the revenue it generates from selling broadcast rights by playing enough games such that demand equals supply total revenue equals total costs marginal revenue equals marginal costs marginal revenue equals total costs total revenue equals marginal costs 16. Tickets and broadcast rights to baseball games are bought and sold in the product market. True False 17. A cartel is a “shared monopoly.” True False 18. Unlike other workers, it is difficult to measure the productivity of a professional athlete. True False 19. A recently drafted player will most likely command a higher salary than a free agent. True False 20. The reserve clause helped to raise the salaries of professional baseball players. True False 1 is two 2 is four 3 is one 4 is four 5 is one 6 is false 7 is true 8 is true 9 is false 10 is true 11 i s econd 12 is first 13 is second 14 is second 15 is third 16 is false ? ? ? ?

Are my Economic Answers correct? Their are 20 - Sorry!? Are my Economic questions correct? Answers at bottom.? 1.Which of the following is likely to have the most monopoly power? Ford Motor Corporation your local water company Mobil Oil Corporation Avon products (cosmetics) a fast food restaurant 2. To maximize profits, a competitive firm produces the output level at which its total receipts are greatest its total costs are minimum its marginal cost equals its marginal revenue its total costs equal its total receipts none of the above 3. The most common forms of nonprice competition are profit maximization and loss minimization monopolization and output restriction advertising and changes in product quality and design inflation and unemployment none of the above 4. A perfectly competitive firm’s supply curve is its demand curve marginal revenue curve total revenue curve marginal cost curve total cost curve 5. With a natural monopoly, the long-run average cost curve of the firm declines over the range of production government regulation ensures that consumer’s interests will be served government regulation will fail there are no significant economies of scale in producing the good none of the above 6. General Motors more closely resembles a monopoly than does your local electric company. True False 7. If its marginal revenue is less than its marginal cost, a firm should reduce its output product. True False 8. Monopoly power in the U.S. does not pose a significant economic problem. True False 9. Without barriers to entry, a high-profit monopoly is unlikely to be able to maintain its monopoly status. True False 10. With natural monopolies, consumers may be better off with a monopoly than competition. True False 11. Which of the following is NOT necessary for a successful cartel? Members must produce most of the industry’s output produce a homogeneous output produce heterogeneous outputs be able to divide the market have a way to prevent cheating 12. A monopsony is a market with only one buyer employer product all of the above a) and b) 13. Which of the following releases professional athletes from some of the monopsony powers of the sports leagues? player drafts long-term contracts free agency expanded playing seasons minimum wage laws 14. The average baseball player earns a salary greater than the average college professor because baseball players contribute more to society’s general well-being college professors contribute less to their employer’s revenues than baseball players colleges are better able to enforce their monopsonistic market positions the market for baseball players is more competitive colleges are owned by the state 15. A professional sports league can maximize the revenue it generates from selling broadcast rights by playing enough games such that demand equals supply total revenue equals total costs marginal revenue equals marginal costs marginal revenue equals total costs total revenue equals marginal costs 16. Tickets and broadcast rights to baseball games are bought and sold in the product market. True False 17. A cartel is a “shared monopoly.” True False 18. Unlike other workers, it is difficult to measure the productivity of a professional athlete. True False 19. A recently drafted player will most likely command a higher salary than a free agent. True False 20. The reserve clause helped to raise the salaries of professional baseball players. True False 1 is two 2 is four 3 is one 4 is four 5 is one 6 is false 7 is true 8 is true 9 is false 10 is true 11 i s econd 12 is first 13 is second 14 is second 15 is third 16 is false ? ? ? ?

How should true patriots reclaim the media from Republican/Fascist interests? http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=fascism+in+america&btnG=Search ) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. September 11 Freedom Walk New Majority Leader: Iraq War “May Be The Greatest Gift That We Give” Our Grandchildren Headstones of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with the Pentagons war-marketing slogans White House and the RNC are going to make a habit of using uniformed military personnel as props at Republican political rallies, despite the fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning politicization of the armed forces. "You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die." The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon More... 2.) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights: Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. Bush threatens to veto $442b defense bill if Congress investigates detainee abuses. Guantanamo Judge: “I don’t care about international law. I don’t want to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned with international law.” Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the administration's policy of imprisoning without the protections of the Geneva Conventions and enable the Pentagon to legally hold "ghost detainees," US 'preparing to detain terror suspects for life without trial' U.S. oks evidence gained through torture July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. US has at least 9000 prisoners in secret detention More... 3.) Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause: The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc. Congressman: Muslims 'enemy amongst us' SB 24, Ohio law to muzzle "liberals" World history textbook used by seventh-graders at Scottsdale’s Mohave Middle School was pulled from classrooms mid-semester amid growing right criticism of the book’s unbiased portrayal of Islam Rallies planned against 'Islamofacism': Event to 'unify all Americans behind common goal' More... 4.) Supremacy of the Military: Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. If you haven't seen the Oreo flash animation yet, see it here Bush’s Domestic Program Hit List Bush slashes domestic programs, boosts defense. Arlen Spector calls it "scandalous" Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House Pentagon to spend 75 billion for three new brigades Three cable channels now feed news, information and entertainment about the armed services into millions of living rooms 24 hours a day, seven days a week: The Military Channel, the Military History Channel and the Pentagon Channel. More... 5.) Rampant Sexism: The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy. It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages Bush refuses to sign U.N proposal on women's "sexual" rights W. David Hager chairman of the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee does not prescribe contraceptives for single women, does not do abortions, will not prescribe RU-486 and will not insert IUDs. The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S. group part of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political participation and democracy. More... 6.) Controlled Mass Media: Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media Free Press details recent governmental propaganda efforts, from faux-correspondent Jeff Gannon to paid-off pundit Armstrong Williams, and from the demise of FOIA to video news releases passed off as news. also... See a Whitehouse fake news release here (opens realplayer) US seizes webservers from independent media sites Bush's war on information: US editors forbidden to publish certain foreign writers More... 7.) Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses Bush Aides ADMIT 'stoking fear' for political gain: Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race. The strategy is aimed at stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry's ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush's image as the steady anti-terrorism candidate, aides said. The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level. Keith Olbermann: "The Nexus of Politics and Terror." Cheney warns that if Kerry is elected, the USA will suffer a "devastating attack" GOP convention in a nutshell (quicktime) Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue in 2006 More... 8.) Religion and Government are Intertwined: Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. Jerry Falwell cleared of charges that he broke federal election law by urging followers to vote for Bush NC congressman proposes law making it ok to preach politics from the pulpit Texas Governor Mobilizes Evangelicals Family research council: Justice Sunday Thou shalt be like Bush: What makes this recently established, right-wing Christian college unique are the increasingly close - critics say alarmingly close - links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican establishment. Park Service Continues to Push Creationist Theory at Grand Canyon and other nat'l parks More... 9.) Corporate Power is Protected: The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. The K Street Project is a project by the Republican party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay. American Conservative Magazine: One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a duffel bag... and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning days of the CPA and told to spend it “before the Iraqis take over.” There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in Iraq Bush money network rooted in Florida, Texas: Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts to the President's elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and lobbying clients More... 10.) Labor Power is Suppressed: Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically President Bush Attacks Organized Labor: Bush attacked organized labor Saturday, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can spend for political activities and opening up government contracts to non-union bidding. March 2001: President Bush signed his name to four executive orders on organized labor last month, including one that cuts the money unions will have for political campaign spending. Congress and the Department of Labor are trying to change the rules on overtime pay, eliminating the 40 hour work week, taking eligibility for overtime pay away from millions of workers, and replacing time and a half pay with comp days. More... 11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds. A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications More... 12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'" America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole. The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits. More... 13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. Bush Cronyism: Foxes Guarding the henhouse Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal If Bush's pick is confirmed, that will mean the five top appointees at Justice have zero prosecutorial experience among them. Iran-Contra Felons Get Good Jobs from Bush Big Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Went To Big Donors Bush Wars -- Crooks Get Contracts : The main companies that were awarded billions of dollars worth of contracts in Iraq have paid more than $300 million in fines since 2000, to resolve allegations of fraud, bid rigging, delivery of faulty military equipment, and environmental damage. US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) lost track of $9 billion "Contracting in the aftermath of the hurricanes has been marked by waste, corruption and cronyism" More... 14. Fraudulent Elections: Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. Rolling Stone does some investigative and rather exhaustive digging into public documents and says we’re almost guaranteed the 2004 election results were massively rigged Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings Conyers hearing in which Clinton Curtis testifies that he was hired to create hackable voting machines (.wmv) The Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire. The Conyers Report (.pdf) No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in Hocking County Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international observers. This picture is what stopped the ballot recounts in Florida shortly after it seemed that legitimate President Gore had a lead. The "citizens" started what was later called "the preppy riot". Screaming, yelling, pounding on the walls, these "outraged citizens" intimidated the polling officials to halt the court mandated recount. A closer look reveals who they really were. They were bussed and flown in at Republican lawmakers expense. Some even flew in on Tom Delay's private plane. More... If Mussolini defines fascism as "the merger of corporate and government power" what does that make the K Street project? Related Articles: "Now and Then"- Part 1 A 3 part series by W David Jenkins III on the similarities between America now and Germany post Reichstag fire Click here to purchase this image on POAC merchandise "Now and Then"- Part II: The Propaganda Machine Now and Then- Part III Hitler's Playbook: Bush and the Abuse of Power It may sound crazy to some, but the style of governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as fascism. Is America Becoming Fascist? Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt The Danger of American Fascism: With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. Sheila Samples: Freedom To Fascism -- A Bumpy Ride: Republicans don't seem to realize that they are no longer individual members of a coherent "party," but are merely part of a mean-spirited and dangerous movement that is threatening to sweep away democracy as we know it. Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism The Brownshirting of America: Bush’s supporters demand lock-step consensus that Bush is right. They regard truthful reports that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the September 11 attack on the US – truths now firmly established by the Bush administration’s own reports – as treasonous America-bashing. Fascism then. Fascism now? When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare. What is Fascism? Some General Ideological Features Hello. You are now living in a fascist empire Neo-fascism in America : Too many people believe fascism is only about goose-stepping, jack-booted Nazis. Too many people believe that American democracy is so strong that fascists could never take control of America. If you are sympathetic to those views, I invite you to consider the possibility that you are mistaken. It is in times of fascism rising that armies of ignorance are once more resuscitated from the bowels of a society bordering on the edge of mass psychosis. The America at the dawn of the twenty-first century is no exception... Republican Party Brown Shirts: "The Wide-Awakes": The organization was known for virulent anti-Catholicism, secretive rituals, and a military-style organization complete with "officers" and units. Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State They Saw It Coming: The 19th-Century Libertarian Critique of Fascism Victims of Creeping Fascism: We are witnessing nothing less astonishing than the demise of the American experiment. 12-20 The ten phases of a Bush scandal. 12-22

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a lil help please...?!?!? 1. what factor has the greatest influence on elasticity and inelasticity of supply? a. profit b. labor c. time d. financing 2. which of the following is an example of the way in which the use of technology can lower the cost of producing an item? a. the importing of fresh vegetables from South America rather than using canned vegetables b. the making of breads and pasteries in local shops rather than large bakeries c. the use of e-mail to replace slower surface mail d. the delivery costs of gasoline to the consumer by diesel trucks 3. what happens when wages are set above the equilibrium level by law? a. firms tend to try to break the law and hire people at the equilibrium level b. firms employ MORE workers than they would at the equilibrium wage c. firms employ FEWER workers than they would at the equilibrium wage d. firms hire more workers but fewer hours than they would at the equilibrium wage 4. why did communist government use a command economic system for many years? a. as a way to avoid the expense and difficulties of a free market b. as a method of keeping consumers from getting what they wanted c. to limit the costs of production of many goods d. in an attempt to creat a society in which everyone was equal 5. how does a company arrange to sell its products to people who are unwilling to pay for the top price for them? a. by allowing rebates to some perferred customers who buy a lot of goods b. by charging each customer the maximum amount they are willing to pay c. by charging different prices according to the group to which the buyer belongs d. by changing the product and selling a lesser one to the people who are unwilling to pay for the top product 6. when the government deregulates a product or service, what happens to it? a. the product or service is available to more people b. the product or service becomes cheaper c. some government regulations over the industry are eleminated d. government control over the industry is stopped 7. why does the goverment sometimes give monoply power to a company by issuing a patent? a. the government does not want competition for the product b. the company makes a product better than anyone else's c. the company pays the government for the patent d. the company can then profit from their research without competition 8. what percentage of businesses are sole proprietorship? a. 25% b 40% c. 60% d. 75% 9. which of the following represents the percentage of all U.S businesses that are corporations, and the percentage of all goods that those corporations sell? a. 10% of businesses 50% of goods sold b. 20% of businesses 90% of goods sold c. 50% of businesses 75% of goods sold d. 20% of businesses 50% of goods sold 10. what is a fringe benefit? a. a cash payment for casual work b. a business other than sales or marketing c. a payment other than wages or saleries. d. an accounting term meaning profits 11. which of the following is a business organization owned by a group of people for their mutual benefit? a. a coorperative b. a lavor union c. a limited liability partnership d. a professional organization 12. what are royalties? a. fees paid to celebrities for using their names b. fees paid to law firms and accountants c. a percentage of profits paid to the government d. a percentage of earnings paid for a franchise 13. what is collective bargaining? a. union and company representatives meeting to negotiate a new labor contract b. an organization of workers representing several different occupations c. an agreement to allow everyone to be part of the labor negotiating process d. a situation in which the righs of labor have been set aside 14. how are wages for a particular job determined? a. by advertisments in the news paper or on line b. by the equilibrium between the supply and demand for workers for that job c. by the amount of inflation in the economy d. by the federal wage and hour department 15. when did labor unions begin to gain some legal rights in the United States? a. 1900's b. 1920's c. 1930's d. 1950's

Why would purdue not allow Dr. David Kanecki on the High Content Screening list with this resume? DR. DAVID KANECKI > P.O. Box 866  Kenosha, WI 53141  262.327-2605  da...@kanecki.com > EXECUTIVE PROFILE > CEO  COO > Dynamic and accomplished leader with a track history of exceptional > success in the medical, software, and emergency management arenas. > Outstanding business communications strategist with expertise in > negotiating and developing profitable partnerships / coalitions and > securing new business funding / R&D financing from private and federal > investors worldwide. Visionary organizational leader, adept at > change / operations / project management, product and business > development, and manufacturing oversight. World-class professional > with extensive experience collaborating with government, regulatory, > medical, and multi-national organizations. > Selected Highlights > * Negotiated multi-million-dollar discount contracts with various > biomedical companies. > * Broke 24-year standoff by achieving coalition with Russia Emergency > Management in 1995 as Chairman of Emergency Management and Planning. > [Society for Computer Simulation] > * Successfully managed a $2M per year project to rebuild and recertify > FACS (Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter) Laboratory. [Milwaukee > Medical Research Park] > * Forged a long-term software joint venture with a European Union > Medical Company (similar to GE Medical) worth a projected $121M. > [Nucletron] > * Negotiated a pending software Joint Venture with a US company worth > a potential of $41M over 18 years. [Kanecki Associates, Inc.] > * Secured $8M in long-term research contracts within one year. > [Milwaukee Medical Research Park] > * Produced a software portfolio worth $281M (2006) with first five > being marketed.-- [Kanecki Associates] > * Generated multi-millions in funding for organization by applying > improved practices, and enhanced quality, and results orientation. > [Society for Computer Simulation] > * Drove a potential $162M in joint venture sales with a five-member > team. [Kanecki Associates, Inc.] > Areas of Expertise > Medical Research Human Relations Marketing > Accounting / Finance Operations Management Organizational Behavior > Business Communications Business Legal Operations Statistics / > Research Methods > PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY > KANECKI ASSOCIATES, INC. > Provider and developer of security, medical, and government products > and services (primarily software) > President 1993 to Present > * Drove a potential $162M in joint venture sales with a five-member > team > * Effectively liaised with both domestic and European Union companies > to cooperate on joint ventures. > * Steered communications with FDA and EU to gain approval of medical > analysis product. > * Developed, managed, and delivered multiple products and services to > develop new business opportunities. > SOCIETY FOR COMPUTER SIMULATION | SIMULATION COUNCIL, INC. > Provider of professional and consulting services to multinational > government and military organizations and agencies, including FEMA, > DOD, Navy, Air Force, and Army > Chairman | AVP of Emergency Management 1992 to 1999 > * Broke 24-year standoff by achieving coalition with Russia Emergency > Management in 1995. > * Devised and implemented multinational cooperative activities to > share and implement new ideas and strategies; result: improved > operations and practices for the United States, European Emergency > Management, and others from the EU, Russia, South Korea, Japan, > Canada, United State, Finland, and China. > * Initiated and developed liaison with the President G.H.W. Bush and > President Clinton Administrations regarding Natural Emergency > Management and Non Natural Emergency Management (including terrorism > and Presidential Directive 63). > * Improved the operations of Emergency Management and Planning. How > did you do it? > MILWAUKEE MEDICAL RESEARCH PARK > Provider of medical services and research with focus on patient > application products > Researcher 1989 to 1993 > * Negotiated multi-million-dollar discount contracts with various > biomedical companies. > * Successfully managed a $2M / year project to rebuild and recertified > FACS (Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter) Laboratory. > * Secured $8M in long-term research contracts within one year. > * Effectively created coalitions with Executive Board to develop and > formulate strategies to create optimal laboratory conditions. > * Provided military medical laboratory support during Operations > "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm," > * Directed project that created a 10-mile WAN link between two > research sites to facilitate communication of research information. > EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT > Hon.PhD Intelligent Thinking Systems > BS, Applied Computer Science  University of Wisconsin, Parkside > BS, Biological Science (Pre-Med)  University of Wisconsin > Certificate, Flow Cytometry  Becton Dickinson > Certificate, Cellular Biology and Immunology / National Flow Cytometry > Resource  Los Alamos National Laboratory > MBA, Masters of Business Administration  University of Phoenix > Not on the PURDUE CYTOMETRY MAIL LIST > APPLIED FOR THE PURDUE CYTOMETRY HIGH CONTENT SCREENING > BUY NO REPLY AT ALL. > HMMMM > MISTER? > YACH YORSCH? > ZWIE TACH PRAVDA? > HNEITZ SCAMMERS! > Purdue Cytometry Mail List Rules and Regulations did they BREAK > the ... > Using Purdue University mailing lists for organized political > activity ... DOES IT SAY TO NOTIFY CORPORATIONS THAT THEIR EMAIL IS > JUNK MAIL FOR. NO REASON? ...

for those of you who think Obama has accomplish nothing? Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend. -After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. -His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. -Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years. -Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations. -As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. -He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. -Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting. - In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began. -Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices. -Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military. -Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services. -Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts. -Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the "gold standard" for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists' bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law. I really could list many, many more but I fear it would be too much to take in at one time. I hope this helps some of you know him a little better. Everyone seems to be jumping on his "Change" bandwagon. However, he does have the record to back it up. haha..i know jonathan..just spreading the message..u know

Politics Made Simple maybe to long for some sorrryyyyyyyyyy !? Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk. Bureaucratic Socialism: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you should need. Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Pure Communism: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation. Russian Communism: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market. Perestroika: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market. Cambodian Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Dictatorship: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. Pure Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. Representative Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. Bureaucracy: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. Capitalism: You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral. Pure Anarchy: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. Anarchy-Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. Olympics-ism: You have two cows, one American, one Chinese. With the help of trilling violins and state of the art montage photography, John Tesh narrates the moving tale of how the American cow overcame the agony of growing up in a suburb with (gasp) divorced parents, then mentions in passing that the Chinese cow was beaten every day by a tyrannical farmer and watched its parents butchered before its eyes. The American cow wins the competition, severely spraining an udder in a gritty performance, and gets a multi-million dollar contract to endorse Wheaties. The Chinese cow is led out of the arena and shot by Chinese government officials, though no one ever hears about it. McDonald's buys the meat and serves it hot and fast at its Beijing restaurant.

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Is this legitimate???????????? I am applying a job through online. The job is in the Hotel of OMNIMONT-ROYAL HOTEL in Montreal Québec Canada. We have met all the requirements they ask to me like the agreements etc. In the agreements it say here: 1. That I abide with hotel rules, regulations, and instructions as given or stated by the hotel management. 2. That I must to work exclusively of 6 years contract and after a period if willingly, I can be independent or self established. 3. I have my two months leave with allowances being allocated for me by the hotel management. 4. The hotel will shouldered and deducting 5% of my monthly salary so as to pay off hotel expanses incur on me such as accommodation, flight ticket, residential and working permit processing fees and visa fees, until the payment is balanced off. 5. That apart from onward hotel management provision such as my accommodation fees, ticket fare, residential and working permit processing fees and visa fee are being taking care by the hotel management, That I agreed to meet up with or attend to my other expenses that I may incur during my documents of my visa processing through Immigrations Bureau of Ottawa, Canada like APPROVAL LETTER FROM ASIA/AFRICA REPRESENTATIVE,IN ORDER TO HONOR MY CLEARACE COMING FROM THIS REPRESENTATIVE AND MY MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Sir, In the above agreement I already met it up except for the last agreement that I never did. Accordingly the Immigration Bureau of Ottawa, Canada will ask me to forward the CLEARANCE LETTER FROM ASIAN /AFRICAN REPRESENTATIVE COORDINATOR. Then before I get my clearance I must to pay the fee $450 to the person DR. MAXWELL PHILLIP a personnel representative to SERREKUNDA THE GAMBIA. After I pay $450 he will give me the CLEARACNE as needed to Immigration Bureau. When my Visa permit and other legal documents accordingly they are going to send or deliver it address to PHILIPPINES CANADIAN EMBASSY . Sir, I want to ask that APPROVAL LETTER FROM ASIA/AFRICA REPRESENTATIVE,IN ORDER TO HONOR MY CLEARACE COMING FROM THIS REPRESENTATIVE is legitimate? Is the Company is registered with our PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT ADMINISTRATION (POEA). Said agency was established to protect OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS (OFW) as well as applicants for foreign employment from scrupulous employers. Is calvin charlton <ca_ottawaimmigrations@yahoo.ca> , ca_lawyers@yahoo.ca, coordi_ca@yahoo.ca, are authorize email add that legitimate to work in your embassy or other established government to process and meet all requirements personnel? This information below is sent from calvin charlton <ca_ottawaimmigrations@yahoo.ca> and one to meet up my requirements. CANADA IMMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/san_francisco/images/331802_mmr.jpg DEAR APPLICANT, WE ARE NOW SET TO SERVE TO YOUR MAXIMUM SATISFACTION, WE HAVE SEEN THE HOTEL FORM AND INFORMATIONS BEEN SENT TO YOU ALL FROM THE HOTEL CANADA FOR YOUR SIX YEARS WORKING VISA. YOU ARE NOW REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS FOR YOUR WORKING VISA APPROVAL [A] CERTIFICATE OF VISA GUARANTEE FROM ASIA/AFRICA COORDINATORS OFFICE . http://images.google.gm/images?q=tbn:_COb0qvYr-IJ:www.panix.com/%7Egokce/canimmig/lgo_cir0.gifhttp://images.google.gm/images?q=tbn:dq57Djge7zEJ:www.immigration-canadausa.com/commun/logo.gifhttp://images.google.gm/images?q=tbn:_COb0qvYr-IJ:www.panix.com/%7Egokce/canimmig/lgo_cir0.gif [B] YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATES OR COUNTRY I.D CARD OR SCHOOL I.D CARD OR BUSSINESS I .D CARD. 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Hillary Clinton Unveils Food Safety Plan? Hillary Clinton Unveils Food Safety Plan Following the largest beef recall in our nation’s history, Hillary Clinton highlighted a series of food safety proposals she would pursue as President. This recall is not an isolated case – it is yet another troubling reminder that our food supply is at risk. Each year, tens of millions of Americans contract food-borne illnesses every year; hundreds of thousands are hospitalized; and thousands die. And the risks are only growing. Last year alone, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversaw 21 recalls related to E. coli in meat, compared with just eight in 2006. One of those recalls involved more than 20 million pounds of ground beef that caused nearly 100 illnesses in the United States and Canada. In addition, yesterday’s recall by Hallmark/Westland is the second-largest supplier to the U.S. School Lunch program and a substantial supplier to other federal food and nutrition initiatives. Hillary believes that American families should not have to worry about the safety of food on their dinner tables or in their children’s school lunches. That is why she has proposed common-sense – and long-overdue – food safety reforms, building on her work in the Senate. As President, she will: Immediately conduct a thorough audit of our nation’s food safety systems to locate weaknesses and gaps. The current recall raises a number of questions, including how USDA failed to detect violations at the Hallmark/Westland plant and what steps USDA will take to ensure that all of the meat is removed from grocery stores and school cafeterias. Hillary will seek a report with recommendations on immediate and long-term reforms. Increase USDA food safety funding by more than 50% so that our inspectors have the resources and staffing they need to do their jobs. USDA conceded that the cattle involved in this recall “did not receive complete and proper inspection.” This year, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will have a budget of $930 million. Much of that money goes to fund 7,800 inspectors responsible for inspecting 6,200 slaughterhouses and food processors across the nation. Hillary will move over time to increase that budget to $1.5 billion and to bolster the inspection force. Move toward a single Food Safety Administration responsible for all food products, with strong authorities to protect consumers. Hillary will work to centralize our nation’s food safety efforts in one agency, so that multiple bodies are not policing imports and setting separate standards. Right now, 15 agencies administer more than 30 laws related to food safety. The result is overlap, gaps, and waste. At times, our system is downright bizarre. For example, a ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA. But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Hillary believes that the current regulatory system is broken and that we can only meet the challenges we face through a single agency that uses a uniform system of tracing and inspection to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality from food’s origin to it consumption. Give our safety agencies mandatory recall authority and direct them to create a national tracing system so we can determine the origin of tainted food. Hillary will authorize the FDA and USDA to mandate recalls of tainted products. Right now, the FDA and USDA lack mandatory recall authority. And the Government Accountability Office has found that current food recall systems have additional severe flaws: (1) FDA and USDA are often unaware of how promptly and completely companies carry out recalls; (2) FDA and USDA do not promptly confirm that recalls have made it all the way down the distribution chain; and (3) public notification procedures are often ineffective. Hillary will direct the new food safety agency to address these shortcomings. She will also direct the new food safety agency to establish an integrated national traceback system to help regulators trace food products and ingredients from their point of sale back to their origin. At present, there are gaps in our ability to determine the source of unsafe food and animal feed, which hinders efforts to control outbreaks and curb them before they spread. We must ensure that we have adequate tracking and monitoring mechanisms in place to ensure the health of our livestock, our farmers and our consumers nationwide. Find, prosecute, and punish food production facilities that abuse animals and allow unsafe food to enter our food supply. Hillary will strengthen safety rules and increase civil and criminal penalties for violations of federal food safety regulations. She will direct federal prosecutors to aggressively crack down on offending companies. And she will also make it illegal for companies to violate recall requirements, and impose severe civil and criminal penalties for violations. Ban the slaughter of downed animals. Part of ensuring that we have a safe food supply is making sure sick and injured animals are humanely euthanized, not slaughtered and put into the food supply. Twelve of the 15 cases of mad cow disease in North America were linked to downed animals. Downed animals are also three times more likely to carry E. coli, and according to one analysis presented at the American Meat Institute conference, 14% of downed cows carried salmonella. After the mad cow disease scare in 2003, the USDA put in place a temporary ban of the slaughter of downer animals, but a 2006 investigation by the USDA Inspector General revealed that the ban has not been well enforced and that more than two dozen downed animals were allowed into the food supply over a nine-month period. Americans need to have confidence in our meat suppliers, and the current temporary ban must be made permanent. As President, Hillary will impose and strictly enforce a permanent ban on the inhumane practice of slaughtering downed animals and putting them in the food supply. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=6055

Does anyone even know what Secede means? I can't believe this word is actually being taken seriously within the United States. Do people really think something like this could happen just because they are no longer getting their way? Look - if any CITIZEN really thinks their state can simply secede from the USA they need to wake up. Let's start a list of what they would lose. All federal funding would cease. This means no more payments from Uncle Sam for highways, education systems, lands etc. The US Mail system would no longer be able to operate in your little country. All Post Offices would close and you would have to figure out how to deliver your mail. Any incoming mail would be subject to foreign delivery charges and you would have to figure out how any mail leaving your little country will be handled as you are now out of the USPS system. Any company that is registered within your state would have to decide if they want to continue to do business as an United States corporation. Realistically, they would all leave your state. Otherwise, they are subject to customs, tariffs, and every other loop that any foreign company who wishes to do business within the US has to jump through. Any airline with headquarters in your state would have to leave unless they want to be considered a foreign carrier, and thus follow the restriction imposed by the FAA regarding this issue. Any and all military bases would be subject to closing as it is now considered non-US soil. Any protection of your lands by the US Military would be subject to treaties. All your banks would have to decide if they want to be a foreign bank or a US one. Foreign banks will be subject to regulation just like all the other countries. You lose things like the FAA, NASA, FTC, CDC, even your National Guard loses it's Federal Funding. Any company within your boundaries would be considered a foreign business and all contracts with any of these, including all Government and Military contracts, would be subject to review and possibly cancelled. What are you going to use for currency? As you decided to leave the United States then you would have to create your own currency and the value against the US dollar or Euro would be decided on the world market depending on your status and income level. As every corporation will leave your new little country then your new currency would have no financial backing. All incoming materials would be considered foreign sales, all outgoing shipping from your new little country would be subject to the same restrictions that Canada and Mexico receives. Do you collect social security or plan on collecting it? As you are now no longer American citizens this may be affected. Even simple things like your police force receives federal funding. This would all end. Your colleges too. Medical facilities? Yep. Insurance companies may not cover you as you are now going to a hospital in a foreign land. That is, if you have any hospitals left open. Be realistic - your highways will shut down, all corporations will leave, you will have no banking system in place. You will turn into a third world country overnight.

Can you handle it? i have listened without opinion and please excuse me any time my information is inaccurate but sometimes I am in awe of the lunacy that surrounds me. Most just explain that this is "Just the way it is" regarding the political structure in America. I listen to senators and governors and other persons in power who feel prostitution rings are politically correct for their amusement.These actions it shows basic hypocrisy for the system the Americans have spent years legally organizing. Rules and regulations and ethical codes of conduct are cast aside in lieu of personal social needs. Are these persons sworn into office under oath to uphold the regulation set by the people? Does a breach of contract apply to these persons? As you know the political chaos and ethics of our government can not be tolerated any longer. We must use great logic to change the politicial structure in America. I myself feel great shame when I enter the subway and see child waiting for a shelter to open for comfort Really has an attitude that I can't be sure of ..You need to disclose and bring it to the surface.. open the door of shame...Lets vote responsibly....

Does anyone even know what Secede means? I can't believe this word is actually being taken seriously within the United States. Do people really think something like this could happen just because they are no longer getting their way? Look - if any CITIZEN really thinks their state can simply secede from the USA they need to wake up. Let's start a list of what they would lose. All federal funding would cease. This means no more payments from Uncle Sam for highways, education systems, lands etc. The US Mail system would no longer be able to operate in your little country. All Post Offices would close and you would have to figure out how to deliver your mail. Any incoming mail would be subject to foreign delivery charges and you would have to figure out how any mail leaving your little country will be handled as you are now out of the USPS system. Any company that is registered within your state would have to decide if they want to continue to do business as an United States corporation. Realistically, they would all leave your state. Otherwise, they are subject to customs, tariffs, and every other loop that any foreign company who wishes to do business within the US has to jump through. Any airline with headquarters in your state would have to leave unless they want to be considered a foreign carrier, and thus follow the restriction imposed by the FAA regarding this issue. Any and all military bases would be subject to closing as it is now considered non-US soil. Any protection of your lands by the US Military would be subject to treaties. All your banks would have to decide if they want to be a foreign bank or a US one. Foreign banks will be subject to regulation just like all the other countries. You lose things like the FAA, NASA, FTC, CDC, even your National Guard loses it's Federal Funding. Any company within your boundaries would be considered a foreign business and all contracts with any of these, including all Government and Military contracts, would be subject to review and possibly cancelled. What are you going to use for currency? As you decided to leave the United States then you would have to create your own currency and the value against the US dollar or Euro would be decided on the world market depending on your status and income level. As every corporation will leave your new little country then your new currency would have no financial backing. All incoming materials would be considered foreign sales, all outgoing shipping from your new little country would be subject to the same restrictions that Canada and Mexico receives. Do you collect social security or plan on collecting it? As you are now no longer American citizens this may be affected. Even simple things like your police force receives federal funding. This would all end. Your colleges too. Medical facilities? Yep. Insurance companies may not cover you as you are now going to a hospital in a foreign land. That is, if you have any hospitals left open. Be realistic - your highways will shut down, all corporations will leave, you will have no banking system in place. You will turn into a third world country overnight.

Why do Democrats and Republicans ignore strengthening employee rights? All they talk about is strengthening the economy without going into specifics. Making money is not easy but most protections are just an illusion. The At-Will Employment Doctrine has striped all legal protections of ordinary US citizens and yet the only ones not scared are Republican Ron Paul with Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will , http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa092402.htm http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa092402_2.htm ALSO The US Constitutional amendments hardly apply to the US Private Sector and that is why many wealthy people want to privatize the US Public Sector, moreover, the regulations in the Private Sector are more lax thus is why the White House wants private and NOT the US Government Printing Office or GPO for contracts. All points-of-view are encouraged! I wrote about the US GPO as an example how the US Private Sector has laxed rules except when making money. The US Public Sector has more safe guard to ensure VERIFIABLE documentation and facts. The only ones not scared to talk about The At-Will Employment Doctrine are Republican Ron Paul with Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Ron Paul is the only that might be be for it since he is a former Libertarian A Libertarian http://www.friesian.com/ross/ca40/ Who he is and where he came from http://www.friesian.com/ross/ "Many US citizens ignore that US Civil Liberties and US Civil Rights HAVE been weakened by legislation undermining the Supreme Law of the Land, the US Constitution, with the fact that few US Amendments hardly apply to the US Private Sector" RL Pritchard, Los Angeles Valley College http://www.lavc.edu/ I have a stalker: RTO Trainer http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=Ag.OvMGFTmrsZgQU5Y719snX7BR.;_ylv=3?show=fe57457146ff1608077b527bfec6f2dcaa We are both veterans and disagree on some issues.

hey i had asked for help earlier?? but for some reason it didnt post my questions can someone help? 1. what factor has the greatest influence on elasticity and inelasticity of supply? a. profit b. labor c. time d. financing 2. which of the following is an example of the way in which the use of technology can lower the cost of producing an item? a. the importing of fresh vegetables from South America rather than using canned vegetables b. the making of breads and pasteries in local shops rather than large bakeries c. the use of e-mail to replace slower surface mail d. the delivery costs of gasoline to the consumer by diesel trucks 3. what happens when wages are set above the equilibrium level by law? a. firms tend to try to break the law and hire people at the equilibrium level b. firms employ MORE workers than they would at the equilibrium wage c. firms employ FEWER workers than they would at the equilibrium wage d. firms hire more workers but fewer hours than they would at the equilibrium wage 4. why did communist government use a command economic system for many years? a. as a way to avoid the expense and difficulties of a free market b. as a method of keeping consumers from getting what they wanted c. to limit the costs of production of many goods d. in an attempt to creat a society in which everyone was equal 5. how does a company arrange to sell its products to people who are unwilling to pay for the top price for them? a. by allowing rebates to some perferred customers who buy a lot of goods b. by charging each customer the maximum amount they are willing to pay c. by charging different prices according to the group to which the buyer belongs d. by changing the product and selling a lesser one to the people who are unwilling to pay for the top product 6. when the government deregulates a product or service, what happens to it? a. the product or service is available to more people b. the product or service becomes cheaper c. some government regulations over the industry are eleminated d. government control over the industry is stopped 7. why does the goverment sometimes give monoply power to a company by issuing a patent? a. the government does not want competition for the product b. the company makes a product better than anyone else's c. the company pays the government for the patent d. the company can then profit from their research without competition 8. what percentage of businesses are sole proprietorship? a. 25% b 40% c. 60% d. 75% 9. which of the following represents the percentage of all U.S businesses that are corporations, and the percentage of all goods that those corporations sell? a. 10% of businesses 50% of goods sold b. 20% of businesses 90% of goods sold c. 50% of businesses 75% of goods sold d. 20% of businesses 50% of goods sold 10. what is a fringe benefit? a. a cash payment for casual work b. a business other than sales or marketing c. a payment other than wages or saleries. d. an accounting term meaning profits 11. which of the following is a business organization owned by a group of people for their mutual benefit? a. a coorperative b. a lavor union c. a limited liability partnership d. a professional organization 12. what are royalties? a. fees paid to celebrities for using their names b. fees paid to law firms and accountants c. a percentage of profits paid to the government d. a percentage of earnings paid for a franchise 13. what is collective bargaining? a. union and company representatives meeting to negotiate a new labor contract b. an organization of workers representing several different occupations c. an agreement to allow everyone to be part of the labor negotiating process d. a situation in which the righs of labor have been set aside 14. how are wages for a particular job determined? a. by advertisments in the news paper or on line b. by the equilibrium between the supply and demand for workers for that job c. by the amount of inflation in the economy d. by the federal wage and hour department 15. when did labor unions begin to gain some legal rights in the United States? a. 1900's b. 1920's c. 1930's d. 1950's

Please help me with Government!!!!!? 1. A system in which the government both supports and regulates private enterprise is a * monopoly. * oligopoly. * laissez-faire economy. * mixed economy. 2. When this condition existed, a board of trustees ran several corporations as one giant enterprise. * trust * collective bargaining company * interlocking directorates * oligopoly 3. The practice of negotiating labor contracts is known as * injunctions. * interlocking directorates. * collective bargaining. * trusts. 4. This agency enforces regulations that provide the United States with clean air and water. * Forest Service * Clean Air Police * Soil Conservation Service * Environmental Protection Agency 5. EPA programs ordered but not paid for by federal legislation are called * unfunded mandates. * water pollution policies. * price supports. * marketing quotas. 6. This program is designed to help pay medical bills for people with low incomes. * JOBS * Medicaid * food stamp program * Supplemental Security Income

So, is Barack still the greatest ever? Even at lying? Promise #5: Sunlight Before Signing What he said: “Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site) What he did: Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter bill, the SCHIP/cigarette tax hike, and the stimulus bill all with far less than a five-day waiting period that he promised–and continues to promise–on his campaign Web site. Promise #4: Lobbyist Revolving Door What he said: “No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site) What he did: Obama appointed Goldman Sachs lobbyists Mark Patterson chief of staff at the Treasury Department, where he directly oversees his former employer, a recipient of $10 billion of taxpayer funds from the TARP. Obama also appointed Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn to be an undersecretary of Defense. Promise #3: No Tax Hikes on the Poor What he said first: “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” (September 12, 2008, Dover, N.H.) What he did first: By signing H.R. 2 into law, Obama happily signed onto the idea that smokers should pay for a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). Cigarette taxes are going up 61 cents a pack starting April 1. Obama signed this bill knowing that the majority of smokers in the United States are working poor, and one in four lives below the federal poverty line. What he said next: “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” (February 24th, 2009, Address to a Joint Session of Congress) What he did next: Ignored the already-hiked cigarette tax at the time of the statement and then this restated promise was broken just two days later, when the Obama’s budget proposal was released. His new budget raises 45 percent of its revenue from energy taxes that will be paid by everyone who fills a gas tank, pays an electric bill, or buys anything that was grown, shipped, or manufactured. Promise #2: Pork Barrel Earmark Reform What he said: “The system is broken. We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.” (Statement on Earmarks, March 10, 2008) What he is expected to do: The White House has signaled that it intends to sign the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill, which according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, contains 8,570 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion, including dozens of wasteful pork-barrel projects. These earmarks were awarded based on seniority, not on merit, and were mostly the result of high-priced lobbying, precisely the process that Obama promised to end. When the omnibus reaches his desk later this week or next week, we’ll find out if this is one more broken promise. Promise #1: Big Government OK, so this one is more of a statement than a promise, but it’s the biggest whopper of all. What he said: “Not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t.” (February 24, 2009, Joint Address to Congress) What he did: Obama proposed a budget that is breathtaking in scope, a blueprint for the biggest permanent expansion of government in history right on the heels of a sweeping trillion dollar stimulus plan. The budget lays the foundation for a government takeover of the health care and energy sectors and dramatically increasing spending across the board, other than defense weapons programs. Spending as a percentage of the economy under this budget will reach the historic level of 27.7 percent this year. The deficit as a percent of the economy, at 12.3 percent, is set to be the biggest in the entire history of the country outside of the four peak years of World War II. Anyone who offers such a budget can only fairly be described as a believer in bigger government.

Are the people of Cardiff aware of the high risk of cholera? Zimbabawe has a major cholera epidemic which despite lies from Mugabe is out of control. Due to hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees & asylum seekers coming into the City of Cardiff and spread throughout its various communities and due to Welsh Refugee Council and Cardiff Council Asylum Support Team totally failing in their duties to maintain links with health care providers for their clients the residents of Cardiff are at serious risk indeed. As well as overcrowding accomodation to reap more revenue per head which is paid directly to various private landlords from allocated government funding ( Lynx Hotel Newport Road grossly overcrowded and well outside of fire regulations ) there are other dire problems such as rat and mice infestations and fire hazards. These are evident in and around the many grubby run down privately owned houses and flats which are sublet under contract to the Home Office and supposedly managed by the agencies I am identifying here. But most worrying of all is the fact that absolutely nothing is being done to ensure clients are seen by doctors or hospitals. This is the responsibility of the Welsh Refugee Council and the accomodation providers under Cardiff Council namely the Asylum Support Team. All they are interested in is being seen to be performing within the remit of their contract looking after their own jobs and maximising rents paid from government funds to the landlords who are making thousands from the scheme. As soon as any rents are no longer forthcoming countless sick refugees and asylum seekers are being put onto the streets within seven days of payments ceasing. The staff at WRC and the Council Asylum Team will adamantly try to cover their own backs and claim that they "signpost" clients to services which simply doesnt happen and many of these vulnerable and sick people are wandering around in Cardiff and its suburban communities. Many are made homeless by huge flaws in the system which unseen by the public is in a disgraceful mess. Therefore a high risk of Cholera now exists. After countless efforts to inform these agencies of details and evidence of the above problems which are just being ignored it is now cause for alarm for all residents of Cardiff. You would not believe the lack of interest and the lethargic attitude of staff at these agencies. Unless the people of Cardiff start insisting NOW that action is taken especially with Zimbabwean clients the city is facing a major problem and risk to lives !!!! Do you want an outbreak of Cholera in Cardiff ? http://www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/ Dr. Debebe Lagasse http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?Parent_Directory_id=2865&nav=2867,2904,3554,3557,4639 Sara Evans. Elaine Thomas. Alison Gilbert. http://www.jennywillott.co.uk/contact/

Does freedom imply that you have choices avaiable and if those choices become limited are you still free .? What you can do is go into thousands of dollars of debt getting an education designed only to prepare you to work for others . If you do have the financial resources to start a business you are forced to comply with numerous state and federal regulations and laws .Permitting , licensing , unemployment insurance , property taxes , sales taxes , income taxes , and taxes paid on the raw materials along with Insurance required by state law to operate your business . How anyone manages to be successful is amazing . But given those who do succeed it is in large part due to government contracts .Yes you must work for uncle sam to be profitable . Every major U.S. business has a division that does work for Uncle Sam almost .Unless you make office furniture and even then a line of government office furniture is needed to succeed . We all want to get ahead but it has become increasingly difficult due to the governments control . We are only as free as our choices and we have little choice left

Supreme court did it rigth : reverse criminalized retail price agreements ? Good? Look at the circumstances that gave rise to the decision. A company called Leegin Creative Leather had a no-discount policy that came with its decision to sell to Kay's Kloset. Kay's didn't honor that policy, so when it came time for a new deal, Leegin said no deal. Kay's complained that the refusal of Leegin to sell hurt their business, which was all about a particular leather line that Leegin made. The courts ruled against Leegin, slapping them with a $1.2 million fine. In fact, the government was telling Leegin that it is a slave to regulation: it had to sell regardless of whether contracts on the other end were honored or not. Folks, this is not free enterprise. Finally the Supreme Court agrees. It's not often I can say it, so enjoy: the Supreme Court did the right thing. It has reversed a century-old rule that criminalized retail price agreements. Good. Great. There are 10 million bad regulations to go. Now, if you just happen to be reading over the Constitution, you will note that it does not give government power to tell manufacturers what the price of their products should be, or to regulate the terms of the contracts, much less provide a rationale for economy-wide price controls. In fact, if you were reading it for the first time, you might find the assertion that such a power exists to be preposterous on its face. Truly it is. The Constitution gives the federal government no power to regulate the details of economic contracts. Now, is retail price maintenance a good practice or a bad one? Every producer wants the highest possible price, but it too faces a competitive marketplace. To maintain a high price in the face of expanding competition isn't always a good idea. Downward pressure must sometimes be dealt with. So it might not be a good decision to enforce these types of agreements. But the real question is: who is to decide? Should it be the government or the contracting parties? When the contracting parties decide, no one is hurt because all transactions, including those made by final consumers, are voluntary. When the government is involved, at least one party and sometimes several are compelled against their will to engage in transfers of property without their consent. Even if consumers benefit, it wouldn't matter: one group is winning at another's expense, which isn't the market way. The good news here is that this ruling will have an immediate impact on the marketplace. Producers might start to offer deeper discounts on their products. This way, retailers can save money in other aspects of their business. It could result in some restructuring that will benefit everyone from workers to consumers. It's true that the marketplace has found workarounds to these rules in the past, but not without the high cost of regime uncertainty. There is a broader point here about the Constitution. Clearly the federal government has no legal authority to be legislating or ruling on this subject at all. It is not only the regulation on retail price maintenance that is unconstitutional but the whole of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which, incidentally, is surely one of the most anachronistic pieces of economic legislation on the books. The entire law ought to be struck down, and Congress should make no other related to this topic. June 29, 2007 Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Should all abusive credit card products be banned or all credit cards? In light of the fact that I and evidently many others have been abused by credit card products when a payment was missed by jacking the rates up to an unfordable can never repay rates. Should just these products be banned or should government regulations be put on these companies to allow each credit card holders penalties be set at a maximum per year, per mo. or a percentage of their income . We have all had a missed payment for various reasons. With the open ended contracts allowed by our government over the last 7 years we can be penalized financially the rest of our lives. Not only with the jacked rate but dammage to credit report. SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT PUT A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES CAN PENALIZE US? SRC50 must own stock in the credit companies. I do not have a credit card ever since they allowed them to get away with this as well as the open change what ever they want option they now have. I would like others to join me. It is very possible a day will come when you will be late ore be unable to make a payment and when they use such practices on you it will be to late for you. This is such a big issue the government was addressing it 2 weeks ago I saw it on C-Span so do not try to convince me that this destructive behavior is not happening so much as to get the government attention. No one imagines when the apply for a credit card their health will become so bad they will have to quit their job. The practice of dropping peoples insurance when ill, and allowing interest rates on their credit to go from 9-27% assuring they will never be able to get another job if they recover. Damaging to all!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some presidential nominees claim they have a plan for all our problems??? I liked this article by Ron Paul. Called "I have a plan..." As election time nears, we are bombarded with political ads and speeches by candidates telling us their great plans for running the country. At the end of the recent presidential debate, for example, the Democratic nominee recited a litany of supposed cures for nearly everything that ails us, beginning each sentence with the phrase “I have a plan…” The problem is that government is not supposed to plan our lives or run the country; we are supposed to be free. That our public discourse strays so far from this principle is an unhappy sign of our times. Those who believe in limited constitutional government should worry every time a politician says, “I have a plan.” Remember, there is a simple dictionary definition for government planning of the production and provision of goods and services: socialism. No matter how much the grand planners from both political parties deny it, many of their programs and proposals are socialist. Federal taxes, regulations, welfare, subsidies, wage controls, price controls, and interest rate manipulations all represent socialist interventions in the economy. True, we do not yet have a fully socialist economy. But that is why we must be vigilant and label socialist proposals for exactly what they are, so we can maintain and expand economic freedom in America. Both history and economic theory prove conclusively that centrally-planned economies lower the standard of living for everyone except government elites. Historically, centralized economic planning goes hand in hand with hardship and bloodshed. Modern soft socialism, found in nations like Sweden and France, is beginning to implode of its own weight as governments realize they simply cannot fund cradle-to-grave programs without imposing tax rates that kill any last remnants of productive spark in their citizens. By contrast, capitalism – which is to say economic freedom – raises the standard of living for everyone in a society. But we must understand what capitalism really is. Capitalism is not a system, but rather the result of free individuals taking economic actions without interference by government. A true capitalist economy is neither planned by bureaucrats nor steered by regulators. This is why it’s so important that we resist the idea that any president should plan our economy. If we accept that government “runs” the economy, we accept a fundamental tenet of socialism. We must understand that economic liberty is every bit as important as political and civil liberties. In a truly free nation, the government acts only as a referee by protecting property rights, enforcing contracts, prohibiting force and fraud, and providing national defense. Such was the system envisioned by the Founding Fathers, who strictly limited regulatory and tax powers in the Constitution. They were tired of having their business affairs managed by the Crown, so they created a servant government that would allow freedom and capitalism to flourish. Today’s political rhetoric demonstrates that the servant has become the master. Most politicians, and too many Americans, have accepted the premise that government should plan our lives and control the economy. This subservient mindset encourages political pandering, as candidates strive to convince voters of their superior plans to take care of all of us. For a nation founded upon rugged individualism and self-reliance, the modern political landscape represents a wake-up call. Unless and until Americans begin to reclaim the mentality that made us great, we are destined to slide further into an economic and political malaise that cannot be solved by the grandiose plans of politicians.

what is stock exchanges? give me some introduction and some answers to these questions...very very thanks in advance. 1)securities contract(regulation)act,1956 2)recognised stock exchanges 3)power of central government to call periodical returns and direct enquiries 4)powwer to make rules restricting voting rights 5)power of SEBI to make or ammend by loss of recognise stock exchanges 6)power of central government to super cede companies of stock exchnges or suspend bussiness there off 7)contract in securities 8)contract in derivatives 9)procedure and powers of securities appilate tribunal and appeal against its orders 10)penalties and procedures under the securtites contract regulations act 1956 11)corporate membership 12)securities contract rules 1957 13)requirement of listing of securities with recognised stock exchanges 14)conditions precident to submission of application for listing by stock exchane 15)procedure for listing new issues by existing listed companies 16)securities ontract rules 2000 17)listing of securities 18)benifits of listing 19)legal provisions on listing 20)compliances under the listing agreements 21)corparate governance through listing agreement 22)demutualisation of stock exchanges 23)securities contract regulations 2006

Is the U.S.Government still a colony of the British Government? Does these statements have any truth to them? 30 little known facts about America - VID Posted By: Vasagoh Date: Friday, 5 September 2008, 12:48 a.m. 1) The IRS is not a U.S. government agency. It is an agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I, Public Law 94-564, Senate report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391) 2) The IMF is an agency of the U.N. (Black's Law Dictionary 6th Ed. page 816) 3) The United States has NOT had a Treasury since 1921. (41 Stat. Ch. 214 page 654) 4) The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF (Presidential Documents Volume 29 -No. 4 page 113, 22 U.S.C 285-288) 5) The United States does not have any employees because there is no longer a United States. No more reorganizations. After over 200 years of bankruptcy it is finally over. (Executive Order 12803) 6) The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the U.S. government. Even though the "U.S. Government" held stock in the various agencies. (U.S. v. Strang, 254 US 491 Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239) 7) Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF. The application for a Social Security # is the SS5 form. The Dep't of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5 forms do not state who publishes them while the old form states they are Department of the Treasury (20 CFR Chap. 111 Subpart B 422.103 (b)) 8) There are NO Judicial courts in America and have not been since 1789. Judges do not enforce Statues and Codes. Executive Adminstrators enforce Statues and Codes. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat. 138-178) 9) There have Not been any Judges in America since 1789. There have just been administrators. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat. 138-178) 10) According to GATT you must have a Social Security number. House Report (103-826) 11) New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the United Nations. Rudolph Guiliani stated on C-Span that "New York City is the capital of the World". For once, he told the truth. (20 CFR Chap. 111, subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2)) 12) Social Security is not insurance or a contract. Nor is there a Trust Fund. (Helvering v. Davis 301 US 619 Steward Co. v. Davis 301 US 548) 13) Your Social Security check comes directly from the IMF which is an agency of the United Nations. (Look at it if you receive one. It should have written on the top left United States Treasury.) 14) You own No property. Slaves can't own property. Read carefully the Deed to the property you think is yours. You are listed as a TENANT. (Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st session) 15) The most powerful court in America is not the United States Supreme Court but, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. (42 Pa. C.S.A. 502) 16) The King of England financially backed both sides of the Revolutionary war. (Treaty of Versailles- July 16, 1782 Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80) 17) You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it. (Padelford Fay & Co. v. The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Svannah 14 Georgia 438, 520) 18) AMERICA IS A BRITISH COLONY. The "United States" is a corporation, not a land mass and it existed before the Revolutionary War and the British troops did not leave until 1796. (Respublica v. Sweers 1 Dallas 43, Treaty of Commerce 8 Stat 116, Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80, IRS Publication 6209, Articles of Association October 20, 1774) 19) Britain is owned by the Vatican. (Treaty of 1213) 20) The Pope can abolish any law in the United States. (Elements of Ecclesiastical Law Vol. 1, 53-54) 21) A 1040 Form is for Tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209) 22) The Pope claims to own the entire planet through the laws of conquest and discovery. (Papal Bulls of 1495 & 1493) 23) The Pope has ordered the genocide and enslavement of Millions of people. (Papal Bulls of 1455 & 1493) 24) The Pope's laws are obligatory on everyone. (Bened. XIV., De Syn. Dioec, lib, ix, c. vii., n. 4. Patri, 1844) (Syllabus prop 28, 29, 44) 25) WE ARE SLAVES AND OWN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOT EVEN WHAT WE THINK ARE OUR CHILDREN. (Tillman vs. Roberts 108 So. 62, Van Koten vs. Van Koten 154 N.E. 146, Senate Document 43 & 73rd Congress 1st session, Wynehammer v. People 13 N.Y. REP 378, 481) 26) Military Dictator George Washington divided up the States (Estates) into Districts. (Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1 page 99 1828 dictionary for definition of Estate) 27) "The People" does Not include you and me (Barron vs. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore 32 U.S. 243) 28) It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect THE CORPORATION and arrest code breakers. (Sapp vs. Tallahassee, 348 So. 2nd. 363, Reiff vs, City of Phila. 477 F.Supp. 12

What Happened to America? In the last fifty years, we have grown accustomed to governments whose policies on specific issues may be good or bad, but which essentially institute incremental changes to the status quo. The major exceptions have been Thatcher and Reagan, but even their programs of dismantling systems of social welfare seem, in retrospect, mild compared to what is happening in the United States under George Bush – or more exactly, the ruling junta that tells Bush what to do and say. It is unquestionably the most radical government in modern American history, one whose ideology and actions have become so pervasive, and are so unquestionably mirrored by the mass media here, that the population seems to have forgotten what “normal” is. George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d’etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organizations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state. It is the first administration to openly declare a policy of unilateral aggression, a “Pax Americana” where the presence of allies (whether England or Bulgaria) is agreeable but unimportant; where international treaties no longer apply to the United States; and where – for the first time in history – this country reserves the right to non-defensive, “pre-emptive” strikes against any nation on earth, for whatever reason it declares. It is the first – since the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II – to enact special laws for a specific ethnic group. Non-citizen young Muslim men are now required to register and subject themselves to interrogation. Many hundreds have been arrested and held without trial or access to legal assistance-- a violation of another pillar of American democracy: habeas corpus. In Guantanamo Bay, where it is said that they are now preparing execution chambers, hundreds of foreign nationals – including a 13-year-old and a man who claims to be 100 – have been kept for almost two years in a limbo that clearly contravenes the Geneva Convention. Similar to the Reagan era, it is an administration openly devoted to helping the rich and ignoring the poor, one that has turned the budget surplus into a massive deficit through its combination of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy (particularly those who earn more than a million dollars a year) and increases in defense spending. (And, although Republicans always campaign on “less government,” it has created the largest new government bureaucracy in history: the Department of Homeland Security.) The Financial Times of England, hardly a hotbed of leftists, has categorized this economic policy as “the lunatics taking over the asylum.” But more than Reagan – whose policies tended to benefit the rich in general – most of Bush’s legislation specifically enriches those in his lifelong inner circle from the oil, mining, logging, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. At the middle level of the bureaucracy, where laws may be issued without Congressional approval, hundreds of regulations have been changed to lower standards of pollution or safety in the workplace. Billions in government contracts have been awarded, without competition, to corporations formerly run by administration officials. In a country where the most significant social changes are enacted by court rulings, rather than by legislation, the Bush administration has been filling every level of the complex judicial system with ultra-right ideologues, especially those who have protected corporations from lawsuits by individuals or environmental groups, and those who are opposed to women's reproductive rights. Most of all, America doesn’t feel like America any more. The climate of militarism and fear, similar to any totalitarian state, permeates everything. Bush is the first American president in memory to swagger around in a military uniform, though he himself – like all of his most militant advisers – evaded the Vietnam War. (Even Eisenhower, a general and a war hero, never wore his uniform while he was president). In the airports of provincial cities, there are frequent announcements in that assuring, disembodied voice of science-fiction films: “The Department of Homeland Security advises that the Terror Alert is now . . . Code Orange.” Every few weeks there is an announcement that another terrorist attack is imminent, and citizens are urged to take ludicrous measures, like sealing their windows, against biological and chemical attacks, and to report the suspicious activities of their neighbors. The Pentagon institutes the “Total Information Awareness” program to collect data on the ordinary activities of ordinary citizens (credit card charges, library book withdrawals, university course enrollments) and when this is perceived as going too far, they change the name to “Terrorist Information Awareness” and continue to do the same things. Millions are listed in airport security computers as potential terrorists, including antiwar demonstrators and pacifists. Critics are warned to “watch what they say” and lists of “traitors” are posted on the internet. The war in Iraq has been the most extreme manifestation of this new America, and almost a casebook study in totalitarian techniques. First, an Enemy is created by blatant lies that are endlessly repeated until the population believes it: in this case, that Iraq was linked to the attack on the World Trade Center, and that it possesses vast “weapons of mass destruction” that threaten the world. Then, a War of Liberation, entirely portrayed by the mass media in terms of our Heroic Troops, with little or no imagery of casualties and devastation, and with morale-inspiring, scripted “news” scenes – such as the toppling of the Saddam statue and the heroic “rescue” of Private Lynch. Finally, as has happened with Afghanistan, America has received very little news of the chaos that has followed the Great Victory. It is very difficult to speak of what is happening in America without resorting to the hyperbolic cliches of anti-Americanism that have lost their meaning after so many decades, but that have now finally come true. Perhaps one can only recite the facts, and I have mentioned only some of them here. This is, quite simply, the most frightening American administration in modern times, one that is appalling both to the left and to traditional conservatives. This junta is unabashed in its imperialist ambitions; it is enacting an Orwellian state of Perpetual War; it is dismantling, or attempting to dismantle, some of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy; it is acting without opposition within the government, and is operating so quickly on so many fronts that it has overwhelmed and exhausted any popular opposition. Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country’s history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle.

Did my employer act within their rights in regards to this contract ? I was recently employed as a "Christmas casual" at a local specialty store, in New South Wales. The contract, which both me and the employer signed, indicated that the contract was until the 31st of January. After my first shift, I checked the roster and realised that none of the Christmas causals were rostered on during January. So I asked the manager if I could have some shifts in January. She responded with a flat no, with the reason being that they were switching back to their normal rosters and were therefore not rostering any of us on. However, a couple of weeks after that I noticed that three of the ten girls who had been hired using the same contract as mine had been given shifts during January. None of our names initially appeared in the January roster. Also, in the contract there is no mention of a maximum number of hours, however one of the other Christmas causals offered me her two shifts during one week as she had secured another job (lucky girl!). When I went to confirm the swap with the manager I was flatly informed that I wasn't allowed to take those shifts, as I could only work a maximum 25 hours in one week. However, at the initial training night she told us that according to government regulations we could work a maximum of 38 hours in any one week. I know that casuals usually get the short end of the stick in terms of rosters, but I am curious to know, is this a violation of the contract? I didn't have the guts to ask these questions to her face, as I don't like being the workplace whinger, but this sort of thing has never happened in any other place of employment I have been in. I was always informed when I started "you will get shifts up to date x, and that's it", where date x was the last week in the contract, and I have never heard that the maximum number of hours I can work was 25. So I am rather curious to know if this is within her rights. Sorry if I was unclear, I was illustrating that I have never had this problem before. In my other places of employment, the employers have been clear what sort of hours to expect before either of us sign. In all cases I have been asked to do more shifts as they arose, and that was great for me. This was not the case here, so I was suprised and somewhat bemused at the sudden change.

Whats a reason why wages are more flexible in the long run than in the short run? Which of the following is one of the reasons why wages are more flexible in the long run than in the short run? a. Government regulations b. Rent controls c. Quite the opposite, wages are actually more flexible in the short run d. Because workers cannot make short-term decisions e. Because of long-term contracts Assume the AD curve is held constant and short-run aggregate supply decreases. The result is a. an increase in both equilibrium real GDP and the price level. b. a decrease in equilibrium real GDP, while the price level remains fixed. c. a decrease in both equilibrium real GDP and the price level. d. a decrease in equilibrium real GDP and an increase in the price level. e. an increase in the price level, while equilibrium real GDP remains fixed.

VOIP phone company charges me additional fee after I renewed my annual plan. is it legal? and it claims that it must comply with ther government's regulation but I belive it is not a new law. I think it is a breach of our contract or law, right? thanks for your input shangzhi What taxes are included in the "Regulatory recovery fees, charges and taxes"? State and local governments may assess taxes, surcharges, or fees, or all of these, on your use of our service. These charges may be a flat fee or a percentage of your iTalkBB charges and may change without notice. These amounts are in addition to the payment for your service or devices. The amount of these charges is determined by the customer’s billing address. In order to simplify these regulatory charges for its customers, iTalkBB charges a $2.95 monthly flat fee in an amount calculated and periodically adjusted to cover all regulatory fees, surcharges and communications taxes iTalkBB is required to pay in order to provide its services to its customers. the previous advertisement clearly stated "No Hidden Fee" I know what they charged. but I don't know whether it is legal or not charge me this after we had a contract!

Do you have a problem with Bush telling us it is now against the law to protest the war? Why? Fact sheet Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order: Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of: (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or (B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or (iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. (b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. Sec. 3. For purposes of this order: (a) the term "person" means an individual or entity; (b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and (c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States. Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order. Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order. Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken. Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order. Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, July 17, 2007.

Any spouses feel penalized by ARMY housing and pcs dates being altered due to stop loss? I feel as if I had rejoined the army when he signed up since there are regulations placed on spouse movement (i.e., hubby gets deployed for 12mos-18 mos. and you're only "allowed" to leave your government housing overseas for a max of 30 days without him losing a section of his pay called BAH. Fine, I understand that. Pls. ship my household goods back to america from germany so I can complete myde gree bc there's nothing worthwhile to beaccomplished in 30 days (smaller post have limitations on course offerings, i.e, no science w/ labs 2 complete a r.n. prog); But if I leave and when he returns I can NOT be command sponsored again UNLEss he has 3yrs left on contract! So i either bend over and take the shaft in one of x ways:1) EROD (early return of dependents) and not be able to afford to stay in europe on our own w/ his salary (which btw he could be making min $160k/yr as a civ. arabic speaker and not deal w/ this) when he returns for the rest of his 18 mos. left on contract. 2)stay and don't do anything to complete my degree till the iraq fiasco is over (post doesn't have courses higher than gen ed that I need 2 complete a r.n. prog) 3)Hope he gets a duty station close to where I live (in n. ca/the houston area) even though the distance from either place would be a min. of a 5 hr. drive since we've both agreed to not add a single day to his contract. 3)perhaps you'll see why I'm so reluctant for him to sign up and he has seen the light as well. I'm due shortly., his unit COULD let him stay for 2 wks. after their deployment so he could see the kid (they've done it before for 2 others), but new ldrshp + unit change has allowed paperwork to get lost/whatever...only answer he gets is they're unsure when they could get a decision about that. In addition to that, everyone in his unit has had the proposed leave of their max 4 wks. before deploying for over a year cut to 2 wks. AND THE ARMY WONDERS WHY PPL DON'T EASILY REENLIST THESE DAYS??!?!!?

What if Blackwater USA turns into a renegade christian army? I was reading about Blackwater USA today, and it scared the hell out of me. A megarich fundie called Erik Prince has his own army of mercenaries that he sub-contracts to the Bush administration for use both internationally and in the states (the were used after hurricane Katrina and are currently in Iraq). The benefit for the Bush administration is that these guys aren't bound by the same rules and regulations the military have. ie: They don't have to justify there actions to anyone but their employer. Aside from the obvious appalling aspects of this, is it a concern that Blackwater could start to develop it's own agenda and take unilateral action without even being contracted to the US government? Would it be fair to call them a fundamentalist army?

Need help with economics please? 1. Would free health care reduce poverty, as measured by the government? Would free public housing, day care, and job training for the poor reduct the pverty rate? Explain 2. Two business practices outlawed by teh Clayton Act are trying contracts and interlocking directorates. Explain the condition required for these two practices to be a violation of the antitrust law. 3. Do you agree that "cost does not really matter" as a principle for safety regulation, or do you believe that the cost of safety device must be justified on the basis of the value of human life protected from hazard? Any help would be great. None of this in explained in my book. Thanks Got help with Number 1, now just need help with 2. and 3

help needed, ....? Which of the following government programs provides recipients with in-kind benefits? Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Social Security. The food stamp program. Unemployment compensation In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Russia, Poland, and other countries adopted economic reforms to make the transition toward capitalism. When these reforms were enacted: a.)prices for consumer goods increased. b.)shortages developed. c.)unemployment was dramatically reduced. d.)foreign investment fell. Transactions costs are defined to be the costs of: a.)negotiating and enforcing contracts. b.)complying with environmental regulations. c.)eliminating market and government failures. d.)finding and obtaining offsets

Survey on work benefits, homework help? A. What is the purpose of OSHA, and how does it work? Some individuals say that the people are safer in their workplace than in their cars. Do you think this is true? why? If so, is OSHA needed, or is it an example of over-regulation by the government? B. Jack works in a factory where there are strong fumes in the air. He and the other workers cough a lot on the job. Jack complains to OSHA. He is laid off by the factory manager, who says the company has lost money due to the cost of controlling the fumes as ordered by OSHA. What actions can jack take? C. If workers have complained and reasonably believe that's performing their duties exposes them to serious injury and possible death, can they refuse to work? What if their supervisor disagrees and orders them to work anyway? Should their supervisor be able to "dock"" their paycheck or place an official reprimand in their personnel files? Does your answer change according to whether the danger is long term (such as the possibility of contracting lung disease from pollution) or short-term ( falling from an unsafe ladder, for example)? D. Should corporate executives who willfully or recklessly violate safety and health standards be prosecuted criminally for their actions? If convicted of a crime, should they be fined or sent to jail? If so, under what circumstances?What is the best way to motivate an employer to provide a safe workplace?