Articles tagged: "government"
1: How to Avoid Pain at the Pump
Simple changes to your routine can help you save substantially at the pump.
2: The Idiocy of Mainstream American Energy Policies
For what people around the world consider the U.S. as the richest, most powerful, and most efficient country on the globe, how did we get to face the dilemmas of higher gasoline, energy, and food prices? The answer lies in our idiotic mainstream energy policies such as adoptions of no new oil explorations, over reliance of alleged renewable sources of energy, and a non-nuclear energy stance.
3: Guaranteed Social Security Benefits: Make It So
This is a conceptual outline, a starting point for developing the nitty-gritty details, rules, regulations, laws, and agencies. All that is required is the will to change. Politicians like to debate changes to determine why new ideas can't be implemented. Here 's a plan that must be implemented. Have a listen, throw out an incumbent.
4: What Do We Get For Our Taxes?
Tax time is coming around again I'm reminded because I just placed my order for the 2007 version of TurboTax, which is a software application that guides me through federal and Pennsylvania tax return preparation
5: Federal Emergency Management Agency Fails
In the wake of a tragedy we are often left in a state of complete and utter shock Especially in events where our homes are destroyed and our loves one separated from us, our minds are the furthest thing from rational or clear
6: Health Insurance for Musicians? - An Innovative Austin Program
Health Insurance is a difficult issue for musicians since they are often working on relatively low wages. This article describes HAAM an innovative program in Austin that provides health insurance for local musicians.
7: How Will The US Economy Recover?
The US is currently dealing with the fallout from the mortgage crisis. The article looks at the current state of the US economy.
8: Biofuels: Today 's Realities, Tomorrow 's Promise
Most of today 's biofuels industry is based on fairly well-understood technology, but there is no doubt that technological innovation will drive the next wave of advancement in the industry.
9: Will Clean Energy "Cross the Divide?"
Fossil fuels provide most of the world 's energy and are the foundation of the past two centuries of economic growth. The issue of climate change poses the first serious challenge to fossil fuels' primacy.
10: Is Traditional Politics Dead?
The poor vote one way and the rich another. Those neither rich nor poor get caught square in the middle or "middle class" as it is often called. The Twilight Zone might be a more appropriate name.
11: How Internal Corruption Prevents the Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples
So in the end it is largely an indigenous thing; a version of the theme "we have met the enemy and they are us".
12: The Myths Taught Concerning The Separation Of Church And State
The phrase “separation of church and state” has been used so often by courts and other organizations that many believe it to be a part of the First Amendment of the Constitution The phrase, however, is nowhere stated in the Constitution or other founding documents
13: Solving Social Security is No Big Deal
As an investor, I've always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What 's so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so different from other investment accounts that pay out a constant stream of income? The private sector does it routinely with defined benefit pension plans and fixed annuities, so what 's the big deal?
14: Investment Politics 2008: What 's (left) In Your Wallet?
As Investors, we represent the single biggest voter block in the country. We must respond in one voice to the endless political drivel with a resounding "Money Talks, BS Walks".
15: Credit Cards, Mortgages And The Financial Impaired Get Relief
The Federal Reserve Bank is currently researching ways in which to provide much needed relief for the sub-prime housing crisis that is tearing apart consumers particularly in the mid-west states where job losses are occurring very heavily, mainly due to lay-offs in the auto manufacturing industry In the coming weeks, the Federal Reserve will be proposing new regulations in advertising financial offers such as credit cards and mortgages particularly in regards to disclosures
16: More People 'Concerned About Damaging Credit Rating'
Millions of Britons are concerned that they have damaged their financial rating beyond repair as a result of developing problems in managing their money, new figures have suggested.
17: Populist Deception Fooling Latin America 's Poor and USA 's Gullible 'Intellectuals'
Latin America needs a solid left, not Populist windbags that promise the impossible. Populism has failed everywhere and there 's no reason to expect any change.
18: New Prime Minister Fuels 2007 Tax Havens
With three landslide election victories under his belt, Tony Blair left Downing Street as the UK 's Prime Minister undefeated electorally, in much the same way Margaret Thatcher had done seventeen years earlier.Taking Tony Blair 's place as Prime Minister, and leader of the Labour Party in Britai
19: Equity Loan For Your Home
A home equity loan also known as line of credit permits you as a borrower to scrounge funds by utilizing your home 's equity as the security These types of mortgages are at times helpful to families and aid them in the case of funding foremost home maintenance, medical bills, debt consolidation, investments or even university educations
20: Knife Crime In The UK
I am a mum and I have one daughter of my own and two step sons all my children are between the 10-15 years of age. As with all parents I worry about my children constantly as they grow up, I want to know where they are, who they are with, how long they will be when out and what time they need p
21: An Innovative Way to Handle Government Funding and Ensure the Prosperity of Our Society
In today 's society, middle class families are paying more in taxes than major corporations. The tax system provides enormous benefits and advantages to the wealthy, leaving the middle class to bear the tax burden. Mitchell Roth says, "It is not fair that families are paying more of their incom
22: The Accumulation of Laws
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. - Unknown AuthorOur government says that laws are created to protect our individual freedoms. Yet, those "elected representatives", who get to choose what we are all to consider to be "allowable freedoms"
23: Journalist Magazine Or Reporter
I can't speak for the magazine business, but as a former newspaperman, I can tell you how newspapers gather information. The first thing a new reporter does on a beat is introduce himself to all the principle people on that beat. For example a reporter covering a federal courthouse would introd
24: Is It Possible To Win The War In Iraq?
Many people are confused as to why the war in Iraq never comes to an end. They want the war on terror to be fought, but they don't like to sacrifice American soldiers' lives. It is time to look at this war in a Biblical sense. Separate from the modern day prophets who say this war fulfills
25: Loan Sharks In The City
Loan sharks are preying on the poor whilst being protected by the government In 1987 BBCs Panorama investigated loan sharking
26: Does The Electoral College No Longer Work And Should We Make Changes?
In 2000 we have had the closest presidential election in the history of the United States. Vice President Al Gore has won the popular vote and yet fell short of victory by less than a thousand certified votes in the pivotal state of Florida. This means that under the system of the two hundred-y
27: Government Inventions-Patents and the People
The vaults of the United States Government contain many remarkable patents, reflecting novel inventions arrived at through research funded by U.S. taxpayers. Most of these patents literally sit undiscovered, neither being enforced nor commercialized. Imagine the vault at the end of Indiana Jo
28: Costa Rica Economy; Recovering and Expanding
Costa Rica lies between Panama and Nicaragua and it is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east and the North Pacific Ocean to the west. It is comprised of 51,100 square kilometers and the territorial waters take up about 589 square kilometers. It is considered a conglomeration of a number of
29: The Real Political Spectrum
Now that another one of those vitriolic, antagonistic, exercises in mutual character assassination that we call an election is past us, it is the perfect opportunity to examine our perceived political polarization.Elections reveal that we characterize most people or groups today by their view t
