Sampling of Opinions
I hope this sampling of opinions helps to give you a little insight into what’s going on in the world regarding our political front. I’ve taken samplings from several news sources and have tried to present what I found without any slant on my part. The links are provided so that you can go there and read for yourselves. I just want to help get the articles to you in a responsible manner. Thank you,
Jan
Taken from NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/us/politics/19campaign.html?_
“It’s not just the Northeast and the West Coast,” Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said. “It’s places like Virginia and Tennessee. Iraq and foreign policy are to a large extent albatrosses around the Republicans’ neck this year. And they don’t know what to do about it.”
Taken from WorldPublicOpinion.Org article: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/250.php?nid=&
“A new WPO poll of the Iraqi public finds that seven in ten Iraqis want U.S.-led forces to commit to withdraw within a year. An overwhelming majority believes that the U.S. military presence in Iraq is provoking more conflict than it is preventing and there is growing confidence in the Iraqi army. If the United States made a commitment to withdraw, a majority believes that this would strengthen the Iraqi government. Support for attacks on U.S.-led forces has grown to a majority position—now six in ten. Support appears to be related to a widespread perception, held by all ethnic groups, that the U.S. government plans to have permanent military bases in Iraq.”
International Trade in General
Americans' views of international trade are complex and cannot be explained as a simple preference for free trade or protectionism. A strong majority of Americans views trade, in principle, as something positive and as having significant benefits for the US economy. However, the majority also has major reservations about how trade has been put into practice: Americans show strong concern that, though trade has benefited business and the wealthy, it has not benefited American workers and has widened the gap between rich and poor.
Is Time Magazine cover comment on Republicans chances?
From Evote.com http://www.evote.com/?q=node/5016
Time Magazine has an elephant’s butt on the cover this week. And no, it’s not because the circus has left town.
From the Washington Post today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/
Struggling NBC Cutting 700 Jobs
By DAVID BAUDER
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 19, 2006; 3:31 PM
NEW YORK -- NBC Universal announced Thursday it will cut 700 jobs, abandon MSNBC's New Jersey headquarters and shift spending from traditional broadcast TV to digital entertainment, reflecting both hard times at the network and changing times in the media world.
From The Telegraph.co.UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/index.jhtml;jsessionid=
DWXCHP3QEEGBVQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0
Blair: Troops will be out of Iraq in 16 months
Tony Blair has set a 16-month limit for keeping troops in Iraq as he admitted for the first time that they would be a "provocation" if they stayed too long.
And don’t miss the political cartoon in the Telegraph. Lady Liberty as exposed to the world by Bush presidency. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/index.jhtml
Check this out:
CBS News has a juicy tidbit they discovered.
(AP) Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate suspected of sending a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/19/politics/main2108717.shtml
Also from the page:
The letter, written in Spanish and mailed last week to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County, tells recipients: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time."
In fact, immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens can legally vote.
It is illegal to threaten or intimidate voters, though, and the complaints about the letters that began surfacing this week prompted state and federal investigations.
Want to be a Legal US Citizen?
http://www.uscitizenship.info/?ad=adword&keyword=immigration
Social Security Inflation Adjustment lower in 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15313393/
(AP) Updated: 10:50 a.m. PT Oct 18, 2006
WASHINGTON - Social Security checks for nearly 49 million Americans are going up by 3.3 percent next year, which will mean an extra $33 per month in the average check, the government announced Wednesday.
The cost of living adjustment means that the monthly benefit for the typical retired worker in 2007 will go from $1,011 currently to $1,044 next year.
Just between you and me…. I’d like to know who’s getting $1,044 a month. I sure don’t. I get $834.00 a month and I worked 3 jobs at the same time over most my lifetime to qualify for that; after much hassling and reviewing. And to top that off, I pay for my own deductibles and co-pays and I have to answer regular reviews to keep receiving my disability payments. So who gets the amounts they say Social Security recipients receive? Can anyone answer that one for me?
I’ll be updating more often as time permits on issues facing US voters.
Thanks again.
Jan
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