government

I'm sure I can download a boring spreadsheet about it. But I was wondering, if there is, or if I should start a more graphical presentation of government spending. Like an expandable pie chart in which you can zoom in to "Healthcare" or "Military" sections are see the itemization. I think it...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4609746.stm

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1568867.htm

I just saw this debate, in which Lord Taverne made a valiant effort. What can we do with this government? It is incorrect for Lord Warner to imply that clinical decisions are entirely devolved to clinicians and primary care trusts, when the government directly funds homeopathic hospitals. They...

A few tibits on the election... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article334476.ece

Check this out. It does not appear to be a scam. It also does not rise to the level of an investment at this point; simply put it's a bet and says so. So, would you bet any $ on the survival of a democratic Iraq?? I'm thinking of doing it with some small amount just as a curiosity and to see if...

I'm a less frequent visitor to these threads nowadays, but I must say I am surprised by the lack of discussion by the mostly-US contingent here regarding the recent overthrow of the Canadian government. It's very unlike US politics, and I'm not sure I understand it. Thee PM is a member of the...

That's right. There is no confidence in the Liberals. Election sometime in January. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/28/noconfidencevote051128.html Thoughts?

Here is the red tape that is currently holding up the recharging of Earth's magnetic field as it continues its decrease toward Tesla zero. On 26th July 2005 the Planning and Regulatory Panel of Salisbury District Council refused English Heritage's application for excavation and removal of A-344...

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/091605/new_doctorordered001.shtml Hurray for government.

There are municipal taxes, state taxes, and federal taxes. Why aren't there executive branch taxes, legislative branch taxes, and judicial branch taxes? There are municipal police, state police, and federal police. Why aren't there executive branch police, legislative branch police, and...

Given that the gas prices are what they are, should the government try to regulate the price of gas? Do we have a "right" to gasoline?

Haven't you ever heard that when the argument comes up, that the defensive response is... that government workers are paid less than what they could earn in the private sector? Ya, right. Well if that is true, I say let them all go out there and compete with one another over those supposed...

Do business lobbies have too much control over government agencies? Should the cabinet secretaries come from the industry their agency is regulating? Should public officials take jobs in business after they've left public sector?

...while the remaining (judicial) branch have a term of "for life"???? HMMMMMMMMMM????????

http://www.gay.com/help/personals_adult.html http://www.gapingmaw.com/ So, how 'bout them new anti free speech laws going into effect?

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=00000000007,00000001331,0,0,1,0 In Norway, we have a state church and a priest as prime minister. However, if the government decided to fund a project like this, they would never hear the end of it!

I use Netscape Navigator as a browser. My wife was attempting to apply for a job with the government the other day on USAJobs.gov. The home page comes up just fine, but when she tries to go to the page where she can write and save a resume, she gets an error message to the effect that Netscape...

I support the idea of the world having one world government, but with some qualifications. The government I imagine would look something like this: * It would be democratic. * It would be composed of all the nations that wanted to be part of it. * It would allow for entry but also for exit if...

What would you think if the government formed a lobby group to lobby the government to enact new laws? What would you think if the work for the lobby group was done by government employees on government time? What would you think if some of the government employees received government grants...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Thursday that unless lawmakers come to grips with spiraling U.S. deficits, the economy was at risk of stagnation "or worse." "Under existing tax rates and reasonable assumptions about other spending ... projections make clear...

This might be simplistic, but if you take a cursory glance at world, and particular, western history, it seems that having a government that endorses religion combined with other factors has mixed results. Here's how I see it: A religious government with a free and prosperous society (some...

It's not *supposed* to be...is it? We have the Legislative and Executive branches also. I heard they are all equal. Well...how can that be? Suppose you have a Terri Schiavo case. What branch supercedes the others? None? But in Terri's case it was the judicial branch that did. How? Why didn't...

I have recently come across three documents that address a common theme. The first is a commentary by Paul Krugman in the New York Times (reg. req'd, available for a limited time): The second is a commentary by Shadia Drury in the current issue of Free Inquiry (not currently viewable on the...

If this doesn't thoroughly offend and disgust you, then you have no heart; it's that simple. http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz18.html So, the government-mandated vaccinations killed a child who, while legally was two months old, physically was really only three weeks—and...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Middle-East-Crisis/Lebanese-government-quits/2005/03/01/1109546827897.html

and what are our obligations to it? Is the government of that NK guy legitimate? Does simply having control of a country's military confer legitimacy? Do we have the right to sanction or otherwise worry country's that do not have a government that relflects the will of the people? Is it a game...

Some background: Hizbollah - or Party of God - is a Shi'ite Islamist group which was founded in the 80's. It's goal is a) to destroy Israel and b) to replace Lebanon's multi-confessional state to an Iranian-style Islamic state. Iran is the group's ideological mentor and it's main source of...

Do they exist?

Your task is to design, from nothing, a government for a nation of X millions of mixed culture/race people. What are some of the features you would include, that make it ideal over what is found in the world today? I would definitely not make it a direct democracy, because the public can have...