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State Government Employment Knowledge Base

Why does the Federal Government, in addition to State Governments, regulate employment and the environment? Please give serious feed back. :)

Should I withdraw my application for a state government job that could jeopardize my current employment? I was told in my interview that reference checks will be contacted for all candidates who make it past the interview phase. I was told that current employers would be contacted. My current employer does not know that I am looking for other employment and if I don't get the new job, I could be in a difficult situation. What would you do?

DO A PERSON GET REGISTRATION IN A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE OTHER THAN HIS HOME DISTRICT OR HOME STATE? Is a person resident of Uttar Pradesh get registration in a government employment office situated in Uttrakhand

I have a question about different types of employment? I am filling out the questionaire for national security positions and one of the questions is want type of employment was my last job? It was just a normal admin job working for a timeshare company! My opions are Army, Other Federal employment, State Government, Self-employment, Federal Contractor, or Other (with explaination). What is your status when your just have a normal job? Im thinking State or Other but what do I say?

Do state governments sponsor your H1B Visa for employment? Do or can state and local governments in the U.S. sponsor H1B work visa for employment for legal residents? Update: I'm asking for facts with citations not opinions. So asking me what I believe is moot.

Is your state employment time transferable? If I currently work for the state of NC and would like to transfer to the federal government is my state time transferable?

Can Indian Union Government or state Government modify the reservation system? When the total world is seeing towards India as potential economic developing country, why the Indian union government or State government is still entertaining the reservation system. Is it not good that if the same is modified, like no reservation quota for university of collage seats it will common for every body with out any consideration in the qualifying examinations, and the consideration what the reservation quota people are getting the same type of consideration to be followed in the salaries and perks for them when come to the employment.

How do the federal &state systems of government may or may not differ in their application of employment law?

How can I locate job listings online for State employment in Florida? would like to work for the state of Florida such as a local government agency at the county level

Where can I find distribution of employment by state? I'm trying to find statistics for the percentage of employment by state according to each sector. Like, how many jobs are there in the business sector? Government? Agricultural? Let me know, please, if you find any good info. Thanks a ton!

What do you think would happen to state employment... ....? if the federal government decided that rather than passing laws and making states carry them out it would simply give the states responsibility for a major social program like welfare? Do you think that it would create a lot of new jobs for the state, but how would they afford to pay all these people? Caotic?!

Do state government jobs offer good job security? I am of the opinion that state government jobs will always be around. You always hear about states trying to trim their budgets and cutting funding to programs, etc. but it still seems like a safer line of employment to be in than any type of job that can potentially be outsourced to India or China. It even seems like airline pilots face an uncertain future as planes may eventually fly themselves. Newspapers are facing a crisis as people get their news from other sources and several national papers are expected to eleminate their book sections in the near future. At least in a state job you have job security and are guaranteed a pension, right?

What are the employment protection agencies are there in the Washington state? What are the employment protection agencies are there in the Washington state? I have a family member who gets abused by her boss, who fabricates false information to her boss in order to fire her. I know that there are government agencies that protect employees from this kind of abuse by meeting and talking with them and consult on how to deal with these kind of issues. I cannot find them anywhere though. Can you help me, please? Thank you in advance.

What are the employment figures for the legalization of marijuana? I don't understand business law and marijuana is generally illegal but is now scientifically considered a safer drug than alcohol and less addictive. Petitions and bills have been written and it looks like it might be up for legalization in a couple states. If legalized in several states, what are the repercussions against state government versus federal government? If legalized what type of employment would it bring under these circumstances? What would be a years worth of pay as a worker and and as management? Might legal troubles affect the workers such as fines?

state government employee doing lic agency? presently i am working as an agent for lic of india. If I get an employment in Tamilnadu government, then will I be permitted to continue the agency

What improvements can be made to improve employment opportunities for the future? what can individuals, local governmants, state governments, and national governments do to improve employment opportunities.

Can an employer legally require you to divulge a second job or self-employment? Recently, my company announced that all workers would have to divulge any second jobs or self-employment, and furthermore, have them approved (or denied) by the General Manager as a condition for continued employment. Is this legal? Notes: I work in California (so any help with state law would be useful) and my employer is a State Government entity.

What are the benefits of working for New York State government? I worked in private sector for the past 15 years and has gradually built up good work experience history with comparable salary. Recently I received availability for employment in a position in New York State Government but the beginning salary is almost half of what I can make in private sector. Please tell me what are the benefits of working for State Government. What kind of perks could I expect? Private sector nowadays offers better salary, but with long working hours, big contribution in medical insurance, no 401K or any pension plan, limited holiday and sick days, etc.. Can the gov't job perks subsidize private company better salary??

Why does the Federal Government, in addition to State Governments, regulate employment and the environment? Please give serious feed back. :)

I received an offer of employment from Western Geco Ltd. How can I know if this is a scam or not?

What trends do you foresee in the futre of government involement in Equal Employment Opportunity? ( consider? societal and demographic trends, the current state of the economy, increased globalization, and any other issues you think impact this question.)

Can I find government employment with misdemeanors convictions? I would like to know, I have 5 year misdeamenors, all one case but it was 4 convictions. To be short, I was pretty much set up and did not do what I was convicted for. did not have prior convictions. Got a paid laywer, but he was very vague and it cost me my good name and rec'd 2 weeks jail time. I have applied for various jobs, such as banks and semi government jobs. ie. AAFES retail, NEX, They all wanted to hire because I have a lot of managerial experience, but because of failed background check, I was not hired. It's been 5 years since conviction, wanted to know... serious answers only, can I become or get a government job, or state job with convictions. How long do i have to wait? Interested in going back to school for teaching, or even nursing. Willing to relocate to any state to further my life as it is in suspense right now. With government job will they check past 5 years ? Have read a lot of different opinions about getting licensed as a nurse or teacher. Some people say, "no way" for felony and some misdem. Some people claim they or someone they know have become lawyers, are in medical feilds, and teachers even with felony convictions. My misdeamnors are simple assualt, battery, disorderly conduct. I'm confused, stressed and feeling of loss. I need help, to get job, to get out of absuive relationship. Need to find security, to leave. Relationship is primary cause of my convictions. Can anyone please tell me is there a profession I can do that might be lenient of convictions. I have 15 years managerial experience and was in the process of becoming a teacher....Please no non sesnse answers. Thanks.

What is the Worst State in the Union to Live in? Why? Please speak Your mind! Thanks.? Government State legislature Lack of Employment laws Schools/Lack of Good Teachers Nanny Laws Driving Laws Political Correctness too far to left or right etc... Employment or Lack of it Treatment of the Elderly or Mistreament Over all Quality of Life Children Welcome or unwelcome etc..

Employment systems. 10 points for the best advice. Thank you? I have been applying for employment positions in State and local government, major universities etc. Those big organizations have their own employment systems. You need to log on and put 10 pages informations on their account. It is a waste of times. How could I reduce my times when I am creating a new account or update my account. Please advice.

Why is so much federal money first given to the states to give to local governments? Is this to create another layer of government employment? Or is it done in order for local politics to better influence how that money is spent?

What about citizens and state relationship if state has failed its duty? State has established to protect the people from external threats, peaceful living and ending. If the state fails to provide employment, not concern about poverty, increase of in equality, etc., the citizen may not loyal to his nation???; please clarify. I have 2 bachelor degrees, 3 master degrees, 1 Phd and 2 Diplomas but I have been paid 275 dollars / month, temporary employment. the government stoped recruitment and give privatisation, my specialisation about the free goods sector, privates not at all involved in the subject. So I have applied for HSMP visa and I am diverting my loyalty to another country. Is it a natural one?

Do you think Tennessee made the right desision? Tennessee Senate Passes Initiative to Combat Illegal Immigration http://www.newschannel9.com/articles/employers_11560___article.html/illegal_tennessee.html he State Senate has approved an important measure that will make Tennessee a less attractive place to illegal aliens. Senate Bill 1870 by Sen. Jack Johnson (R-Brentwood) passed the Senate on Thursday by an overwhelming majority. The vote was 27-2. Known as the “Employer Responsibility in Hiring Practices Act”, the bill requires employers to use the Employment Eligibility Verification Basic Pilot Program to ensure that new hires are eligible to legally work in the United States. The program is a web-based system that is operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “We are the first state in the nation to require that all employers use the Employment Eligibility Verification Program,” stated Johnson. “State government must be proactive in providing employers the tools they need to comply with federal immigration laws.” U

US Government Employment policy on Tattoos? I plan on working for the state department when I graduate college, and was wondering if anyone knew the US Government's official policy, if there is one, on having tattoos? Is it just common sense and cover them up?

How many people in India are work under Public Sector emplyoyment? Can anyone please give me the total number of employees in India working under State or Central Govts. I hope the figure includes workers in local municipalities, government institutions, railways, public sector companies, police force, armed forces etc. Basically I need to know the number of people dependent upon central or state government for employment. Feeling mutual. I asked a sincere question, but your answer was irrelevent, off the point and stupid. Clearly you bothered replying just because you wanted to earn points. I am confident you got the top contributor tag by giving such illogical and irrelevant answers. I am reporting your answer and surely won't select you as the best answer. Since there is only one response so far (that is yours unfortunately) and this question might go into voting, my sincere request to the voters is not to vote for the stupid answer given by 'Feeling Mutual'

What is the Worst State in the Union to Live in? Why? Please speak Your mind! Thanks.? Government State legislature Lack of Employment laws Schools/Lack of Good Teachers Nanny Laws Driving Laws Taxes too high? Political Correctness too far to left or right Fair or unfair to Women and minorities etc... Quality of Life/Social Programs Productivity/Employment or lack of it

Should the Indian government increase the education budget? As you may know, India's literacy is severely ragging at a rate of only around 50%, which is relatively low and in a sense, humiliating, considering there are countries like China, with even more population, and there literacy rate is 90% - and that is a startling fact considering the difficulty of the Chinese language, and the fact that it has no aphabet system. I researched the reasn why China has so high literacy rates, that it has today, and the reason was because it invested large amounts since it's early inception as a communist state. Therefore, should the government be more concerned with this stastic and increase the existing amount of the budget on education. As you may as well know, education is the most important route to ending poverty in India: - it can increase and diversify the pool of skilled labour, and therefore increase employment among poor and rduce poverty, as the salaries are higher - it can foster intercultural and religious harmony and destroy ignorance - It can reduce the unsustainable increase in population - It can prevent the children from turning to corruption when they are older - It can eradicate ancient-values such as caste and dowry, which hinder the overall progress and development of the nation - It can increase awareness of the environment among the youth, so when they are older, they can implement more environmentally friendly practises And much much more... Considering all these developments, which will only serve to pull India closer to the first world, and eradicate the very roots of poverty once and for all, logically shouldn't the Indian government spend one of the largest portions of their budgets on this.

No subsidies to the farmers;No employment to youth;No control on population growth; where does India go? India is being Agricultural country. The Governments(both Central and all state Governments) in India failed to control the population growth and to improve the common man's living standards in India The Agriculture in India is suffering for want of good water Management. The Government should concentrate on (a) all the rivers to be joined and subsidies to be given to the genuine and poor farmers, (b) the sufficient self employment to be provided for youth on the basis of indian atmospheric conditions,(c)encourage exports and discourage imports and develop India to the Indian standards by borrowing money from developed people and use the same sincerely and honestly for the sake of the country and to its people and repay the same properly.No GDP growth calculations prove that all indians are living happily. Develop the education standards and provide uniform syllabus in education throughout India. It takes generations to develop India but not by 2020.TILL THEN INDIA NEVER SHINES

Who many college educated workers are interested in a government job ?? thank god not too much : take a look? , the government is having a terrible time recruiting employees. Only 16% of college-educated workers say that they are interested in a government job. Among those without a college degree, there is twice the level of interest. Among people currently employed, those with managerial or professional occupations show a low interest level of 17%. Among those who want work to be challenging and enjoyable, only 9% thought a government job qualified. And, interestingly, among those who say they want to make a contribution to society, 90% said that non-government work in the private sector, whether for profit or non-profit, is the way to go. Now, what this means is that the smart set avoids government. Government work might still be attractive to people with fewer economic opportunities, but they are entering it for reasons that are not ideological. And for that reason too, they are less loyal to the public sector and glad to bail out if something else comes available. Most people view this as a very bad trend. I would only say that it is a significant trend, especially considering that in the heyday of government central planning, government sought to attract the best and the brightest. Often it did. Now, one might argue that if government were doing what it should be doing, this would be a good thing. But if government is doing many bad things, it is certainly not a bad trend for it to experience a brain drain. It is always a tragedy to see smart and entrepreneurial men and women be attracted away from productive employment in the private sector toward a position of power in the public sector. It makes us poorer to have the talents drained away from wealth creation toward wealth destruction. As for the very few good people in politics — Ron Paul is the great exception that proves the rule — they are true public servants only insofar as they work to diminish government power rather than increase it. So long as government is large and overweening, we are better off with a public sector that cannot attract the best and brightest. They should stay put where they can continue to expand the range of goods and services offered within the market framework. It is the market that provides us the means necessary to improve our standard of living, and the tools we need to maintain some degree of independence from the state. We often rail against incompetence in government. But before we go too far with this language, we need to consider that competence in government may be a far worse fate. We don't need genuinely competent antitrust enforcers, drug and food regulators, tax collectors, money manipulators, labor-law interventionists, gun grabbers, and environmental police. As H.L. Mencken said, we should be thankful that we don't get all the government we pay for. To be sure, we are paying far more today for government than ever before. Consider the real annual growth rate of total government outlays by presidents. Under Nixon, it was 3%. Under Carter, it was 4.1%. Under Reagan, 2.6%. Under Bush's dad, 1.9%, a figuring owing to the cuts in military spending. Domestic spending soared. Under Clinton, whom we all denounced as a socialist, it was 1.5%, the lowest rate in the postwar period. And under the present Bush, who promised less government? The real annual growth rate of total government outlays has been 5%, which compares to Johnson-era spending. The old rationales for government growth may have been discredited in the public mind. But they are alive in Washington, among the special interest groups, and among the media.

Should the hounding of BNP members from state employment also apply to Fabian Society Members, i.e.New Labour? In an affront to democratic freedom the government have sacked members of the far right nationalist party the BNP from work in the public sector.. But in the interest of equal treatment, should not members of the extreme left wing group, the communist think tank, The Fabian Society, also be similarly sacked? In a stroke this would remove, Gordon Brown, almost all of his ministers, and to quote from the Fabian Society website, 300 Fabian MPS. How strange, as I cannot recall any MP standing for election as a Fabian. But as the BNP stand for British National identity, and The Fabian Society, believe in subverting democracy from within and creating a socialist government, which would become a communist government by default, I personally, would reinstate the rights of the BNP and sack the fraudulent cowards of the, Fabian Society, who hide behind the banner of the Labour Party, whille undermining our democracy. Indeed they should be prosecuted for criminal misrepresentation. How fitting the Fabian Society emblem, a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, is for the liar, Gordon Brown. Here's a quote from the Fabians, which will explain why New Labour says one thing, but does the other. "We are at present working ... with all our might to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local states of the world. And all the time, we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands." -- Arnold Toynbee, well-known British historian, Fabian, and member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (the British equivalent of the Council on Foreign Relations). Should we insist on the sacking of all members of the Fabian Society on the basis that they are enemies of the state? To suggest that the Fabians are not actively subverting government belies the spiel of their own website. Their entire philosophy is based upon Fabius who used the same techniques to destroy Hanniball, from within. That's the reason for the Wold in Sheep's Clothing emblem, but they also have another. A tortoise with one taloned foot raise and the motto, When I Strike, I Strike Hard. Illustrating the virtue of a slow approach and the a decisive strike, hardly the motto for a harmless think tank, is it?

Federal employment opportunities for green card holders? How difficult is it for legal alien green card holders to gain employment in the US federal government? I plan to emmigrate to the USA with my American wife and have been searching for jobs. A lot of jobs state eligibility requirements such as "Applications will be accepted from United States citizens" or "Current Agency employees " Is there any route for green card holders?

For my EPSQ with the Marines, under work history, what code would Dairy Queen be? 1 - Active military duty stations 2 - National Guard/Reserve 3 - E.S.P.H.S. Commissioned Corps 4 - Other Federal Employment 5 - State Government (Non-Federal Employment) 6 - Self-Employment 7 - Unemployment 8 - Federal Contractor 9 - Other (explain) If "Other," how would I explain that?

federal or state government job? If I am working at a bank what would it be considered? (federal or stov't) What if I am working at a clothign store in the mall? my only options -- 1.other federal employment 2.stet gov't (non-federal employment) 3.other

Why are people so afraid of drug testing and background checks when applying for a job? Every job I have ever had in my adult life has required an initial drug test, and random drug tests after that and a background check as well as a credit check. All decent companies as well as the states and federal governments require these for employment. Why do so many people complain about this part of the application process?

What would a private citizen have to do to prepare to file a law suit against the United States government on the basis of religious discrimination in the workplace over a period of 36 years of employment there? I will not use my money to file this suit. I already can get an attorney. What if I wanted to do this myself?

Has anyone gotten a real government job from a company called American Data Group? Is this a scam??? I called and they asked for a $69 registration fee that they promise to refund if they don't find you a job in 30 days. JOB DETAILS: Federal and State Government Jobs - Now Hiring Earn $12.00 to $48.00 Per Hour * Full Medical and Dental Benefits * Paid Training * Job Security * Career Positions This employment service will save you time and effort in research. The learning tools, job counseling and full access to listings and contacts will prove invaluable to giving you a head start on landing that career position. Many Federal and State Positions Hiring Now i n areas like Healthcare, Clerical, Administrative, Construction, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Accounting, Finance, Public Relations, Wildlife/Park Service and More! Both Full Time and Part Time Positions Available! Call Toll Free 7 Days Toll Free 800-320-9353 extension 2310 This service will bring you to all the resources you need to begin working in a Federal and State Government job full or part time

Is a degree in psychology worth the effort ? I have 13 years with the state government in social/public service and want to work towards self employment. I counsel every day as it is and since I can go to a state university for free, I am thinking about continuing my education in psychology.

by voting for obama do support his beliefs? this is what the million man march was about and what obama coordinated and supported and will enforce if president 1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom. 2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color. 3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society. 4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own--either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years--until we are able to produce and supply our own needs. Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own 5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South. We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave master's children and establish a land of their own. We know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people. 6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the United States. We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land--or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty. 7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States, but equal employment opportunities- NOW! We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped America become rich and powerful, so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief or charity or live in poor houses. 8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land. 9. We want equal education--but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers. Under such schooling system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect. 10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hinderance or suppression. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS CHANGE?

Federal employment and state residency? Is being employed by the federal government say as a DEA agent the same as being employed as a member of the military in regards to state residency. I know that in the military, whatever state you were recruited out of is your state of legal residence no matter where you are stationed unless you voluntarily change it. Does the same go for the federal government? Say I am hired out of FL by the DEA and get stationed in California, would I be able to work in California for the DEA and maintain FL residency so that I would be subject only to FL income tax and not CA or both?

I have just had to file for unemployment. Approx how much will I be paid until I find employment? I live in TN and was averaging approx. $5144.66 per month in my last job. How does the state or government determine your unemployment wage? Finally, should filing for unemployment create any conflict in anyway between me and my former employer? I was paid a severence package (2 weeks salary) Thanks for the information.

Could you please help me with my government hwk? 1.) When the first United States census was taken in 1790, nine-tenths of the American people lived on mountain ranges valleys farms 2.) The invention of new machines has at times brought employment to all unemployment less money 3.) While the machine has reduced costs, its greatest benefit has come through lessening the dead trees in dangerous forests number of new businesses hours of labor 4.) The invention of machines has made people more ____ each other dependent upon aggravated with trusting of 5.) The Federal government recognizes the right of workers to cancel their involvement in a union protest unions join a union 6.) A corporation is a large company in which the ___ is distributed among many people who hold shares in the company ownership employment benefits discounts 7.) Congress created the ___ to settle management - labor disputes in companies that are engaged in interstate commerce. National Labor Relations Board Labor Union Board Civil Labor Relations Board 8.) Before a company can do business, it must obtain ___ from the state government a large amount of money permission to organize interested workers 9.) When machines are involved, employees need more training more experience both of these 10.) The invention of the automobile gave jobs to all of the following except highway builders teachers house builders

Is the Labour government peddling a complete pack of lies about employment, inflation and housing ? It wouldn't be the first time Tony Blair and his loopy men told us complete falsehoods for their own purposes - the inflation figures of 2.4 % do not tally with money supply growth of 14% to August. Unemployment is nearer five million than whatever rubbish they are fabricating this time and housing figures are compiled by groups of people (ie building societies, banks, estate agents and politically pressured state sources) who have a vested interest in keeping the housing boom going. Meanwhile the replacement to 'bankrupcies' the IVA or Individual Voluntary Arrangements have mushroomed from 2,000 in 2002 to 40,000 in 2006. Are we being systematically lied to by the Labour government ??? The main problem emerging for the UK is the growing levels of unemployment and concealed unemployment. The jobless totals have been rising for the last two years. The number officially out of work stands at 1.68 million. If you factor in most of the people on disability benefit who would like a job and could do one, and those on other benefits like single parent benefit who would also like to find employment, we discover that there are a staggering 5 million people in the UK without jobs. The Chancellor himself believes that many of those on disability and single parent benefit should find jobs, and has developed elaborate programmes to bring this about. He is proving, yet again, that government programmes cannot overcome deeper seated obstacles to job creation in a modern economy. http://www.competitivechallenge.com/index.php/archives/policy-group-interim-report/#more-48 Also reference the Financial Times - 17 th Oct for IVA statistics. and Reuters for the increases in M4 money supply 13.8% increase to August

How can a state on the verge of bankruptcy raise taxes? 1.Businesses have already started leaving or folding. Don't you think to stimulate an economy we should cut taxes and make a state "business friendly?" People are, losing their homes and jobs, so who will bear this burden? 2.Wouldn't we employ more people if we can keep businesses in our state? 3. Wouldn't cutting even more taxes in our country stimulate even more growth and employment so that we would not have to rely on the government for health care? 4. What about privatization of services? Yup, Wild man, you guessed it, and we are going down in flames! Lisa: Michigan wants to tax services, LaSalle Bank and Comerica left. Small business services will really feel it. So more jobs lost!

How can I find employment that will allow me to fly from PA to SC on occasion? Xtended family lives there.? I am currently seeking employment, However I would love to find a job that allows me to travel from PA to SC, or even MN on occasion, but I have no clue how to find such a thing, or what employment it would fall under. I thought it would be 'Travel' but that seems to be primarily for agents. I have extensive experience in Management, Food Service, Retail, Government Contracts, Supply, Accounting, General Manager. I have tried Career Builder, and Monster. A few of my Children and Grandchildren, live in these States, and if I could find employment that would allow me to travel there, then obviously, I can see them. If anyone has any helpful ideas, please let me know. Thanks so much...

Do you think that financial insecurity could compromise the integrity of educational institutions? With the reductions in public funding and the increasing cost of essential commodities do you think that the merit of the higher education system will be compromised due to the need for financial revenue in continuing institution operation? Every business requires revenue to continue operation. If higher education institutions can't obtain their revenue from the federal/state government then the higher education institution must look elsewhere. To the students who are attending the institution. Isn't it true that the institution can generate the most revenue by perpetually allowing students to obtain passing grades regardless of their level of skill? Do you think that students are concerned that their degree might not be worth anything if/because the value of the degree has been depreciated due to a lack of integrity? I believe in the value of a college degree, but I think that the value of a college education is in danger. It is becoming harder and harder to find employment. I am advocating for those serious college students who put in the effort necessary to master their respective disciplines. I think it is unfortunate that some people will be incapable of receiving a level of skill equal to others, but it is important that students are placed appropriately. I don't think we are doing anyone a favor by falsely stating that a student who isn't prepared is prepared; it is unfair to lead people on, debts do accumulate.

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

Employment for educated exservicemen in nigeria? I retired from the Nigerian army education corps . I have teaching qualification and vast experience. How do I link up with the vaterans office for recomendation to Ogun state government for teaching appointment? I live at Alagbado Ogun state. I can work in both ogun and Lagos states Iam 54years old

Who would you write a letter to? I want to send a letter to someone in my local/state government. The purpose of the letter would be to ask them to consider changing a law or put something into the law. It is regarding employment issues. Who do you write a letter to? Senate? Congress? Anyone know?

what is the solution to this peoblem as it is stated below ? Thereare this issue of crimminalities that is trying to rag mystate. especially arm robbery and killing cultism and other atrocities Rumour has been carried by the people of this state the way Government maltreat the poor once, mostly those who doesnt have the opportunity to go school,do not`have accessin in any government activities or cannot be equalify in any employment in government ,nomatter the knowledge in them(ie naturally given to them by God).i suggested that government should provid a job opportunities according to the level of an imdividual.Even the graduate in my state are suffering because of lack of job opportunity,some have finish from school for the passed five years without gotten a job.some decided to go into farming work;some are riding motorcycle to earn a living,and some who see it as the way to wicked the government,decided to go into robbery. this issue of robbery has been affecting both the riches and the poors as the robb and kill the innocent once.

Is this legal for my company to do? our company sent all the workers a letter saying the following. "[company name] is seriously considering shuttering [facility location] and outsourcing operations to [name of place in India] if the United States government does not enact a comprehensive amnesty for undocumented workers within the next several months. We urge you to contact your representatives in Congress and encourage them to do so, if you wish to continue your employment." Can I report this to anyone? Is it legal for them to say that?

I saw a meter maid scooter thing with a Democratic bumper-sticker. Is that a violation of Church and State??? Since all lib-Blues are atheiset they should be blocked from Government employment, right??

State : Neither Samaritan Nor Solomon ?? Mises? If you say that government is too big and truly overweening, you elicit a surprising degree of agreement among people, even mainstream columnists, economists, and nearly everyone. Even government employees, who famously resent their bosses, might be quick to agree. If you hang outside the offices of the IRS in Washington, D.C., in the park at noontime where its employees take their lunch, you will get an earful of vitriol against the bureaucracy such as you wouldn't hear outside 1990s militia circles. Incidentally, the government is having a terrible time recruiting employees. Only 16% of college-educated workers say that they are interested in a government job. Among those without a college degree, there is twice the level of interest. Among people currently employed, those with managerial or professional occupations show a low interest level of 17%. Among those who want work to be challenging and enjoyable, only 9% thought a government job qualified. And, interestingly, among those who say they want to make a contribution to society, 90% said that non-government work in the private sector, whether for profit or non-profit, is the way to go. Now, what this means is that the smart set avoids government. Government work might still be attractive to people with fewer economic opportunities, but they are entering it for reasons that are not ideological. And for that reason too, they are less loyal to the public sector and glad to bail out if something else comes available. Most people view this as a very bad trend. I would only say that it is a significant trend, especially considering that in the heyday of government central planning, government sought to attract the best and the brightest. Often it did. Now, one might argue that if government were doing what it should be doing, this would be a good thing. But if government is doing many bad things, it is certainly not a bad trend for it to experience a brain drain. It is always a tragedy to see smart and entrepreneurial men and women be attracted away from productive employment in the private sector toward a position of power in the public sector. It makes us poorer to have the talents drained away from wealth creation toward wealth destruction. As for the very few good people in politics — Ron Paul is the great exception that proves the rule — they are true public servants only insofar as they work to diminish government power rather than increase it. So long as government is large and overweening, we are better off with a public sector that cannot attract the best and brightest. They should stay put where they can continue to expand the range of goods and services offered within the market framework. It is the market that provides us the means necessary to improve our standard of living, and the tools we need to maintain some degree of independence from the state. We often rail against incompetence in government. But before we go too far with this language, we need to consider that competence in government may be a far worse fate. We don't need genuinely competent antitrust enforcers, drug and food regulators, tax collectors, money manipulators, labor-law interventionists, gun grabbers, and environmental police. As H.L. Mencken said, we should be thankful that we don't get all the government we pay for. To be sure, we are paying far more today for government than ever before. Consider the real annual growth rate of total government outlays by presidents. Under Nixon, it was 3%. Under Carter, it was 4.1%. Under Reagan, 2.6%. Under Bush's dad, 1.9%, a figuring owing to the cuts in military spending. Domestic spending soared. Under Clinton, whom we all denounced as a socialist, it was 1.5%, the lowest rate in the postwar period. And under the present Bush, who promised less government? The real annual growth rate of total government outlays has been 5%, which compares to Johnson-era spending. The old rationales for government growth may have been discredited in the public mind. But they are alive in Washington, among the special interest groups, and among the media. I would like to identify the main ones. Rationale Number One: The Good Samaritan State. In this view of government, the state should act like the third person to come upon the poor man who had been beaten and robbed. They imagine a population that is divided among three types of people: victims, victimizers, and those who refuse to help. The victim classes we know all too well, because the litany is said again and again within the structure of labor law: the elderly, the very young, ethnic and racial minorities, religious minorities, sexual minorities, the physically and mentally disabled, workers, the underpaid, people in rural areas, those who deal with urban overcrowding, people who breathe dirty air or eat chemically produced products, artists, the manufacturing industry, people with peanut allergies, the dyslexic, short people, fat people, the leisure deprived, and I've probably left out a hundred or so other groups. Among the victimizers, we similarly have a list: capitalists, racial and ethnic majorities, sexual majorities, the overpaid, managers and CEOs, people who live in gated communities, the well armed, consumers of cell phones, owners of mines, anyone living off a trust fund, fully abled men, and anyone who resents social managers telling them what to do. In the view of those who advocate the Samaritan State, these two classes of victims and victimizers are constantly at war. There is nothing but conflict between them. The loss of one is the gain of the other. These categories are fixed and unchanging. The lack of harmony of interests is built into the structure of the social and economic world. The remedy requires an institution that is relentlessly engaged in reweighing the power relationships between the two groups. The conflict cannot be finally ended, but justice requires that the victims are given an unending stream of compensation and that the victimizers are treated with disdain and punished for their very existence. Social justice thus requires that victimizers are reduced, disabled, denounced, and spat upon, while the victims must be exalted, fed, clothed, funded, and made whole. This is how the Left, broadly speaking, thinks the world works, and should work. It doesn't matter whether one considers oneself a hard Marxist or a soft social democrat, the intellectual tie that binds them together is the view that conflict and not cooperation characterizes the work of society in the absence of an institution dedicated to bringing about social justice. The institutional answer is, of course, the state. The state is the Samaritan who lifts up and exalts the meek, and smites the proud and powerful who would otherwise walk right past the poor person on the street, who is the very archetype of the victim in the leftist view of how the world works. But there are many things wrong with this view of society. In the parable, the victim was beaten and robbed. He was exploited only in a very narrow and old-fashioned sense: his person and property were violated. These are crimes against libertarian ethics, a system of thought that mirrors what every religious and ethical system has taught: do not kill and do not steal. In other words, he was not a victim of some hazy notion of Social Injustice. He was not discriminated against, exploited by an employer, made to work long hours, or denied a comfy living in his old age. There is a huge difference between being beaten and robbed, and having to pay high prices for prescription drugs. The great error of the Left is its inability to distinguish the injustice of violence from the supposed injustice of inequality of material condition. As for the Samaritan, he was not acting as an agent of the regime. He used his own money to help the victim. He got him back on his feet and paid his bills at the private clinic where he was deposited for care. The Samaritan did not rob someone else to give money to the man on the street. He presumably got his money justly by hard work and investment. He had no desire to keep the man dependent, nor to exercise power over him, tax him, regulate him, nor send him to war. The state is something very different. It has no income but that which it robs from someone else. It seeks its own gain at others' expense. It protects itself and promotes itself before the interests of everyone else. It is beholden to special interests who create and control its regulatory apparatus. It is not impartial. It sides with its friends over its enemies. Moreover, the state is an exploiter, a murderer, a violator of human rights. The typical response of the Left is to say that they want a state that does only good things such as share and care, and not bad things such as steal and kill. But this cannot be. We might as well wish for a lion that only purrs and cuddles, or a rattlesnake that only provides percussion accompaniment to mariachi music. The very nature of the state is that it exists only through and for compulsion. To imagine otherwise is not to face reality. Rationale Number Two: The Solomonic State. In the Bible we are told that King Solomon had "understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore." And his "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." He was "wiser than all men" and "his fame was in all nations round about." He spoke "three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five." He "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom." Now, I'm not here to dispute the Bible's account of Solomon's wisdom. But let us also recall that Solomon's rule later became close to tyrannical. His son Rehoboam inherited his power, and when the people begged for relief from Solomon's "heavy yoke," and instigated a full-scale crackdown: "My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions." To be wise and prudent is not characteristics of rulers. In fact, it is very dangerous to hope that they may be. If we set out to find such a person, and have fantastic power available to him when we believe he has arrived, we have set up the framework for tyranny. The founders knew that no man can be trusted with power. They attempted to construct a system that presumed that men were corruptible, and that there would be some means to dislodge them when their corruption showed. Still, today many people long for the Solomonic State as a means of dispensing justice. Unlike the Samaritan model, the goal here is not charity but the just wielding of the sword on behalf of the right and true. Thus should we seek out righteous men of learning and moral character who know what evil is and have the courage to stand up to it and destroy it. This model is what inspires this mentality. There are many problems with this model. One man might be very wise, even the wisest of all men. But as F.A. Hayek might remind us, all the accumulated knowledge in the head of one person is still infinitesimal as compared with the wisdom that emerges through social cooperation on the marketplace. We can consider the price of any good on the market as it stands right now, and know that this one price results from the accumulated decisions of millions of people across thousands and thousands of sectors of economic activity spread throughout the world. The knowledge is dispersed in a million directions and results from small decisions and actions by economic actors. But the result is a single indicator that assists in allocating resources better than any single mind could ever do. The model of the Solomonic State also imagines that somehow the social order we see around us cannot possibly have come about without a single will operating in society, some firm hand that has designed the order and keeps it running smoothly. People who think this way imagine that in the absence of this firm hand, there would be nothing but a Hobbesian state of nature, where society is a war of all against all and life is nasty, brutish, and short. Our age is notably lacking in the likes of Solomon, and so those who fear the Hobbesian state of nature turn to the managerial state to act wisely in the interest of justice and order, at home and abroad. They might not always like what the rulers do, but they consider the alternative to despotism more fearsome. They warn about the dread results of anarchism and liberty, where people senselessly kill and rob without consequence. They fear this liberty more than they fear the abuses of power. This, I submit, is the mentality of many conservatives and many on the Right. We see it in the affections they have for Bush, the Patriot Act, the war on terror, and how quickly people fall for any leader who uses Manichean rhetoric in defense of the latest nationalistic crusade. What these people need more than anything else is a familiarity with the insights of the old liberal tradition as represented by Jefferson, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. They need to come to see how order is not the mother of liberty but its daughter. They need to see how society is harmonious not because of the state but because of the prevalence of human cooperation in the marketplace, where people work to trade to their own mutual betterment. People who fail to understand this become the unwitting servants of tyranny, particularly in the modern age when it is so obviously not wise but stupid and violent and presumptuous. They imagine that the state can posses godlike powers and bring justice and order, but they end up only empowering the worst elements in society, bringing injustice, and chaos. Now, you might say that the old liberal view of society is naïve. It might be in people's interest to learn to trade rather than steal but we live in a fallen world. If not for some overarching controlling force, people would loot each other unrelentingly and kill for fun. Now, to this I can say that it is true that some societies have not learned to make trading and peace significantly more prevalent than violence and killing. History is strewn with examples. The question we have to ask ourselves is whether a society that fails to learn the art of civilization will erect and sustain a state that will impose civilization on the people. I submit that history also teaches that when a people are brutal and uncivilized, the state is even more so. The state is rarely and maybe never better than the people it rules; in fact, it is almost always worse. Rationale Number Three: Log-Rolling. Given these two very different conceptions of the state, one favoring the welfare state and the other favoring a warfare state, why don't the visions cancel each other out? So intense is the desire of one group to have the state that it wants that it is willing to put up with another group's desire for its conception of the state. The two conceptions decide to cooperate and erect a state that purports to behave both like Solomon and like the Samaritan. That is the origin of the guns-and-butter state, or the welfare-warfare state, or the modern state as we know it, one that purports to meet every need. We see how this log-rolling works every day on Capitol Hill. One group wants more money for tanks and weaponry, and the other wants more for Medicaid and education. If both agree that politics is the art of compromise, they will put up with the other group's priorities in order that their own vision can be fulfilled. On the Right, we find that the love for the police power is more intense than the hatred of redistribution. On the Left, we find that the love of redistribution is more intense than the hatred of war and leviathan. They therefore work together to erect a massive and ever-growing executive. They are similarly unwilling to oppose the state in total. They fear that in doing so, the state as an institution will be discredited, and their conception of what the state should do along with it. Neither side particularly loves big government but both sides agree that it is better than the alternative of letting people alone. So they log-roll to support the public sector above all else, even when it means that they must sleep with their ostensible political enemies. Rationale Number Four: The Inflationary State. Now we come to the reason this system is able to perpetuate itself. And there is something of a mystery to explain here. No people anywhere will put up with a leviathan that grows and grows forever. At some point, the problem of funding state expansion will result in too much violence against property, and the people will revolt. Indeed, if the federal government had to collect all its revenue through a tax of any kind, leveled right now against the public, I submit to you that it would spark a tax revolt on a scale never before seen in modern history. Thus do we have the central bank to create money for the state. Thus do we have paper money that can be created in unlimited quantities. Thus do we have deposit insurance to make banks failure proof, so that the masses will never doubt that the credit pyramid is immortal. Thus do we have the Fed's power to manipulate interest rates and control the flow of credit to the system. An economist at Lehman Brothers sent us an interesting chart the other day. It compares the level of price increases across many Fed regimes. Under the first Fed governor Charles Hamlin, the dollar declined 8% in value. Under Thomas B. McCabe from the late forties, it declined 7.2%. Under Arthur Burns, wholly owned by Nixon, the dollar declined 42% in value. Under Volcker, Mr. Tight Money, it fell 40%. And under Greenspan, who has a reputation as a great inflation fighter, the value of the dollar in terms of goods and services fell fully 44%! Inflation serves the cause of the state by giving it room to run up debts without limit and fund its activities without making the people cough up more revenue. Indeed, that is the primary purpose of the inflationary state. People often say to me that a gold standard is impractical. In fact, that is not the case. It is very practical. It is the free-market answer. The state doesn't need to produce money any more than it needs to produce shoes or shirts or clocks. The problem is that we lack the political will to stop the inflation monster. Rationale Number Five: The Propaganda State. In every society control of educational institutions increases in tandem with the rise of the state. This is because the state needs these institutions to inculcate the civic religion of loving the public enterprise, and also because the less people know about the idea of liberty the more the state is provided the room to grow. Consider the Department of Education. Ever since its creation, every Republican administration has come to power with an intention to abolish it. But once they get in power, they find that bureaucracy has its uses. Instead of cutting or abolishing it, they increase the agency and give it more to do. The more the state does, the more the state sees the need to control public opinion by controlling the schools. Now, there is a point of optimism here. If any state could rule without propaganda, it would surely do so. Why then do states find educational control and the propagation of the civic religion in their interest? Because at some level, every state, in all times and places, is required to seek the tacit consent of those it governs. No state can control a society by use of the sword only and alone. It must also seek some degree of ideological conformity with its own goals. Otherwise its rule becomes threatened and destabilized. The other side of the coin is that states can indeed be destabilized by the ultimate counterrevolutionary tactic of providing alternative sources of education. As Mises said, all of history is a battle of ideas. Where the ideas of freedom are triumphant, liberty prevails. Where the ideas of freedom are buried and suppressed, despotism prevails. Our pathway is clear. It is a choice of the Mises Institute not to mix in the mire of a political system that is wholly owned or attempt to seek favor from influential opinion makers. Our path is one of education, pursued with high-minded ideals, advanced using the most modern methods, and animated by the spirit of guerilla warfare. There are Misesians and Rothbardians strewn throughout the academic world, financial and banking houses, law firms, and in every walk of life, not only in this country but all over the world. We have worked for nearly a quarter of a century on a very radical project of advancing economic science and logic. We have pushed to keep the fire of freedom burning brightly. We have sought to teach anyone and everyone about the workings and benefits of liberty. We have come under pressure from left, right, and center. Yet the attention given to this body of ideas grows by the day. We can prevail against the Propaganda State. So long as we are free to do so and have the means available, we will continue to do so. This is our weapon against power. It is the most effective weapon anyone could ever possess. If we win this victory, we win all others. We thank you for supporting education for liberty, and for being part of the revolutionary vanguard that sees through the errors of our day and imagines a brighter future of freedom, private property, and peace. : Mises Institute

Why do Blue states have poorer economy? Blue-State Employment Blues As long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way. By Greg Kaza Bears and partisans are exuberant about the August employment report, which recorded a loss of 4,000 jobs in a labor market that employs 138 million. Employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was “essentially unchanged,” with losses concentrated in the manufacturing (-46,000) and government (-28,000) sectors. This was no surprise: Manufacturing has contracted in August in eight of the last ten years, dating back to the Clinton era. Employment is a broad economic indicator, and last Friday’s less-than-stellar report deserves attention. But another monthly BLS report on regional and state employment offers a view of the jobs market through an alternative lens. In particular, this report allows one to compare employment growth between the so-called Blue and Red states. Political pundits identify 18 bona-fide Blue states, which backed Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, and 29 clear-cut Red states, which supported Republican President George W. Bush both times out. Blue states are said to be “liberal,” and Red states “conservative.” But there might be another reason to term certain states “blue”: weak employment growth in a period of expansion. Total Blue-state employment growth has been only 3.3 percent during the current expansion, which began in November 2001, compared with the U.S. rate of 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, total Red-state employment growth has been 7.5 percent, more than double that of the Blue states. In baseball terms, one might say the Blue team is hitting only 5-for-13 for a mere .277 average, while the Red team is slugging 18-for-29 for a league-leading .621. Here’s a closer look at the stats: Job growth has trailed the U.S. average in 13 Blue states. California, the largest Blue-state labor market, fell behind by the narrow margin of less than a half-percent, while growth has been slower in Rhode Island (5%), Minnesota (4.1%), Wisconsin (3.1%), New York (2.8%), New Jersey (2.7%), Pennsylvania (2.7%), Vermont (2.3%), Maine (2.1%), Connecticut (1.5%), Illinois (1.1%), Massachusetts (-0.2%), and Michigan (-5%). The job losses in Michigan and Massachusetts have been the most severe, falling below 2001 levels. Regionally speaking, this blue-streak continues. The Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions, all predominantly Blue, have trailed the U.S. jobs-growth average. The only Blue region to beat the average has been the West, fueled by above-average jobs gains in Hawaii (15.2%), Washington (9.5%), and Oregon (9%). Two other Blue states — Delaware (5.8%) and Maryland (6.1%) — also have bested the U.S. average. Now for the Red team: Of 29 certified Red states, a full 18 have topped the U.S. jobs-growth rate. And here an interesting trend appears: Red states with no income taxes — Nevada (25.7%), Wyoming (15.2%), Florida (13.9%), Alaska (10.2%), Texas (9.1%), South Dakota (8.3%), and Tennessee (5.5%) — have all witnessed above-average job growth. Not surprisingly, three of four Red regions have led the U.S. in job growth: Red states in the West have expanded 15.9 percent followed by the Plains (7.7%) and the Southeast (7.5%). The only Red region to trail the U.S. jobs-growth average has been the Midwest (1%). This trend is not new. It has merely been overlooked by the mainstream media. Labor is colorblind in the political context of Red and Blue states. And as long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

Relocating to another state? I have quite a few questions about this issue and not enough room to ask them...but here's a "shortened" version of my situation... My husband and I live in Michigan (highest unemployment rate in the nation), we both lost our jobs to foreign competition over a year ago and since then, my husband has had 2 other jobs and got laid off from them also. I am going to college, thanks to the TAA federal training program, which is great ... but when I finish college, the chances of getting a job even with a degree seems to be slim. We are seriously considering relocating to another state, but have no idea where to start. I have been searching online for jobs in certain states (that I think would be a decent place to live), but all in all, we are both completely clueless on the issue. First question, which states are the best for employment and cost of living? Second, are there any government programs that help with finding (displaced) families jobs and housing in another state?

Employment question - Private vs Public in IT? I work for the state government and am very unhappy with my job. I had just finished my masters degree and, of course, there is no room to progress (at least for the next few years due to a hiring freeze). Management treats me like I am a know-nothing idiot and does not put much stake into my abilities and skill sets mostly due to the "good ol' boy syndrome". However, being as the job is a public sector job, I can never be fired and will always have an income regardless of the economic situation. The problem is: with my ambitions, I have to have some way to grow, to learn, and succeed and I cannot do that in my current work environment. I want to take a stab at the private sector but I am having problems calculating and willing to accept the risk of the current economy and willing to accept that the stupidity of our government will have a large part in my success. I have a masters degree in information systems, 12 years of programming/analysis, and own a C-Corp. I need some advice.

Experienced female with Supreme Ct/Municipal Ct/Criminal Ct/House of Reps exp seeking employment in major city Single divorced female looking for employment in major metro state. Willing to relocate.10 years experience in Criminal Court, 8 years experience in House of Reps, 4 years experience with City Attorney's Office and 4 years experience in Municipal Court Prosecutor's Office. Outside of government worked as Executive Administrative Assistant.

I am searching for employment? I hold degrees in Business Administration & Human Resource Management and have many, many years of management experience in the corporate world & also in the not-for-profit & government sector and, have been sort of semi-retired and now am looking for a full time position. I can handle many types of opportunities and I am looking in the Northern/Northwest counties of New Jersey & Southern New York state county areas, and am very interested also in the Roanoke, (Southwest) VA area. Does anyone have any leads? I am on all the major online job boards (Monster, etc.), and would appreciate any direct employment leads. Thanks. Just a further note; I also professionally counsel in job searching & career & resume skills & what I am really looking for in here are direct employment leads in the specific geographic areas mentioned.Thanks again for any help.

Why are the Democrats taking there ideas from the official Nazi Party platform of 1920? We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunities for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and for the good of all. Therefore, we demand:...an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand...the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education...We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents... The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. [We] combat the...materialistic spirit withn and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good . same agenda... same plan. http://www.lawrence.edu/sorg/objectivism/socfasc.html

Do liberals choose a career in a field that produces nothing of value? A Liberal will look for employment in field such as public education, an employee of local, county, state or federal government, an "activist," a lawyer, or a bureaucrat in a tax free foundation or an Non-Profit Organization devoted to advancing Liberal goals, etc. Then the Liberal will use government to extract wealth and ask for donations.

Where would I find out about Employee Rights in New Hampshire? I understand about employment at will in NH, but I feel I was terminated unjustly. The reasons given are completely at odds with the facts, and may have been fueled by my gender. Where would I find out about what the state or federal government uses as guidelines for wrongful termination? I understand about employment at will in NH, but I feel I was terminated unjustly. The reasons given are completely at odds with the facts, and may have been fueled by my gender. Where would I find out about what the state or federal government uses as guidelines for wrongful termination? I have searched the NH state website, but there is little information that relates to this, and most of it is vague. I was wondering if someone knew of a site more specifically suited to NH worker rights, or wrongful termination.

Please Read. What does it mean to you with the current state of the union and world? Were we warned? Farewell Address Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My fellow Americans: Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor. This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen. Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all. Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation. My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years. In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together. II We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment. III Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad. Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology-global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle-with liberty at stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment. Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small,there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research-these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage-balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only. IV A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society. V Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. VI Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield. Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war-as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years-I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight. Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road. VII So-in this my last good night to you as your President-I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find somethings worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future. You and I-my fellow citizens-need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals. To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

Do pre-employment FBI background checks access medical records? My understanding is that it covers criminal records, credit history, and other things, but cannot access medical records. The site I read stated that medical records are sealed (even from the government) unless you sign a consent form.

What do you all think of the nanny state culture? Where do you think we should draw the line on where we need to take responsabilty for things like our health (obesity smoking, etc) and atitudes towards education, employment, benefits and anti social behaviour (in all ages not just children) and where the government should do their bit?

how much can you omit or embellish? On job application or resume, how much can you omit or embellish on your employment history? Does this matter less or more when seeking employment from difference sources such as private/educational/government (fed/state/county/coty) agencies? Are they more likley to find out that you lied on job application in the government and higher up the government? Have you seen anyone get charged with perjury for lying on job application?

Why is the initial cut off level for thc 50 ng/ml, but 100 ng/ml for employment screening in Hawaii? Why are people in Hawaii able to have more thc in their system (100 ng/ml vs. 50 ng/ml) when they are screened for employment ? If this was a law passed by the state, why is it permitted by the federal government while they deny the ability of the states to permit medical marijuana?

Is my employment at will? Just got an offer letter from a city government in the state of Maryland. The letter says I'll be put under a scrutiny during a minimum of 6 month probation, and if the probationary period ends with a satisfactory evaluation then I'll be changed to a "regular" employee. The prior person's probation was ended at the 6th month. Is this scary? Not sure how strict they'll be with me at this city government. If you were offered this kind of position, would you take it if you had no other offer? Also, the offer does NOT say my employment is "at will". Could this mean that I'll be tenured if they get to like me during the probation? Again this is at a city (municipal) government I meant the "offer letter" does not say that my employment is "at will". What I meant as well was the prior person was released from the position because my supervisor-to-be decided not to extend the probation. Same as having got fired. Well the real question is since the offer letter does NOT say my employment is at will does it mean that if they like me and change me to a regular employee, I can stay with the city government for life?

The unemployment rate is an important indicator of the health of the United States economy.? (a) Assume that with the economy at full employment, the government implements an expansionary fiscal policy. How does the actual unemployment rate at the new short-run equilibrium compare with the natural rate of unemployment? (b) Assume that a significant number of workers are involuntarily changed full-time to part-time employment. Explain how this will affect the number of people who are officially classified as unemployed. (c) Assume that the government reduces the level of unemployment compensation. (i) Explain how this affects the natural rate of unemployment (ii) Using a correctly labeled graph, show how this affects the long-run Phillips curve. Thanks. If you give me an insight to the ?s that would be awesome or if you know of a site that can help me out please tell me. Thanks again.

"No work list" - Electronic Employment Verification System (EEVS)? "What is the "no work list"? Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (S.1348) require every employer in the United States to verify the employment eligibility of their workforce of both US citizens and immigrants through a new Electronic Employment Verification System (EEVS) operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) This is colloquially referred to as the "no work list", as you would not be allowed to work if the EEVS deems you ineligible to work in the US." http://pressesc.com/01180347549_no_work_list I've just recently found out about the EEVS. All government powers are being centralized to the DHS. We are going to be a full blown Fascist country by 2009-2010. How many Americans do not know about the EEVS? "This is only to ensure that those working are legally able to work in this country. This would include citizens, people with work visas, or permanent legal residents of the United States (those who have legally immigrated to this country but are not citizens). What you fail to notice is that this type of system is already allowed under law but never enforced. Why do we have the IRS or SSA? To ensure that everyone working in this country is legally here. " Exactly, so why centralize power to the DHS and spend 400,000,000 creating a system that can be potentially abused and exploited? If you haven't noticed *all* government responsibility is going to the DHS. This completely undermines our current government's structure. Something like this can be used to permantly squash dissent. A simple Yes or No from the DHS will prevent an American from working. What if an American wants to leave the U.S.? He can't without the DHS approval since they also have a "No Fly List". "It is nothing more than a political ploy. The politicians in Washington want to show that they are "serious" about illegal immigration. The new immigration bill contains nothing that is not already law in this country. What we need is to enforce the current laws with regards to illegal immigration." I agree that the current laws need be enforced, but that isn't what is happening. Instead, new laws are being created that undermine freedom. Another bit of information about government power being centralized to the DHS is National Continuity Policy incase a national disaster happens. A DHS council is made that makes the Congress obsolete until the national disaster is declared over. The policy practically grants dictator powers. Congress or the media aren't even challenging the National Continuity Policy, which was signed May 9th. National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

employment as an editor? I graduated from college with a BA in journalism. Right now I'm working as a reporter, but I'd like to know what other opportunities are available for me, particularly in editing. Does any know if the state or federal government hires editors? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks for the answer! I always assumed editors only worked at newspapers and magazines, and I heard from someone that the government may hire editors. Do you know of any other organizations or companies that might?

Do you believe this? Facts about Immigration.? Illegal Immigrants / Aliens Facts 1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. 2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. 4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. 5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. 6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. 7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. 8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. 9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking. 10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A. County). (All 10 from the Los Angeles Times) 11. Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. http://www.cis.org/ Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. YOU LIKE THE WAY YOUR TAXES ARE BEING SPENT???????????? OPINION RELEASE: A Retired Border Patrol Agent has Good Common Sense A Retired Border Patrol Agent has Good Common Sense Finally!!! A look at illegal immigration from someone who has been there and actually knows what he's talking about. A retired border patrol agent has some common sense ..... This letter sent to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist from a retired border patrol agent, and it has more common sense than all the bull being spewed from the Senate, with the exception of a few sensible representatives. Dear Senator Frist, There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan and Honduran aliens. #1 Illegal aliens generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship. Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying the price. #2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans can't take and still support their families Illegal aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country. There are no jobs that Americans won't do for a decent wage. #3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are NOT homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens. These illegal aliens knowingly and willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children. #4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful US. residents. #5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another. #6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not immigrants by definition. The U.S. accepts more lawful immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined. #7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic vote". Hispanics are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and Independents. The so-called "Hispanic vote" is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end. #8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States. Since 1848 Mexicans have resented the United States. During World War I Mexico allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the U.S. During World War II Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the U.S. from Mexico. During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the U.S. to operate freely. The attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 was cheered and applauded all across Mexico. Today Mexican school children are taught that the U.S. stole California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. If you don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written for their schoolchildren. #9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than one dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let's allow those one billion to come to America and we'll turn the USA into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native born Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump want a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation? #10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage. #11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying the price? For about four decades American politicians have refused to secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans. These politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American society has resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will be high. There has already been riots in the streets by illegal aliens and their supporters. There will be more. You, as a politician, have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have stolen into this country and demanded the rights afforded to U.S. citizens or to offend those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be steep either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning . Do you have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will you bow to the wants and needs of those who don't even have the right to remain here? There will be a reckoning. It will come in November of this year, again in 2008 and yet again in 2010. We will not allow America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves. David J. Stoddard U.S. Border Patrol (RET) Hereford REnate, stop by your local social services office on a monday morning about 9:30 a.m., stop long enough to chat with some of the people there, try not to be shocked by what you see with your own eyes.

why did the government raid this guys home ? A 9/11 toxic dust whistleblower, a ground zero hero and one of the individuals influential in the release of documents proving a government cover-up that deliberately put police, firemen and rescue personel at risk, has been raided by a New York SWAT team - who ransacked his home for three hours after he was arrested. Major Mike McCormack is a hospital technician and civil air patrol pilot who worked the ground zero site for eight days after the collapse of the twin towers. He is one of the real heroes of 9/11 and was the man who found the American flag that was later displayed as a token of unity atop the rubble. Within hours McCormack was coughing up black mucus and within days he was coughing up blood as the toxic dust that was deliberately covered up by the EPA poisoned his lungs along with all the other rescue workers, police and firemen who were being used in photo ops by Bush and his cronies while their very livelihoods were being endangered by a government cover-up. McCormack now suffers from an extreme respiratory sensitivity, has a 5-millimeter metal nodule in one lung and has been forced to give up his passion of scuba diving. McCormack is part of an organization lobbying Congress to demand a response from the federal government to the toxic dust cover-up and just compensation for the heroes of 9/11 who were deserted by their own government while the Bush administration had the audacity to use the attacks to fulfil a pre-determined political agenda by exploiting the unity created by the events of that day. McCormack now describes himself as "permanently ill" as a result of the "death sentence" that was imposed on him via the toxic dust cover-up and sees it as only a matter of time before he "takes the dirt nap," just as some of his friends who worked with him at ground zero have already done. McCormack currently occupies a high position of employment in security with the federal government which at the moment he prefers not to divulge. He has many friends who were affected by the ground zero toxic dust, including New York City police and state troopers. McCormack was part of the anniversary ceremonies on September 11 2006 and provided many hand-shaking photo-ops for numerous politicians, before returning to his family home in Pennsylvania that night. McCormack returned to his New York home the next morning in preparation to visit ground zero once again. On the morning of September 12, McCormack's tenant opened the door to see half a dozen detectives outside who began asking questions and demanding to search the building. The detectives didn't have a warrant and needed McCormack's signature to conduct the search. Having nothing to hide and wanting to assist the police, McCormack signed the paper and the detectives entered the house. "Three minutes later as I'm walking out of my office with one of the detectives, I have a federal SWAT team that comes in....men in black and all of a sudden they have 9 millimeter handguns and MP5 machine guns aimed at my head," McCormack told the Alex Jones Show. McCormack was ordered to leave the building as the 15-strong Darth Vader like SWAT team members verbally abused him and commenced ransacking his house for up to three hours "like a cyclone." The reason for the raid was said to be as a result of a complaint that the odor of chemicals was smelled coming from the house. McCormack was essentially being treated as a potential terrorist. McCormack had mistakenly left a legally owned unloaded gun in the trunk of his car before traveling back from Pennsylvania. Thinking that the 48 hour out of state law applied he planned to return the gun to Pennsylvania the next day. Not wanting to take the gun down to ground zero he felt the safest place to put it would be the house. The gun was subsequently discovered by the SWAT team. Through a selectively enforced loophole McCormack is now being charged with illegal possession of a weapon because he took the gun out of state. "The detective who arrested me told me that he had actually seen my photo in New York Newsday that past Thursday - he knew that I was a ground zero hero and the bottom line is finding that weapon unloaded - running the numbers - knowing the gun was legal if he was a decent human being he would have said 'give me 24 hours I will mail it to your house in Pennsylvania where it's legal - you have your permit'," said McCormack. During the course of the raid, the SWAT team members and detectives interrogated McCormack on his possession of gas masks and biochemical protection suits, despite the fact that these are standard inventory for an individual in McCormack's line of work and despite diplomas hanging on his wall describing government training in biochemical casualty programs. The SWAT team also accused McCormack of making chemicals in his barbeque grill. McCormack's tenant, who questioned the officials' behavior during the raid, was "taken to federal jail and nobody has heard from him since," according to McCormack.

Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce.? However they reduce wages and benefits for lawful U.S. residents. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship. Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying the price.There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans can't take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country.SEND THEM BACK HOME AMERICA FIRST

Does anyone know the TOTAL EMPLOYMENT in the US with the % PUBLIC and %PRIVATE sector? For example, the total US workforce in 2005 was _____. This breaks down ____% private sector, _____% Government (of some type). Even better would be "Government" broken down by Federal, Military, State, Local, etc. If I could find historical figures, that would be totally ideal! In this manner, I will be able to show employment trends and from where the jobs are coming. ---- I am NOT looking for an unemployment rate. Everyone knows what this is. I AM looking for something much deeper. That is the total number of employed by Public and Private sector. For Example (made up numbers)- 2007: 193,000,000 employed with 18.4% public sector, 3.8% military and 77.8% public sector. Something like that. Again, if anyone knows the source where I can find this data for other years, that's ideal

Question about Federal/State law enforcement careers? Hi everyone, i'm new on yahoo! answers, so ill try to be as quick as possible. I'm a college freshman studying criminology/international relations. Though I have a few years, my main career interests are either State Police (NJ), or something in the Federal Government. Some may be able to answer some of my questions and not be able to with the other, answer what you can. 1. What chances does a recent college graduate have at getting into the State Police Academy? I understand it is pretty competitive, but some do try. (I have been on the website and know the MINIMUM requirements) 2. What would be more helpful to me in getting Federal Employment? Stuyding abroad in the Dubai , focusing on Middle Eastern Affairs (includes Arabic classes), or spending a semester interning in DC through the Washington Center with some agency? I appreciate any help anybody can offer.

Are u the average american the media and US government talk about? I tend to notice ever time i'm either watching the news or hearing something about what congress is going to do to help the average american I start to wonder what average american are they talking about. based on so many factors i can't figure it out 1. Ever state tends to have different levels of unemployment / employment 2. incomes range so much it really depends on your profession 3. since our country has a vast population your either single, married, or some mixed ratio involving kids or no kids 4. Rent tends to vary from city to city, state to state I look forward to any answers you can come up with and i know i'm not one of the average americans i hear the media and government talk about

Old rationales for government growth (discredited) and terrible time of recruiting employeess : GOOD¡? If you say that government is too big and truly overweening, you elicit a surprising degree of agreement among people, even mainstream columnists, economists, and nearly everyone. Even government employees, who famously resent their bosses, might be quick to agree. If you hang outside the offices of the IRS in Washington, D.C., in the park at noontime where its employees take their lunch, you will get an earful of vitriol against the bureaucracy such as you wouldn't hear outside 1990s militia circles. Incidentally, the government is having a terrible time recruiting employees. Only 16% of college-educated workers say that they are interested in a government job. Among those without a college degree, there is twice the level of interest. Among people currently employed, those with managerial or professional occupations show a low interest level of 17%. Among those who want work to be challenging and enjoyable, only 9% thought a government job qualified. And, interestingly, among those who say they want to make a contribution to society, 90% said that non-government work in the private sector, whether for profit or non-profit, is the way to go. Now, what this means is that the smart set avoids government. Government work might still be attractive to people with fewer economic opportunities, but they are entering it for reasons that are not ideological. And for that reason too, they are less loyal to the public sector and glad to bail out if something else comes available. Most people view this as a very bad trend. I would only say that it is a significant trend, especially considering that in the heyday of government central planning, government sought to attract the best and the brightest. Often it did. Now, one might argue that if government were doing what it should be doing, this would be a good thing. But if government is doing many bad things, it is certainly not a bad trend for it to experience a brain drain. It is always a tragedy to see smart and entrepreneurial men and women be attracted away from productive employment in the private sector toward a position of power in the public sector. It makes us poorer to have the talents drained away from wealth creation toward wealth destruction. As for the very few good people in politics — Ron Paul is the great exception that proves the rule — they are true public servants only insofar as they work to diminish government power rather than increase it. So long as government is large and overweening, we are better off with a public sector that cannot attract the best and brightest. They should stay put where they can continue to expand the range of goods and services offered within the market framework. It is the market that provides us the means necessary to improve our standard of living, and the tools we need to maintain some degree of independence from the state. We often rail against incompetence in government. But before we go too far with this language, we need to consider that competence in government may be a far worse fate. We don't need genuinely competent antitrust enforcers, drug and food regulators, tax collectors, money manipulators, labor-law interventionists, gun grabbers, and environmental police. As H.L. Mencken said, we should be thankful that we don't get all the government we pay for. To be sure, we are paying far more today for government than ever before. Consider the real annual growth rate of total government outlays by presidents. Under Nixon, it was 3%. Under Carter, it was 4.1%. Under Reagan, 2.6%. Under Bush's dad, 1.9%, a figuring owing to the cuts in military spending. Domestic spending soared. Under Clinton, whom we all denounced as a socialist, it was 1.5%, the lowest rate in the postwar period. And under the present Bush, who promised less government? The real annual growth rate of total government outlays has been 5%, which compares to Johnson-era spending. The old rationales for government growth may have been discredited in the public mind. But they are alive in Washington, among the special interest groups, and among the media. I would like to identify the main ones. Rationale Number One: The Good Samaritan State. In this view of government, the state should act like the third person to come upon the poor man who had been beaten and robbed. They imagine a population that is divided among three types of people: victims, victimizers, and those who refuse to help. The victim classes we know all too well, because the litany is said again and again within the structure of labor law: the elderly, the very young, ethnic and racial minorities, religious minorities, sexual minorities, the physically and mentally disabled, workers, the underpaid, people in rural areas, those who deal with urban overcrowding, people who breathe dirty air or eat chemically produced products, artists, the manufacturing industry, people with peanut allergies, the dyslexic, short people, fat people, the leisure deprived, and I've probably left out a hundred or so other groups. Among the victimizers, we similarly have a list: capitalists, racial and ethnic majorities, sexual majorities, the overpaid, managers and CEOs, people who live in gated communities, the well armed, consumers of cell phones, owners of mines, anyone living off a trust fund, fully abled men, and anyone who resents social managers telling them what to do. In the view of those who advocate the Samaritan State, these two classes of victims and victimizers are constantly at war. There is nothing but conflict between them. The loss of one is the gain of the other. These categories are fixed and unchanging. The lack of harmony of interests is built into the structure of the social and economic world. The remedy requires an institution that is relentlessly engaged in reweighing the power relationships between the two groups. The conflict cannot be finally ended, but justice requires that the victims are given an unending stream of compensation and that the victimizers are treated with disdain and punished for their very existence. Social justice thus requires that victimizers are reduced, disabled, denounced, and spat upon, while the victims must be exalted, fed, clothed, funded, and made whole. This is how the Left, broadly speaking, thinks the world works, and should work. It doesn't matter whether one considers oneself a hard Marxist or a soft social democrat, the intellectual tie that binds them together is the view that conflict and not cooperation characterizes the work of society in the absence of an institution dedicated to bringing about social justice. The institutional answer is, of course, the state. The state is the Samaritan who lifts up and exalts the meek, and smites the proud and powerful who would otherwise walk right past the poor person on the street, who is the very archetype of the victim in the leftist view of how the world works. But there are many things wrong with this view of society. In the parable, the victim was beaten and robbed. He was exploited only in a very narrow and old-fashioned sense: his person and property were violated. These are crimes against libertarian ethics, a system of thought that mirrors what every religious and ethical system has taught: do not kill and do not steal. In other words, he was not a victim of some hazy notion of Social Injustice. He was not discriminated against, exploited by an employer, made to work long hours, or denied a comfy living in his old age. There is a huge difference between being beaten and robbed, and having to pay high prices for prescription drugs. The great error of the Left is its inability to distinguish the injustice of violence from the supposed injustice of inequality of material condition. As for the Samaritan, he was not acting as an agent of the regime. He used his own money to help the victim. He got him back on his feet and paid his bills at the private clinic where he was deposited for care. The Samaritan did not rob someone else to give money to the man on the street. He presumably got his money justly by hard work and investment. He had no desire to keep the man dependent, nor to exercise power over him, tax him, regulate him, nor send him to war. The state is something very different. It has no income but that which it robs from someone else. It seeks its own gain at others' expense. It protects itself and promotes itself before the interests of everyone else. It is beholden to special interests who create and control its regulatory apparatus. It is not impartial. It sides with its friends over its enemies. Moreover, the state is an exploiter, a murderer, a violator of human rights. The typical response of the Left is to say that they want a state that does only good things such as share and care, and not bad things such as steal and kill. But this cannot be. We might as well wish for a lion that only purrs and cuddles, or a rattlesnake that only provides percussion accompaniment to mariachi music. The very nature of the state is that it exists only through and for compulsion. To imagine otherwise is not to face reality. Rationale Number Two: The Solomonic State. In the Bible we are told that King Solomon had "understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore." And his "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." He was "wiser than all men" and "his fame was in all nations round about." He spoke "three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five." He "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom." Now, I'm not here to dispute the Bible's account of Solomon's wisdom. But let us also recall that Solomon's rule later became close to tyrannical. His son Rehoboam inherited his power, and when the people begged for relief from Solomon's "heavy yoke," and instigated a full-scale crackdown: "My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions." To be wise and prudent is not characteristics of rulers. In fact, it is very dangerous to hope that they may be. If we set out to find such a person, and have fantastic power available to him when we believe he has arrived, we have set up the framework for tyranny. The founders knew that no man can be trusted with power. They attempted to construct a system that presumed that men were corruptible, and that there would be some means to dislodge them when their corruption showed. Still, today many people long for the Solomonic State as a means of dispensing justice. Unlike the Samaritan model, the goal here is not charity but the just wielding of the sword on behalf of the right and true. Thus should we seek out righteous men of learning and moral character who know what evil is and have the courage to stand up to it and destroy it. This model is what inspires this mentality. There are many problems with this model. One man might be very wise, even the wisest of all men. But as F.A. Hayek might remind us, all the accumulated knowledge in the head of one person is still infinitesimal as compared with the wisdom that emerges through social cooperation on the marketplace. We can consider the price of any good on the market as it stands right now, and know that this one price results from the accumulated decisions of millions of people across thousands and thousands of sectors of economic activity spread throughout the world. The knowledge is dispersed in a million directions and results from small decisions and actions by economic actors. But the result is a single indicator that assists in allocating resources better than any single mind could ever do. The model of the Solomonic State also imagines that somehow the social order we see around us cannot possibly have come about without a single will operating in society, some firm hand that has designed the order and keeps it running smoothly. People who think this way imagine that in the absence of this firm hand, there would be nothing but a Hobbesian state of nature, where society is a war of all against all and life is nasty, brutish, and short. Our age is notably lacking in the likes of Solomon, and so those who fear the Hobbesian state of nature turn to the managerial state to act wisely in the interest of justice and order, at home and abroad. They might not always like what the rulers do, but they consider the alternative to despotism more fearsome. They warn about the dread results of anarchism and liberty, where people senselessly kill and rob without consequence. They fear this liberty more than they fear the abuses of power. This, I submit, is the mentality of many conservatives and many on the Right. We see it in the affections they have for Bush, the Patriot Act, the war on terror, and how quickly people fall for any leader who uses Manichean rhetoric in defense of the latest nationalistic crusade. What these people need more than anything else is a familiarity with the insights of the old liberal tradition as represented by Jefferson, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. They need to come to see how order is not the mother of liberty but its daughter. They need to see how society is harmonious not because of the state but because of the prevalence of human cooperation in the marketplace, where people work to trade to their own mutual betterment. People who fail to understand this become the unwitting servants of tyranny, particularly in the modern age when it is so obviously not wise but stupid and violent and presumptuous. They imagine that the state can posses godlike powers and bring justice and order, but they end up only empowering the worst elements in society, bringing injustice, and chaos. Now, you might say that the old liberal view of society is naïve. It might be in people's interest to learn to trade rather than steal but we live in a fallen world. If not for some overarching controlling force, people would loot each other unrelentingly and kill for fun. Now, to this I can say that it is true that some societies have not learned to make trading and peace significantly more prevalent than violence and killing. History is strewn with examples. The question we have to ask ourselves is whether a society that fails to learn the art of civilization will erect and sustain a state that will impose civilization on the people. I submit that history also teaches that when a people are brutal and uncivilized, the state is even more so. The state is rarely and maybe never better than the people it rules; in fact, it is almost always worse. Rationale Number Three: Log-Rolling. Given these two very different conceptions of the state, one favoring the welfare state and the other favoring a warfare state, why don't the visions cancel each other out? So intense is the desire of one group to have the state that it wants that it is willing to put up with another group's desire for its conception of the state. The two conceptions decide to cooperate and erect a state that purports to behave both like Solomon and like the Samaritan. That is the origin of the guns-and-butter state, or the welfare-warfare state, or the modern state as we know it, one that purports to meet every need. We see how this log-rolling works every day on Capitol Hill. One group wants more money for tanks and weaponry, and the other wants more for Medicaid and education. If both agree that politics is the art of compromise, they will put up with the other group's priorities in order that their own vision can be fulfilled. On the Right, we find that the love for the police power is more intense than the hatred of redistribution. On the Left, we find that the love of redistribution is more intense than the hatred of war and leviathan. They therefore work together to erect a massive and ever-growing executive. They are similarly unwilling to oppose the state in total. They fear that in doing so, the state as an institution will be discredited, and their conception of what the state should do along with it. Neither side particularly loves big government but both sides agree that it is better than the alternative of letting people alone. So they log-roll to support the public sector above all else, even when it means that they must sleep with their ostensible political enemies. Rationale Number Four: The Inflationary State. Now we come to the reason this system is able to perpetuate itself. And there is something of a mystery to explain here. No people anywhere will put up with a leviathan that grows and grows forever. At some point, the problem of funding state expansion will result in too much violence against property, and the people will revolt. Indeed, if the federal government had to collect all its revenue through a tax of any kind, leveled right now against the public, I submit to you that it would spark a tax revolt on a scale never before seen in modern history. Thus do we have the central bank to create money for the state. Thus do we have paper money that can be created in unlimited quantities. Thus do we have deposit insurance to make banks failure proof, so that the masses will never doubt that the credit pyramid is immortal. Thus do we have the Fed's power to manipulate interest rates and control the flow of credit to the system. An economist at Lehman Brothers sent us an interesting chart the other day. It compares the level of price increases across many Fed regimes. Under the first Fed governor Charles Hamlin, the dollar declined 8% in value. Under Thomas B. McCabe from the late forties, it declined 7.2%. Under Arthur Burns, wholly owned by Nixon, the dollar declined 42% in value. Under Volcker, Mr. Tight Money, it fell 40%. And under Greenspan, who has a reputation as a great inflation fighter, the value of the dollar in terms of goods and services fell fully 44%! Inflation serves the cause of the state by giving it room to run up debts without limit and fund its activities without making the people cough up more revenue. Indeed, that is the primary purpose of the inflationary state. People often say to me that a gold standard is impractical. In fact, that is not the case. It is very practical. It is the free-market answer. The state doesn't need to produce money any more than it needs to produce shoes or shirts or clocks. The problem is that we lack the political will to stop the inflation monster. Rationale Number Five: The Propaganda State. In every society control of educational institutions increases in tandem with the rise of the state. This is because the state needs these institutions to inculcate the civic religion of loving the public enterprise, and also because the less people know about the idea of liberty the more the state is provided the room to grow. Consider the Department of Education. Ever since its creation, every Republican administration has come to power with an intention to abolish it. But once they get in power, they find that bureaucracy has its uses. Instead of cutting or abolishing it, they increase the agency and give it more to do. The more the state does, the more the state sees the need to control public opinion by controlling the schools. Now, there is a point of optimism here. If any state could rule without propaganda, it would surely do so. Why then do states find educational control and the propagation of the civic religion in their interest? Because at some level, every state, in all times and places, is required to seek the tacit consent of those it governs. No state can control a society by use of the sword only and alone. It must also seek some degree of ideological conformity with its own goals. Otherwise its rule becomes threatened and destabilized. The other side of the coin is that states can indeed be destabilized by the ultimate counterrevolutionary tactic of providing alternative sources of education. As Mises said, all of history is a battle of ideas. Where the ideas of freedom are triumphant, liberty prevails. Where the ideas of freedom are buried and suppressed, despotism prevails. More from Lew: $25 Our pathway is clear. It is a choice of the Mises Institute not to mix in the mire of a political system that is wholly owned or attempt to seek favor from influential opinion makers. Our path is one of education, pursued with high-minded ideals, advanced using the most modern methods, and animated by the spirit of guerilla warfare. There are Misesians and Rothbardians strewn throughout the academic world, financial and banking houses, law firms, and in every walk of life, not only in this country but all over the world. We have worked for nearly a quarter of a century on a very radical project of advancing economic science and logic. We have pushed to keep the fire of freedom burning brightly. We have sought to teach anyone and everyone about the workings and benefits of liberty. We have come under pressure from left, right, and center. Yet the attention given to this body of ideas grows by the day. We can prevail against the Propaganda State. So long as we are free to do so and have the means available, we will continue to do so. This is our weapon against power. It is the most effective weapon anyone could ever possess. If we win this victory, we win all others. We thank you for supporting education for liberty, for supporting the Mises Institute financially and morally, and for being part of the revolutionary vanguard that sees through the errors of our day and imagines a brighter future of freedom, private property, and peace. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lew Rockwell

National health insurance proposal? Health insurance like any insurance such as home, or auto insurance should be a personal policy not job related. Insurance by traditional definition is a sharing of risk. Uninsured Americans should be grouped as to insurable but uninsured , higher risk, and poor. The uninsured would be offered a pool by all insurance companies offering health insurance in the designated area as a last resort with premiums averaging those of offered by insurance companies in the state or bi state region. Higher risk would be pool insured also at a 10% higher premium. Poor or unemployed would be insured in a pool of the same insurance companies at heavily discounted premiums say 10% depending on assets. All premiums would rise some but this program would provide an American infrastructure to keep Americans healthy and functioning, spread the risk among insurance companies, and eliminate the need for tribal clinics, va hospitals and clinics, and state and local government clinics . Eventually medicaid and medicare might be replaced or privatized by this sharing of risk including disabled. Insurance companies would be regulated to assure that expense to premium ratios were maintained at designated levels like 80% and that costs were not inflated of executives, company employees, contractors, and providers of medical services. Charges by providers exceeding state or regional comps would be reported to state and federal compliance officers. Providers repeatedly violating and abusing charges would be de licensed, nationalized and imprisoned under due process. This would likewise eliminate age discrimination and age related genocidal policies and programs in government and employment. reply to mbrcatz17 its called the law of large numbers. Your reference is to a minority of experiences as opposed to the majority of Americans who have integrity and don't want to abuse the system. Pooling of large losses to 50 insurance firms gives each 1/50 th of the loss not the whole loss. My proposal is simple and will work. If you were in the high risk category due to genetics or environmentql exposure or preimmunization ages you would want some help too. I have used pooling in insuring other types of risk and it works and insurance companies recommended it and profited from it. Making every American a profit center is anti American and it isn't insurance. I have managed workmans comp programs, health programs, and retirement programs for corporations and corporate greed and executive bonuses are the only thing standing in the way of equitable pro American programs besides political contributions to both parties.

discrimination in a government agency? i work for a very big government agency and have been bullied at work by my manager and have a written apology from my manager to this effect. I applied for a promotion, got the position then had it publically taken from me under the basis that i had a stress risk assesment done for a previous but different role within the company. I spoke to my union rep who advised that under our company's guidance a promotion could only be rescinded on the grounds of misconduct which i have never been accused of Do i have the right to make a complaint through an employment lawyer that they have discriminated against me or that im being victimised by a bullying manager? Could i claim them for compensation for emotional distress caused by the public humiliation of having the promotion taken from me? (i have everything in writing from them stating that i had the job then consequently rescinded it due to the stress risk assessment completed for a totally different job) i have been advised of my right to lodge a grievance but as it will be dealt with by the managers in question i have no faith in any favourable outcome. Also my union rep has stated that as the legal funding in the dept is limted i am classed as low priority and my case would not be taken on as priority is given to those who face losing their jobs. Yes i am in the UK.

State (not federal) inheritance tax question? In 2005, I was temporarily living and working in Michigan, but a legal permenant resident of New York, when a person in Florida died. I inherited $5000, which I received later that year, while living in NY and unemployed. I filed a federal 1040, an NY resident income tax return and a MI non-resident income tax return, and reported the income from employment in MI on all three. (I also claimed a credit on the NY return for the duplicate state income tax on the income from MI.) Do I have to report the inheritance to any of the three states, and to which states (if any) do I pay inheritance tax? (Do not worry about the estate taxes due to the federal government; someone else is responsible for that.) dk01237... is wrong. Inheritance is NOT reported on the federal 1040, for example. Bostonia... is probably right about the tax laws. He is wrong about what I knew when I asked the question. I never lived in Florida and was only in Michigan for a few months, so I do not know their laws well. However, this happened two years ago, so I might have known when I filed, and forgotten about it since then.

What is a block grant and what is a fedaral mandate and what does it have to do with...? state and local and federal employment? AP government essay question anyone whos in it know the hell of it here's a link to the question to any kind history teacher or buff who would like to help thanks ps. i cant get a link for this ques (2003 AP Gov if anyone took it) but the graph provided shows an increase in state and local gov employment since 1945 with a slight decline in 1990, and paid federal government civilian employment stayiny at pretty much a staight line WTF does this have to do with block grants and federal mandates!!!!

Do you known, what is bhlistan movement ? Bhilistan Movement : Lull Before the Storm Dr. Lalit Latta INTRODUCTION India has been home to tribals since time immemorial. Called native or indigenous people, tribes like Santhal, Munda, Bhil, Meena, Ho, Gond, are well-known even beyond India’s borders for their distinct historic and cultural identity. Among them the Bhils of Rajasthan occupy a place of pride as they have history full of valour and splendour. There were many kingdoms the Bhils had established across the Rajputana. For instance, Dungaria Bhil had his kingdom in Dungarpur, Basia (or Bishna) Bhil had Kota and Jetasi Bhil had his kingdom in Abu area. Another prominent figure revered by one and all is Rana Punja Bhil, who was one of the main army commanders of the famous Rajputana warrior king Maharana Pratap. Yet they have been victims of socio-economic and religious exploitation and atrocities down the ages. Looked down upon by the larger society, they find themselves at the lowest ladder of the social hierarchy. This is reflected in their educational deprivation and economic exploitation in the form of bonded labour. The government is well-aware of this fact. According to a news item carried by Hindi daily Jansatta quoting Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Smt. Meera Kumar, there are 16 crore people in India, who bear the brunt of untouchability and atrocities. However, Smt. Meera Kumar is not the only leader to air such concern. Union Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil has been candid in his admission that even after five decades of Independence communities belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes face discrimination, which can be changed only through affirmative action. Union Law Minister Shri Hansraj Bhardwaj has also been quoted in the media as saying that the discrimination needs to be tackled at the grassroots level. The excesses will continue until the upper castes change their attitude. However, the victims of caste discrimination and atrocities only get up sympathies. That sums the state of affairs. However, true to their tradition of valour, the tribals of Rajasthan have time and again fought against the discrimination and atrocities under their illustrious leaders like Shri Gobind Guru, Shri Mama Baleshwar, Sadguru Surmal Das, Sant Devadas Latta, Shri Motilal Tejawat, Shri Manikyalal Varma, Shri Bhogilal Pandya. However, the movement launched by Shri Gobind Guru for a separate state of Bhilistan stands out among all struggles the tribals of Rajasthan have waged to win their rights and dignity. The state as envisioned by Shri Gobind Guru would include the tribal areas of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Mahdya Pradesh. It was first organised expression of tribals angst against repression and denial of democratic rights. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Gobind Guru is known to be the first proponent of a separate state, Bhilistan, for tribal communities inhabiting in various parts of western and Central India. Born in Basiagaon to a Banjara family, he was influenced by Arya Samaj, particularly after he met its founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati. He carried forward the reformnist agenda of Arya Samaj by creating awareness among his fellow tribesmen against social evils like, superstitions, addiction and delinquent behaviour. Apart from leading a reformnist movement which had socio-religious overtones, Shri Gobind Guru set-up a tribal organisation christened Samp Sabha in 1883 and launched a movement to fight exploitation of tribals and restore dignity to them. He demanded a separate state for a tribals, which he called Bhilistan. This was essential to bring exploitation of and atrocities on tribals to an end. This infuriated the local rulers, who in turn instigated their British masters against Gobind Guru. Retribution came thick and flying in 1908, when over one lakh tribals congregated on Mangarh hilltop. The British and local rulers attacked them when they were singing devotional songs. Over 1500 tribals were massacred and Gobind Guru was sentenced to a rigorous imprisonment. He was released only after serving 10 years in jail. This extreme repressive measure though suppressed the overt aspirations of a separate Bhilistan, the movement played an important role in creating social and political awareness among the tribals to a great extent. The British left long back and after them the reign of oppressive local rules came to an end as India got independence and became a democratic republic. Yet the ground realities, as far as upliftment of tribals is concerned, remain abysmally hopeless. It is no denying the fact that there are many constitutional safeguards in the form of laws that have been put in place to stop exploitation and atrocities that the tribals and other marginalised sections of society suffer at the hands of non-tribals and upper castes. In order to bring them into the mainstream several programmes and schemes have been launched by both the Union and state governments for their educational, social and economic upliftment. According to an estimate about Rs 4237 crores has been spent so far by various governments in the Tribal Sub Plan areas of Rajasthan on this account. It is not the government and its agencies only which are still trying ‘hard’ to make it happen. This overriding concern for the welfare of tribals over the years has also spawned many NGOs, scrupulous or unscrupulous, which are getting government and international funding that runs into millions of rupees. Still there is no big change in their lot. Rather the amount of funds the government spends every year to stave of famine in tribal areas only points to the fact that there is little progress in tribal welfare and socio-economic development, though it has been 57 years since we got independence. It’s perhaps the poverty of development that has left the tribals largely dependent on government doles as they are unable to meet even their basic needs. This has led to their further marginalisation as it has rendered them vulnerable to more socio-economic exploitation and atrocities the incidence of which are only increasing in quantum and intensity. In fact, there has never been a concerted effort on the part of the state machinery to curb such incidents and bring the perpetrators of atrocities to justice. Even the recommendations made intermittently by the Kalyan Samiti before state Assembly have never been followed up with any effective action. As if to rub salt on their wounds, the casteist media has only added to their sense of alienation by projecting them in poor light and distorting their history and cultural traditions. Nor has there been any conscious attempt to eradicate caste discrimination either in government departments or in the ranks of political parties. It is in the backdrop of these factors that the simmering dissent across the tribal communities should be seen as a prelude to the growing demand for Bhilistan, particularly in southern parts of Rajasthan. However it would be erroneous to presume that the resurgence of the demand for a separate state of Bhilistan is a recent phenomenon. In fact, there have been efforts, though sporadic, to keep the issue alive since Independence. For instant, the All India Tribal Development Council (Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad) has been spearheading the campaign for Bhilistan under the leadership of its Chairman Shri Somjibhai Damor of Dahod, Gujarat. Shri Damor, who has been a seven time Lok Sabha MP, had in 1984 brought out a detailed blueprint with the map of the proposed state that included tribal areas of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. While Shri Damor has been rigorously trying to unite various tribal communities at a common social and cultural level, the blueprint brought out by him has become a rallying point for many tribals, who are running the movement in their respective areas. One such revered figure is former Minister of State, Tribal Area Development Department of Rajasthan, Shri Nand Lal Meena. He has helped the cause immensely raising the issue at various forums. Another leader who has pritched in for a separate state for tribals is Shri Bakshi Ram Latta, who fought the 2003 Assembly election on this issue, thus lending it a political voice and making it a focus of popular debate. His call for a tribal homeland filled the youth with vigour and a vision, which if harnessed properly will go a long way in making it a reality. Political parties though ham handed in their approach, have also not lagged behind in lending their support to the movement. For instance, the then state President of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) on September 2, 1989 declared that BJP would demand creation of an autonomous council for the tribals of Rajasthan on the line of Gorakhaland and if the party was restored to power it would keep the promise by implementing it. However, such promises are seldom kept by the Indian political class and BJP is no exception. While the tribal leaders are uniting their community for the cause, there are individuals like Sadguru Mohanji Sharma, who are contributing their might by bringing awareness particularly among the tribal youth. An ardent reformist Mohanji Sharma has been working for the economic and educational development of the tribals in South Rajasthan and thus taking them on a path of dignified existence. CAUSES The movement, which has a strong presence in Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara, Chittorgarh (Pratapgarh Tehsil) district of southern Rajasthan, has its roots in various socio-economic, cultural and political factors. Some of these factors have been discussed here in detail. 1. Lack of Development As has been told earlier, one of the main causes that has led to the widespread alienation among the tribals and its resultant expression in their demand for a homeland of their own, is lack of development. Contrary to the government claims, tribal areas have largely not seen friction of any development programme, which could uplift their socio-economic status. Whatever programmes and schemes were launched by successive governments seldom succeeded in benefiting the majority of tribal population. It is no wonder then that the tribal areas severely lag behind in development. They lack even basic facilities like potable water, electricity, health care, schools while they have no access to modern means of transport and communications. Lack of irrigation facilities only compounds their problems. All these have severely restricted their choice of livelihood and they are forced to migrate to faraway urban centres of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, etc to get employment as unskilled labour. Various employment generating schemes have also not benefited them, partly because they neither possess resources nor skills to get gainful employment and partly because of their ignorance. The rampant corruption in departments implementing such programmes and schemes only discourages them even if they muster courage to access them. This is ture particularly for those schemes which have a subsidy component. Their stroy of deprivation does not end here. A look at their representation in administrative services of the state is enough to shock anyone out of their wits. For instance, 600 posts of RAS and RTS filled with tribals candidates so far only 15 (2.5%) belong to the tribal of southern Rajasthan, whereas they have no representation at all in Indian Administrative Services. They also lag far behind in terms of higher education particularly technical and vocational. While they have to suffer along with the non-tribal students for lack of amenities like class-rooms, library and reading rooms, furniture and well-equipped labs in largely ill-staffed educational institutions, they are often discriminated against by their teachers and classmates on grounds of their caste. The hostels meant to help them study properly are least conducive for talented students as they are ill-equipped in every respect. This reflects poorly on their overall educational attainment further making them feel deep down cheated and marginalised. 2. Precedence of Self Interest Over Community Upliftment Every man is expected to be responsible towards his society and his nation and strive consciously to contribute his might towards their upliftment. But with changing times when moral conscience is losing currency, self-interests have taken precedence over community interests—and tribal leaders and volunteers are no exception to this phenomenon as for them reasons of succumbing to serving self-interests are aplenty. Foremost among them is reservation which ensures them not only government jobs but also gives them access to legislative bodies like Parliament , state assembly and Panchyati Raj Institutions like districtboards, Block Panchayats and gram Panchayats. While it has led to empowerment of the individual, community empowerment has taken a beating as self interests and party politics have dispensed with the purpose affirmative action was intended to fulfil. The unity of Tribal Panchayats has given way to party-politics, in which members are expected to promote a certain ideology and work according to the diktats of party leadership. This poorly reflects in development works done by elected representative be it a Sarpanch, an MLA or a MP. More often the representatives conduct development works only in areas where their voters and supporters reside. This latent bias in the approach of the representatives robs any development work of its distributive character. The tribal representatives seldom enjoy the freedom to act independently for the benefit of their community as they have to toe their party line. Used by their parties as mascots to garner votes of their community, their plight is no less pathetic. In the name of discipline they are not even allowed to exercise their conscience. If any tribal representative acts differently and strives for the development of his fellow tribesmen he is branded as casteist by his party bosses and is cut to size. Nothing illustrates better the position of tribal politicians than this single incident. When the Delimitation Commission proposed to reserve Udaipur Lok Sabha constituency for tribals, it created a nasty storm in political circles. Resisting the proposal, a local leader Shri Chhagan Lal Jain said that reserving Udaipur constituency would hit its international prestige. As if in unison another prominent leader Shri Laxmi Narayan Pandya, was quoted by Rajasthan Patrika (February 10, 2003) as saying: “This is a regressive decision for this historic city. Tribals are a minuscule community here and this change won’t serve any prupose.” How can anointment of a Dalit or tribal to an elected office be regressive ? Only parochial and feudal minds would consider it as degrading. However none of the tribal politicians worth his name rose against this diatribe. It is obvious that the party-politics and the vested interests that it serves is doing more harm to tribals than any good. It has, in fact, divided the tribal society along partylines and has thus hampered the harnessing of talents and energies of its members for a common good. 3. Poor Grip Over Administrative Machinery Every society varies in socio-economic status of its member components and tribals are no different in this respect either. This has its own dynamics. The low socio-economic and educational status of tribals reflects in poor coordination between the government authorities and tribal politicians and elected representative. The latter have no grip over administrative machinery of the state to get it around to deliver goods for the welfare of their community. Lack of education and communication skills, ignorance about the constitutional rights and lack of awareness about the development and welfare programmes and procedural mechanism of departments implementing them and above all non-possession of influential position in the power structures of political parties render them ineffective in bringing the fruits of those programmes to their community. Equally responsible for this sorry state of affairs is the mindset of bureaucracy which has its own ways of not cooperating with tribal leaders. The authorities would put forward many excuses, for example, non-availability of funds, or expiration of scheme, non-issuance of government order, to discourage them or would simply refuse to meet them. A tribal leader may become an elected representative but he can seldom use his office for the common good of his fellow tribesmen by circumventing the administrative machinery or cracking the whip to get any work done. 4. Playing Second Fiddle to Non-Tribal Leadership The tribals of south Rajasthan have often been led, politically or spiritually, by non-tribals since pre-Independence days. Whenever any political party, social or religious organisation needs popular support for their campaigns or programmes they simply mobilize the tribals giving them a false sense of belonging. This, however, makes them vulnerable to exploitation—emotional, economic or social—in more than one way. The tribals go hungry while attending such programmes and if situation terms violent they bear the brunt of police atrocities and are arrested. Used as scapegoats, it is a double whammy for poor tribals, as it takes a monumental effort and resources for them to get through the legal process unscathed. They might know it well that they are being used, yet the tribal leaders realize the fact that non-tribal leaders are indispensable for them as they command influence in power structure of their political parties to help the self-serving tribal leaders with getting them ticket and all the wherewithal for fighting elections and if elected getting them a berth in the cabinet. 5. Increasing Influence of Fundamentalist Orgnisations It is a well-known fact that efforts are being made at both national and international levels for the upliftment of poor tribals. There are 1005 NGOs and religious organizations active in Udaipur, Dungarpur and Banswara, which are working for their cause. Yet there is no tangible positive impact on their overall situation. Rather if one goes deeper into the activities of these organisations, one would find that a few of them are committed to a fundamentalist ideology. They are mobilising the tribals and training them in their parochial, hate-filled ideology all in the garb of religious and social service. These organizations are using Tribal against Tribal to further their agenda. Now with increasing influence of such fanatical organizations the tribals are finding it difficult to send their children to missionary schools. Thus they are losing an opportunity to get cheap and good education for their kids. The tribals in this way are being tutored into an intolerant society and are being used as canon fodder during civil strife. This can only be seen as a conspiracy against the tribals. Still there are organizations which have been doing everything to besmirch the tribals by spreading cannards about their social and cultural customs. Media is not behind in depicting the tribals in poor light. They are full of sensational news items which may claim that tribal women are being sold off, they are into prostitution to stave off hunger. Seldom one finds any informed article on the tribals, their customs and cultural traditions, their socio-economic exploitations, etc. What is presented before the larger society is all a negative picture of tribals as if they have committed a crime by being tribal and poor at the same time. One can draw this unmistakable conclusion from the above analysis given the kind of exploitation and deprivation the tribals have been facing since ages, they have every right to demand a homeland of their own. They have a glorious past, a history full of valour, sacrifice and resistance. But they cannot afford to sit complacent merely resilience nostalgically on that glorious past. It is for them to regain it back by working unitedly and forcefully for Bhilistan. The desire to attain that goal can be seen in the restless souls of our youth—educated and aware of their rights and ready to assert them. It is happening gradually but steadily in southern Rajasthan. May be the dream Gobind Guru died for will become a reality sooner than later. The writing is clear on the wall: it is a lull before the storm.

Blue states VS red states Bureau of Labor Statistics, why red is better? Bears and partisans are exuberant about the August employment report, which recorded a loss of 4,000 jobs in a labor market that employs 138 million. Employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was “essentially unchanged,” with losses concentrated in the manufacturing (-46,000) and government (-28,000) sectors. This was no surprise: Manufacturing has contracted in August in eight of the last ten years, dating back to the Clinton era. Employment is a broad economic indicator, and last Friday’s less-than-stellar report deserves attention. But another monthly BLS report on regional and state employment offers a view of the jobs market through an alternative lens. In particular, this report allows one to compare employment growth between the so-called Blue and Red states. Political pundits identify 18 bona-fide Blue states, which backed Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, and 29 clear-cut Red states, which supported Republican President George W. Bush both times out. Blue states are said to be “liberal,” and Red states “conservative.” But there might be another reason to term certain states “blue”: weak employment growth in a period of expansion. Total Blue-state employment growth has been only 3.3 percent during the current expansion, which began in November 2001, compared with the U.S. rate of 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, total Red-state employment growth has been 7.5 percent, more than double that of the Blue states. In baseball terms, one might say the Blue team is hitting only 5-for-13 for a mere .277 average, while the Red team is slugging 18-for-29 for a league-leading .621. Here’s a closer look at the stats: Job growth has trailed the U.S. average in 13 Blue states. California, the largest Blue-state labor market, fell behind by the narrow margin of less than a half-percent, while growth has been slower in Rhode Island (5%), Minnesota (4.1%), Wisconsin (3.1%), New York (2.8%), New Jersey (2.7%), Pennsylvania (2.7%), Vermont (2.3%), Maine (2.1%), Connecticut (1.5%), Illinois (1.1%), Massachusetts (-0.2%), and Michigan (-5%). The job losses in Michigan and Massachusetts have been the most severe, falling below 2001 levels. Regionally speaking, this blue-streak continues. The Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions, all predominantly Blue, have trailed the U.S. jobs-growth average. The only Blue region to beat the average has been the West, fueled by above-average jobs gains in Hawaii (15.2%), Washington (9.5%), and Oregon (9%). Two other Blue states — Delaware (5.8%) and Maryland (6.1%) — also have bested the U.S. average. Now for the Red team: Of 29 certified Red states, a full 18 have topped the U.S. jobs-growth rate. And here an interesting trend appears: Red states with no income taxes — Nevada (25.7%), Wyoming (15.2%), Florida (13.9%), Alaska (10.2%), Texas (9.1%), South Dakota (8.3%), and Tennessee (5.5%) — have all witnessed above-average job growth. Not surprisingly, three of four Red regions have led the U.S. in job growth: Red states in the West have expanded 15.9 percent followed by the Plains (7.7%) and the Southeast (7.5%). The only Red region to trail the U.S. jobs-growth average has been the Midwest (1%). This trend is not new. It has merely been overlooked by the mainstream media. Labor is colorblind in the political context of Red and Blue states. And as long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.