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How do I apply for a federal nursing job?

Are there any federal nurse jobs?

Nurse Jobs in the Federal Government . . . . . . .? are there really openings....like for the VA or INdian health services? BYE...why is that...the feds have great benefits

Professional job interview on Thursday for licensed practical nurse. Its a federal position Any advice? Anyone else have a federal job, how difficult was the interview? Thanks for your help yahoo answers! Where I work there is a number of male LPN's. I cant go into details of where I work but I'll say in mental health facilities male nurses are expecially needed expecailly when the patietns arent being cooperative and you need muscle to hold them down/stop them from hurting themselves...There are 2 male RN's here and 4 male LPN's in the whole facility.

Registered Nursing Jobs in South Carolina/Georgia? I am graduating from nursing school as an RN in December (from Texas). I am looking to relocate to Augusta, GA/Aiken, SC area with my military boyfriend (who is already there). I have been having a hard time finding a job. I would actually prefer an internship. I do know that I can work at any federal establishment, but they all seem to want one year of experience. I looked into the Aiken Regional Medical Center, but no response or information on their internship program. Do you guys have any suggestions?

can i get work as a nurse with a federal record? i have a federal record but im going to school to be a medical assistant then lvn then rn with time. i was wondering if it is possible to a get a decent job in this field. im aware it is a growing field. thanks guys. ps my charge wasnt drug charges or child pornography. just for you to know.

Registered nurse jobs in ma? Jobs.what is the market now, what is the outlook? Federal employment in boston is Preferred.

Anyone know the California or federal law regarding storage and access to narcotics in a hospital? I happen to know of a nurse that openly admits she gives the keys to the medication room to unlicensed staff so that they may get 'other' items stored in the med-room. I know this is against a few hundred corporate policies, but I need to see if there is a specific law stating that unlicensed staff cannot have unsupervised access to where narcotics are kept. This is a problem that could potentially cost us our jobs on an upcoming inspection....

What are the steps taken to get a bill passed in Congress for a Federal Law ? A new law is needed to protect nursing home residents and the employes who take care of them by putting a limit on the number of residents or patients that an employee takes care of in one 7hr. shift period. The nomal amount is 7-8 residents to one aid(employee) during the day but it is as many as 10,13, or more to care for. It is unsafe and unhealthy has well. And to hard on the workers that do this hard job.

Why do some believe that every problem is caused by a wrong action or inaction of the federal Government? http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57092 Read the transcript of the AFL-CIO debate and you'll find that Democratic leaders squarely place responsibility for almost every calamity in America – whether caused by natural forces, human negligence or imperfection, or even excess government intermeddling in the first place – on the federal government or evil corporations. This is scary stuff. Hillary Clinton exploited the Minneapolis bridge collapse to tell us we need the federal government to invest in infrastructure – "to protect us" and to "create jobs." How would she improve the recovery in New Orleans? Simple, "The first thing I would do is put somebody in charge who actually cared about the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast," as if Republicans don't care and as if caring is all that matters – vintage liberalism. John Edwards agreed on Minneapolis and also seemed to blame the Utah mining accident on the federal government. To Edwards, these disasters are not only the fault of the federal government, but of insider, lobby-driven Beltway politics ignoring the needs of "working men and women." But Edwards outdid himself when he suggested that 51-year-old James Lowe's speech-impairing cleft palate is the fault of the federal government in failing to provide sufficient health care and the evil "drug companies and insurance companies." Barack Obama complained that employers are exploiting "undocumented workers." That's right, he said the illegals aren't being paid enough or receiving enough benefits. Joe Biden said the government ought to give us "100,000 new nurses." Oh, boy. When the candidates were not promoting a paternalistic government or demonizing corporations, they were either telling tall tales about taxes and deficits or waxing recklessly about the Iraq War and the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

Would you commit to taking a job knowing that they could fire you for a documented handicap after you started? After numerous applications in health related fields which included everything from school nurse to investigator, thousands of dollars expended in education, travel, maintenance of five state nursing licenses and the required continued education units; six years after a spine injury at work, have no job because I was fired during probation with no way to appeal! (Federal EEO and MSPB dismissed). Nurse applicants have to sign an agreement often to be willfully terminated if they do not pass a physical AFTER they are employed. Would you agree to such a statement since disagreeing would remove you from candidacy for the position? Do you think disclosing your restrictions will lessen your chance for a job even if it means you risk losing the job later and your current lower paying benefits of workers compensation? How many nursing jobs would you apply to and for how long before giving up your career? Mine was 25 years as an RN, 3 an LPN, and 2 as a Nurse Aid. Here are just some sample apps. which will not let you apply if you disagree to their terms to include a physical AFTER employment. See nurse application at: https://recruit.virtua.org/ https://www.virtualhrasistant.com/Trinatas The Federal Employees Compensation Act, Office of Workers Compensation Programs has no authority over the employer who fired you, even though there does not exist any factual evidence for termination. They cannot make them rehire you if you were probationary. Have you heard of OSHA erganomic workplace standard of 2001 ? http://www.afscme.org/press/7121.cfm Have you heard of the H.R. 2381, Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2009 ? http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2381 If you love a nurse and care about the people they care for, then please respond to this question. I will be glad to forward it to the Secretary of Labor with my own personal story with your permission.

nurse in the federal prison LPN? I'm trying to fine the job list in the federal prison

My father was put in a nursing home and was seriously abused . He lost eighteen and a half pounds in 5 weeks. I was arrested because I was to be added to the sponsor list and the administrator refused. My mom had been walking to that nursing home everyday (she does not drive) because she realized my dad was not being fed, and they would not feed him. I informed the adm several times that it was not my moms job to feed my dad, yet that was the only way he got fed. I notified state and this complaint was validated. My dad gained the weieht back after several weeks, there was no disease process that made him lose weight, he did not have problems chewing and swallowing.Nor did he choke when fed. As a former nurse, I worked only in Nursing homes and I know how most staff hate to feed these people. It is unbeleiveable what happens in Nursing homes. This occured In Brewton, Alabama Westgate Village and I have no problem using their name. I was arrested for disorderly conduct (cursing), but that too is a lie. I had the right to curse them but I was going to get them legally. My question is what to do? The Dept of Public Health did nohing to punish this nursing home. My father has contractures, which he did not have when admitted. This too is a form of neglect. I am not the power of attorney and I have no power to move him. I have 11 siblings. The dept of public healt is suppose to police these nursing homes and they are not doing their jobs. They blocked my number so that I could no longer call, this is all small time politics and the state not caring.My dad does not deserve this and it will not end until I am satified that justice is done. I have taken care of other peoples families and my dad starves in a nursing home.This will go to a higher court and if I lose, it will go higher. As for my siblings, my dad sent 8 of his twelve chilren to colleges and he was a pig farmer. He made them what they are and they do not care. I have a great dad and I do not mind going to jail for him. Get a copy of ladies home journal 2006.,2 articles informative. My question is what to do? The Dept of Public Health did nohing to punish this nursing home. My father has contractures, which he did not have when admitted. This too is a form of neglect. I am not the power of attorney and I have no power to move him. I have 11 siblings. The dept of public health is suppose to police these nursing homes and they are not doing their jobs. They blocked my number so that I could no longer call, this is l small time politics and the state not caring.My dad does not deserve this and it will not end until I am satified that justice is done. I have taken care of other peoples families and my dad starves in a nursing home.This will go to a higher court and if I lose, it will go higher. As for my siblings, my dad sent 8 of his twelve chilren to colleges and he was a pig farmer. He made them what they are and they do not care. I have a great dad and I do not mind going to jail for him. Get a copy of ladies home journal 2006.(2 articles informative)

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Are there any grants in SC I can apply for besides FAFSA while I am in nursing school? I'm attending school full-time and can't find a job that works around my school schedule. I already do my FAFSA each year and I have student loans already. I was wondering if there are any other federal grants I could apply for that will help me with my bills while I am in school. thanks for any help!

Who do I contact to report a h1b visa violation?she got job outside of visa rules and is not paying taxes? The girl is a filpina came over here married got divorced(ex hubby is filipino worling in dubai) left hotel jobs she was listed for in visa applicatiom. since then worked 2 years at nursing homes not paying taxes(state or federal) now she meet a patient son . An older man will marry her yet he knows of all her illegal ways saying his lawyers will fix it. This is wrong for every applicant who follow the rules but must wait or gets rejected

I recently got a job as a nurse and will make about $800 a week or about $38,000 a year? How much will I have to pay in income tax out of each $800 check if my state tax is 6% but I am not sure how much federal taxes is. I have no dependents.

What are requirement to work in Canada for Foreign Educated (Indian GNM Diploma) Nurse? I am a Registered Nurse in India I have done General Nursing and Midwifery 3 years fulltime diploma course, and I have 5 years plus experience. Recently I have also given academic IELTS exam and scored overall 6.0 band (Listening 6, Reading 5.5, Writing 5.5, Speaking 6). I want to migrate to Canada with my husband and son. I am planning to apply under “Federal Skilled Worker immigration” I have following queries. I would be grateful if you could provide me answers for these questions or tell me any other way to work in Canada as Nurse. Thanks allot. 1) What are the steps I will need to perform to Migrate to Canada? 2) My IELTS 6.0 BANDS will be considered for Language Skills points or I should give IELTS exam again? 3) Is NCLEX and Canadian Registered Nurse Examination (CRNE) is compulsory to work in Canada as nurse? 4) Can I give CRNE exam online from India? 5) My relatives are in Canada if they arrange a regular nurse job (Not under arranged employment); will it help for the immigration process. 6) When I have calculated my points for immigration it comes to 65 – 67. So to secure the process, Can I apply under “Arranged Employment” or “Provincial Nomination Program”? 7) Where can I find a Job listing for “Provincial Nomination Program” category? I searched many sites but didn’t found anything specifically; Nurses requirement under Provincial Nomination Program.

I get free tuition but want to quit my job to go back to school. Can I get a loan? Help. My husband and I both work for a university...I want to quit my job and get a 2-year degree in nursing. I've got a couple weird situations: 1. while I made quite a bit last year on my W-2s that I would report on my FAFSA, I would quit my job and therefore would NOT be making that much next year when I went to school; 2. I would get free tuition because my husband is an employee. I know there is a "Cost of Attendance" certification with federal and private loans, but you fill out the paperwork for free tuition right before you enroll, so...they wouldn't necessarily know that I'm not paying tuition. I don't want to be dishonest. On the other point: I called the federal stafford people, and they say that my school "may or may not" allow me not to enter my W2 information if I quit my job. If they consider my income from last year, there's no way I'd be eligible for anything. I'm just trying to figure out my options. I am in a job I don't like, and I'd like to quit, but there's no way I can afford to go to school without loans for living expenses -- my family relies on my income. Help!

Grants for medical bills/ infertility? My wife and I could really use some assistance with some current medical bills and some still to come. This is our dilemma: Our combined incomes put us just above federal poverty standards so we cannot turn our bills into HCAP. My wife has health insurance through her work, but it does not cover infertility (among other things). Our only option at this point seems to be paying over $12,000 out of pocket for invetro-fertilization as well as being on the hook for another four grand for the diagnosis. The state of Ohio has no grants available for our situation. Ironically, she's a nurse and it's her job to take care of those with medical issues. We could really use a grant of some sort and have no idea where to apply. Any suggestions would really be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

What are your thoughts on this letter I sent to the Kansas State Governor, each State Legislator and Senator? January 29, 2009 {Name} Kansas State Legislature 300 SW 10th St Topeka, KS 66612 Dear Representative, With the Black Monday announcement by Sprint about laying off 8000 workers, adding to the 70,000 laid off that day, and the nearly 700,000 laid off in the last seven months, I should like to bring to your attention an additional problem. A problem that will grow out of the increasing layoffs, not only in Kansas, but throughout the country. A problem that in the coming months and years, will result in many of those laid off facing criminal charges for something they believe they have little control over. As workers are laid off, the first thing they do is head down to the unemployment office. Upon entering the office, among the usual postings for jobs, job training, etc., are Wanted Posters for deadbeat dads. Upwards of 25% of men being laid off are under some type of child support order, and with being laid off, they are going to find it hard to make their payments. They cannot afford to hire an attorney to get a modification and are left wondering what to do? What they have not been taught is that under the Federal Public Law 12, passed in 1989, when federally backed child support enforcement programs were established, a provision of the law was that Child Support Enforcement is required to represent EITHER parent, upon request, for an increase OR decrease in child support. The men need only contact the CSE office and make the request, right after filing for unemployment, and getting the form showing how much they will receive. As an alternative to this, their County Clerk of The Court Office has forms for modifying child support that can be filed Pro Se. This can be a little more intimidating, but can be quicker than going through CSE. An educational brochure on this, can distributed through the Unemployment Office, companies laying off workers, and even unions. Also, a link, with the information, needs to be placed on the Kansas Unemployment Insurance System web site. If this doesn't get done, there's going to be unnecessary expenditures by the courts and count prosecutors to enforce orders that these men are finding it impossible to pay. I would ask you to please consider this problem and take appropriate action as necessary. Sincerely, George K. ****** ******* Nursing Home **** * ***** **, Res. Rm. **** Overland Park, KS ***** (913) ***-**** ouragon, I'm an old fart living in a nursing home until my heart gives out or my daughter makes me go live with her. I get $50 a month allowance as the home takes the rest of my income. My Internet connection takes 100% of my income, so there's no money for buying Word Processing programs. I should mention my daughter is a single mother getting child support.

Do hospitals that recieve federal funding fall under employee at will? The VP of my department harasses nurses until they quit. I refuse to quit and she now humiliates me in front of my peers, intimidates me by interupting my work day (tells me to drop everything to come to her office and behind closed doors she insults and yells at me). Since other nurses and doctors are recieving the same treatment, I still feel a bond with my peers. I just wonder why she keeps telling me she is going to fire me but doesn't. (I know my job well and when written up, I can prove the paper trail of the errors that usually show I am not even a factor in the made up err).

How an IEN nurse can migrate to Canada in 8 months with the benefit of “Arranged Employment”? I feel very confused about the complete process of Canada immigration visa for “Federal Skilled Worker - Arranged Employment”. How a nurse can migrate & reach Canada in 8 to 9 months with the benefit of “Arranged Employment” or “Provincial Nomination Program”. Because according to this rules a IEN candidate is not eligible without CRNE exam, so how he/she can apply for the nurse job (indirectly employee cannot recruit such a candidate). After some search what I learned is; If a nurse wants to apply under “Provincial Nomination Program” (PNP) category then for most of the province requirement for PNP is candidate should have passed CRNE exam. CRNE exam is only available in CANADA three times a year. So does it means candidate should complete following steps? 1. Prepare for the CRNE exam in candidate’s own country; 2. Apply to the nursing regulatory body in that province or territory for a permit to practice nursing in the province. 3. Apply for visa to work temporarily to meet province 4. If province gives permission to write the exam, after which candidate can apply for full licensure in that province. 5. Appear and pass the CRNE Exam. I think all this process will need at least 1 year. Then 6. Apply for Canada immigration visa for “Federal Skilled Worker - Arranged Employment” which require almost 6 month. I will be very thankful if you can guide me for this issue.

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Got a new job in the nursing home...dangerous situation....what would the union do? I recently started working as a nurse aide in a nursing home while I finish my ASN. I am a little baffled because when I was hired I was told that they were short staffed but they have hired a lot of girls and everything. Well I went through all of my orientation and am now on the floor training. Every day there is only 4-5 of us for all of the residents. Each aide is getting anywhere from 15 to 20 residents to work with. In one unit almost all of the residents need to be fed. We were told we are not allowed to feed them for more than 7 minutes. Whatever they eat in 7 mins is all they get. There are also residents who are not getting adequate care because of the shortage. And since all of the aides are busy if someone is a 2 assist we either have to wait until another aide has finished doing what she is doing so she can help or we have to risk ours and the residents safety and try to transfer or ambulate them. All of the aides are union so I do not understand why they have not went to the union about this. Aides and nurses are working 12 and 16 hr shifts. They are all lacking sleep and frustrated. I see this as a very dangerous situation. Does the union handle situations like this? IF so why would they not go to them? (I am not union yet since I just started) Or, is this just the work of a nursing home? (I have only worked in hospitals)

Some of you wanted to know how illegals affect us? personally???? Here is ONE example!!!!!!!!!!!!! Catastrophe in Care Hospitals are being crippled by the costs of treating migrants--and that could be just the start of an immigrant-related health crisis By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks One of the many signs on the Naco Highway. Leo W. Banks "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back," says Josie Mincher, emergency room manager at Copper Queen Hospital. Leo W. Banks "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Rev. Tom Buechele. If you drive along Southern Arizona's border with Mexico long enough, you might see a lone illegal wandering the desert. Or maybe he's hunched at the roadside sipping water from his milk jug. What's he doing there, and where are his compatriots, the people he broke into the country with? The uninformed might ask those questions, but those who live with the daily invasion across our open borders can make a pretty good guess what's happening. The fellow got bounced from his group by the coyote-guide. Two transgressions will get an illegal cut loose with certainty: Either he can't pay, or he shows signs of tuberculosis. You think these coyotes are fools? They don't want some hollow-eyed lunger hacking and coughing blood on them. So it's adios, pal, and now you're America's problem. But they know that already. Every illegal realizes that if he makes it to an emergency room in Southern Arizona, or anywhere around the country for that matter, he can get treatment, free of charge. It's federal law, and has been for 20 years. In its evolution, the policy has become a kind of federal health insurance program for illegals, and its rising costs are eating up resources that could otherwise go to poor and uninsured American citizens. It has created a financial nightmare for border hospitals and contributed to cutbacks in services at Tucson hospitals. Is this an outrage? A scandal? Some think it's both. But going back to our active TB sufferer, here's something even worse: The guy can't get treatment anywhere, goes underground and takes a job at a restaurant in Tucson or L.A., and coughs his way to infecting scores of others. Talk about a Hobson's choice. But as with everything in the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration, the hard choices would largely evaporate if the federal government fulfilled its constitutional duty and took control of our border. The threat illegal immigration poses to American public health plays out every day at Arizona's hospitals. Until recently, the issue remained only marginally public, a problem medical people batted around among themselves, not with the media. Even today, several hospitals contacted for this story declined comment. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, one of the hardest hit, helped break that barrier when CEO Jim Dickson began returning reporters' calls, even though the subject, as he puts it, has become "like the third rail. You don't want to touch it." But his problem had grown severe. Dickson's uncompensated costs for treating illegals rose from $35,000 in 1999 to $450,000 in 2004. His total shortfall now sits at about $1.4 million, a hefty deficit for a 14-bed hospital. To make ends meet, he had to close, in June 2000, the Copper Queen's long-term care facility, and cut back on staff and hours, forcing some employees to take second jobs to survive. The hospital has seen a ray of light, however. In the first months of 2005, the Copper Queen has gone back into surplus, in part because more illegals are in Border Patrol custody when brought in to the hospital. That means the Border Patrol must reimburse the Queen for the cost. In the past, agents would drop injured illegals not in their custody at the ER and take off, sticking the hospital with bills that never got paid. Another reason for the decrease, says Dickson: the Minuteman Project. "It's been terrific for us in April," he says, cutting down on the number of people coming across and therefore the number requiring ER treatment. Dickson says the hospital wrote off about $6,000 in losses in April this year, compared to about $35,000 in April 2004. The central issue, though, remains in place--the hospital has had to scale back health services to American citizens to treat illegals. Bisbee isn't alone. The most comprehensive study on the subject found that 24 counties in four states bordering Mexico wracked up $190 million in unpaid emergency medical bills caring for illegals in the year 2000. The study, commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, found that California spent $79 million of that; Texas, $74 million; Arizona, $31 million; and New Mexico, $6 million. Bear in mind that these numbers, the best available, are from 2000. We can assume, with increasing rates of crossings since then, the costs are considerably higher today. Nor do the above figures take into account non-border counties. Treating illegals in Maricopa County costs as much as $50 million a year, according to an estimate used by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl. Nationally, American hospitals lose $1.45 billion a year. The Medicare reform bill passed in 2003 allocated $1 billion to reimburse states for federally mandated ER care given to illegals--about $45 million a year of that to come to Arizona over four years. But even that, some hospital staffers say, is little more than a Band-Aid on a huge problem. Ruth Kish, director of patient care services at Copper Queen, expects that under the repayment formula, her hospital will receive only 10 cents of every dollar they spend on illegals. "But every bit helps," says Kish. Another factor: The counties in the above-mentioned study spent an additional $13 million in 2000 on emergency transportation, such as helicopters and ambulances, to pick up illegals injured after sneaking across the line. The Bisbee Fire Department's ambulance responds to about one of these calls a day during the summer, says Chief Jack Earnest. Asked how many of these patients pay up, Earnest wasn't sure, and recommended contacting the billing office in Sierra Vista. The billing office knew exactly how often illegals pay their ambulance bills--never. But there's another category--Mexicans injured in Mexico who call American ambulances for help. By federal law, they have to respond, which makes Bisbee's Copper Queen the trauma center of choice for Sonora's northern frontier. The calls come from Naco, Sonora, the town across the line just south of Bisbee, where, in spite of widespread poverty, cell phones are popular, and everybody knows the Americans are bound by law to treat them. "When we get a call we go, and we don't ask where the person's from," says Earnest. Naco residents needing care go to the port of entry and declare an emergency to American officials. When they're waved through, they're transported to the Copper Queen's ER in Bisbee's ambulance, or they drive themselves in private cars. The policy is called Compassionate Entry, and it applies to hospitals up and down the line. The Copper Queen averages about five such cases a month. Some abuse the privilege, says ER Manager Josie Mincher. She's seen Compassionate Entries with bad sore throats and others who aren't sick at all. One pregnant girl landed in the ER recently complaining of morning sickness. Most are seriously sick, though, and the staff rushes to help, "because that's what we do," says Mincher. But it doesn't take much to blow the budget. "Just walking in the door is $400," says Mincher. "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back. We're playing with monopoly money here." Here's an example of how one patient can wrack up a huge bill: A young Mexican man had a bad auto accident across the line and was taken to Douglas' Southeast Arizona Medical Center with severe neurological problems. After being stabilized there, he was transferred to Barrow's Neurological Center in Phoenix. He spent a costly month there, courtesy of the Center, and was transferred--with a tracheotomy tube in his throat and supplies to clean it, also provided gratis by Barrow's--to a hospital in Hermosillo. That facility kept him less than a day before releasing him to his home in Naco. But for reasons no one can explain, the Hermosillo hospital kept his trach kit and cleaning supplies. As a result, he became septic--a bad infection--and came through the Naco port under Compassionate Entry to the Copper Queen. He spent three days there, then the staff sent him off, with more free supplies, to a clinic in Agua Prieta for continued care. How much did this fellow cost the American health care system? A figure of a quarter-million dollars would surprise no one. Cost to the Copper Queen? Almost $6,000, and they got none of it back. Northern Cochise Community Hospital is in Willcox, far enough from the border that it doesn't get patients crossing the line for health care. But that doesn't mean it escapes the invasion. CEO Chris Cronberg loses about $100,000 a year caring for illegals, mostly those injured in traffic accidents when their loaded vehicle flips while speeding north. "It's not make or break for us," says Cronberg. "But as a small hospital, we depend on cash, and those are dollars that aren't coming in, so it has an impact." The same is true at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, according to Vice President Marie Wurth. She expects the hospital to lose $250,000 this year treating those who jump the line, get hurt doing it and don't pay their bills. The big squeeze is on in Tucson, too. Tucson Medical Center loses an estimated $4 million every year treating illegals. The corresponding figure at UMC, which includes some foreign nationals, was $3.5 million for fiscal 2004, a $2 million increase from the previous year. Part of that is attributable to UMC, in July 2003, becoming Tucson's only Level One trauma center, meaning it saw the most serious cases. Chief Financial Officer Kevin Burns says the hospital's re-payment rate for treating illegals is about 5 cents on the dollar. "It's very expensive for us and continues to grow," says Burns, who says many illegals, as well as uninsured Americans, use his ER like a primary care physician. "We hear anecdotally that people come here from across the border because they know they can get cared for, and if they present at the ER, they can get that care at no cost." The federal law that put the hospitals on the hook for the medical bills of illegals goes by the acronym EMTALA--Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It says that anybody who shows up in an ER must get screened, treated and stabilized, regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. But since its passage in 1985, the definition of emergency has evolved to include just about anything, and because Congress didn't fund the requirement, hospitals have had to eat the costs as word has spread that the federal goodie wagon is parked at the ER door. In cities with huge illegal populations, such as Los Angeles, the effects have been disastrous. In its spring 2005 issue, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons reported that between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because, for several reasons including EMTALA, half of their services became unpaid. Another 24 are near closing, says author Madeleine Pelner Cosman. She also writes that in 1983, before EMTALA, L.A. County put together a trauma network that was "one of America's finest emergency med response organizations." A mere 22 years later--again, in part because of EMTALA--Cosman says the system is coming apart, with most trauma hospitals having left the network, along with physicians, surgeons and others. The law has caused a similar situation in Tucson, on a smaller scale. "With EMTALA, the government created an unfunded national health insurance program, and it has caused real problems in this community," says Dr. Herb McReynolds, who works for a company that manages the ER department for St. Mary's Hospital, which treats a large number of illegals. Lawmakers wrote the legislation to prevent patient dumping--in which one hospital refuses to accept, say, an uninsured woman in labor, telling ambulance personnel to take her to the county hospital instead. It stopped that practice. But it has caused a big increase in the amount of un-reimbursed care that hospitals provide, and in McReynolds' words, "made physicians rethink their careers and lifestyles." "The price of it has come over time, because after so much uncompensated care, it forces physicians off our call list," says McReynolds. "Physicians have a practice to go to the next day and a family, and ask themselves, do I really want to be up at 2 a.m. providing care when I won't get comp, and I can still get sued?" Some docs have removed themselves from on-call lists by going to work at outpatient surgical centers not affiliated with a hospital. Others stay on call, but limit the amount of time they're available. A neurosurgeon might take call one day a week, and that satisfies the law. EMTALA says that you must provide a reasonable amount of coverage, without being strict or specific about how much that is. McReynolds says that EMTALA--in tandem with the malpractice crisis--has caused the loss of medical coverage at many hospitals around the country and in Tucson, including St. Mary's. "Several years ago we had five neurosurgeons on staff here, and now we have two," he says. "We had hand surgery coverage every day, and now we have it one week a month. We used to have full ob-gyn coverage, and now they've left and gone to TMC. We have no ob-gyn and one gynecologist on staff covering emergencies one day a week." With docs all over Tucson running for cover, trying to stay off call and away from ERs, the variety of emergency health care available to Tucsonans has seriously diminished. And here's the most maddening irony of all: The feds now reimburse American hospitals for treating non-paying illegals, but not for treating American citizens. Exception: Those eligible for care under Federal Emergency Services, a fairly restrictive program. For a year and a half now, UMC has approached non-paying illegals in a novel way--it actually reports them to immigration officials. "Some people find that cold, but we have a responsibility to protect this charitable asset (hospital)," says CFO Burns, adding that UMC's status as a public entity requires a different approach. "Our belief is that to the extent people have ability to pay, we expect them to." After triaging and stabilizing an ER patient, the hospital sets out to learn who that patient is, and how he or she plans to pay. To those who are uninsured and underinsured, the hospital offers the option of applying for its innovative Charity Care program. Under it, the hospital charges the patient the same rate it would receive for that service from Medicare, a possible reduction of up to 70 percent. Patients unable to pay at that discounted rate are eligible for further discounts that can tear up the bill entirely. To apply for Charity Care, the patient need only return to the hospital with a W-2 or other documents. Those who cooperate and return with the required documents don't get reported to the feds. But the hospital does report those who take the medical care and run. How many illegals cooperate with this generous offer? Ten percent. Burns says UMC began reporting the 90 percent who don't pay in November of 2003. So far, they've reported 565 persons. Why start reporting? "Maybe a bit of it was born of frustration because people use our resources and make no effort to work with us and pay," he says. "Even if part of the population doesn't pay, I still have to hire new people and buy and upgrade equipment, which costs $15-$20 million a year. When you have these strains on resources, from foreign citizens and as well as Medicaid patients, you have to manage cash flow very carefully." As with most issues related to the illegal invasion, those who live along the Mexican border, the scene of the crime, have the best view. Where health issues are concerned, it's not a pretty sight. Residents say they've come across ground dotted with discarded pills, syringes containing nobody knows what, and used needles. Some report riding horses along creek beds, popular pull-up areas for groups heading north, and finding 70 or 80 piles of human feces, some of it blackened and running with blood. It's as disgraceful as it is disgusting--and it raises a question: What happens when rain washes all this into the water supply? Is it a threat to spread diseases such as hepatitis? Some believe it might be. What happens when cows drink from these contaminated creeks? And what happens when this constant flow of Third World humanity goes north, fanning out all across Arizona and the country? What kind of diseases do they bring with them? ER workers like Mincher live with that question every day. "We protect ourselves best we can," she says, "but if somebody comes in with a contagious disease, I might as well buy the farm, because I don't know what it is. A lot of times, they don't know what they have either. If they came off a ranch in southern Mexico, they've had no immunizations, no health care, nothing." Most of what she sees at Copper Queen--around 75 percent--is orthopedic, falls suffered while jumping fences, for instance. Dehydration, too. Some of these are pregnant women nine months along, who, in Mincher's words, "are so desperate to have their babies born in the U.S., they'll do whatever it takes." She sees cardiac-related cases among illegals who've been given crack, methamphetamine or speed by their coyote so they can keep walking. But she's also treated illegals with active chicken pox, tuberculosis, all varieties of hepatitis and AIDS. The Web and print media are full of stories about the diseases illegals carry, and their effect on American health. But some writers make alarming claims with sketchy evidence at best. In the cases of two diseases, however--Chagas and tuberculosis--the evidence is clearer that they're indeed coming across our border. Chagas, a potentially fatal illness spread by contact with the feces of the reduviid bug, called the "kissing bug," is prevalent in South and Central America. Fifteen million people in that region are infected with the parasite, and 50,000 die of it every year, according to the World Health Organization. A person can be infected for 10 or 20 years or more before showing symptoms, making it particularly insidious. At its most severe, the disease can cause the heart to fail, and literally explode. In the United States? Louis Kirchhoff, of the University of Iowa Medical School, estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 Latin Americans with Chagas live here. Matching prevalence studies and immigration numbers, Kirchhoff figures about 10 Chagas-infected persons entered every day from Mexico alone in the 1990s. The disease can be transmitted four ways, but for Americans, the most worrisome is the blood supply. In the United States overall, the chance of contracting Chagas from a blood transfusion is small, one in 25,000, according to David Leiby, a research scientist at the American Red Cross in Washington. But in cities with high populations from Latin America, the numbers fall to much riskier levels. In Miami, for example, the chance is one on 9,000. In L.A., 1 in 5,400. Researchers have confirmed seven cases of people contracting Chagas through blood transfusions--five in the U.S., two in Canada--and they say the number of unknown cases is probably much higher. "A rate of one in 5,400 is something we're concerned about," says Leiby, adding that the FDA is still a few years away from a useable blood-screening test. "Chagas is overlooked by the health care system in the United States. Our physicians aren't aware of it and wouldn't recognize it in most cases." Tuberculosis, which also shows up in high rates in Mexico, is migrating north as well. Many assume a place like Cochise County, right on the border and overrun by illegals, would have a high incidence of TB. But it doesn't, says Edith Sampson, of the Cochise County Health Department. "The immigrants only pass through here on the way to Atlanta, or whatever city they're going to," she says. Exactly the problem--which is a big reason why 53 percent of the TB in the United States in 2003 was among foreign-born persons, up from 29 percent in 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In L.A., again because of its huge illegal population, the figure is closer to 80 percent. Only 15,000 Americans suffer from active TB, the only dangerous kind because it can be passed to someone else, usually by coughing and expelling the bacteria from the throat or lungs. That's a small number, but the New York Academy of Sciences estimates that each victim will "infect 10 or 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential time-bomb effect." The State Health Department says that Arizona had 295 reported cases of active TB in 2003, a jump from the previous year. Why the increase? More of the disease was found among kids under 5 years old and prisoners. The latter were mostly Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees--in other words, illegals. Sixty-eight percent of Arizona's foreign-born TB cases are from Mexico, says state health. Will TB return to the United States in a big way? It hasn't yet, says Lee Reichman, executive director of the New Jersey Medical School's National Tuberculosis Center. But he adds that with globalization--the ability to get around the world in 20 hours--and because "we can't stop people from getting in to this country, no matter how hard we try," the potential exists for a new epidemic. His particular concern is with multi-drug-resistant TB, fatal in 60 percent of cases. This strain requires a long regimen of costly drugs that illegals are unlikely to take, or have access to. Arizona has a small number of MDR-TB cases, and all of them in the past five years have been among foreign-born persons. "The reason you haven't heard about TB here is that good public health is working," says Reichman. "People who are symptomatic go to physicians, and the physicians don't ask questions. As soon as you have to ID yourself, or say we're going to send you back to Mexico, these people go into hiding and spread more TB. Any physician who cares about being a physician isn't going to ask those questions, because he took an oath to treat sick people." The Copper Queen's Rush Kish says that under Medicare reimbursement guides, her hospital cannot ask patients if they are in the country illegally. But how do you bill the feds to get money back for treating illegals if you can't ask if someone is illegal? Well, you play a little Orwellian word game, probing around the issue with a list of government-approved questions, then make educated assumptions. But the illegal holds the trump card, because he can refuse to answer every question. "We don't know yet what evidence Medicare will accept when we apply for reimbursement," says Kish. "But at least we can begin documenting the enormity of this problem." The question isn't whether those with genuine emergencies should get treatment. Of course they should. In Naco, residents have no access to ER care and many would die if they didn't get to the Copper Queen. The real question is: Who pays? Rev. Tom Buechele, pastor at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bisbee, thinks it's appropriate for the federal government to keep ponying up, as long as American companies "maintain their illegal trafficking in human labor." "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Buechele, who, for almost a year now, has been running a free monthly clinic in Naco, Arizona, catering to the poor and uninsured on both sides of the line. Although they talk a different language, politicians, even Republicans, promote policies that further Buechele's liberal vision. They boast to constituents that they've saved border hospitals by pushing through the Medicare reimbursement plan, which provides a relatively small amount of money over four years. But that's another Hobson's choice, which is to say no choice at all. What do you do, let hospitals go under? Kyl, who pushed to get the reimbursement money, says an emphatic no. "If we want those ERs to be there for us, then we'd better keep them in business," says the Arizona senator. "If our hospitals are required by federal law to treat anybody who comes into the ER, and the federal government has failed to control the border, then it's appropriate for the government to reimburse these hospitals." But some argue that the system as it stands now, with EMTALA firmly in place, is rigged to produce two results: The federal treasury will remain wide open to illegals, and that all but guarantees that more and more of them will bust the line to get here. After all, this is the end of the rainbow for them, where jobs await, education is free, health care is free. Who wouldn't come? And the more they come, the more American health suffers--from such diseases as Chagas and TB, further cutbacks in hospital services to American citizens, and even possible closures. Where's the compassion in that? Copper Queen ER nurse Josie Mincher, herself Hispanic, puts her health, and possibly her life, on the line to treat illegals. Listen to the emotion in her voice as she describes what that's like: "I go to work every day feeling like I'm on a torture wrack. My heartstrings get pulled in one direction by these sick people I want to help. Because I'm Hispanic, I know how they live. And I'm pulled in the other direction, too, thinking that if our hospitals aren't around, where do I take my own kids? "But we have to treat them because of EMTALA. It says that anybody who comes within 250 yards of an ER gets treatment. What would happen to Safeway if the law said anyone who comes within 250 yards of the store gets free food? They'd go out of business. Well, we're a business, too." Mincher's solution? "Send the bills to Mexico. If it affected them financially, they might do something about all these people coming across. My grandparents came here legally, and it took a long time and a lot of money. They respected the law. These people just walk across now. They weren't brought up the same way." Burns at UMC says he wants the U.S. and Mexican governments to work together to find a solution. But, as Kyl cautions, don't expect any breakthrough soon. Mexico benefits far too much from our illegal immigration nightmare--in jobs for its citizens and cash sent home--to step up with money to care for its own people. Until the border brought under control and the invasion stopped, we'll continue to pay the bills of people who illegally tiptoed across the line in the dead of night. This is an article from the Arizona Repuiblic newspaper, NOT something i "made up"!!!! If you don't believe me, LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF!!! It's on-line, if you look under Copper Queen hospital!!! And for those of you that can not take the time to READ this article, i can SEE why you are so UNINFORMED on this issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Should Obama and congress place more Priority on reducing futeure deficits and Federal debt? The Congressional Budget Office estimates the federal deficit could top $1.8 trillion this fiscal year -- by far a record. Entitlement spending -- Medicare, Medicaid, and so on -- will increase by $1.1 trillion. In 2009 and 2010 alone As a share of GDP, CBO says this means spending will hit an astounding 28.5% in fiscal 2009, which ends this September, and still be at 25.5% next year, staying at close to 23% to 24% of the economy for the next decade. This year's deficit will hit 13.1% of GDP and next year's will still be at 9.6%, assuming a healthy recovery, and then never get below 4.1% for the entire decade. These deficits assume the passage of Mr. Obama's enormous tax increases in 2011 and $629 billion in new cap-and-tax carbon revenues. The share of debt held by the public will double -- to 82.4% in 2019 from 40.8% in 2008 And by the way, all of this is without including the costs of Mr. Obama's plan to offer "free" health care for the middle class. The White House budget includes only a "down payment" on health care, with every serious person figuring it will cost at least $1.2 trillion, and probably more. Before the recession, federal spending totaled $24,000 per U.S. household. President Obama would hike it to $32,000 per household by 2019— an inflation-adjusted $8,000-per-household expan­sion of government. Even the steep tax increases planned for all taxpayers would not finance all of this spending: The President's budget would add trillions of dollars in new debt. Within a decade the average household that pays income tax will owe the equivalent of $155,000 in federal debt, about $90,000 more than last year. The bill is far too big for only the rich to pick up. There aren't enough of them. America will have to lean on citizens far below the $250,000 income threshold: nurses, electricians, secretaries, and factory workers. Businesses alone can not make up the difference, and when you tax businesses you loose jobs and technological advances leaving this country behind the rest of the world. Doesn't this scare anyone besides me?

these 5 different emails sent me spam containing the same type of information.? marylangin@aol.com jessica.santiagoi@yahoo.com debbiecarlson@live.com deberajul0012@gmail.com kaithnelson@aol.com these are the "different" emails i received Good day. How are you? I contact you regarding to your posting i saw on craigslist today......I hope the room is still available presently for rent.........Am Mary Langin by name,am interested in the room,i will like to know more about the place,environment,and the utilities surrounded......My job--- Am a medical humanitarian nurse,have been doing this for the past 8 years back,our work is to take care of motherless babies,homeless one and all of that,am still kind of young,i just clock 27 years old... Am originally from Finland,i can speak Finnish,swedish very well,and as well as English,i love to live in clean environment,to live with clean people,caring ,responsible,and neat type.... I don't smoke or drink alcoholic drink,but i can live with people that do smoke or drink,that is not a problem for me.... And as well,i don't have a pet,but i can live with a pet that is not a problem for me........If there is any form am going to fill,you can send it for me to view,if am ok with it i will let you know,so when i arrive i will fill it in person.... I will be happy to read from you,i will want to move by the ending of june,depending on the availability of the room....... I will tell you more about me if the room is still available ... Hope to read from you... Thanks. Hello to You over there and how is your day going? I saw your advert that You have a room available for rent and i am interested in knowing the availability of the place and i will also want to know more about the neighborhood ,the place and the utilities included...? I am Debbie Carlson,a Medical Humanitarian Nurse ,and have been involve since the past 8 years,taking care of the motherless babies,Homeless one and all of that,I am still kind of young because i just turned 27yrs old...I Can speak both English and french.,i love to live with clean people,caring,responsible,neat type. I'm 5'7' straight,and i am in Alaska now ,I will want to move in by end of the month depending on the availability of the room ,I speaks English fluently ,so we have no barriers I'll let You know more about me if i am to rent this particular room that you have to offer I will be anxiously waiting for your next email. Kind Regards Good day. How are you? I contact you regarding to your posting i saw on craigslist today......I hope the room is still available presently for rent.........Am Nelson Keith by name,am interested in the room,i will like to know more about the place,environment,and the utilities surrounded.....My job--- Am a medical humanitarian nurse,have been doing this for the past 8 years back,our work is to take care of motherless babies,homeless one and all of that,am still kind of young,i just clock 27 years old... Am originally from Finland,i can speak Finnish,swedish very well,and as well as English,i love to live in clean environment,to live with clean people,caring ,responsible,and neat type.... I don't smoke or drink alcoholic drink,but i can live with people that do smoke or drink,that is not a problem for me.... And as well,i don't have a pet,but i can live with a pet that is not a problem for me........If there is any form am going to fill,you can send it for me to view,if am ok with it i will let you know,so when i arrive i will fill it in person....I will be happy to read from you,i will want to move by the middle of july,depending on the availability of the room....... I will tell you more about me if the room is still available ... Hope to read from you... Hi, Hello to You over there and how is your day? I saw your advert that You have a room available for rent and i am interested in knowing the availability of the place and i will also want to know more about the place, neighborhood ,and the utilities included...? I am debera ,I just finished my degree in computer studies,i just turned 24yrs old... I'm 5'7' straight,and i am in south Dakota now ,I will want to move by the End of june depending on the availability of the room ,I speak English fluently ,so we have no barriers. I'll let You know more about me if i am to rent this particular room that you have to offer. I will be anxiously waiting for your next email Kind Regards Hello I' m, woman and I come from France, specifically Paris. I speak both English, French and of Spanish flowing, and I am 28years of the age. I am at present function with the Federal Office of the work and nature resources in France.I at present on one research program and I look in the morning hopelessly for a place, in order to stay. I am the tidy kind, the honest, responsible person, trustworthy and industrious person, while I love music much and I love domestic animals so much, the calm in the morning and the happy person of living to also. I' m 5" 7' straight. I always love, on date to go however to party rarely. I swim fo As you Can see all of these emails pertain the same " medical humanitarian nurse" with changed names. (actually the last one is a "Federal Office worker" but also 5'7" "straight" ) i find these emails ridiculous. especially since i got three of them in a row. i don't understand who these people are....(i really think that they're sh*tbags......) are those names actually their names?.....what the heck to they get when they get your email? do they sell them for a lot of money?

Can I still get a federal student loan? Last year I started going to a 2 year nursing school. I lost my job, and long story short, I never finished the semester. Now, I got a student loan to cover like 28,000 of it, and I owed them 2,000 more. I got a bill in the mail saying I was unenrolled and that I owed them 0.00. Can I apply for a new student loan? Cause I want to go back to school and its at a community college so they are to helpfull on this whole process. At my other school someone did it all for me. And If I can get another student loan, how do I apply for them and so on. Do I have to enroll first or can I get the loan first, how does it work? The school I want to go to now is not the same school as i went to before.

Why do so many people mistake emotional appeals for logical arguments in political debate? Emotional appeals are great for situations involving one one one or small group situations such as a nurse working with a patient or for support groups, but when it comes to the political arena it is impossible to fulfill the emotional needs and desires of individuals. That is one of the many reasons why our founding fathers limited the Federal powers to issues that effected the nation as a whole. The government even at the state or local level is not in a position to do a good job handling the needs of a child who is being abused or a worker who has been laid off due to a recession. Actually, child abuse rates have gone up since child abuse laws came into play. Before that parents were left to raise their children as they pleased most of the time. If discipline became abuse than it was taken care of by the extended family or the local community. Homelessness rates were also much lower before social programs were introduced. Before the paperwork for hiring a n employee got so complicated it was common place for the unemployed to catch a job here and ther until they found something permenant. This kept a roof over many a family's head during the early years of the great depression.

Need a grant for Nursing. How do I get it? I have a bachelor's degree in telecommunications. My job cut my hours drastically and I hate the work. I am going back to school to get an associates degree as a registered nurse. Now I am not eligible for any state (PA) or federal grants. What can I do? I relied on these very much when getting my bachelor's degree. I cannot find anything to help as far as grants. It really doesn't seem fair that I am not eligible. Having a bachelor's degree doesn't mean I can afford school on my own. And my job was going ok until the economy bottomed out. Now I can barely afford to go back to school. What do I do? Also I need to work to support myself during this time. So I don't know if I would be able to work, volunteer and also go to school, clinical and study. I am just confused.

Why does Wal Mart Stores, Inc not follow their own guidelines and procedures? Bill Lang wants to transfer to a Sam's Club in Colorado as soon as possible. Mr Lang used to be trusted by Max Rafael Waller who made the mistake of telling him everything before the Termination on Monday, 23 April 2007. Team Lead Ambrosio Galvan also knows a lot of dirty secrets at Sam's Club 6625, but is nervous about losing his job if he sides with Max Rafael Waller Sam's Club PD-57 was NOT adhere to by Club Manager Fidel Jacobo and Membership Manager Esperanza Lopez. No documentation of any complaints and the San Fernando Police Department or the Los Angeles Police Department ever showed for a "Work Place Violence." Please show proof since one complaint and one video tape does NOT establish a workplace violence. Neither Mr Jacobo or Ms Lopez wanted to sign the papers of any meeting between two managers and Max Rafael Waller for Legal Documentation. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. Max Rafael Waller formerly Assoc ID 0035 and Operator 007 proudly served from Tuesday, 13 November 1990 - Monday, 23 April 2007 and only needed about nine years to do a minimal of twenty-five years to retire from Wal Mart Stores, Inc. He was one hundred percent vested in Profit Sharing and had a one month vacation allocated per year. Max Rafael Waller 11261 Sproule Avenue Pacoima CA 91331-155118 http://www.myspace.com/max_rafael_waller Naval Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps, N.J.R.O.T.C., and alumn of Les Prestigians ~ Class of 1983. San Fernando Senior High School 11333 O'Melveny Avenue San Fernando CA 91340 Telephone:1-818-365-1121 US Army Active Duty: 1984 - 1988 and Individual Ready Reserve, IRR: 1988-1993 Type of Discharge: Honorable RE-1, which is the highest. One Station Unit Training, OSUT 1st Platoon, 4th Squad Echo Company "Outlaws" 7th Infantry Battalion 1st Infantry Training Brigade "Relentless in Training and Unyielding in Battle" Fort Benning Georgia 31905 Continental United States (CONUS) 2nd Platoon Charlie Company "Hard Core Charlie" 3rd Battalion "Battleforce" 327th Infantry (Air Assault) 1st Infantry Brigade "Always First" (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) "Screaming Eagles" Fort Campbell Kentucky 42223 United States Army Europe (USAEUR) 3rd Platoon Delta Company "Dogs of War" 1st Battalion "Regulars by God" 6th Infantry (Mechanized) 1st Armored Brigade "Forerunners" 1st Armored Division "Old Ironsides" APO NY NY 09140 Storck Barracks at Illesheim West Germany Sam's Club 6625 12920 Foothill Blvd San Fernando CA 91340 Telephone:1-818-365-7710 Facsimile:1-818-365-0690 Sam's Club Awards Division A, now Region A 3rd Quarter Award for Member Service The award was received at Home office in November 2003 Region 54, now District 55 2nd Quarter Award for Member Service The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 Sam's Club 6625 September 2003 Associate of the Month The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 Wal Mart Today, now Wal Mart World Member Service Legend How it life started to really go down hill December 2006 Mehmet Ekinci {A Hatchet Man and sent to "clean House" is no longer there but in Fresno according to Mr Jason Fastner} said that he was replacing everyone in the tire shop or its proper title: Tire and Battery Center according to Jeff Lopez{no longer works there} and Mark Castro{has recanted}and Bill Lang heard indirectly but will deny it. Max Rafael Waller studied all of Wal-Mart policies and found that if that his remark {INTIMIDATION} could be verified then he would get a coaching for making such a remark. The others are scared to tell the truth. Fidel Jacobo and Enrique Velarde had possibly everybody at Sam's Club gathering information given out by Max Rafael Waller and will reward them by promotion and/or a payraise along with illegal surveillance that GROSSLY violates the Global Ethics Compliance that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc claims to uphold. Fidel Jacobo might had given misinformation through the tire shop boss, Bill Lang. Fidel Jacobo has received a lot of Anti-Union training Bill told Max if the associates did not follow rules let that be the problem of management. Bill Lang is a Team Lead and so he is required to enforce all rules even IF he disagrees. Sam's Club 6625 did the following tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 with the participation of members. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. TACTICS USED BY SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Others Associates and one Caucasian-American named Jarrod tried to be his friend. Jarrod in the past ignore him while his friend that came along with him came from another Sam's Club and they enjoy Good Cop and Bad Cop. Their plan was to have enough approaches to seek "friendship" but they were to seek information and what he was up to since some web sites about Sam's Club 6625 are on the internet. Another tactic used by Sam's Club 6625 / Wal Mart Stores, Inc Wal-Mart Stores, Inc will protect their Public Relations and Image AT ANY COST INCLUDING MAKING A PACT Loyal Customers, "grateful" associates, and their vendors and suppliers. Members where to complain to get Max Rafael Waller and Sam's Club 6625 management would had an easy time had him fired for inferior member service. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. To give the Appearance that Max Rafael Waller was causing great harm to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club they had labeled Interview Questions and "Privileged & Confidential" and its Sam's Club University title is More Than A Gut Feeling Participant's Guide A list of interview questions should be deemed Innocuous that would not be Injurious to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club. The so called witnesses would had been Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang of Sam's Club 6625. A print out of this document conveniently did not have a date printed to give an appearance that is so sensitive that it is disruptive. These document bring no harm and it shows how Disingenuous and Duplicitous Samuel Robson Walton and the Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores really are. Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang were also giving the amount of money lost on the Profit and Loss so the if their conversation would be on the internet. They were hoping for the amount to have been stated, but the fact that the conversation was written was enough to know that he wrote at MySpace. Around Wednesday, 21 March 2007 he dragged the rotting carcass of a dog so children would not touch it. It was in front on the Pepsi Bottling Plant in San Fernando California 91340 and its entrance is on Dronfield Ave. He might have breathed some Bacteria, Germs or other Biological Agents and maybe some Botulism. Esther Topete on Saturday, 24 March 2007 was watering the front lawn at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima California 91331 and was scared. Max picked up a headless Squirrel that had a foul stench and maggots and placed in the garbage bin. INTIAL ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WITH A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION A possible misdiagnosis {two EKG readings, Blood tests, Urine Tests, and Lung X-rays}but no medicine was initiated by Scott Wang MD from Providence Holy Cross Medical Center 15301 Rinaldi St Mission Hills CA 91345 Telephone: 1-818-365-8051 Max was scared because he had a high heart rate and cloudy vision, but it turned out that it could have been a result of MEGADOSING on vitamins and minerals a one result is VITAMIN INTOXICATION. Dr Scott Wang's name could not be found at their website http://www.providence.org/losangeles/facilities/providence_holy_cross/default.htm An old white man claiming to be from a PET {Positive Emitting Tomography} Psychiatric team from Kaiser Permanente never left a business card or a phone number for communication. With a PET scan something called RFID can be planted and placed strategically at vital part of the body to electronically kill Max by devious people and this method of killing American Dissenters is from the FBI and the US Military. It is in the Black Operations of the US Federal Government. They also do Electromagnetic Harassment so please visit http://www.mdspec.com The old white man looked like an actor from Law and Order portraying a Psychiatrist and this IS ILLEGAL. Kaiser Permanente's Behavioral Health Care Member Help Line and their telephone: 1-800-900-3277 On Sunday, 1 April 2007 Dr Paul R Hladon Kaiser Permanente 13652 Cantara St Panorama City CA 91402 Telephone: 1-818-375-2377 A possible misdiagnosis since Max had a burning sensation of his Bronchial tubes and Dr Hladon reluctantly gave the medicine. At first he said it was a possible Acid Reflux BUT HE MIGHT HAVE MISDIAGNOSED OR RUSHED TO MAX OUT OF THE WAY! Someone at Kaiser Permanente placed a magazine despicting death possibly the Filipino Nurses. They claimed that they do NOT have a Physician Desk Reference{http://www.pdrhealth.com/ } which can tell about Dessicant Bacteria and its Incubation Period. The Nursing staff was Disigenous and Duplicitous and COULD NOT BE TRUSTED FOR A HONEST ANSWER ! Dr Paul R Hladon gave RELUCTANTLY Max two prescriptions: Azithromycin Tablet 250MG{Take two tablets daily for seven days} and Ciprofloxacin HCL Tablet 500MG{Take one tablet orally two times a day for fourteen days}. Dr. Hladon had two X-Rays so how did he know to give WHAT medicine{prescription} without blood work and being tested for anything out of the ordinary ? Misdiagnosis kills almost 100,000 Americans yearly! The secret for Wal-Mart not getting caught using tactics, fear and intimidation, is simple: a lot of unwritten rules so there is no evidence. A lot of non-managers associates will respond by saying they see or know nothing of improper treatment. They will also have selective memory. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. Wal Mart Stores, Inc violate their own Global Ethics policies. Their Global Ethics Office have stated that they only handle Age Discrimination. Read the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/principle10.html http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/transparency_anticorruption/index.html http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/iccfccd/index.html?cookies=no Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/ The FBI will discredit American Dissenters by all necessary means like Biological and Psychological war along with Electronic from their world famous Behavioral Science Unit or BSU The FBI protect multi-national conglomerates Group Stalking and Electromagnetic Harassment are some their tactics. COVERT ELECTROMAGNETIC HARASSMENT The heart has a frequncy and cycle and the EKG also looks for a rythm Two EKG's were done at Holy Cross Hospital by Dr. Scott Wang and with the frequncy the FBI {every day and night}are sending just barely audible to inaudible Electromagnetic pulses and signals PLEASE visit to understand to dark side of the US Federal Government http://www.mdspec.com http://www.homeland-security-join.com http://www.secretangel.tv Use use the Freedom of Information Act and expect the FBI to stone walled and cite National Security and National Interest More on the FBI and US Homeland Security Surveillance, Psychotronics and (Gang)Stalking Operations The Xiandos web site is http://xiandos.info/Surveillance,_Psychotronics_and_(Gang-)Stalking_Operations To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." Ask if they were investigating Max Rafael Waller The FBI{twice} were given via e-mail, max_rafael_waller@hotmail.com, the following pertaining to Max Rafael Waller; Social Security Account Number, Driver's License Number with expiration date, Home and Work Address with their telephone numbers. Misinformation has been used succesfully by the LAPD, SFPD, FBI, and etcetera. Bureau of Security and Investigative Services of the State of California http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=15863&P_LTE_ID=651 Lincesee Name: Weinhold Investigations License Type: Private Investigator License Number: 15863 License Status: CLEAR Definition (Status Definition: The License/Registration/Permit is current and valid. ) Expiration Date: September 30, 2008 Issue Date: September 29, 1992 City: PINON HILLS County: SAN BERNARDINO Actions: No Business Owners: Weinhold, Peter Herman Related Licenses/Registrations/Permits: No records returned Disciplinary Actions: No records returned This information is updated Monday through Friday - Last updated: APR-24-2007 Disclaimer All information provided by the Department of Consumer Affairs on this web page, and on its other web pages and internet sites, is made available to provide immediate access for the convenience of interested persons. While the Department believes the information to be reliable, human or mechanical error remains a possibility, as does delay in the posting or updating of information. Therefore, the Department makes no guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, currency, or correct sequencing of the information. Neither the Department, nor any of the sources of the information, shall be responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the use or results obtained from the use of this information. Other specific cautionary notices may be included on other web pages maintained by the Department. All access to and use of this web page and any other web page or internet site of the Department is governed by the Disclaimers and Conditions for Access and Use as set forth at California Department of Consumer Affairs' Information and Use of Information(http://www.dca.ca.gov/disclaim.htm). Another headache for Max Rafael Waller Everyone, Managers and Non-Managers, at Sam's Club 6625 willingly volunteered. In December 2006 Pete Weinhold, unkown to Max Rafael Waller, was trying to save a Private Security contract with Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Pete Weinhold might be working at the Sam's Club in Santa Clarita Sam's Club and in possible contact with Bill Lang who is in denial. Pete Weinhold owns a Private Security firm and is a Private Investigator licensed in the State of California. Mr. Weinhold's Private Security firm employed retired and active Peace Officers. Peace Officers have Police Powers but NOT regular Private Security firms and thus Pete Weinhold can charge extra for this. Mr. Pete Weinhold was desperate to save his contract at Sam's Club 6625 and he found an angle; Max Rafael Waller might be an Internet Predator and Pedophile. Mr Weinhold might be at the Sam's Club in Santa Clarita California. Los Angeles Police Officer Julian Almaraz used to work for Pete Weinhold. Three Questions to Mr Pete Weinhold Why does Mr Pete Weinhold not explain his investigation to make peace ? Is it possible that he broke a lot of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties along with Los Angeles Police Department and San Fernando Police Department ? Will Internal Affairs of the Los Angeles Police Department and San Fernando Police Department get involved or has it becomed a Political Hot Potato ? A failed Sting Operation around February 2007 Undercover Police, two white on the inside and two hispanic waiting outside, were setting up Max Rafael Waller at the MacDonalds in the shopping Center were Sam's Club 6625 is at. The bait was a hispanic looking girl at the register who was possibly under eighteen years old. Max Rafael Waller wanted to show proof that some strangers can be trusted so he showed his id with his home address. The one Undercover asked the other do we spring the trap ? The other said not yet. The reason is that showing were someone lives is NOT illegal and reason enough, BUT what would had sprung the trap was that she would be asked to come to his home and the trap FAILED MISERABLY due to the fact that the girl was NOT invited or given a suggestion for a future contact ! A male manager from MacDonalds who looked middle eastern was nervous HAD confirmed it. No evidence has been found to justify surveillance and justify tactics used by the US Homeland Security and local Law Enforcement. PLEASE show all of the information gathered ! Who are involved: the Los Angeles Police Department, the San Fernando Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a lot of associates from Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The following have been written around the middle of April 2007 and never responded even though a mailing address was given, except Barbara Boxer. US Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) http://boxer.senate.gov/ Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/ Harry Reid (D-NV) http://reid.senate.gov/ Hillary Clinton (D-NY) http://clinton.senate.gov/ Chuck Schumer (D-NY) http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/ Arlen Specter (R-PA) http://specter.senate.gov/ Russ Feingold (D-WI) http://feingold.senate.gov/ Patrick Leahy (D-VT) http://leahy.senate.gov/ US Congress Howard Berman (D) 28th District of California http://www.house.gov/berman/ Nancy Pelosi (D) the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 8th Congressional District of California http://speaker.house.gov/ Max Rafael Waller has plenty of "Dirty Laundry" or to simply write: acts that are questionable. Sam's Club 6625 Associates are possibly spreading misinformation in the San Fernando Valley especially in Pacoima. One of the is possibly a Check Out Supervisor, COS, Jay with a woman at a cell phone store in Pacoima on Foothill Blvd between Pierce St and Terra Bella St. and this came from a relative of Max.

What are requirement to work in Canada for Foreign Educated (Indian GNM Diploma) Nurse? I am a Registered Nurse in India I have done General Nursing and Midwifery 3 years fulltime diploma course, and I have 5 years plus experience. Recently I have also given academic IELTS exam and scored overall 6.0 band (Listening 6, Reading 5.5, Writing 5.5, Speaking 6). I want to migrate to Canada with my husband and son. I am planning to apply under “Federal Skilled Worker immigration” I have following queries. I would be grateful if you could provide me answers for these questions or tell me any other way to work in Canada as Nurse. Thanks allot. 1) What are the steps I will need to perform to Migrate to Canada? 2) My IELTS 6.0 BANDS will be considered for Language Skills points or I should give IELTS exam again? 3) Is NCLEX and Canadian Registered Nurse Examination (CRNE) is compulsory to work in Canada as nurse? 4) Can I give CRNE exam online from India? 5) My relatives are in Canada if they arrange a regular nurse job (Not under arranged employment); will it help for the immigration process. 6) When I have calculated my points for immigration it comes to 65 – 67. So to secure the process, Can I apply under “Arranged Employment” or “Provincial Nomination Program”? 7) Where can I find a Job listing for “Provincial Nomination Program” category? I searched many sites but didn’t found anything specifically; Nurses requirement under Provincial Nomination Program.

please dont turn your backs this happened to me please help and read this atleast youll know before you judge? This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. Published: 2007-07-23 05:00 Family | Email this page | printer friendly version Imagine your terror and panic: you are awakened by an armed SWAT team in the middle of the night, demanding to be let into your home to take your children away. The grim-faced agents show you no warrant, no court order, and no mercy. They give you no reason for their presence, other than having received an unspecified report about child abuse. They bark commands and menace you and your children with their weapons. The children are taken out of your home screaming, shoved into cars, and whisked away into the night. This is not a Soviet-era movie script, but a reality in thousands of homes in the United States every year, courtesy of state child protective services agencies. The least reported and understood social crisis of our time is the vast new police state run by these state social services agencies, which are generically referred to as “child protective services,” or CPS. The states have different names for them, such as Department of Social Services or Department of Children and Families, but they are all operating under a federal mandate. Whatever they are called, our next generation of children may never recover from their predatory intrusions into families. Some may dismiss these concerns as hyperbole, but the numbers are appalling. In 2005 alone, over 3.3 million reports involving six million children were made to state child-abuse hot lines, the vast majority of which eventually proved to be untrue. Over 500,000 children currently are in foster care. Another 300,000 or so are forcibly removed from their homes by the system every year. Tens of billions of dollars are expended every year on the care of these children, and on the juvenile court systems which enable it, along with costs of therapy, drugs, lawyers, and related services. This system is relatively new. In response to professional agitation to “do something” about the problem of child abuse, Congress set forth standards for state child protection agencies in 1974, in the Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act, also called the Mondale Act for its senatorial sponsor. If a state conformed their system to the federal mandate, it could get generous reimbursement from the feds. The states immediately complied, and modern child protection was born. The system does not work, and never has. Thirty years, hundreds of billions of dollars, and millions of ruined families later, the problem of abuse is little improved. Not one state has ever come close to meeting the bare minimum standards set out in federal law for CPS agencies. Of seven federal criteria that apply, only a few states have even met one, and no state even complies with a few of them. In almost all cases, children are traumatized by their experiences in state custody. A large number of the children taken into captivity never return — many are adopted out to other families, killed, injured, or caused permanent psychological harm. Parents are rarely helped, even when they need some improvement. Can this happen in America? It can, and it does. What follows is a brief tour through the seamy underbelly of the CPS system. That these agencies engage in such despicable behavior is often not believed by anyone who has not been directly affected by it. CPS structures and systems resemble those used by totalitarian regimes. The Snitch Network The entry point of most children into the child protection system is through a government-mandated “snitch network” consisting of 50-odd professions that are required by law to report any suspected child abuse or neglect to a state “hot line.” Teachers, police, therapists, doctors, nurses, even clergy, must report to CPS, under threat of prosecution. In addition, CPS propaganda has convinced many neighbors and friends and personal enemies to make such reports. Once a report is made, the CPS agency has to decide whether it is credible, and if so, what to do about it. Of about 3.3 million calls to state hot lines in 2005, about 40 percent were screened out before going any further. For the remaining calls, the agency had to decide whether it was an emergency, or could be administratively investigated in due course. Why are so many reports of child abuse being generated? A large contributing factor is that the legal definitions of abuse and neglect are so elastic as to encompass virtually any parental behavior, from spanking their children to letting them eat too much “fast food.” Also, supply sometimes creates its own demand, since an army of professionals has arisen to service the industry, and must be kept well fed. In response to child-abuse emergencies, real or imagined, the agency usually sends CPS agents and police to a home. The police pry the children’s little fingers off their mother, with everyone screaming hysterically during the “pull,” as they call it. In other cases, children are snatched from school or from buses after school, without notice to parents frantically waiting at bus stops. Often they are taken late on a Friday afternoon, so parents cannot challenge the action in court over the weekend, and so that the children can be held incommunicado and given medications — drugged — during that time. The goal is to soften the kids up to make “disclosures” about parental abuse in order to allow CPS to get a court order for custody. Sometimes CPS agents go to court to get an order before taking the children, but when they do so, it is almost always done in secret in a closed courtroom, without the parents or attorneys present. Unfortunately, CPS often gets it wrong both ways — genuine abuse is often missed or ignored, while most of what is reported as abuse or neglect does not rise to any reasonable level of seriousness. (See chart below.) Into the Belly of the Beast After the snitch network does its part to get the children into the CPS pipeline, the cases either go into an elaborate administrative process, or to a so-called “shelter” court hearing, held within a few days in order to determine whether the removal of the children from the home was proper. At that court hearing, usually conducted in secret without the press or public allowed, the court will appoint separate lawyers for the mother, the father, and the children. Many of these hearings are conducted so quickly that parents do not have time to prepare a defense, and the lawyers often cut corners by telling their clients to just agree to keep the children in custody until a trial, which could be a year or more away. Only later do the parents find out that they had agreed that their children needed state protection and had waived any possibility of getting them back quickly, or even at all. The cases that do not go to court are shunted into a surreal, nightmarish administrative system, and the children are often allowed to stay at home or with relatives while the bureaucrats dither. A social worker will eventually make up a document called a “case plan” or “service plan,” in which the alleged failings of the parents are summarized. The case plan includes a set of tasks and social services intended to “fix” the parent, much like one might repair an appliance. In order to get the children back home if they were taken, or to foreshorten an administrative case, the parents must do all the activities mandated on the plan, such as going to parenting classes, meeting with a social worker, going to substance-abuse treatment, or getting psychological evaluations. Social workers, often severely maladjusted and working out their own tortured past vicariously through their clients, frequently treat the parents with whom they work as property, ordering them around at whim. They set up services to be done during work hours, causing people to lose jobs and placing the family in financial distress. They can order that a man suspected of spanking his children must leave the home, putting additional emotional and financial burdens on a family. As with most government programs, there are unintended consequences that no one considered when putting the scheme together. Since social workers are so easily duped, divorcing spouses have made extensive use of CPS reports as a weapon in family court. Want to get custody fast? Just call CPS and accuse the other spouse of abuse. CPS will also do the bidding of schools that have trouble handling difficult children, and will threaten parents who do not want to drug their children with ADHD chemicals. When children are placed in foster care, the agency usually treats them with mercenary callousness. Social workers and foster parents do things to children that if done by parents would likely have triggered removal of the child. Children are routinely kept out of school for weeks, are denied needed medical care, and are even abused physically and sexually. Children with asthma are often placed with heavy smokers, and children with speech impediments are often placed with immigrants who struggle with English. Almost all children are heavily drugged, with up to six powerful mind-bending medications, in order to ensure their docility. Even in little ways, the system continually shows contempt for its captives. Social workers leave a home without putting the children in car seats, cancel visits with the parents if they have better things to do, or place the children in homes far from the parents in order to make it harder to have visits. The grinding banality of socialist-spawned child care is soulless, loveless, and arbitrary. Abuse committed against a child while in foster care is supposed to be investigated by a special outside unit, similar to an internal-affairs division in a police department. However, mindful of potential lawsuits if abuse were discovered, the investigators usually don’t find any. Statistics reported to the government about abuse in foster care are low because the agency gets to do its own investigations. In my experience representing parents, most of whose children have been actually abused in foster care, the CPS usually sweeps the allegations under the rug and fails to stop the abuse. Outcomes of Child-abuse Investigations Though states' "child protective services" intervene readily in family situations, using as a guideline for intervention whether a child "is at risk of maltreatment," even after 40 percent of allegations of child abuse are initially screened out, a further 66 percent of the remaining allegations of child abuse are found to be unsubstantiated. (This number includes the cases labeled on the chart as "Alternative Response Nonvictim," where no investigation of the reported child abuse was undertaken, yet it was determined that there was no abuse.) Your Day in Court Juvenile or family court is where the fate of millions of children is decided. Not many years ago, these courts were a sleepy sinecure for a few political hacks. Now, with the child-abuse industrial complex in overdrive feeding them, juvenile courts have come into vogue. Crowds of sad-faced parents shuffle around the court’s waiting areas, lining the halls. Lawyers, forgetting the indescribable pain that their clients are enduring, openly laugh and gossip with CPS attorneys and therapists. At court hearings, the parents usually cannot speak, and the children’s wishes are almost never heard or considered. Hearings often last only a few minutes, or even seconds. The traditional rules of evidence and notions of due process are rarely observed in these special courts, which are neither criminal nor civil. Hearsay on top of hearsay, sometimes three or four layers deep, is often admitted into evidence, which would never be allowed in any traditional court. The burden of proof for taking children away from parents on a temporary basis is merely to show by a “preponderance of evidence” that the child was abused, which is a weak and ill-defined standard. By contrast, the state has to prove guilt in a speeding ticket case beyond a reasonable doubt. A final termination of parental rights requires that the state prove unfitness by “clear and convincing evidence,” still well short of the quantum of proof required to prove jaywalking. Most juvenile cases end with a judgment against the parents, allowing CPS to keep the children until they are 18, or to farm them out for adoption. The home team — that is, the CPS prosecutor and social workers — are in front of the judge every day. The process becomes a choreographed dance, like a Mozart-era minuet, with all the players moving in lockstep and the outcome often determined before the first witness is called. By looking at the numbers, one would conclude that there is an epidemic of child abuse in America. However, the evidence shows that there is actually an epidemic of hysteria about child abuse, because most of the official complaints are either false or greatly exaggerated. It is a squalid business. Big “non-profit” companies have arisen to service the insatiable demand for warehousing children and providing therapy, education, and other services. Special needs children can sometimes fetch thousands of dollars per week for these sub-contractors from the state and the feds, which make millionaires out of the subcontractors owners and officers. Tens of thousands of parents have their parental rights terminated every year, and their children taken for adoption to other persons or families. In 2005 alone, 67,000 children were removed for adoption. Another 110,000 were waiting for adoptive homes. Each of these children has been through a painful removal from parents, a lengthy court process, numerous foster homes, large amounts of drugs and therapy, and sometimes years of waiting. The Adoption and Safe Families Act, passed by Congress in 1997, sets out adoption quotas for the states, with money bonuses for exceeding them, and even larger bonuses for processing a larger number of “special needs” children. Thus, adoption becomes the goal for many children who should not be taken from families in the first place. For CPS, it becomes just a commercial sales transaction: meet the quota, collect the cash. Some parents do abuse children, and states have comprehensive criminal laws to deal with those cases. Most persons would likely disagree with CPS in how it defines abuse or neglect. Families are attacked for home-schooling or spanking their children, for not overseeing all play activities, or for when a child has an accident. Sometimes a child’s illness, poverty, or parents who are going through a time of conflict will trigger CPS involvement. There is also a palpable animus against families who are religious, or who do not like state interference. Only a very small percentage of the 3.3 million reported cases annually prove to be genuine abuse, and the system does a bad job of sorting them out. There are reasons why the system does a bad job. Colleges churn out hordes of 23-year-old social-work graduates, childless and clueless, who are sent into homes to make life-changing decisions. Their formal education is grounded in doctrinaire Marxism and feminism, and they believe in their viscera that the state should communally raise children. Another disincentive to changing the system is the fact that social workers are given legal immunity for almost any discretionary decision no matter what harm results to the children. Social workers exercise virtually unlimited power over families, with little accountability to anyone for overreaching or even for egregious offenses. Federal reimbursement is the locomotive that drives the child-protection business. Regardless of what families actually need, CPS determines where to place its resources based on what returns the most reimbursement. The vast percentage of federal reimbursement (90 percent) comes from taking children into custody, while only a tiny fraction (10 percent) is available to help intact families. In other words, taking children pays, helping families costs. The game of cadging federal CPS dollars has become so intense that states often hire multi-million dollar consultants to assist them in maximizing federal reimbursement for the children they take. For instance, Massachusetts hired the now-defunct Arthur Anderson Consulting, at an estimated fee of about $8.6 million, to structure the state program to take advantage of as many federal reimbursement categories as possible. What Can Be Done? Is the system really as corrupt, incompetent, destructive, and ineffective as this article portrays it? No, it’s actually far worse — if you ask a parent whose children have been victimized by it! The public perception is that CPS is doing a tough job, and standing against child abuse. However, any family caught in its web would testify to a completely different reality. When I take on a new case and forewarn a family about CPS dirty tricks, they usually think I am exaggerating. Surely it can’t be that bad. However, after the first court hearing, or if their children are removed, those families uniformly confirm that I didn’t tell them the half of it. What should be done to address the problem of child abuse and the problem of abuse by the system of parents and children? It won’t be easy because CPS policies and actions are based on a deeply flawed world view. Moreover, the agencies are run by inept and agenda-driven managers and social workers, and are enabled by a dysfunctional legal system. Real reform would cut at the very heart of the premise of child protection — that the state is a better parent, a legal doctrine called parens patriae in Latin. Some fixes are obvious — end federal standards for and funding of state child protection agencies, set objective standards for child abuse, require traditional due process in juvenile courts that are open to the public, and eliminate immunity for social-worker malfeasance. Millions of children are imperiled by this imperious, abusive CPS system, which works quietly without much public scrutiny. Change will likely come only when its cruelties have been exposed, and the public reaffirms that raising children is the responsibility of families, not the state.

Has Presidential candidate ever made this many promises? How does Barack plan to pull this off? Improve options for displaced workers Help community and small business development agencies Improve rural schools and availability of doctors Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems Give new farmers tax incentives Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses Create rural revitalization program Improve high school graduation rates Double the number of high school students taking college level courses Double charter school funding Include more technology in public schools Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service Recruit teachers and principals Recruit science and technology teachers Provide pay raises for teachers and principals Pay tuition for students going into teaching Increase Head Start and Early Start Create Classroom Corps Double funding for after-school programs Improve No Child Left Behind Lower dropout rate Provide incentives for rural teachers Increase assistance to land-grant colleges End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars Double renewable energy within four years Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years Cap carbon emissions Create new green-collar jobs Help U.S. automaker adapt Reduce oil consumption Help manufacturers go green Double clean-energy funding Create Green Jobs Corps Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies Push cellulosic ethanol Create energy-efficiency grant program Provide universal health care Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system Expand nurse-family partnership program Help individuals purchase private health insurance Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP Address women's health issues Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses Help homeowners Create an affordable-housing trust Protect New Orleans Invest $60 billion in infrastructure Invest in rural infrastructure Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs Provide every American broadband access Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area Support a global education fund Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence Expand Army and Marine Corps Provide soldiers with necessary equipment Target every source of fear in the Americas Create information declassification center Ensure military has enough training Strengthen civilian agencies Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest Create international anti-terrorism network Make cyber-security a federal priority Update Veterans Affairs hospital system Ensure all veterans are covered Ensure adequate number of VA clinics Increase housing assistance Fully fund VA Improve military's mental health screening and care Improve care for various injuries and women's health through VA Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html Yeah, I know I'm not going to bother correcting it. It gives libs something to attack instead of answering question.

I recieved an appointment of letter from this company, do you think this is true? Academisch Medisch Centrum Meibergdreef 9 Postbus 22660 1100 DD Amsterdam www.amc.uva.nl TEL: +31643474618 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOB REFERENCE NUMBER : AMC/1005/8001/NL/007 DATED: 21TH NOVEMBER, 07 Position Reference: MA REBBECCA LABIANO SALVINO, SOFT COPY OF OFFICIAL LETTER OF APPOINTMENT We refer to your earlier forwarded application CV / Resume for job engagement with relations to the Academisch Medisch Centrum. On the above subject matter, Academisch Medisch Centrum management hereby congratulates you on your successful emergence based on detailed recruitment by our recruitment manager, Dr. Van Ardene Further details are as follows: DESIGNATION: STAFF NURSE MONTHLY SALARY USD $8,500.00 (Eight Thousand Five Hundred Dollars only) monthly/take-home (After tax), with US $500.00 (Five Hundred Dollars)Weekly for pocket allowance,Sterling, Euros or Indian Rupees equivalent depending on home country and currency preference. BENEFITS: Travel Insurance, Medical Insurance, 3 Bedroom Flat Duplex, Free Education for your children both Home or Abroad, Toyota Camry 2006 Revolution and 10 to 15 Days Break / Leave after every 90 Business Working Days. JOB LOCATION: AMSTERDAM – NETHERLANDS START DATE: 30TH DECEMBER 2007. DURATION OF CONTRACT: 2YRS CONTRACT – RENEWABLE. Herein, you have been forwarded employers’ prototype of contract terms and conditions via e-mail (Attached) for your perusal and digest; on your satisfaction and agreement with terms and response, you shall be expected to start your job processes and will be sent hard copy of contract document through the TNT/DHL courier services for endorsement via your Local Representative Agreements will also be signed during the job process, and be sent to you alongside your visa and work permit procurement papers. JOB PROCEEDING/REQUIREMENT: All employees successfully screened and recruited to Resume employment at this new Academisch Medisch Centrum (And not presently possessing a valid Netherlands Residence and Work Permits Clearance Papers) shall be expected to personally incur The work and residence permit expenditure as a proof of his or her readiness to join the team, as the company has already paid the visa fees for all candidates. You shall be required to furnish us with your valid Netherlands residence and work permits papers after 10 working days of appointment as a proof of readiness to join the Academisch Medisch Centrum team in the due time as stipulated above for your job resumption with the Academisch Medisch Centrum and also to enable you receive your first monthly salary including your due entitlements/emoluments prior to your departure for services with the Academisch Medisch Centrum. Note, Academisch Medisch Centrum has paid your visa fees, and then you are requested to contact the Ministry of Interior here in Netherlands and process your valid Netherland Work and residence permit papers, as per our procedures, while you submit to us your expenditure report for immediate re-imbursement. However, for expatriate services employees who do not presently posses their valid NETHERLANDS residence and Work Permits papers, they are to make contact with the address given below for directives and assistance on the acquisition and procurement of their valid residence and work permits papers with the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR. THE MINISTRY CONTACT DETAILS BELOW: ATTN: HENDRIK P. VAN DALEN – PROCUMENT OFFICER ATTN: GERALD COLE – ACCOUNT OFFICER FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ROTTERDAM - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS P.O. BOX 1738 3000 DR ROTTERDAM NETHERLANDS 31 -6 34 36 12 34 - DIRECT MOBILE EMAIL: mint-nl@myway.com E-MAIL2: info@mint-nl.org WEBSITE: www.mint-nl.org Note that all Netherlands based employees' are to report personally to our office with identification materials for signing and collection of hard copy of their contract documents. This is in line with the expatriate statuary law of the European Union in compliance with the EU. Terrorism Act. Find attached for other necessary related details of job. Congratulations on your success, DR. STEPHEN ACCUFF SIGNED……………. EMPLOYEE RELATIONS OFFICER. Academisch Medisch Centrum HR TELEPHONE: TEL: +31643474618 FOR ENQUIRIES EMPLOYEE SIGN …………………………… ADDRESS ……………………………………… MOBILE …………………………………….

To Do Background Check On Someone...? If a hospital is to do a federal or national criminal background check on an employee, wouldn't they request the employee to do a finger print or something? If an employee has had a bench warrant over a traffic ticket, would the hospital not hire this person? This is for a nursing job.

Tax question - ordained minister employed as spiritual advisor, has medicare/ss exemption? Hi everybody, tax question for the experts here... I'm an ordained minister of a non-denominational group. As part of my religious calling I am directed to seek gainful employment in my community for: 1) providing spiritual guidance, counciling, and support for the community 2) helping others in the community as opportunity allows 3) providing sacrements and performing ceremonies as church law and state law allow 4) being an upstanding and respectable leader for the church community 5) earning wages through such employment, to provide for the needs of my family and myself As such, I am an assistant pastor in our small rural church, and I just became employed as 'religious advisor' at the local nursing home. As part of our religious doctrine members of the church body are directed to provide for each other in times of need and sickness, and support their elders in old age. Therefore, I filed an IRS form number 4361, rejecting any benefits from the social security or medicare programs. This was accepted by IRS and I've had no problems with taxes as the assistant pastor. The problem I'm having is with the taxes on the new job at the nursing home. I have no problem paying my federal and state employment taxes, but I believe the fica tax isn't supposed to be withheld from wages. Our religious grounds against social security is on the basis of recieving benefits, if I have to pay into this system then I'll do so, but as a practical matter those dollars would serve my family better in a retirement account. IRS form 4029 allows exemption from social security and medicare TAXES as well as a waiver of benefits. (I already waived benefits as a minister on form 4361 and am therefore exempt from self-employment taxes). The form 4029 does not allow me to file it because our church was founded after 1950. However the form also says 'if you already have approval for exemption from self-employment taxes, you are considered to have met the requirements for exemption from social security and medicare taxes on wages and do not need to file this form'. This means the nursing home shouldn't be withholding, correct? Part of the problem is that the nursing home doesn't have a 4029 on file, in fact, they're not a 'not-for-profit' at all. My employers accountant believes that they must have a 4029 also, else they have to withhold. She sent me to IRS publication 517, which is totally confusing. Is there a CPA out there who can straighten this up, or tell me where to look in the tax codes for more information? What forms does my employer need to properly figure the taxation? Do I need to pay my half of the social security/medicare tax? Do they need to pay the other half? Do they need to pay the other half, even if they don't withhold from me? Do they have to pay both halves if they don't withhold from me? Since its not a not-for-profit, how can I be sure they're not taking the funds out of my check, but turning around to the IRS and claiming the exemption, and pocketing the money? I guess to complicate matters the church body adheres to the principles of the first amendment, seperation of church and government. We are not incorporated under the state, do not enlist to voluntary categorization as a 503 entity with the IRS, and operate soley and sovereignly as a free church. Thanks for the update A M Frantz! :) I read that paragraph too, however part of our religious directive is to earn wages through community employment, to provide for our family, any employment is acceptable so long as it does not conflict with other religious tenants and provides such support. Therefore it is covered as valid, qualified, and church mandated.

Is it realistic to start a horse "ranch" from nothing? My husband grew up on a ranch and wants to get back into it eventually. We are both in our early 20's and would like to know what we should start doing now to be able to accomplish this dream. He would love to live somewhere like Montana and have a horse-guide service type business. I know that with purchasing land and a house it would be very costly...along with all the horses and their needs. He is currently in the military and able to contribute to a TSP...if he can continue with a federal job when he is out in 2010, hopefully his TSP will be at $1 million (totally not sure if this # is right...just thinking it's something I heard). I'm going to school for nursing so hopefully I will be able to get a good job as well. Basically just wanting to know if this is a realistic goal and if there is something we should be doing now to prepare for this. Sorry this is so long and thanks for any advice! :)

Which of these so few election promises will Obama keep? Improve options for displaced workers Help community and small business development agencies Improve rural schools and availability of doctors Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems Give new farmers tax incentives Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses Create rural revitalization program Improve high school graduation rates Double the number of high school students taking college level courses Double charter school funding Include more technology in public schools Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service Recruit teachers and principals Recruit science and technology teachers Provide pay raises for teachers and principals Pay tuition for students going into teaching Increase Head Start and Early Start Create Classroom Corps Double funding for after-school programs Improve No Child Left Behind Lower dropout rate Provide incentives for rural teachers Increase assistance to land-grant colleges End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars Double renewable energy within four years Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years Cap carbon emissions Create new green-collar jobs Help U.S. automaker adapt Reduce oil consumption Help manufacturers go green Double clean-energy funding Create Green Jobs Corps Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies Push cellulosic ethanol Create energy-efficiency grant program Provide universal health care Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system Expand nurse-family partnership program Help individuals purchase private health insurance Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP Address women's health issues Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses Help homeowners Create an affordable-housing trust Protect New Orleans Invest $60 billion in infrastructure Invest in rural infrastructure Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs Provide every American broadband access Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area Support a global education fund Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence Expand Army and Marine Corps Provide soldiers with necessary equipment Target every source of fear in the Americas Create information declassification center Ensure military has enough training Strengthen civilian agencies Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest Create international anti-terrorism network Make cyber-security a federal priority Update Veterans Affairs hospital system Ensure all veterans are covered Ensure adequate number of VA clinics Increase housing assistance Fully fund VA Improve military's mental health screening and care Improve care for various injuries and women's health through VA Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html for added details of each promise see the link

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State No Joke (The original & my response)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves To B D; your points was covered; like here; The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! I've had this & been posting it a while and ain't any insurance companies trying to prove me wrong!

I have got a workpermit from General hospital as a nurse, Madrid, Spain.Is it true or fake? Head office GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID PLG. MERKA C/F, NAVAS 1-9 415000 ALCALA DE GUADAIRA (MADRID), Espana Telefono: 0034634186359 TEL: 0034-634186359 WEB SITE: www.hdum-es.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOB REFERENCE NUMBER : HDUM/50089/ESPANA/008 DATED: 11TH APRIL, 08 POSITION REFERENCE: DEEPA ANN SEBASTIAN We refer to your earlier forwarded application CV / Resume for job engagement with relations to the GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID Your CV has qualified you for this post as stated below. On the above subject matter We presently are posting all candidates to our head office in Spain, GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRIDmanagement hereby congratulates you on your successful emergence based on detailed recruitment by our recruitment manager, Dr. Van Ardene Further details are as follows: POSITION/JOB UNIT: STAFF NURSE MONTHLY SALARY USD $9,500.00 (Nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars only) monthly/take-home (After tax), with US $700.00 (Seven Hundred Dollars)Weekly for pocket allowance,Sterling, Euros or Indian Rupees equivalent depending on home country and currency preference. JOB LOCATION: MADRID – SPAIN STARTUP DATE: 30th MAY 2008. DURATION OF CONTRACT: 24 MONTHS – RENEWABLE. Herein, you have been forwarded employers’ prototype of contract terms and conditions via e-mail (Attached) for your perusal and digest; on your satisfaction and agreement with terms and response, you shall be expected to start your job processes and will be sent hard copy of contract document through the TNT/DHL courier services for endorsement via your Local Representative Agreements will also be signed during the job process, and be sent to you alongside your visa and work permit procurement papers. FORCE MAJEURE: Not withstanding any thing herein stated, neither party should be considered in default in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure. The term "Force Majeure" shall include but not limited to Act of God, War, Nation wide strike, Lockout, Riot and Civil commotion. A strike or Lockout embarked upon by only the CONTRACTOR’S personnel shall not be deemed to be included in this term. If an interruption of work occurs as a result of "Force Majeure" for up to seven (7) days, 70% of the basic daily fees shall be paid as Standby. TERMINATION: 1 This Agreement may be terminated: - (I) If the services stated in Article 1 and are not rendered satisfactorily. (ii) If the duration of the Agreement stated in Article 2 expires and no extension has been given. (iii) Under Force Majeure as stated in Article 7.0 BENEFITS: All Employees are expected to reside at the Company’s Staff estate. There are 3 Bedroom Flat Duplex. Toyota Camry 2007 Model Brand New, for employees use during contract. Dietary options, Customized cooks and Dieticians are available options. Incase of local dishes, we have Chefs from various countries to handle such. Employer will provide the employee with comprehensive Health care for the term of contract, and follow-on care for injuries suffered during the term of contract for employee and family. Old Hem Housing Loan: 1-year service to GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID is required for eligibility. Starter’s amount will be US$48,971.00 Can be re-paid within 10years with US$0.00 interest. Lieu Car Loan: All Employees are eligible to apply. Starter’s amount will be US$22,045.00 Can be re-paid within 5years with US$0.00 interest. New Orleans Business Loans: All Employees are eligible to apply. Starter’s amount will be US$35,000.00 to US$70,000.00 Contact the Accounts Department for more details. ALLOWANCES/ ENTITLEMENTS: Hazard/Inconveniences: US$560.00 (Monthly) Car Maintenance: US$1,089.00 (Monthly) House & Furnishings: US$9,980.00 (Yearly) Entertainment & Recreation: US$575.00 (Monthly) Travel & Events: US$950.00 (Monthly) PAID LEAVE PERIOD/ TRAVEL: All Employees are entitled to 2months Paid Leave which can be taken once at a time or 2weeks apart one different period. All Employees will receive US$5,880.00 Take home for each leave Period. Employer for each Inter-continental trip shall be paid US$3,520.00 flat rate travel/entertainment allowance to employee. Travel shall be by business class/first class flight, or otherwise if necessary. However for the purpose of commencement, the cost of travel ticket shall be paid in addition to travel/entertainment allowance. Cost shall be substantiated and shall be the rate charged at the Period/time of purchase. Employer shall also take care of employees' travel ticket including that of employees' family only on employees' early notification to employer and as shall be requested by employee. JOB PROCEEDING/REQUIREMENT: All employees successfully screened and recruited to Resume employment at this new GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID (And not presently possessing a valid Spanish Residence and Work Permits Clearance Papers) shall be expected to personally incur The work and residence permit expenditure as a proof of his or her readiness to join the team, as the company has already paid the visa fees for all candidates. You shall be required to furnish us with your valid Netherlands residence and work permits papers after 10 working days of appointment as a proof of readiness to join the GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID team in the due time as stipulated above for your job resumption with the GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID and also to enable you receive your first monthly salary including your due entitlements/emoluments prior to your departure for services with the GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID. Note, GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID has paid your visa fees, and then you are requested to contact the Ministry of Interior here in Spain and process your valid Spanish Work and residence permit papers, as per our procedures, while you submit to us your expenditure report for immediate re-imbursement. However, for expatriate services employees who do not presently posses their valid SPANISH residence and Work Permits papers, they are to make contact with the address given below for directives and assistance on the acquisition and procurement of their valid residence and work permits papers with the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR. THE MINISTRY CONTACT DETAILS BELOW: ATTN: AMB. CARLOS J. SANTOSSO – PROCUMENT OFFICER VISA/WORKPERMIT SECTION FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR SPANNISH DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA Calle Lagasca, 98 Madrid - SPAIN TEL: +34-667003658 FAX: 0034 917 889 811 E-MAIL: mint_nl@live.com E-MAIL: espana_min@insurer.com WEBSITE: www.workpermit-espana.fr.gd Note that all Spain based employees' are to report personally to our office with identification materials for signing and collection of hard copy of their contract documents. This is in line with the expatriate statuary law of the European Union in compliance with the EU. Terrorism Act. Find attached for other necessary related details of job. unit. Congratulations on your success, DR. PROF. AHMED ABDUL NASSER SIGNED: DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCE. GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MADRID HR TELEPHONE: TEL: 0034-634186359 WEB SITE: www.hdum-es.com FOR ENQUIRIES EMPLOYEE SIGN: …………………………… MOBILE: ……………………………………. ADDRESS: ………………………………. PASSPORT NUMBER: ……………

Did Obama promise far more than he can deliver? Look at this list of promises? Improve options for displaced workers Help community and small business development agencies Improve rural schools and availability of doctors Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems Give new farmers tax incentives Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses Create rural revitalization program Improve high school graduation rates Double the number of high school students taking college level courses Double charter school funding Include more technology in public schools Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service Recruit teachers and principals Recruit science and technology teachers Provide pay raises for teachers and principals Pay tuition for students going into teaching Increase Head Start and Early Start Create Classroom Corps Double funding for after-school programs Improve No Child Left Behind Lower dropout rate Provide incentives for rural teachers Increase assistance to land-grant colleges End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars Double renewable energy within four years Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years Cap carbon emissions Create new green-collar jobs Help U.S. automaker adapt Reduce oil consumption Help manufacturers go green Double clean-energy funding Create Green Jobs Corps Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies Push cellulosic ethanol Create energy-efficiency grant program Provide universal health care Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system Expand nurse-family partnership program Help individuals purchase private health insurance Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP Address women's health issues Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses Help homeowners Create an affordable-housing trust Protect New Orleans Invest $60 billion in infrastructure Invest in rural infrastructure Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs Provide every American broadband access Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area Support a global education fund Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence Expand Army and Marine Corps Provide soldiers with necessary equipment Target every source of fear in the Americas Create information declassification center Ensure military has enough training Strengthen civilian agencies Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest Create international anti-terrorism network Make cyber-security a federal priority Update Veterans Affairs hospital system Ensure all veterans are covered Ensure adequate number of VA clinics Increase housing assistance Fully fund VA Improve military's mental health screening and care Improve care for various injuries and women's health through VA Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State (The original & my responce)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves

About $1750 in federal aid loan means $14,000 in debt. Is this good.? I filld out my FAFSA and received a $1750 subsidized loan. If I were to receive this same amount for the next four years each semester it would be $14,000 in no interest student loans. Is this too much I know some federal loans can be repayed by working but I'm not going to be a teacher or a nurse the only two careers I know of with this option. Can anyone help it doen't sound like a lot now but I'm not sure iif I'll land the type of job right out of college to handle these types of payments. I don't even have a job right now.

Why does Obama want to FORCE doctors to commit murder ? Christian Doctors believe abortion is murder,it is against their religion,an abomination before God...And yet...WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medical service because of moral qualms. A Health and Human Services official said Friday the administration will publish notice of its intentions early next week, opening a 30-day comment period for advocates on both sides, medical groups and the public. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the notice has not been completed. The Bush administration rule was quickly challenged in federal court by several states and medical organizations. As a candidate, President Barack Obama criticized the regulation and campaign aides promised that if elected, he would review it. OsamaBama wants to take away our right to religius freedom !!! oh sunshine ??? CAN YOU READ ?????????I took a direct word-for-word quote from UPI...READ WHAT HE SAID !!!

Job interview tips and hints...I have an important interview as a licensed practical nurse on Thursday.? This is the best/biggest position I have ever applied to. I am even surprised that I even got an interview. Any advice, its for a federal position. Thanks ahead of time.

will a formula fed baby crave breastmilk if i nurse around her? i have been offered a job to babysit an 8 month old that is formula fed. i breast feed my son who is 10 months. i would be taking care of the both of them and wonder if the little girl will want to breastfeed although she is formula fed. first of all breast feeding is natural. you can hate on it all you want homegirl but i know for a fact that my baby is happy and healthy.

Is overtime worth the extra work hours? Hi, I recently became a nurse in Texas and have heard that when working overtime, I may not necessarily get my whole "hour and a half" either in my paycheck or at the end of the year. So if I need extra money, will it be better to work overtime hours or just get a second job? Of course, making everything as easy as possible, I have 0 federal deductions, no kids, yada yada yada.

Obama or Clinton? Read these carefully and give your vote for the best person who can lead us.? ON ABORTION OBAMA Opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v Wade. Disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act." Did not cast a vote on Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007. CLINTON Will sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. Would overturn the "global gag rule," which prohibits Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from talking about abortion in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Voted against the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003. Did not cast a vote on Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007. Disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act." -ON ECONOMIC STIMULUS OBAMA Would pump $75 billion into the economy via tax cuts and direct spending targeted to working families, seniors, homeowners and the unemployed. The plan also includes $45 billion in reserves that can be injected into the economy quickly in the future if the economy continues to deteriorate. Would provide an immediate $250 tax cut for workers and their families and an immediate, temporary $250 bonus to seniors in their Social Security checks. Would provide an additional $250 tax cut to workers and an additional $250 to seniors if the economy continues to worsen. Would extend and expand unemployment insurance CLINTON Would establish a $30 billion emergency housing fund to assist states and cities mitigate the effects of mounting foreclosures. Would also include a 90-day moratorium on subprime foreclosures and an automatic rate freeze on subprime mortgages of at least five years. Would provide $25 billion in emergency energy assistance for families facing skyrocketing heating bills. Would invest $10 billion in extending and broadening unemployment insurance for those who are struggling to find work. Would accelerate $5 billion in energy efficiency and alternative energy investments to jump-start green-collar job growth. -EDUCATION OBAMA Would reform No Child Left Behind, ensuring access to high-quality early childhood education programs and child care opportunities, recruit well-qualified and reward expert, accomplished teachers. Make science and math education a national priority. Reduce the high school dropout rate and empower parents to raise healthy and successful children by taking a greater role in their child's education at home and at school. CLINTON Would end No Child Left Behind. Promote early childhood education, including nurse home visitation programs for new parents, quality child care and Head Start and pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-olds. Improve K-12 system by meeting funding promises of IDEA. Recruit outstanding teachers and principals, especially in urban and rural areas. Cut minority dropout rate in half. Expand early-intervention mentoring programs. Identify at-risk youth early and provide $1 billion in intensive interventions. Create a new $3,500 college tax credit and increase the maximum Pell Grant. -ON HEALTH CARE OBAMA Would create a national health insurance program for individuals who do not have employer-provided health care and who do not qualify for other existing federal programs. Allows individuals to choose between the new public insurance program or from among private insurance plans that meet certain coverage standards. Requires employers who do not provide health coverage for employees to pay into the national health insurance program. Does not mandate individual coverage for all Americans, but requires coverage for all children. Allows individuals below age 25 to be covered through their parents' plans. Cost estimated between $50 billion and $65 billion, to be paid for by eliminating Bush tax cuts for those earning over $250,000. CLINTON Mandates individual health insurance coverage for all Americans. Offers federal subsidies for those who cannot afford it. Allows individuals to choose from among several private plans also offered to members of Congress, as well as a new public insurance plan modeled after Medicare. Requires insurance companies to offer coverage to anyone who applies, and bars insurance companies from charging higher premiums to those with pre-existing conditions. Requires large businesses to provide or help pay for employee coverage. Expands Medicaid and federal children's health care programs. Offers tax credits to limit health care premiums to a certain percentage a family's income. Cost estimated at $110 billion annually, to be paid for by eliminating the Bush tax cuts for those earning over $250,000, as well as by reducing waste and inefficiencies in the current system. Also limits the amount employers can exclude from taxes for health care benefits for those making over $250,000 -ON IMMIGRATION OBAMA Supported Bush-backed immigration reform legislation, which would have increased funding and improved border security technology, improved enforcement of existing laws, and provided a legal path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border CLINTON Supported Bush-backed immigration reform legislation, which would have increased funding and improved border security technology, improved enforcement of existing laws, and provided a legal path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. -ON IRAQ OBAMA Opposed use of military force in Iraq. Voted for war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008. Supports phased redeployment of U.S. troops. Opposed Bush's plan to send additional troops to Iraq. Had once called for troop withdrawal to begin by the end of 2006 CLINTON Voted for use of military force in Iraq, but now says she would have voted differently "if we knew then what we know now." Supports de-authorizing the war. Voted for war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008. Opposed Bush plan to increase the number of American troops in Iraq. Supports a phased redeployment -ON SOCIAL SECURITY OBAMA Strongly opposed to privatizing Social Security. Believes that the first place to look for ways to strengthen Social Security is the payroll tax system. Currently, the Social Security payroll tax applies to only the first $97,500 a worker earns; Obama supports increasing the maximum amount of earnings covered by Social Security. Would work with Congress to choose a payroll tax reform package that will keep Social Security solvent for at least the next half century. CLINTON Opposes all efforts to privatize Social Security. Has stated her plan for Social Security is fiscal responsibility first, and then deal with any long-term challenges. Would support the creation of a bipartisan commission. i hope this helps you a lot. Good day! 1 minute ago - Edit - Delete

What do you think of this scandal? I heard Obama say in a debate that he worked 5 hours for Rezco.? 1. They met in 1990. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School and got an unsolicited job offer from Rezko, then a low-income housing developer in Chicago. Obama turned it down. 2. Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers -- primarily not-for-profit groups -- building low-income housing with government funds. 3. One of the firm's not-for-profit clients -- the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama's then-boss Allison Davis -- was partners with Rezko's company in a 1995 deal to convert an abandoned nursing home at 61st and Drexel into low-income apartments. Altogether, Obama spent 32 hours on the project, according to the firm. Only five hours of that came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, the firm says. The rest of the future senator's time was helping WPIC strike the deal with Rezko. Rezko's company, Rezmar Corp., also partnered with the firm's clients in four later deals -- none of which involved Obama, according to the firm. In each deal, Rezmar "made the decisions for the joint venture," says William Miceli, an attorney with the firm. 4. In 1995, Obama began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Among his earliest supporters: Rezko. Two Rezko companies donated a total of $2,000. Obama was elected in 1996 -- representing a district that included 11 of Rezko's 30 low-income housing projects. 5. Rezko's low-income housing empire began crumbling in 2001, when his company stopped making mortgage payments on the old nursing home that had been converted into apartments. The state foreclosed on the building -- which was in Obama's Illinois Senate district. 6. In 2003, Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, and Rezko -- a member of his campaign finance committee -- held a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion. 7. A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife paid full price -- $625,000 -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor. 8. Eight months later -- in October 2006 -- Rezko was indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from the alleged kickback scheme was donated to Obama's run for the U.S. Senate. Obama has given the money to charity. Tim Novak

Is there any kind of funding I can get so I can get extra money so I can go to school and still pay my bills? I work 10 hours a day and with the economy the way it is I don't think I will be able to find a part time job so I can go to school full time. I want to start this nursing program it is a year long and I want to know if there is any funding or any way I can get extra month every month from school loans / federal loans so I can just go to school for this full year. As of right now I am on food stamps and Medicaid I want to be able to pay my bills and not be on government assistance any more and this nursing program will make that happen. Any help would be appreciated. No insults please, I am simply trying to better myself and my family.

Would you agree with me that libs will destroy our economy? Politicians Set Their Prices The Democratic Congress seems intent on reviving the worst ideas of our past. By Carrie Lukas Apparently some lessons we must relearn. One might assume our disastrous economic flirtation with socialism in the 1970s — never mind the sorry record of command-and-control economics in the former Soviet bloc — would have buried the concept of government wage- and price-controls for at least a generation. Yet this Congress appears intent on resurrecting the worst policies of the past. Price controls have superficial appeal. The average gas-price rose more than 10 percent last month, allowing pandering politicians to promise relief. They don’t say that consumers will suffer worse consequences if the government begins dictating how much oil companies and refiners can charge. And they ignore that government regulations and taxes already are largely responsible for high fuel prices. Instead they offer fantasy. Take Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D., Mich.) “Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act.” This legislation would empower the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on anyone in the energy supply and distribution chain who “artificially inflates the price of energy.” Those found guilty would be subject to multi-million dollar fines and possible jail time. Overlooking the distasteful Stalinist flavor of this bill — locking up people for trying to sell at the best possible prices — this is economic ignorance on steroids. Harsh penalties might discourage companies from raising prices, but also would convince many not to do business at all, particularly in times of crisis. In dire circumstances it costs more to deliver products, and companies have to charge more. Business owners who fear that raising prices will expose them to criminal penalties may simply close up shop. This would have been a disaster, for example, during Hurricane Katrina. Suppliers would have been reluctant to ship fuel into devastated areas, and fuel would become even scarcer there. According to a study by the American Council for Capital Formation, if this legislation had been in effect during that tragic 2005 hurricane season, it would have imposed $1.9 billion in economic costs. Thoughtful consumers understand the role prices play in the marketplace. We’ve all faced the dilemma of either paying more at the conveniently located gas station or going out of the way to someplace cheaper. Forcing both establishments to charge the same means the better-located store would have trouble keeping up with demand, perhaps running out of gas, while the less convenient store would fold. Prices play an equally important role on the national level. If they rise significantly, individuals change their behavior. We can’t eliminate all driving, but we may rethink a long, summer road-trip or explore the possibility of carpooling. Some may forego a gas-guzzling SUV for smaller, more efficient vehicles or hybrids. And if a business “artificially” inflates prices, people turn to other sellers. Competition, not Congress, is the only effective way to keep prices down. Prices also signal to the rest of the world that the United States needs fuel and is willing to pay for it. If prices aren’t allowed to rise, exporters will take their supplies elsewhere. While price controls in the energy sector would create big problems, they’re nothing compared to the potential nightmare of the government meddling in setting wages. Yet that’s the direction many Democrats are heading. Senator Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) has revived the 1970s idea of “comparable worth” in his “Fair Pay Act,” which he claims will “address the historic pattern of undervaluing and underpaying so-called ‘women’s’ jobs.” Senator Harkin thinks he and likeminded politicos have a better understanding of the value created by a given job. For example, the male-dominated profession of probation officers and the female-dominated field of social workers are rough equivalent in terms of level of skill and responsibility, according to Harkin, and therefore deserve the same pay. Such hubris is astounding, even by Washington standards. Individuals consider countless factors when evaluating jobs: co-workers, clients, level of danger, dress code, commute, hours, flexibility, and opportunities for advancement, to name but a few. Wages are one factor that allows employers to attract enough qualified employees. If they offer too little, they won’t get sufficient help. They’ll have to increase the salary or do something else to make the job more attractive. Outlaw this flexibility and there will be over-supply of labor in some professions and shortages in others. Imagine the political maneuvering that would determine the respective value of each job. Who’s more valuable: an elementary school teacher, nurse practitioner, sanitation worker, prison guard, public defender, or computer programmer? Who should we trust to make that determination: “experts” in Washington or the cumulative judgments of millions of free individuals? The answer should be obvious. If it’s not, then America faces grim days ahead.

What would you do? I have a degree in health sciences but cannot find a job with it. I have student loans private and federal. I do not have much job experience and have only found jobs working with Temp agencies. I feel like I have failed considering that I have to take jobs through temp agencies to survive. I have tried applying for jobs that I felt like my education would match and still have had no luck. That's why I have to take low paying temp jobs in which the employers treat you like crap. I am considering going back to school to maybe teach health or science. However, I know that means more debt but at this point I have no choice since I do not see myself working a low wage job forever. So, my question is should I continue to work with Temp agenices for now until I go back to school for teaching or get cerftified for something in the health field? (Also, when I started school I went for nursing but that did not work out so I switched to health science.). I hate to waste my education.

POLL: ARE YOU IN SUPPORT OF THE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE RULE THAT WAS RECENTLY PASSED? THIS IS LONG JUST BACKGROUND TO THE RULE Federal law has affirmed doctors' right to act according to the dictates of their conscience and protected providers who don't want to participate in abortions for more than 30 years. But still, anti-abortion advocates have been eager to see more far-reaching protections enacted. They got their wish on January 18th, when the outgoing Bush administration announced a new regulation that extends the "right of conscience" to a broader range of health care workers and activities. The 127-page rule will require as many as 584,000 health care facilities to certify in writing that they accomodate medical workers who refuse to provide services based on moral or religious beliefs, according to the Washington Post. SOME VIEWS OF PEOPLE Washington, D.C.: How wide-spread a problem is this issue? Are these cases of medical professionals refusing care or facing employment issues still relatively rare? Have there been any surveys of medical professionals to see how the larger community feels about these issues? Rob Stein: Unfortunately there is no good data on how frequently this occurs. A few surveys have been done though. One, of nurses, for example found a significant proportion said they had been in situations where they felt their personal beliefs were challenged. _______________________ Bethesda, Md.: Could you provide a little more background on the Chicago EMT story? I'm curious about the status of the woman who was awaiting transport. If her health status was serious enough to require an ambulance, then it sounds as if the EMT put the needs of the fetus above those of the woman. Could you please comment? Rob Stein: There isn't much information available about the patient. It was listed as an 'elective abortion,' implying that it was not an emergency situation. _______________________ Vienna, Va.: This country, for good reason, does not recognize a "right" to anything other that medically necessary treatment. Do you see the movement towards forcing medical personnel to provide unnecessary medical treatment as a greater fight for some type of inalienable right to premium health care? (I do.) Rob Stein: That's an interesting point. Some of the experts I interviewed for these stories pointed out that part of what's going on in this debate is the changing nature of the health care provider-patient relationship as patients have become more assertive. _______________________ Washington, D.C.: Has this 'right of conscience' been practiced as widely in the past or is this a relatively recent phenomenon given the current political climate? Rob Stein: It has been an issue for a long time. After the 1972 Roe vs Wade decision, for example, states began passing 'conscience' laws that specifically protected doctors and nurses who did not want to do the procedures. Nearly every state now has one of those on the books. It also came up when Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide. That law too allows health care workers to opt out. _______________________ Silver Spring, Md.: I have HMO coverage so my choices of health providers is not always that wide. If I want something that someone decides goes against their ethical principles is my HMO obligated to provide me with that service if it is legal within my state? Rob Stein: There are some states that are considering new laws that would allow health care plans to NOT cover certain things.But if the care is currently covered by your plan it should continue to do so. _______________________ Arlington, Va.: As a student planning on attending medical school next fall, I find it appalling that medical professionals place their own moral agenda ahead of what is best for their patient. Religious objection to me is not a compelling reason for refusing service to someone. Why is the AMA and some states allowing this to happen? Rob Stein: The AMA hasn't directly addressed this issue directly, although its ethics guidelines do specify that physicians have an obligation to put patients concerns first. States are considering laws on both sides. _______________________ Maryland: It seems to me that prescribing and talking about birth control is a pretty important part of a gynecologists' job. I would imagine that any gyn. who declined to do this would quickly find himself without patients! I know I would leave, after I gave him a piece of my mind. The problem is that some women in more rural parts of the country may not have much choice in gynecologist. Why did these people become gynecologists if they have a fundamental problem with such a large part of the job? Rob Stein: Those with objections say they don't have any problem with most aspects of their jobs they have no problem doing. It's just certain aspects -- abortions, sterilizations, birth control -- where the conflicts arise. _______________________

Should I find a new job? I have been at my job 12 years. It is a large federal institution and I work as a registered nurse. I am finishing my Masters in Nursing with a MBA and thought up until recently that I had the support of my manager and my place of employment. Lately, I have found a sheer lack of involvement. No one is asking what I would like to do with my degree (I currently work in critical care). I am bored with my job, I have been doing it too long and currently I am not utilized in any greater capacity. The money I make is good. The benefits good. But the respect and enthusiasm is not there. I am in a dead end place. Eight more years and I would have been able to have retirement benefits.. Now what? Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

i have got job appointment letter from general hospital of madrd in spain for the nurse vaccancy. is it fake? and also they have asked me to go for the work permit visa in spain in federal ministryof interior. i would like to know the details of it.

Does IRS accept payment plans? My husband switched jobs this year, and I graduated nursing school so we made about 40000.00 more this year than we did last year. We are looking at having to pay about 2500-3000 dollars in federal income tax. We should be able to come up with it by april, but if we can't is there any way we can split it into payments? Just looking for anyone who has any experience with this. I am also trying to brainstorm deductions and scouring the house for receipts and such. If anybody has any advice on overlooked deductions I would really appreciate it! Thanks so much!

IMMEDIATE ANSWERS NEEDED.. PLEASE? I need immediate answers from people in the Missouri area. My daughter is 18 (will turn 19 on May 26th) and is being kept in State's custody AGAINST HER WILL! She was removed from my home at the age of 15 1/2 for personal reasons that were beyond my control. She has never been in trouble with the law, makes darn near straight A's in school, is working on scholarships for college, has her own job, her own car (which she pays for, insurance included), her own phone (which she pays for), and is going to nursing school in the fall. The problem we are having now is that she was supposed to be removed from State's custody on her 18th birthday and she wasn't. The state said that as long as she was in high school, they couldn't let her go. The day after her 18th, she ran from the foster home she was in, resulting in being moved to a "Behavior Modified Foster Home" farther away from me and everyone she is familiar with. She has been labeled "a behavior problem". She is 3 months shy of her 19th birthday and the new foster parents are not letting her be an 18 yr old. They try to take her phone, her privileges, and her car. The State worker, the foster parents, the guardian ad lid em, and the judge will not listen to her, myself, or the foster parents. He only listens to what the State says they want done. The State worker doesn't even know my daughter very well, she has only visited with her face-to-face on maybe 2 or 3 different occasions. She won't even return my phone calls, let alone my daughters. Her guardian ad lid em doesn't even communicate with her regularly. Whenever my daughter tries to contact these people, they either tell her that they don't agree with her wants or they tell her they will call her back and then they don't. Isn't a guardian ad lid em supposed to fight "for" the kids and not against them? Federal law mandates that at the age of 18, these kids are no longer kids, no longer juveniles. The law mandates that they can refuse services from the state and they have to be removed from State's custody. Federal law overrules state laws. My question is as follows: How can my daughter get these people to listen to her? She cannot afford (nor can I) a "real" lawyer. What more can we do? Her next court case is next week, (mid Feb), we need a pro bono lawyer, a "heartfelt" lawyer, or something. I am having a hard time finding a lawyer that is willing to a) fight against the state; b) step on the guardian ad lid em's toes; and c) take the case without A LOT of money. Any help in this situation would be greatly appreciated. Need helpful answers... not "get a lawyer" or smart aleck answers.

what is the point of living? well i got an F in my english class and it was because i didn't do well in my project the bitch gave me an F. can you tell me what wrong with the essay Minimum Wage Life Most people believe that poor people don’t work and they live in welfare. Well that might not be true. People who earn minimum wage are just surviving to make ends meet. These days their day's pay check can go to fill up there tank of gasoline. The minimum wage should be raised at least to $9.75 an hour. There is a lot of evidence why it should change. There's always a debate on how much the minimum wage should increased. The federal minimum wage increased to $6.55 an hour on July 2008 (Wage and Hour Division). The inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage has fallen to a fifty-year low( Bernstein and Shapiro). Many members of Congress say that this means low-income worker’s wages have failed to keep up and that Congress needs to raise the minimum wage (“Democrats Fight” ). The members of congress increased the wages by $35,000 in nine pay raises (Increasing minimum pay won’t cost jobs). If people work hard they should be able to build a better life for their families. If congress can get a rise, we should be able to give a raise to working families (Democrats Fight). Why should elected officials only care about themselves, and not care about the working poor. It's not the case that the minimum wage jobs are the first rank on a career ladder that soon leads to higher paying jobs. Most minimum wage jobs will always pay the same, therefore someone will not be able to advance in life. Senator Kennedy implies that hundreds of thousands of low-income American workers have gone nine years without a raise (30 Days ) . One of the reasons the minimum wage should increase is because the cost of living is increasing. Someone who works full time and earns minimum wage will earn $1048 a month. A studio apartment in Washington D.C cost $600 dollars a month (rent.com). A person earning minimum wage will only have $448 dollars left before taxes to pay for food, gas, power, and others things they might need. The cost of living had gone up by over 34 percent (Center for American Progress), But the minimum wage went up only 22 percent since 1997. People of the United States should support raising the federal minimum wage because observed evidence proves that it does not lead to job loss. (Sweeny) What do real people that earn minimum wage say about it? My friend Gloria said “I worked at Popeye’s. I earned $6.60 an hour I can barely get by making that”. She lives in a small bedroom and barely makes the rent “It used to be worse. I used to work at Burger King and earned $5.75. I need to feed six children. In fact my oldest one drop out of school when he was sixteen just to help out”. (Ortega). Beth Schuler in her book The Betrayal of Work, talks about Cynthia. Cynthia works in a nursing home where she needs to turn the residents every two hours, because if she doesn’t they might get a bedsores. She must also wash the wheelchairs, clean up the dining room and mop the floors and scrub the refrigerators, closets, and drawers doing her shift is hard work, she not lazy. Cynthia makes $4.37 an hour after taxes while she works as a nursing assistant at a nursing home in Alabama. (Schuler 3). She is a single mom and needs to pay rent which is only $150 but it takes her two weeks to pay for it, the other two weeks she must pay for water and the electric bills. It's very hard to feed her children and she is still paying for some bicycles she brought for her children in Christmas is now June. They’re hard workers they work like everyone else. People might think there lazy but is not very easy for some people to find a job that pays a lot more then minimum wage. People also think that low wage workers are teenagers or high school drop outs. But that is not true(Schuler 90). Some people had a bad life and something might have happened to them so they cannot get a better job. They can’t make ends meet with making minimum wage. They need to work in additional jobs just to get by, “It effects e veryone even educated white people are just getting by which minimum wage,” declares Morgan Spurlock, (Thirty days television show). Even the working poor making just above minimum wage are just getting by. People might think workers working minimum wage are high school dropouts. However that is not true, as over fourty percent of workers earning minimum wage have high school diplomas. (Katel) Around Thirty-eight percent of workers earning minimum wages have some post secondary education. (Katel) Even five percent of those people have college degrees. (Katel)That proves that not everyone working on a minimum wage job is lazy or dumb. Some states don’t even have a minimum wage laws. Other states have minimum wage laws that are lower than the federal minimum wage law. Many states have made their own minimum wage laws. ( if u want to see the rest give u your email i will email it to you

Can I get a private student loan after 21 months of credit history w/ ok credit? Alright..I don't have the greatest credit history for sure but I'm trying to preserve it as much as possible. I am currently (& desperately) looking for a job to save and pay off my debts by August. unfortunately, the school I want to transfer to for the nursing program in another state- WA, in fall, does not allow any federal/ direct loan and I'm not even eligible for the Pell Grant. Well, I just want to know if it's a guarantee that I would be approved for a large loan when i reach that 21 months, few months of work history, and NO co-signer, because I won't be working and going to clinicals at the same time until I finish the LPN-RN program. Advice, Knowledge anyone? Thanks!

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State Goes a long with Why People Are Scared (The original & my response)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves

Student Aid question? Hello everyone...I am a 32 year old who wants to go to school to get her nursing degree as a Registered Nurse. My husband is employed and I haven't been so lucky in finding a job. Since I never went to college, I'm thinking now might be a good time to get the ball rolling. I called my bank with questions on how to obtain a student loan to go to school. I was told that I need to fill out the application for federal student aid. Now, my question is...I obviously will not be able to work while I'm going to school because I want to go full time and we will need some extra money each month to make ends meet (food, rent, daycare, etc), so does anyone know if they loan extra money each month to make ends meet on top of money to go to school? I pretty much understand how the rest of it works in the since that I won't have to pay back the loan until I graduate, but I would like to hear some stories from others who have been or are in my same situation where one parent is going to school and you were able to get extra money to make ends meet...Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you!

What Can I do???? I live in Georgia and I have been accepted to a nursing program in Puerto Rico. My parents are very narrow minded and don't agree with my moving there for school. But i believe that this is a great opportunity. Needless to say i don't have their support mentally or financially. I am eligible for financial aid and federal loans but they only disburse money after the semester. I am in need of money before the semester for a plane ticket...immunization.... first months' rent.....and etc. these things amount to nearly one thousand dollars. I would like a small private student loan...but my credit is bad and i dont have a cosigner. I would get a job, but the program starts in less than three weeks... and i would wait until spring but the program only starts every August. Does anyone know any legitimate private loan companies that lend to people with bad credit and no cosigner. or another way that i can definitely get money. Please only serious answers that will help... maybe im not making myself clear... getting financial aid and federal loans is not a problem..but these programs only disburse money through the school and after the semester has already begun... i need money before i go.. i need the initial start up money to be able to get there... financial aid and federal loans cant help me with that....

Why is it that when I tell people I am a student, they all say i am a lazy and naive? First of all no one can judge me any my situation. I cannot drive and my parents never taught me. My dad never allowed my mom or any females to work for that matter, and they were over protective. I am a junior in college with a cumulative 3.5. People ask me what I do, and I tell them i am in college pursuing degree in nursing. The first thing they say is that i am spoiled, naive, sheltered and lazy. I work hard for my grades and I have tried to get job on campus, but bc i get pell grants i have never been awarded federal work study. I am sick and tired of being told I am SPOILED when I have to depend on loans, grants, and scholarships to get by in school. It's as if people think i am living large when in reality I am literlly broke. I don't even want 2 say that i a student bc people just speak down on me abt it. Why do people make this assumption and what can i say to them? I am tired of it coming up. I have NO family to turn to bc my mother recently passed away. I have controlling bipolar father who doesn't think 2 much of me bc i am a girl. If i were spoiled, i would have car and everything would be handed to me, but just the fact that i have loans, grants and scholarships in college show that i am financially dependent. I just wish that people would stop looking down on me w/o knowing my sitution. My bf who works at a restaurant for living says i have no idea what the real world is like, but how can he talk. It's not as if he's doing something big. He just works at a flipping restaurant. This just makes me want 2 drop out of college bc people think that i am lazy even though i am a fulltime student. most people who criticize me are college aged students who work. It's not as if it's my choice to stay in a dorm all day. But when you are in a small town, and have no car.. and there's no public transportation system... it's hard to get around

Do the following look like they should be in a "Stimulus Bill"? The Democrats are working on a Stimulus Bill as we all know. While taking very little input from the GOP, Obama, Pelosi and Reid are going their own way with this one. Which is fine I suppose BUT.... Do YOU know what is in this so called Stimulus Bill that is suppose to help this nation in a poor economy. Please note that Obama was quoted as saying "Nothing on here looks outlandish or crazy to me" Why dont you look at some thing in the bill for yourself. And while I am sure some of you are _____ enough to defend this but anyone, even a third grader, can see that this is the dumbest thing ive seen in a while. I will literally go insane if this bill passes with garbage like this in it. This bill is suppose to STIMULATE the economy. Instead the Dems are using this to put pork in to and work on re-election. None of these things should be in this bill. Think about the fact that YOU, YOUR FAMILY, and YOUR KIDS will have to pay for all this some day. This is a joke and if this is all they can come up with to help out our economy than we are in for a world of hurt for the next 4 years. It is going to get very, very bad here unless all of you call your Congressmen/Senators and tell them NOT to pass this ridiculous bill. --Undisclosed amount for contraceptives -- $650 million to help Americans upgrade to digital cable after the official transition to digital television on Feb. 17, 2009. -- $44 million to repair and improve the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. -- $276 million to upgrade and modernize information technology at the State Department. -- $3.1 billion to fund “infrastructure projects” on federal land, including $1.8 billion for the National Park Service, $650 million for the U.S. Forest Service, and $300 million for the National Fish Hatcheries. -- $600 million for NASA, including $400 million for projects such as “satellite sensors that measure solar radiation critical to understanding climate change.” -- $1.9 billion for the Department of Energy for “basic research into the physical sciences,” including nuclear physics and fusion energy. -- $209 million for maintenance work at the federal Agricultural Research Service’s research facilities across the country. -- $400 million in repairs to various “national treasures,” including $200 million for revitalizing the National Mall, $150 for maintenance at the Smithsonian Institution, and $50 million to make up for a lack of philanthropic support for the arts. -- $850 million for “wildland fire management,” including $550 million to states for “volunteer fire assistance,” “city forest enhancements” and “wood to energy” projects. -- $400 million for “habitat restoration” projects to be doled out by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. -- $2.7 billion for “rural water and waste disposal” grant programs for providing loans for digging wells or extending municipal water services in rural areas. -- $2 billion to provide day care services to 300,000 additional low-income children, ostensibly while their parents are at work. -- $1.2 billion to create an estimated 1 million summer jobs for young people. -- $2.5 billion to upgrade government-owned housing projects with new insulation, windows, and furnaces. -- $6.2 billion to weatherize the homes of low-income people to make them more energy efficient. -- $2.4 billion for projects demonstrating carbon-capture technology. -- $600 million to “prepare our country for universal healthcare” by training more doctors, dentists, and nurses. -- $1.5 billion to build new “Community Health Centers.” -- $20 billion to provide “nutrition assistance” for middle-income families and to lift restrictions on how long people can receive food stamps. -- An undisclosed amount to “provide 100 percent federal funding through 2010 for optional State Medicaid coverage of individuals (and their dependents) who are receiving unemployment benefits or have exhausted those benefits.”

Which was a belief held by supporters of the Social Gospel? 1. Which was a belief held by supporters of the Social Gospel? A.God wanted everyone to be a businessman and become rich. B.Christians should try to make modern society more moral and just. C.The government should replace free public education with private religious education. D.Giving money to public institutions was a waste of time. 2. In what way did Romantics react to the Industrial Revolution? A.Romantics wanted to show how terrible industrial life really was. B.The wealth brought by industrialization led to more expensive paintings. C.To oppose the dirtiness of factories, they wanted to celebrate nature. D.Fewer people had interest in art, so they needed to make cheaper paintings. 3. Who would most avoid showing details in a painting? A.Impressionists B.Realists C.Romantics 4. Which most directly caused public-health problems in large American and European cities? A.The cholera vaccine B.A lack of proper sewers C.Pasteurization D.Natural selection 5. Which group's main goal was women's suffrage? A.NAWSA B.YMCA C.The Salvation Army D.The Social Gospel 6. How did education change in the late 1800s? A.Attending kindergarten became more common. B.Schools became less centrally controlled. C.Less children attended high school. D.School became less about job training. 7. The idea that species can gradually adapt to their environment is called: A.Social Darwinism B.natural selection C.laissez-faire D.the origin of species 8. What was a way that reformers in the late 1800s tried to help working-class people in America and Europe? A.By providing free libraries B.By eliminating all child labor C.By providing free public transportation in cities D.By promoting social Darwinism 9. What was Louis Pasteur responsible for? A.Creating the smallpox vaccine B.Learning how germs cause sickness C.Building public libraries D.Establishing the first nursing college 10. How did Andrew Carnegie express his belief in the Gospel of Wealth? A.He refused to give any money to help others because it would only encourage them not to work hard. B.He raised the wages for all the workers at all of his steel mills to record-high levels. C.He donated millions to philanthropy and founded thousands of public libraries. D.He gave his fortune to the federal government so that it could provide social services.