Financial news page 8

can you fill out fafsa 09-10 before january 09? Im transfering in january and i need financial aid for then?

What is the best/easiest Personal Financial Software out now?

Is there any other good personal financial software out there beside Quicken?

What is proprietary financial software and its advantages and disadvantages?

How would America like it if China wanted their money now, in this time of financial crisis?

If communism doesn't work,how has China managed to get to the verge of becoming the next financial super power?

Why do people keep assuming that America is going to get better when the financial times are gettin worse?

First semester in college. I may fail a 6 credit class. Can I lose financial aid for the next semester?

Will financial aid still cover only 6 credits for fall semester?

'Well, Ted, my record of fighting for the rights of veterans, financial aid to education and helping the elderly is known amongst the voters. And, as you know, I have been in the forefront in the issue of abortion and i have supported the troops in combat in the Middle East. Consider me old fashion, but, I believe in honesty and integrity and fighting for my constituents. It is an honor and a privilege to serve the needs of the people". Is there any truth to anything they say/promise or is it like what Al Pacino (playing Michael Corleone in Godfather II) said..."Senator, we're all part of the same hypocricy". I am an ex-G.I., so, please don't be advising me to leave or try some other country/system. Especially when niether my U.S. Congressman or either of my two U.S. Senators from N.Y. ever served in the military. Can we make our system work for us and not for those who are in public office seeking their own personal gain at the expense of the taxpaying public?

I just ignore politics in my country (which isn't USA). It all seems a big, fat charade. And they call it democracy...

sounds good but the New York votes are some of the most ignorant in the nation New York, California, and New Jersey are the big 3 of corrupt voting and ignorant voters

Politicians are typically the pinnacle of human fear, weakness, and ignorace....and those are the traits they feed off of. They use those 3 things to make changes that violate both the constitution and the bible they claim to believe in. They use their "power" in a "nation under god" to act on the same level as god and regulate, give, and take away the same things a god would. Once they figure out how to make babies they will do that too. Politicians are the worst kinds of sinners and do not exist in the same realm as honesty, because they believe in their scewy minds that what they are doing what is right, therefore that exempts them from honesty.

Senators shouldn't be elected from a who's who list of pretty boy/lucky sperm club born with a silver spoon in the mouth- vanity fair selection process. We should be drafting quality people into public service, pay them what they might otherwise make in their chosen field. Butcher, Baker,and Candlestickmaker alike.

Politics - it means to politicise any situation and make a benifit out of it. It could be monetary, support or vote power etc. To politicise the situation, politicians should forget all the good points one has to follow as you have mentioned. So far I have noticed in several incidents the benificiary is powerful rich one eventhough he is totally wrong due to a political connection.

I'm thinking of running for President because the flim flam men in DC have pissed off so bad I just can't stand it. America could conquer the world. Not with warring, but with such overwhelming wealth that the whole world would lick our boots to get our help for themselves. I can make a provable, tangible, graph able outline for doing this. First someone like me would have to the President. I say that because I'm the kind of man that can't be knuckled under, I don't take you can't do that and just quit, and no matter how hard the job is I never stop short. I’m a working class man, I came up doing body work, so I know how to fix the tangled mess others have made. As President, this being THE most powerful position in the world, I would go completely around the Senate and the House. I would use the Executive Order and write the checks to get what needs to be done, done ASAP! The treasury is in the executive branch and Lincoln wrote checks to get things done, so I would do the same. By Executive Order, I would start with fixing the governments money problems and getting the citizens tax problems solved. Then I would stop the foreign companies that cheat the US out their share of taxes, and make a loophole free way to collect every penny they owe. Next would come the illegals, I'd get them all registered, employed, and put them on the tax roles not us. We need the illegals paying taxes because there's just not enough Gen Xer's to pay the SS for the Boomers and Gen Xer's. I'd make millions of high wage jobs with renewable power plant construction jobs and renewable power would be a priority. I'd build so much clean power we would have power in overabundance, and could supply the whole world with clean US made power. 1/3 of the money from the foreign power bills would be put into a fund and every head of household would get a paycheck and NO tax bill! To continue doing this would make a book so I'm going to outline what’s to be: 1st90 days by ExOrder Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs End tax paper work for the citizens, not business End all welfare programs, save the money Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich End lobbyists, take the money out of politics Make graft illegal, have mandatory jail time Close the DOE, save the money Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container Register the illegals, put them to work and on the tax roles not us Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money After90 days by ExOrder Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs Build a fund from foreign power bills like Alaska uses to PAY us End Nuclear power Build electric powered roads, make more millions of high wage jobs Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks End our dependence on foreign oil Clean the polluted water with clean electric power Return America to 50% of world’s economy The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. Alaska uses Earth Rights to pay about $1000 p/yr and not tax their residents. With all 50 states my fed gov could pay $50,000 p/yr, NO TAXES, and fund the gov! The foreign tariff money, the illegals taxes, and earthrights money pays all the gov expenses, funds the military better than now, and pays down the national debt with NO deficit. The Renewable power fund would pay what I call a National Income Program, and when the fund matures in about 30 years, would pay about another $50,000 p/yr. So $50,000 p/yr from the Earth Rights and NO taxes. Millions of high wage power plant construction jobs, we would need to build 5000 power plants just to start, and build for many years to come. Then make millions more high wage jobs to build new electric powered roads to use the clean power. Makes thousands of jobs to build electric cars and trucks that use power from the new electric powered roads. Foreign oil dependence would end! The Arabs could drink their oil, we don’t need it any more. The oil money that funds the terrorists would dry up, and terrorism would strangle, then die. Domestic oil production would supply all our needs. Then comes the $50,000 p/yr from the National Income Program, with the Earth Rights money my gov could then pay every household $100,000p/yr, all with no taxes. Then the private SS accounts would have about a $1,000,000 in them for your retirement. The rich make fortunes by building money in funds just this same way, so what works for the rich, will work for the nation. This builds America to be 300,000,000 millionaires. The money would be passed to your Aires and NO TAXES. Each new generation would be richer than their forebears. Soon newborns would be born millionaires, and the system would continue to multiply their wealth for each next generation. America would be so wealthy that soon we would be the envy of the world, and people from around the world would lick our boots for us to help them get where we would be. America rules the world with wealth, not war. With stable power comes jobs, with jobs comes prosperity. Prosperity makes life comfortable, with comfort comes contentment. Contentment would bring peace, and war would be a thing of the past. If someone for some strange reason wanted start a war we could just stop beaming them power. I take it you know electric power can be beamed on a microwave inside a laser beam to a satellite and put anywhere it's needed on the earth! So cut the beam and no power. It's hard to ,fight a war with no lights or power. America controls the power! The renewable power is fuel-less so it's cheap clean power! It’s without the inflation of fuel costs, so the price would remain stable. I grew up loving to watch Super Man as a kid, he made a lasting impression on me. I’ve lived my life by his motto “ Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”, it still rings in my ears today as it did when I was a child. I want to bring this to America’s government, and drive out the flim flam men! I want America to BE the shining example all the world wishes to emulate. The Flim Flam Men: politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars! They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats! They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves! They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers! They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us! They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers! So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”! They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake! The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story. It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line! A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. George William Curtis America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. Adlai Stevenson Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. Dwight D. Eisenhower The universe grows smaller every day. The treat to security by any group, anywhere can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or none are secure! This requires giving up no freedoms, Except the freedom to act irresponsibly! Klaatu He loves his country best who strives to make it best. Robert Green Ingersoll Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Truth, Justice, and the American Way! Would you vote for me to be the President?

Most politicians promise their constituents the moon and the stars before the election.After the election they have their own agenda....Unfortunately greed and power play a part of our system. The constituents have a role to play to keep the politicians agendas in check..We have the right to write our senators and congressmen to voice our opinions.We have the right to peacefully demonstrate. We also have the Rights to Freedom information. Act. If we don't use these avenues and really know the politicians and their stands on issues , aren't we to blame ourselves.? Personally, I believe we love in the greatest country in the world.Let's be responsible citizens and keep it that way!

Of course Politicians lie and mislead. I also think they change their minds according to what is popular in the polls. For Example, I took my Bush bumper sticker off recently because of his view on illegal immigration. I would like to preserve this country for the natural inhabitants, or the legal citizens. I think we should have better border protection and stronger laws that discourage landlords and employers from encouraging the problem. With the recent polls showing much the same opinion of my own here, I have noticed Bush take a different attitude towards the illegal’s and our border problems in the last month. To me this was a total switch around, but does this mean he is lying or misleading, I don’t know. I don’t trust politicians and that’s why I don’t vote based on party line only. I research how a candidate has voted in the past on the issues I feel the strongest on. I then vote based on the candidates who share my values. I vote Pro Life, Pro Marriage (between a man and woman), Pro Border Security… I usually vote very conservative.

I hate politics and I don't trust any Republican or Democrat. They are all liars. They change their opinions with the polls. To me that implies they have no real values or ideals if they can change so quickly on their points.