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Yet it may come as a surprise that at a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet. According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were …  read more…

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Open Question: Do liberals feel only they are allowed to contribute to “global warming”? ?
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/01/20/obama-inauguration-sets-record-for-private-jets/

**According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration. That is double what was expected at George W. Bush’s inauguration.

With the liberals all excited and the hollyweird celebs all flyin in their jets, do they feel it is ok to contribute so much to something they are trying to stop so bad?
Why would I want to tax jets. I am all for flying in jets if need be. However when the hollywood elite and the liberals such as Obama want to do something about “global warming” then why are they not leading by example? 600 private jets!?
GREEN PAGAN:

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

Sure make excuses for his jets, how about his home?

http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=764

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Open Question: WHy are so many people on YA uninformed?
The Inauguration is PAID for by TAX PAYERS the events surrounding it our paid for by private donations. or about 45 million worth.

so the inauguration is supposed to surpass 150 million BTW his lil stage he stood on was 3.5 million, who built this? NASA?

And why dont people do a bit of reading and realize this is Just a travesty of over spending something democrats always condemn republicans for, yes Im republican NO didn’t vote McCain nor obama, just wondering were this wealth of misinformation for our young people is coming from? MTV? Nickelodeon?

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Open Question: history help!? please, i cant get it!?
13. The goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to (1 point)
encourage industries to form cartels.
promote fair industrial competition.
place higher taxes on business profits.
encourage the growth of business monopolies.
14. The expansion of American industry was sparked mainly by (1 point)
public welfare programs.
technological advances and financial investments.
a decline in productivity in Europe.
government involvement in the economy.
15. Which one of the following did the Populists support? (1 point)
the Turner thesis
a progressive income tax
staying on the gold standard
private ownership of communications and transportation systems
16. What reason was given by settlers as to why they had a greater right to western lands than the Native Americans? (1 point)
The government already owned all the land of the West.
The Native Americans did not want the land.
Settlers produced more food and wealth than Native Americans.
Native Americans had already agreed to give away their lands.
17. Which of the following was a major result of both immigration and the increased productivity of factory jobs in the late 1800s? (1 point)
the rapid expansion of urban areas
mechanization of agriculture
high wages for factory workers
overpopulation of the South
18. Why did many immigrants support city political machines? (1 point)
Political machines were free of corruption.
Political machines provided them with jobs.
Political machines put powerful “bosses” out of business.
Political machines fought against crime in the slums.
19. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court (1 point)
declared segregation unconstitutional.
established the “separate-but-equal” doctrine, upholding segregation.
ordered public school districts to upgrade schools for African Americans.
ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans.
20. During the late 1800s, women from which of these groups were most likely to work outside the home? (1 point)
older married women
women in the South
uneducated women
young single women
21. Which was a result of the Spanish-American War? (1 point)
Cuba became a Spanish protectorate.
Puerto Rico and Guam were made unincorporated U.S. territories.
Spain admitted it had blown up the Maine.
The Philippines won independence from foreign rule.
22. The United States followed a policy of expansionism in the late 1800s because (1 point)
European nations were eager to sell rights to their colonies.
many Americans were demanding high-quality foreign goods.
U.S. factories needed foreign laborers.
the nation sought more markets for its goods.
23. The building of the Panama Canal was important because it (1 point)
helped stabilize the economies of Latin American countries.
improved relations between Colombia and the United States.
facilitated movement between Atlantic and Pacific ports.
promoted European investment in the United States.
24. President Roosevelt’s progressive record included all of the following except (1 point)
conservation of forest land.
break-up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public.
regulation of food and drugs.
establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
25. Which belief was held by most Progressives? (1 point)
The government should be more accountable to its citizens.
Housing and health care should remain private.
The government should protect agricultural interests.
The government should never intervene in unfair business practices.
26. Which was a major contributor to Woodrow Wilson’s winning the presidency in 1912? (1 point)
a split between northern and southern Democrats
Taft’s decision not to run for a second term
Roosevelt’s splitting the Republican vote
the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs
27. Which event sparked World War I? (1 point)
the sinking of the Lusitania
the German-French dispute over Alsace-Lorraine
Russia’s quest for a warm-water port
the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
28. Which of the following was a major factor in the United States’ decision to enter World War I? (1 point)
Britain’s naval blockade of Germany
Germany’s unrestircted submarine warfare
Vladimir Lenin’s rise to power in Russia
France’s fall to the Central Powers
29. The government increased control of the economy during World War I by (1 point)
filing a record number of antitrust suits.
enacting price controls and rationing.
overseeing war-related production.
forbidding any unions to strike.
30. Many senators opposed American entry into the League of Nations because (1 point)
they feared it would weaken the country’s independence.
they disapproved of its other member countries.
they wanted stronger promises of support from other countries.
they had already approved the Versailles Treaty.
31. How did the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans differ in their opinion of how the Constitution should be interpreted? (5 points)

32.

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