SodaHead - Shrek's Questions

Is Illegal Immigration a big deal?

2008-03-28T16:34:11Z

Is Illegal Immigration a big deal?

23 answers, +3 raves

Government estimates about 12 million illegal immigrants cross the boarder into America each year. That means that there are 12 million more people in this country that need to be provided for by the average tax payer. These people do not have social security cards so they can't get jobs working at regular minimum wage fast food resturants or wal-mart cashiers, they do handiman work, work that used to be filled by the lower middle class families in America. Let's say that at least half of them take jobs away from American citizens. That's 6 million jobs being stolen away from America annually! Also account that these people do not pay taxes. The money they get does not go to any betterment of the community, schools, roads, or anything else. Yet these people find no fault in sending there kids to school and using our roads and mooching off of societies sympathizors. It is estimated that over 20 billion dollars is wasted on illegal immigration each year in this country. Let's stop this people!

Yes, and they should be sent home.	74% (17 answers)
Yes, and they should be allowed to stay but pay taxes.	4% (1 answers)
I don't care.	0% (0 answers)
No, they are a good thing.	9% (2 answers)
Undecided	13% (3 answers)

Is the direct withdrawl of troops, proposed by Obama, the best course of action for all involved in the Iraq War?

2008-03-28T15:31:51Z

Is the direct withdrawl of troops, proposed by Obama, the best course of action for all involved in the Iraq War?

6 answers, 0 raves

Senator Obama has said numerous times, in his race for the Democratic nomination, that he will withdrawl all troops within a 16 month period of being elected into office. Considering not just our economy, but also consider our safety, our troops, our allies, our enemies, our stance as a world power, the Iraqi citizens, Tibet citizens, and our pledge of democracy to make an informed decision about this issue. THe economy is an emence giant that is clouding up the view of all these other issues. We must take all issues into account and then decide.

Yes	17% (1 answers)
No	67% (4 answers)
Undecided	17% (1 answers)

Is Global Warming true?

2008-03-27T21:34:27Z

Is Global Warming true?

19 answers, +5 raves

Here are the facts ladies and gentlemen, decide for yourself! GLOBAL WARMING BECAME the environmentalists' cause célèbre in the late 1980s. They had turned on a dime, for only a few years earlier global cooling had been their mantra. They didn't know what had caused that earlier "cooling trend," but its effects were sure to be bad. "The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only in ten years," Newsweek reported in 1975. "The resulting famines could be catastrophic" Now warming is the specter, with its melting glaciers, inundated cities, and the Gulf Stream reversing course. But I doubt if the enviros can keep on fomenting the scare much longer. It has been based on little more than extrapolated temperatures and spurious charts. What are the facts? Surface temperature measurements show a global warming period from about 1910 to 1940, followed by a cooling period until 1975. Since then we have experienced a slight warming trend. These three periods add up to a surface-temperature increase of perhaps one-degree Fahrenheit for the entire 20th century. Satellite measurements of atmospheric temperatures do not agree, however. They began only in 1979, and have shown no significant increase over the last quarter century. Balloon readings did show an abrupt, one-time increase in 1976-1977. Since then, those temperatures have stabilized. Environmentalists believe that the 20th-century warming was caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels. That produces carbon dioxide-one of several "greenhouse gases." The argument is that their release into the atmosphere wraps the Earth in an invisible shroud. This makes the escape of heat into outer space slightly more difficult than its initial absorption from sunlight. This is the Greenhouse Effect. So the Earth warms up. But whether man-made carbon-dioxide emissions have caused measurable temperature increases over the last 30 years is debated. Carbon dioxide is itself a benign and essential substance, incidentally. Without it, plants would not grow, and without plant life animals could not live. Any increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes plants, trees, and forests to grow more abundantly. It should be a tree-hugger's delight. The surface data suggest that man-made carbon dioxide has not in fact increased global temperatures. From 1940 to 1975, coal-fired plants emitted fumes with great abandon and without restraint by Greens. Yet the Earth cooled slightly in that time. And if manmade global warming is real, atmospheric as well as surface temperatures should have increased steadily. But they haven't. There was merely that one-time increase, possibly caused by a solar anomaly. In addition, an "urban heat island effect" has been identified. Build a tarmac runway near a weather station, and the nearby temperature readings will go up.

Yes, I choose to ignore the evidense you gave otherwise.	16% (3 answers)
No, you have convinced me.	0% (0 answers)
No, I have always thought this way.	37% (7 answers)
I don't Care!	11% (2 answers)
Undecided	37% (7 answers)

Is abortions legality ethical?

2008-03-27T16:57:24Z

Is abortions legality ethical?

22 answers, +8 raves

The abortion debate today seems to have the majority believing that abortion should be allowed and the government should stay out of a woman's right to choose. However, I argue diffrently. I do not believe that abortion is ethical at all. I would not say that a fetus is a baby and thereby killing it is murder, but I would say that killing a fetus is unethical. A fetus is a life, it has a genetic code from the moment of conception that makes it distinctly diffrent from the mother entirely. The life has been created at conception, it may not be a life that can think or have emotional characteristics-- it nevertheless is a life though. To end a life is unethical, especially a life that has a potential to be a human being. After all, the fetus you once were had the same future you already lived and the same future you yourself now have. How is killing you when you were a fetus and now when you are a human any diffrent in terms of denying you of that future-- which is why murder is considered unethical, because you are depriving an innocent life of it's future.

Yes	36% (8 answers)
No	64% (14 answers)