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what downtown atlanta hotels offer government and military discounts?

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1 year ago
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Question: what downtown atlanta hotels offer government and military discounts?

atlanta hotels

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Answer by Meredith
I couldn’t tell you specifically — sorry — but if you go online and zero in on the hotel you like, you’ll be able to key in ‘military discount.’ You’ll find that most hotels offer it. I know we’ve used it for Marriott.

My husband is ex-air force, so I always look at military rate. If you’re eligible for for any other discount (like AAA or AARP) you might find rates to be cheaper. I think hotels assume that the government is paying, so the rates don’t have to be that competitive.

Good luck!

Will I be able to get cheaper government insurance now that the Health Care bill has passed?

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1 year ago
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Question: Will I be able to get cheaper government insurance now that the Health Care bill has passed?
I have health insurance through my employer, but was reading that if you are within certain income guidelines, up to 400% over the poverty limit, you will receive a subsidy towards health insurance.

So, I did the rough math, and the government option with the subsidy would be cheaper than what I pay for private insurance now.

So, will I be able to decline my employer’s health insurance, and instead take the lower cost option offered by the government?
Just looking for a straight answer here, guys.
cheaper health insurance

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Answer by CB
Your taxes are going to be doubled. You figure it out.

Can a conservation worker get student loans repaid like other government jobs?

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1 year ago
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Question: Can a conservation worker get student loans repaid like other government jobs?
I have recently graduated culinary school when the economy went to hell. I already have 50k in student loans from that. After all this happening in the gulf, as well as reading about unrelated fish kills in the st johns river, I feel moved toward going back to school for marine science. Is there any type of loan repayment plans for people in this field?
marine loans

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Answer by 001218
highly doubtful but you might search for grants and other research fellowships that pay

Do you think if the cure for ALL cancers was found that the government would cover it up???

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1 year ago
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Question: Do you think if the cure for ALL cancers was found that the government would cover it up???
You may think, “Aw what a stupid conspiricy theory,” but think serously about it for a moment. What would happen if a simple, easy cure for all cancers was found. The lifespan of Americans would jump by 20-30 years. Where would Social Security come from? Where would health care $ $ come from? Where would all those extra jobs come from.
I think the government would cover it up. The almost overnight demand on the government and the economy would be massivly overwhelming, not to mention the demand on health care (for other diseases), social security, job market, food, and other things would bring the already strapped government to its knees. Not only in the USA, but worldwide.

Think about it. Its kinda scarry to think of the American lifespan to suddenly become 100 years old.
worldwide health cover

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Answer by messann
i think that they would cover it up in a hearbeat…….its like a money maker!

A New Charter for American Cities: 10 Rights to Restrain Government and Protect Freedom

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Since 1972, America has gained an average of one new local government every day. The mushrooming of local governments is outdone only by the growth in state and local spending, which has outstripped that of the federal government since 1970. Arizona is no exception.

Special districts in Arizona have burgeoned from just over 30 in 1952 to more than 300 in 2007so numerous that they now approach the sum of all counties, cities, and towns in Arizona. The bulk of this growth occurred after 1980, suggesting that municipalities deliberately spun off special districts to engage in spending projects that would otherwise be unconstitutional under reforms enacted after the stagflation of the 1970s, which attempted to restrict local government spending to a formula based on inflation and population growth. In fact, since 1998, Arizonas local public payroll has ballooned 90 percent, exceeding the growth of the federal payroll. And, at the same time, local politicians have borrowed tens of millions of dollars for swimming pools, dog parks, skateboard parks, mountain bike trails, and waterslides.

Despite their proliferating numbers and profligate spending, Arizonas local governments are functioning as if securing liberty were irrelevant to their mission. Since 1980, Arizonas crime rates for the most violent criminal offenses have ranged between five and 10 percent higher than national rates. And local government bureaucracies are more intrusive, opaque and less accountable than ever, with public records request responsiveness in Arizona receiving a grade of F from the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition in 2007. If anything, the growth of local government has been a detriment to liberty.

Business as usual is no longer possible. Local property and sales tax revenues are plummeting. Yuma, for example, faces a million budget shortfall. Between August and November 2008, Tempes sales tax revenues reportedly slumped 9.2 percent. And a host of cities in Arizona and across the country now face large budget deficits.

In short, Arizonans face significant challenges stemming from overspending combined with the national financial crisis. One of the biggest challenges involves deciding what to do about local governments that have grown unsustainably numerous, large, intrusive, and irresponsible.

Legitimate governments are meant to secure liberty. Local governments are no exception. Thats why this report recommends adopting and enforcing the first principles of legitimate government at the local level. It provides the theoretical basis for advancing a judicially enforceable set of individual rights, as opposed to simply relying on local political processes to achieve reform. And it furnishes a road map for legislatively implementing the recommended reforms. In so doing, the proposed Local Liberty Charter aims to restrain out-of-control local government growth.

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won’t cheap government health insurance put free market insurance companies out of business?

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1 year ago
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Question: won’t cheap government health insurance put free market insurance companies out of business?
I mean…if someone is offering cheaper health insurance than what you have, won’t you be more inclined to switch? yeah Obama says you can keep what you have, but why would you if you can save money?
cheap business insurance

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Answer by Carol A
We can always hope your scenario is true.

Insurance experts said the significance of the four major insurers movements toward government bailout

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1 year ago
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Fort Wayne, IN (NYSE) 15 November 2008

According to the Associated Press, four large insurance companies are now inviting the government to purchase them so that the savings “they might be eligible to receive capital injections from the federal government.

Hartford Financial Services Group, Genworth Financial, Lincoln National Corp., Transamerica and Aegon, each request of the Office of Thrift Supervision approval to acquire an existing savings has.

“This development should be no major impact on the market,” said Steven Wevodau, an independent insurance industry. Wevodau added. “The insurance industry has a number of economic factors, stressing their capital bases have been subjected to issues such as civil damages, the high labor costs go investment portfolios are running low and risky investments in derivatives have all contributed to the erosion of equity in the industry.”

Wevodau, which for over 20 years spent as a professional in the industry, noting that “insurance is a cyclical business and when you have a confluence of negative factors at once gone, depletion of capital is inevitable. The market is beginning to to show that the prices of products that have softening in three years, begin to strengthen. It is the natural course of development of the economic situation in the sector. “

insurers that their savings are entitled to a piece of 0 billion the government is, shares in banks and other financial companies to buy.

Steven Wevodau is an independent consultant for the insurance industry and financial services.

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clear = “all”
large insurers

Would you agree to getting rid of these government programs?

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1 year ago
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Question: Would you agree to getting rid of these government programs?
Personal Income Tax Division of the IRS
National Endowment for the Arts
National Wild Horse and Burro Program (HUH?)
Dept. of Education
Dept of Energy
FEMA (a corrupt organization if there ever was one–leave it to charities)
FDIC (a sham program with only a fraction of funds needed to save banks)
Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae (helped cause present economic conditions)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
Children’s Bureau (CB)
Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
Head Start Bureau (HSB)
Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Office of Community Services Block Grant (OCS)
Office of Family Assistance (OFA) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Indian Health Service (IHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Program Support Center (PSC)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin.(SAMHSA)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP)
Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
Women’s Bureau (WB)
Job Corps
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Internet Access and Training Program
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Bureau of Human Resources
Bureau of Information Resource Management
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Bureau of Legislative Affairs
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Bureau of Public Affairs
Bureau of Resource Management
Bureau of South Asian Affairs
Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)
National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)
Office of International Information Programs
Office of the Legal Adviser
Office of Management Policy
Office of Protocol
Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Office of War Crimes Issues (They blew the Bush war crimes)
Car Allowance Rebate System (Cash for Clunkers)
Cash for Appliances Program
Bureau of the Public Debt
Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI)
FHA
HUD
SOCIAL SECURITY

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Of the U.S. GOVERNMENT;
National health and insurance system
African Development Foundation
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (EVIL WAR-MONGERS)
US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Export-Import Bank of the United States (ExIm)
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
Federal Reserve System (a pseudo government, semi-private organization)
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (FCSC)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
International Trade Commission (ITC)
Learn and Serve America (LSA)
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Ice Center (NIC)
National Labor Relati
(temporary international health insurance)

Best answer:

Answer by Cpt Crash
the majority … yes

Anyone know of travel abroad insurance sponsored by the US government?

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1 year ago
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Question: Anyone know of travel abroad insurance sponsored by the US government?
I’m 23 and going to be traveling internationally for 6+ months shortly but I need health insurance. I’ve heard that the US government funds a program for health insurance to cover young adults who are traveling abroad…can anyone confirm this and perhaps link me to a website with details or more info?
(travel abroad health insurance)

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Rising costs of animal shelters in the middle of None: What to do, the government of Nigeria?

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1 year ago
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As I write this, I am angry that our government has recognized that the poor people in this country, the protected side by side with the rich in our society need Clock. More recently, the politics of the privileged among us occupies top positions are not favorably disposed to accept us. Shelters should enjoy prominence as one of the essential requirements of nature are missing in Nigeria, but we have accustomed ourselves to the “Low Cost Housing Scheme” in the dictionary of Nigeria’s shelter structure. The word “Low-Cost Housing seems to lose its original meaning in the context of real usage.’ve

in Lagos in particular the cost of supply of accommodation is increasing constantly, with the government not interested in regulating this sector very much. The houses are in high demand as large size of families are crammed indoors is not fit enough to stay for the animals. Who almost every part of Lagos State as was Bariga , Orile-Iganmu, Sari-Iganmu, Munshin, Idimu, Amukoko, Ajegunle, Maroko, Ijegun (Satellite) Agege, Obalende, Ebutta iSale meta-Eko, Surulere, etc to feel extremely sorry seeing bathroom and excrement on the channels, but these Places are called to State papers urban areas.

No situation calls fears so much about the inhabitants of these places as a gloomy sign for rain, to such areas, families are in their homes to avoid in the corners, move right in their homes, with the fact that even beds and other personal items be coupled to block stand on rain-water prevented. awful deed! These people vote celebrate in times of elections, in times of football victories, fast and pray for the country, for they are the happiest people on earth.

In places such as great men such areas as Festac and satellite towns, the conditions of these cities have recognized the extent that the roads are impassable, is deteriorating, but the prices of housing in these goods is increasing on a monthly basis. In Festac Town, for example, at least as at today with November 2008, N250, 000 per year is necessary to ensure the inclusion of a rent two bedroom apartment, you may have to compulsorily pay for a period of two years without a commission, which cost up to a normal bungalow with two bedrooms you can N400, 000 per year in response to the rent. In other words, you have close to N900, 000 or simply count your budget N1million because the price is arbitrary rent up review to two bedrooms in Festac Town.

If our government palatial bungalows and duplexes rounds for its comfortable accommodations they unjustifiably them nicknames “Low-cost houses. “These houses are on the exclusion of the poor masses of the country, sold in the first place are not afford to live in houses theses. MKO Abiola Gardens is a typical example of what I have to be based here. In this way, large masses of the countries of the Government used to houses that are not for the people of the land to construct. This is highly disturbing to the citizens as if nothing is done will come a time when poor people in this country, open fields will be filled, while the wealthy in our midst live in sumptuous villas.

If governments can not build one, two, three or three apartment buildings, and even single for the common living people of this nation is the result that people live under the bridges and completed their legitimate companies that demolish the same governments often at the end. Many of us consider it easier today than buying vehicles for rent houses because these houses are not, where is in the availability of the average citizen, or not even exist.

Lagos State is not alone in this mess accommodation, Delta, Edo , Rivers, Kano, Kaduna, Imo, Niger, Kwara, Ogun, Plateau, Anambra and Abuja in Nigeria some of the most important states are currently confronted by the problem of accommodation. It is now the standard to requests for the availability of accommodation before he paid in those parts of the country and do so much for little derivative. build We urge our governments to day to an affordable and really cheap houses for the poor masses of this country, because they are indirectly invites us back to our Villages go with our loads on their heads, if we can not afford to live in these places.

governments should do this by regulating the prices of renting houses start, because it makes no sense, arbitrary prices of homes built decades ago. Nigerians should also otherwise help themselves and realize that no one trips landed properties to other destinations. Let our Brothers ‘keeper to be’ ; / p>


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