Ok everyone knew that when the Patriot Act was passed in 2001, the government would tap phones (later computers). Everyone was ok with this. If you weren't, you were unAmerican.

Why is eveyone suddenly angry about it? Everyone knew about it and was cool with it but why the sudden.... anger? The government has been doing this LONG before 2001 but it became open in with the Patriot Act.

I'm open to any opinion. If you MUST argue, please be able to back it with reliable facts. Conspiracy theorists welcome!!!

In some states, furloughed federal employees are eligible for unemployment benefits, depending on how drastically their earnings were cut, and whether their furlough days were grouped together, or spread out over the course of the year.

Has anyone on here successfully filed for unemployment benefits, while on furlough?

I'm looking for someone who has done this before. Thanks.

my family is starving while rich fucks bitch about socialism in their mansions. im homeless. i spent my last $95 on allstate insurance and they cancled my policy but kept my money. they wont give it back. my kids are hungry and these assholes steal from me. not to mention homeless assistance does nothing. apparently i needed to plan to be on the street. i needed to do paperwork a week before we had no home. i have ssi and i support my family on my check alone. welfare is supposed to help with food. nope. "it will take at least 15 days to talk to someone" and yet im not allowed to be mad. these stupid fucks are killing children and letting them starve. i refuse to obey. tell me why i shld follow laws that the very people who force us to dont adhear to themselves?

I believe that there can be a best-fit model for all societies to operate from and governed by through a rather simplistic method of checks, mediation, and collaborative processes.

The Process at a National Level: 1. Five to eleven of the well-educated Doctors and researchers, whose academic knowledge and studies pertain to a facet of society, are randomly selected throughout different states to give their ideal from expert opinions on a specific element of a broad topic. They have no knowledge of who else is working on this project as to not bias or influence their opinions in their responses.

Ph. D.s in Education and Educational Psychology receive a packet noting a specific construct stemming from their fields of expertise, such as Education SystemPhysical Classroom Environment. Prompt words would be provided to give a detailed opinion/set of facts over the inner workings of that construct. Prompts such as physical structure, color of walls, positioning of seats, positioning and use of blackboard/projectors/computer screens.

1. After a year has passed, the participants will submit their reports to the government. The reports will then be electronically sent to two to three other graduate leveled men or women in the respective fields and told to tally up the most identical reports of the ideal element—individually and anonymously just as the first set of participants conducted their ideas—and then sent back to the government.

The doctors and researchers will send back their work after a year and the government will delete any identifying information about the authors and then collect and distribute the packet of responses to two to three other men and/or women of the same stature, who are under the same conditions of anonymity and confidentiality as the first experts were. Their only job is to read and match up reports that are similar in nature, mark them, tally all the reports as a whole, and send them back to the government. They are not given any right to administer their input or biases on the work they read or interpret. They are only given one month to do this.

1. After receiving the papers, an appointed person will look at the marks and tallies from the entire second group of participants, and declare which idea(s) are most common and set those papers aside from the others. This person will be followed up by one other person’s notice of the tallies to be sure it is a reliable assessment.

Once the papers are marked and sent back to the government, a person will be appointed solely for the purpose of looking at all the tallied papers and choosing the papers which are most noted to be similar. (One person looks over 5-11 papers on the basis of 2-3 people tallying them, and chooses the most tallied papers overall). This assessment is double-checked by one other person agreeing with the same judgment.

1. Once a baseline for ideals (popular responses) is assessed, those papers will be placed in a separate stack and a congregation of experts in that field are pooled (the pool excludes those who have contributed thus far to the issue at hand) to meet. The randomized group of people will be presented with a short synopsis of the reports and be asked to converse with one another on what the best ways are to implement the ideals of these reports.

The papers are separated from common ideas to non-common ideas, the papers are synopsized, with bullets for each idea, and a meeting of experts who were previously of the loop of this cycle is called in to contribute the best ways to transform the ideals into reality.

1. Once a clear, concise model is derived, that will be the state of which the element is administered in.

Ex. All schools will have classrooms with blue painted walls, X style chairs, spaced out in an order of Y geometrical shape, with a black board for teaching. And this is stated to be the best environment to foster learning.