this whole thing makes me sick. men and women whining about how everything is unfair. honestly. i agree with the men that women take advantage of child support and that laws need to be changed. i don't agree at the outrageous amounts that non-custodial parents have to pay.  my mother got 770 a month from my father for 3 kids and like most women, she took advantage of it and paid for her rent and bills but when it came to feeding and clothing her children, we got crapped on sharing clothes and bologna sandwiches and ramen. and she worked full time. women today are getting things for them selves with the money and not taking care of the children. i am a single mother with a wonderful autistic son who recieves no child support and no welfare and not on any government programs. i work fulltime in retail but i make enough to get by and buy everything that my son needs. my son's father on the other hand thankfully comes and visits his son quite often but also has 3 other children who their mothers are withholding visitations against court orders. he makes 800 a month and is supposed to pay 1200 a month for the 3 of them. i have listened on the phone to his workers cuss him out and tell him that he is a deadbeat dad because he doesn't have three jobs to make his full payment, and they have missed notifying him of reviews to get them lowered. also denying dna testing is pathetic. the child support agencies shouldn't be a state to state thing, i belive that the states should have to answer to a federal agency and a national guidelines should be set. the amount per child should be based by age of the child and how many children there are. if each state had to answer to someone above them and a figure of how much it takes to care for a child of a certain age was cut in half and set to a payment guildline. i think things would be much better for all involved. i also believe that child support payments should be put on a type of child support card so that when the child support was recieved, the custodial parent would have to spend it on the childs needs and so that child support could moniter that the money was actually spent on the child and not am the custodial parents wants. i say this because my mother and a few of my friends mothers made us borrow from our child support and pay it back because it was their money, not ours. many people may not agree, but i think that it may be a way to restrict some of the ways that the custodial parents take advantage of their kids. also if i can raise my autistic son without the financial help, i think many others can do that also or maybe i'm just lucky to be able to do so. and no my family is not around me so they don't provide daycare, i pay just like others do. Reply...

I thought it was funny putting this in the entertainment section....Apparently not.

Anyways Zelaya is not the popular and great leader like he has been made out to be.

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Oh I saw it on Buck McNeely's outdoor show. Reply...

Ranchers moved down there because of the freedom they were allowed and the wild west feel, because it is really just them out there... It isn't a huge influx into Brazil but there are quite a few wealthy ranchers that have moved down there. One of those ranches would be a great place to be if the world goes to hell. They are all mostly self contained  small communities. Reply...

Haha western....

Speaking of that, westerns, have seen how many old school ranchers are moving from America to Brazil?

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Zeyala is trying to pull a Chavez and stay in power as long as he wants. Considering they are close friends and close idealogically that is not surprising.

I believe that the protests going on are for a couple different reasons.

Confusion: The Hondurans don't know what to believe right now. Also international media keep mis-representing this as a coup. I think only because the military did the arresting and not a policing agency.

Propagand: He was so far left he made Obama look right wing. There is an active campaign deception with in the labor unions and poor going on now about what has happened.

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Proud Veteran,

I don't think there is much mayhem in Honduras right now, just some protesting in Tegucigalpa. 

There is no anarchy or revolution going on in Honduras.  All that happened was a sitting president attempted to subvert his country's constitution by attempting an illegal extension of his term of office. 

The Supreme Court of Honduras ordered their army to arrest president Zeyala.  That is not a coup. 

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The US is heavily involved militarily in South America. The reason being the war on drugs, which is centered in South America, as it is the source for cocaine, etc.

The drug cartels rule a portion of Central and South America. It would not suprise me that the drug cartels are involved somehow in any revolution, riot, government overthrow or other anarchy that occurs in that region of the world.

Drug cartels, flush with cash, have a front row seat with black market weapons dealers.

It is too bad that innocent people have and continue to suffer, due to this mayhem.

 

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More illegals coming from the south.......... Reply...

This is from Google news

Honduras isolated over coup, protests worsen

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55R24E20090630 Reply...

I've recently been reading that Zayala is really a man of the people, upended by the aristocracy...
SO what will Obama do?
Well, I doubt he'll hire Nicaraguans to go in and kill everyone in Honduras...and call them communists. to justify it... Reply...

You're right...and the rules governing what an association can or can't do, regarding licensing, will have to be reviewed. Reply...