Problems with the United States Government
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This post was guest written my Emily Atkins.
One of the biggest problems with the United States government is that it spends too much money, time, and resources trying to fix other countries’ problems. The United States is not a perfect place and we still have many improvements that require such time, money and resources to fix within our own country. The United States on a global scale has the top economy and is a big player in many aspects of the world’s success; however, with the war waged in
Iraq and other various problems in other countries, the U.S. government has managed to run the
national debt up to over 9 trillion dollars in the past eight years.
Furthermore, U.S. homelessness has been steadily increasing and the economy is slowly slipping through the cracks, yet the U.S. government continues to spend millions of dollars daily in a feeble attempt to solve Iraq’s problems. This problem with our government relates to two of the four purposes of every government system.
It relates to economic decision making because the government must decide how to spend its money, and whether or not it will try to help another country or its own. In addition, it relates to the government’s responsibility to provide public services for its citizens, because if all the United States’ money is going to the repair and betterment of other countries, there is a severe lacking of services provided for Americans with the money that is left over. Yes, it is a good thing to try to improve other countries conditions but, in my opinion, this situation is outrageous.
The United States government should not sacrifice our people’s economic growth, success, and the well-being of the American population in an effort to solve problems in a third world country or any other countries for that matter.
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JC said:
great article Emmy!
March 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am -
The Atkins Family said:
Hi Emily,
All of us certainly enjoyed reading your article and know that you spent much time and research on it. We found your article very interesting and we thank you for sending it. We do feel that you might want to consider the literary field.
Love,
All of us in St. Pete.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pm -
Dennis said:
The article was excellent. However, the research did fail to address a number of important issues both ecomonic and security. The question must be asked what is the cost of peace, or security in our homeland. It is a fact that if we weren’t occupying time of terrorist in Iraq they would be intent on causing havoc and terror in our backyard. Example, explosions in stadiums or malls would become more and more prevalent. This is true terror that would stiffle our economy in 10 days much worse than a year in Iraq. Further, the cost of oil is dragging billions of dollars from our economy every week, much more than the cost of the war. So, the real problem is that we in US have to buy oil on the free market from those who control the Oil Cartels. Since we are in Iraq we need to use oil to negotiate a better price for our consumers which is causing inflation of everything hauled in a semi truck, and friends that is everything.
Next, let’s look at the potential of democracy in the middle east. The lone State of freedom is Israel. Some others at least look democratic, like Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan. We need democracies to build their economies so we don’t have to send aid. We send aid to bolster thier economies so everyone on the planet doesn’t come to the U.S. Immigration is the last point of contention. Our aid and assistance policies even as good as we are to Mexico hasn’t stopped illegal immigration. The Mexican economy is so poor no matter what we give the power brokers steal it and the people get nothing. So proverty drives them over the boarder so they can feed their families. With an improved economy in Mexico they wouldn’t come here. So, NAFTA and other agreements have benefited Mexico and other Latin American countries. Sure, we have suffered during the transition from a manufactoring based economy to a more serviced based economy. I don’t necessary agree that is a good thing but we shall leave that for another time.
Fact is we have to send aid and we have to assist freedom loving people around the world to enjoy freedom (if they want it) while not acting as the World’s police. We should and do help when we can. It’s economically sound to invest in those efforts. We open up trade and other exchanges with free countries so the benefits always outweigh the costs.March 31st, 2008 at 9:28 am -
Nanny & Papa said:
Hey Sweetpea,
You did a great job, we are very proud of you.
Love youApril 20th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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