1. I honestly think the Government needs to go back to how it was when the Constitution was first being written, for the most part. A lot of the old American beliefs are being over looked and changed and i think there is something very important about tradition. We aren't looking at the history enough and just always looking for new ways to improve and update and upgrade and we aren't taking a step back to look at us from perspective of our past. We are making the same mistakes we did last time the economy went down the drain. I think the government should stop getting so involved in peoples lives and stop meddling with things they shouldn't be getting into, such as certain foreign affairs. We need to start focusing on our own economy and people before we start working on other people and i think thats a main issue that we have. We are always getting into other people's business and trying to be the big super hero but what are we going to do when we build every country up around us and we are left weak and broken? I think we need to focus on building ourselves up and providing for our own people. We have millions of people who are homeless or close to it. We should be focusing on getting the unemployment rate down and getting people back on their feet so they can get jobs and contribute to making the economy a better place. We also need to keep our noses out of small buisnesses or projects that have no benifit to the people. If a company or research project provides no help to our economy or benefits the people in any way, and they begin to go under, i think we should let them. I get that everyone deserves a chance, and to an extent that is correct, but if you cant hold your own even a little bit, then its time to maybe reevaluate some finacial descicons and do whats best for your company but also our country.
2. Most of the government's money comes from the the income of hard working citizens and i think that should be an easy change. For one, if people are getting more out of their salary, they would be more willing to invest the money which in turn is even better for our economy. Two, it is only causing more hardships on citizens and what kind of country could we have if everyone is moving towards the boundary lines of poverty? I think we could take just a little more out of corporate income to where the people feel better about their paychecks but we arent destroying buisinesses i the process either. We have to keep in mind that if the corporates start losing their money, the people wont have anywhere to work and earn theirs. It all goes in full circle and thats why i dont think i could have a career in anything dealing with money, politics, or economics. I do, however, agree with the idea that most of our money should come out of social security and social services. Its a good thing to put money into and i cant see people getting more upset if we increased that percentage a little bit to go with reducing the amount of money taken out of the paychecks. All in all i think the numbers should be switched around a bit, but i wouldnt know how to make THAT big of a difference and keep everyone happy. You will never keep everyone happy.
3. First of all, what exactly falls under the discretionary category? But for the most part i like what im seeing with our spending. I like the amount spent on medicare, its important to take care of your citizens and if we reduced that percentage from 23% to say 15%, we would be feeling it big time and a lot of people would be out of luck and very ill. Mpstly older folk who cant take care of themselves. I think we could shave a couple percentages from the defense, but only a couple. I strongly believe we need to support our troops the best we can and give them all we can but i also think that making our defence department a primary goal we are encouraging and aggrovating wars to break out and go into battle with our fancy super army that we pushed so much money into. I think that a couple percentages left wont make that huge of a difference on the troops and we could put that little nudge to a department who is in more need for the money than defense. Also it would be nice to know what falls under those other two categories, ya know?
4. I did end up making a few more cuts than i thought i would so maybe dealing with our debt is harder than we can like to think. Its easier to critisize the president when our country is parishing than to accept that we are a big factor. I ended up cutting $213 B in medicare and health care but $673 B in overall spending so i would like to think that i would keep us some what on track. There are a few changes i made to some health care policies, i really think that raising medicare requirements from 65-67 is completely acceptable. Lets face it if you cant live past 65, the medicare isnt even worth it. I think the gradual shift is what we need to do in almost all aspects of our spending and cutting
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