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What did no child left behind do and what was the laws intent |
To institute national instate standard testing / it funded money for school . The Intent was to increase education standards |
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Whatf was the intent of Obama care, and what does it do? |
To regulate and improve the u.s. healthcare system that people have access too . And it provides more access to health insurance for all Americans |
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What are arguments against programs like Medicare, Medicaid and obamacare? |
The quality goes down and the restrictions |
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How has the government's role in domestic policy changed over time ? |
The role of the federal government has increased 100% in the environment, healthcare and education |
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How did the federal government first get involved in protecting the environment ? |
Roosevelt set aside national park |
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What are the biggest chunks of the federal government budget, i including discretionary? |
Entitlement and military |
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What is mandatory spending? |
Programs that continue funding year in and year out over the span of multiple years (Medicare, social security) |
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What is discretionary spending ? |
Spending that Congress specifically appropriates in any one given year(military, education,science) |
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The federal reserve and what it mainly focuses on? |
It's the central banking system and it focuses on areas for setting requirements for banks, keeping inflatio n low and interest rates |
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Who was John Maynard Keynes |
Economist that believed in when there is a recession the gov. Should increase spending so people have cash and would spend more |
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What was the main argument of John Maynard Keynes economic ideology? |
To cut the spending |
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Whats the difference between means treated and non means treated programs? |
Means - the beneficiary is only eligible if their INCOME is below a specified level( ssi,welfare,food stamps) Non means- are and what a worker pays in over time through earrniings to specifically used to determine eligibility (enemplomeny, bright futures) |
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What are the differences between INCOME taxes and payroll taxes? What do they pay for ? |
INCOME tax is it's tax filing people do on INCOME each smear of earnings and payroll taxes is weekly/bi weekly taxes working individuals pay out of their paychecks |
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What is isolationism? |
Avoidance of entangling alliances with foreign countries |
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What is Interventionism? |
Getting involved with other countries |
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How has the U.S. changed over time? |
Dramatically went from minding our own business to getting into everything |
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What is social security? |
Entitlement program |
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Who is social security for ? |
Seniors and disabled |
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How is social security funded ? |
Payroll taxes |
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What are multi-lateralism? |
World community , to think about other Countries acting as a whole |
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What is uni-lateralism? |
We as a country protect ourselves at all costs, forget other contries |
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The joint chiefs of staff and their purpose? |
They are the leaders of the air force, navy, army, and marine corps. Their purpose is to speak with the president to know what would be the best to do next when taking action |
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What the U.S. work yo stop during the cold war ? |
Communism |
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What do we focus on stopping today? |
Trade w cuba , North Korea and chine |
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What was Eisenhower talking about when he mentioned the " military industrial complex"? |
That there is a big possibility that the military and companies that build the weapons might profit off war |
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What is pre-emption |
Military action thatt would be taken to eliminate threats outright even ifmoithrr countries or terrorist groups have not yet attacked the U.S. |
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Is pre-emptiom ever necessary or acceptable ? Why or why not |
Necessary in a world where we do ply cannot wait to react to terrorist attacks. |
