The federal budget is the economic reserve the government uses to allocate funds to various programs and projects that help our country run smoothly. However, as it is now, the money pie is not divided up as well as it could be. In each of the three budget clusters, the US government should make adjustments in the way it distributes money. There are several programs that do not receive enough funds due to the Big Five eating them all up. In the Big Five itself, the two biggest segments are Medicare/Medicaid, and Social Security, which both promote general welfare. The third biggest segment is Defense, followed by Safety Net and Interest on National Debt. In the year of 2012, percentage spent on paying off this debt was 6%, ($225 billion)
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A country is its people, and with a disaffected populace of future-adults, it will decay. Inadequate education, limited school resources, and high dropout rates are all big problems that stem from an identifiable source. For as much as we spend on education, we don’t see much improvement because the system is going about improving the wrong way. Too much focus is put on grades and standardized tests, forcing students to simply recite information, rather than actually learn anything. An increase in spending on education would best work if it incorporated education reform. More one-on-one meetings with students, individualized lessons, and different teaching methods could all be promoted by a budget increase. The key, though, is to use the money wisely. Education, as it is now, and as it may become, ideally promotes general welfare by equipping people with the tools they need to survive. It also promotes liberty by putting them in positions to do what they want with their lives. Either Transportation (2.7%/$103 billion – Document D) or Homeland Security (1.5%/$60 billion – Document D) could be shaved to buff Education, the reasoning being that we already have working transportation, and that certain parts of
A country is its people, and with a disaffected populace of future-adults, it will decay. Inadequate education, limited school resources, and high dropout rates are all big problems that stem from an identifiable source. For as much as we spend on education, we don’t see much improvement because the system is going about improving the wrong way. Too much focus is put on grades and standardized tests, forcing students to simply recite information, rather than actually learn anything. An increase in spending on education would best work if it incorporated education reform. More one-on-one meetings with students, individualized lessons, and different teaching methods could all be promoted by a budget increase. The key, though, is to use the money wisely. Education, as it is now, and as it may become, ideally promotes general welfare by equipping people with the tools they need to survive. It also promotes liberty by putting them in positions to do what they want with their lives. Either Transportation (2.7%/$103 billion – Document D) or Homeland Security (1.5%/$60 billion – Document D) could be shaved to buff Education, the reasoning being that we already have working transportation, and that certain parts of