Government Spending Research Paper

What I would contest to be the most significant problems in American government would be the issues of government spending and the ruling of government programs. These two issues tend to give our government a “finger in everybody’s pies” this meaning that the government has their control over our lives and have the control to command our money. The issue of Government spending has caused a problem in our nation of debt for our country and an idea that we have more money than we actually do. The national government has dug us a theoretical hole in which we are currently living. This is truly emphasized by the debt with our debt, which currently at this second is public debt is at $13,902,493,929,894.77 and in intergovernmental holdings of $5,318,803,910,538.12 and combined this is a total of $19,221,297,840,432.89. People in our nation are not understanding that the government not only owes $1254.8 billion dollars to China but also owes $1149.2 …show more content…
The government needs also, to look at itself from the view of the people and not the officials own wallets. They rob from the people in many different ways, only to spend in excess the money we do not have. Does the government really use the system of checks and balances to its full extent? On page, 507 of our American Government text book, it states that government is split into three broad areas responsible for spending. These three parts are the Fiscal policy, Monetary policy, and Regulatory and trade policy. Do these three broad areas look at each others expenses and take them into account when buying? If you have $10 to split between you and your brother in a store, your brother gets $10 worth of items for himself and that would leave you with $0, or vis versa. Now the question is asked, are those three broad policies checked and balanced with each others spending taken into account or do they look at the total budget set and spend in accordance to