The United States of America is facing more problems today than in the history of the country. The country is more divided today than ever before and that is a reason it is failing. The United States used to be the most dominant country in the world and now it is not going in the right direction. The government as a whole is failing the country and not looking out for the people in it. Selfish politicians have driven our economy into the ground and not made any decisions for the people. At the forefront of these problems are education, the national debt, and social issues. Education has been a brewing problem in the United States for a long time now. The United States has fallen behind many other countries in education and isn’t making many
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The problem of students not being ready for college after high school is growing. The high school experience doesn’t prepare students at all for what they will face in college. This is why the dropout rate in college is so extreme (Hollander, 1998). This rate shows the gap between high school and college. The high school graduation rate is at an all-time high of eighty percent. Although this may sound great, less than half of that eighty percent are able to read and complete math problems proficiently. This is caused because students are being passed on to the next grade when they should be held back. “The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the largest standardized test administered in the United States, reports that fewer than 40 percent of graduating seniors have mastered reading and math and are poorly equipped for college and real world life” (Lynch, 2015, p. 2). This shows that teachers and schools are letting students get by when they should be held back. It may seem like a good thing to do, however in the long run it will hurt them. They can’t keep up with their classmates and complete grade-level work (Lynch, …show more content…
America owes so much money to so many different countries it is unreal. The country has been run by a democrat the past eight years and he believed that the country should help out every country no matter their situation and now the country has to pay back it’s dues. All of the major businesses are moving overseas and across the boarders so they can hire workers for less money. Since there is no tax on these products the companies are making way more money than they should and it causes economic problems in the U.S. According to McGahey (2013), there are four main policy options that are facing Washington. The first is increase revenues and social spending. The idea is to have a “People’s Budget” that included cuts in defense spending and increases to social and infrastructure spending. This would mean that there would be a more aggressive cost control in health care, and strengthening Social Security (Mcgahey, 2013). The second policy would be cut taxes, entitlements, and social spending. This would allow all spending caps to be permanent, which would limit total spending and shift the cuts to nondefense spending. The third policy would be a “grand bargain.” This goes along the lines of the Bowles-Simpson proposals. This plan would allow for a debt and budget plan and call for a revisal of the federal tax code. The final policy would contain muddling through. The budget and fiscal
The problem of students not being ready for college after high school is growing. The high school experience doesn’t prepare students at all for what they will face in college. This is why the dropout rate in college is so extreme (Hollander, 1998). This rate shows the gap between high school and college. The high school graduation rate is at an all-time high of eighty percent. Although this may sound great, less than half of that eighty percent are able to read and complete math problems proficiently. This is caused because students are being passed on to the next grade when they should be held back. “The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the largest standardized test administered in the United States, reports that fewer than 40 percent of graduating seniors have mastered reading and math and are poorly equipped for college and real world life” (Lynch, 2015, p. 2). This shows that teachers and schools are letting students get by when they should be held back. It may seem like a good thing to do, however in the long run it will hurt them. They can’t keep up with their classmates and complete grade-level work (Lynch, …show more content…
America owes so much money to so many different countries it is unreal. The country has been run by a democrat the past eight years and he believed that the country should help out every country no matter their situation and now the country has to pay back it’s dues. All of the major businesses are moving overseas and across the boarders so they can hire workers for less money. Since there is no tax on these products the companies are making way more money than they should and it causes economic problems in the U.S. According to McGahey (2013), there are four main policy options that are facing Washington. The first is increase revenues and social spending. The idea is to have a “People’s Budget” that included cuts in defense spending and increases to social and infrastructure spending. This would mean that there would be a more aggressive cost control in health care, and strengthening Social Security (Mcgahey, 2013). The second policy would be cut taxes, entitlements, and social spending. This would allow all spending caps to be permanent, which would limit total spending and shift the cuts to nondefense spending. The third policy would be a “grand bargain.” This goes along the lines of the Bowles-Simpson proposals. This plan would allow for a debt and budget plan and call for a revisal of the federal tax code. The final policy would contain muddling through. The budget and fiscal