The Importance Of Money In The United States

Where does the tax payer money really go? And what do they spend our money on? In the united states we spend money on tons and tons of things that are useful, and things that are not so useful. One of the biggest issues in America is that we have people starving in the streets. Statistics show that fourteen percent of forty-three million people are in poverty. Another statistic also shows that, 42.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children. The government spends millions of dollars every year on useless things when that money could go toward fixing lives, feeding families, and fixing people’s water so they have something to drink.

The government spends about $100 million every four years to subsidize parties at the political conventions. Why can’t this money go to shelters to feed the people in need. This is enough money to effect a large community in a big way.This is pointless spending, if our economy is in so much debt why can't we hold off on the parties and fix the problem at hand first and take better care of our people? If seventeen percent of kids in households are hungry, then the government needs to put down their cake and start really doing something about this truly sad epidemic.

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Over the past 15 years, a total of approximately $5.25 million has been spent on hair care services for the U.S. Senate. At the high school I went to in Tenino, Washington, I remember talking to one of the staff members about money and we began talking about the special needs program there. She said that they were very under funded and they did not know what they were going to do about it. Over fifteen years if you are spending millions of dollars on hair for the senate, you can spend money on a class of special needs kids so they can learn like the rest of the