19% percent of students graduating high school in America are illiterate and 32,000,000 adults can not read. The amount of food waste generated by the US could eradicate world hunger four times over and veterans who have had their legs blown off by IEDS in Afghanistan are waiting ten to fifteen years to receive their benefits after serving this country. Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized countries have banned genetically modified organisms in their food supply and the UN has recently declared that the United States is in violation of human rights laws by depriving the citizens of Detroit of water while companies like Nestle pump millions of gallons of water out of already drought ridden California to bottle and sell back to the populous. In my opinion, there is much work to be done in America to better America so that it will live up to my vision of America. Some say that America
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Federal employees are barely paid, yet politicians receive millions of dollars from the government, not to mention whatever money they receive from their "sponsors". In my opinion politicians should be paid less and they should take the money left to pay other federal employees and pay into the welfare systems. We can also take Benjamin Franklin 's advise and make being a politician volunteer work. Teachers and schools should get more money instead of American taxes going to bail out banks and other wealthy corporations who don 't pay their share anyway taking advantage of tax loopholes and hiding their profits in offshore bank accounts. While they are at it they should raise the minimum wage to a living wage which would be around $28/hour if wages kept up with inflation. The government should make it required that all jobs have at least a month of off time and a three month emergency leave
Federal employees are barely paid, yet politicians receive millions of dollars from the government, not to mention whatever money they receive from their "sponsors". In my opinion politicians should be paid less and they should take the money left to pay other federal employees and pay into the welfare systems. We can also take Benjamin Franklin 's advise and make being a politician volunteer work. Teachers and schools should get more money instead of American taxes going to bail out banks and other wealthy corporations who don 't pay their share anyway taking advantage of tax loopholes and hiding their profits in offshore bank accounts. While they are at it they should raise the minimum wage to a living wage which would be around $28/hour if wages kept up with inflation. The government should make it required that all jobs have at least a month of off time and a three month emergency leave