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My response is to Government by The People, 25th edition By David B. Magleby, Pearson 2015, with chapter 10, The Congress "The people’s branch". The chapter begins with why the legislative branch was formed as well as the responsibilities of the legislative branch. Magleby explains that the framers created the legislative branch to make sure that voters had a strong say in making the laws. The author then goes into explained one of the main jobs of the branch which is being in control of the…

Hydroelectricity is produced for an average of 0.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. “This is about 50% the cost of nuclear, 40% the cost of fossil fuel, and 25% the cost of using natural gas.” This amount of hydroelectricity will be about $3 trillion in investment and make about 60 trillion kWhs of electricity. Telling them them how my energy resource benefits our area, economy and community. I would start off by letting them know hydroelectricity is fueled by water. Which means that it's a clean…

national budget by 2015. In 2015 military expense would become the most spending budget the Nation had spent on the defense. Studies in the article “Iraq War Cost U. S. more than $6 trillion; Study” have estimated that military spending has increase nearly $4 trillion and also that expense “ cold grow more to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades”. In conclusion, military expense, also known as the defense budget, is the country armed forces and the nation biggest spending…

are more likely to name China than the U.S. as the leading economic power in the world today” (Clifton, 2011, p. 24). Nevertheless, China is closing the gap on the United States. There is approximately a nine trillion dollar gap, with the U.S. at fifteen trillion and China with six trillion (Clifton, 2011). Although the United States has a large gap now, the GDP is the country’s indicator as to who is lending. Thus, jobs, taxes, and spending are all factors of what direction the country is…

result from beginning a global war campaign, 1.3 million deaths had been recorded in 2015 due to a United States led “War on Terror” (www.mintpressnews.com). In 2011, the cost to supply the Global War on Terrorism campaign was at an immense size of $5 trillion (Zakaria, “Terrorism Breeds Terrorism”). Bush’s military campaign has led to our country going into more debt, while this money could be benefiting Americans in a much more affective way. Critics say that the “War on Terror” is an ideology…

Science fiction stories illustrate the need for people to come up with transitory solutions for problems such as overpopulation, lack of resources, and pollution that are causing Earth to become unlivable. Even though eventually Earth, no matter what is done will no longer be able to accommodate human life causing the need to expand beyond. Science fiction stories such as “2BRØ2B” by Kurt Vonnegut in which humans have tried to created a utopia by controlling the population to the point where…

According to Bacevich, the United States spent about 4.4 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq, but it is estimated that interest payments could rise to around 17 trillion by the year 2053. The interest payments not only include paying back who we’ve borrowed from, but also paying the soldiers who fought for their lives in the Iraqi War. With the money spent on the…

could cut high inflation rates and grow their economy (Yergin, 2003). The United States government committed $250 billion to the U.S banking system, giving a financial guarantee to depositors and market investors (Engardio, 2008). They also have $1.7 trillion in corporate debt (Engardio, 2008). Despite the money given to the bank, Engardio writes that America will not have voting rights on the preferred shares it payed for, the banks will. For America to begin to bail itself out, they need to…

The United States of America debt is over 18 trillion US dollars. On average every adult today in the United States of America with a family has at least a $30,000 debt. We individuals are always being defined by numbers and the rules also applies when it comes to credit. On the long run it is not your Grade Point Average, SAT score, class rank, ELM placement score, EPT placement score, height, shoe size, nor your weight that defines you it is your financial credit that does because it will…

been able to close the gap in science and math achievement between 1983 and 1998 and raised its performance to the level of such nations as Canada, Finland, and South Korea, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 1998 would have been approximately $2 trillion higher. If its achievement gap had been closed between black and Hispanic students and white and Asian students by 1998 the Gross Domestic Product in 2008 would have been about $400 to $500 Billion higher” (Ornstein, 2010, p. 426). Are we…