United States budget process

According to Richard Hughbank and Don Githens, “Intelligence is information that is analyzed and converted into a product to support a particular customer. Intelligence is both a process and a product that has played an important role in diplomacy and warfare throughout history.” The function of modern United States intelligence is often accredited to the 1950s and 1960s as the Cold War intensified and the Intelligence Community developed and expanded exponentially. However, the use…

France has been the United State’s longest allies, beginning in 1778 when the French provided support for America in the Revolutionary War. These countries have remained political contact by collaboration through groups like the G8 and United Nations. France and USA’s militaries are connected through NATO, and now the two countries are coming together economically using public and private sector initiatives. France is a welfare state, which makes it easy for them to provide healthcare…

The Drug War has not only been hurting the individuals of the United States, but the economy as well, forcing taxpayer money to be used in unfavorable ways. As mentioned above, the US has spent over 1 trillion dollars on fighting the drug war, but we have only confiscated 12 billion dollars of drugs (COHA). New York spends an average of 60,000 dollars per inmate, but only around 18,000 on students. New Jersey spends over 50,000 dollars per inmate and around 15,000 on each student. California…

Why is US foreign policy pulled to extreme of either doing too much or nothing at all? Give Examples. The inability of U.S. foreign policy to stay effective is because the United States is trapped into a very passive commitment in which America has to continuously support its alliances that are not producing anything good to America as promised. Foreign assistance, which is supposed to improve the well-being of recipient countries, goes directly to small collations. America, with the fear of…

progressed incredibly. According to an article from Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context, “NASA was created in 1958, largely as a response to the pervasive American fear that the United States would be left behind in the race to conquer outer space” (“NASA”). Ever since 1958, NASA has received criticism for their budget. “Despite the fact that NASA is a frequently mentioned target of government spending cuts, the agency accounts for less than one-half of one percent of all federal…

The United States government takes great care to regulate our economy, in hopes of sustaining economic growth and ensuring prosperity. A distressed economy is unlikely to have a greater positive impact on investors, consumers, or corporations than that of a prosperous one. Any increase in our economy’s total output (GDP) will directly correlate with an increase in tax revenue, assuming that tax rates remain stagnant. Maintaining this growth is necessary to provide consistent employment and thus…

A phrase frequently tossed around in the United States is “Hindsight is twenty-twenty”. We can’t be sure of how this phrase materialized, especially with the war of British and Americans being an explicit contradiction. There are a plethora of factors that justify the extensive clashing dialogues concerning the motivations of British defeat. Great British minds alike presented equally convincing arguments that condemned and combated that of their peers. A ubiquitous idea discussed in the…

China, Iran, and the United States all have very different ways of selecting candidates for their highest respective offices. In this case study, I will examine the systems with which these countries select their leaders. In order to fully understand the election process of a country, one must first grasp the basic power organizations of that country in order to put it into context. Thus, I will first lay out the basic structures of unfamiliar countries before proceeding to process trace the…

Act passed into law in the United States, and it was very similar to the Universal Health Insurance policy passed into law in 2009 in Peru. Both laws aimed to achieve a universal coverage for its citizens. The Universal Health Insurance policy mandated the…

Following World War II, two global powers emerged: the Soviet Union and the United States. Possessing conflicting ideologies, the two dominated separate spheres of influence that engaged in proxy wars throughout the second half of the twentieth century in what was called the Cold War. However, the war suddenly ended when the Soviet Union unexpectedly collapsed. This event led many social theorists like Francis Fukuyama to question whether this was the end of government structural development.…