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The Treasury invests the surfeit in Treasury securities and can redeem bonds whenever they need to pay benefits. The federal government borrows money from these trust funds to balance the national budget. Some workers believe that acquiring the money is raiding the trust funds; however, these trust funds aren’t misused. When eligible for Social Security benefits, workers…

Does national security override free speech? In the case of Snowden, Manning and Assange, they each leaked classified documents to the public under the name of free speech. Is this actually classified as free speech? According to J.S Mills, if it doesn’t cause physical harm to a populace, then it is classified as ‘free speech’ and so the leakage of government documents is allowed in accordance to Mills’ theory on free speech. Mills does not include psychological harm to anyone in his definition…

targeting the sale, possession, and use of specific drugs. In 1915, The Harrison Narcotics act enforced a policy with restrictions on manufacturing and selling marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and morphine for the first time. After the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics under the Hoover administration, drugs were increasingly criminalized through the enactment of The Boggs…

of Venezuela is forest, given that there is a big mountain range running through the country (CIA 1). Venezuelan government has had problems. According to the CIA, there current government is a Federal Presidential Republic. A Federal Presidential Republic is a type of government that is head of state and leads the executive branch. According to Geoffrey Clavel and Benjamin Hue writers for the Huffington Post, former…

What does the government really tell me? Is Area 51 real? Was 9/11 planned by the government? What’s the mandela effect? How does it happen? These are all questions you might ask yourself, but what do they all have in common? Good morning/afternoon Ms. Bozzelli and fellow classmates today I will be talking to you about conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are theories that are made by people with evidence backing it up. A lot of conspiracy theories are about the U.S. government hiding…

are the underpinning of duty-based ethics, as it is set up as a general rule for everyone to uphold, since the US is an UN member therefore it acknowledges this general rule and to break it is unquestionably unethical. Ben Emmerson QC from the UN states that in each case of civilian casualties, there needs to be a full explanation made to the public, this obligation ought to be viewed as an inherent part of the State’s legal obligations of accountability under international humanitarian law and…

When the United States first established the federal government with the Constitution, the fledgling country had many issues. The founding fathers faced opposition and were trying to figure out a way to alleviate some of the problems they had faced with the Articles of Confederation. The citizens of the young country did not want to give up their hard earned rights and live under a similar form of government that they just escaped from and Articles had left the country too weak. This is why the…

Being tracked or followed can be very terrifying, especially when you are hiding from the government. After reading Trackers by Patrick Carman, the phrase "you can't trust your own shadow," comes to mind because this book will make you want to your surroundings to make sure you aren't being followed. This book starts off with a boy named Adam and his dad working in an electronic store where it is constantly filled with customers. Adam's dad decided to give him a small room in the back of the…

assistance was initially created during the great depression of the 1930s, the devastation of families during that time was horrific. With the men out of work families needed help with food, clothing, and shelter “these were desperate times.” The federal government stepped in to help, mostly women, children, and the elderly…

Although, nonviolent, and most acts of hacktivist are illegal, or at least uncertain legally, leading most of the perpetrators to act anonymously. Therefore, in this time of day and age many people feel that justice is not guaranteed by the laws of United States of America, some view these hacktivists as heroic who use their tech wizard to defend the public good.…