United States public debt

show for it (Tran). Peacekeeping missions led by the US increased in intensity around the world in the 1990’s, and over the last two decades the world has become a more dangerous place, which shows that the fight has been for naught (RAND). With public support for the wars divided, and the war not accomplishing anything, the wars and operations need to end (RAND). The loss of life and capital has been too extreme and the results too minimal to continue any overseas operations that the US is…

Marco Rubio states “You cannot give up on the American Dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction”. Is Rubio hinting at that the American Dream is dead? First of all, the American Dream is this perception that no matter where you come from, you can make your own version of success in the United States. Accomplishing the American Dream isn’t easy either. It doesn’t come on this silver platter ready to eat, people have to sacrifice their time…

control of the federal budgets each year and being able to cover the revenue of the country. For instance “ as the federal budgets grew beyond its revenues during the 2000s because of tax cuts and the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , the debt grew dramatically’’ (Magleby) This tapped into one of Congress's job which is they are allowed to…

According to the records of The Congressional Budget Office the Deficit Spending in 2014 is 483 billion dollars. Deficits are a central point of controversy in economy and has lead to many reasons for social concerns. Hence, I will approach some suggestion that might help. My intention with this, is to create some changes in government spending to reach big economic goals of growth, low unemployment and low inflation; which I consider the major causes that should be consider. Primarily, I’ll…

After I had completed the financial budget, My Spending Choices came out to be: Social Security – Cut $0.672 T, Other Health Care – Cut $0.45 T, Overall Spending Level – No Change, Defense & Security – Cut $0.061 T, General Government – Cut $0.006 T, Investments – Cut $0.012 T, and Interest Adjustment – Spend $0.0184 T. Far as the Revenue Choice, it was: Other Revenue – Raise $0.047 T, Tax Expenditures – Cut $1.371 T, and Comprehensive Tax Reform – No change. I finished up with a $7.7415…

hard to make sense of it all, cause in the end it’s just a piece of paper, right? Not exactly, we have so much invested in this country and have so much to offer, yet we have a national debt of over 17 trillion dollars and growing rapidly, but should we worry? No matter how much we talk about it and debate it, the debt doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. We have so many educated people working on it; you would think there would be a solution. I recently logged on to the New Yorker and played with…

overcoming the Great Depression and rebuilding the U. S. economy. As it stated in document two, Congress gave the Public Works Administration 3.3 billion dollars to create jobs and public work projects. The evidence supports that the government wasted 3.3 billion dollars to try and rebuild the United States economy. This example in economically ineffective because the government is now in debt. This corporation didn’t successfully help America, so it was a complete bust in trying to get out…

There is much debate about free higher education, not only in the United States, but other countries as well. Many countries in Europe already offer free higher education but seem to lack in the quality of education. As some presidential delegates are using free higher education as their platform, will it really be the best option for the United States. There are many factors that come into play when looking at what free really is and is free worth the end results. According to the National…

Introduction Healthcare has always been huge issue in the United States. In the year 2010 “The cost of health care – and health insurance – was rising so fast that ever-growing number of us were winding up in the ranks of the uninsured. Fifty million – one out of every six of us – were uninsured.” (Potter, Web). It has been almost six years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes a long list of…

Everywhere they speak about Puerto Rico you hear the debt owed go higher and higher. As of recent, it is estimated that Puerto Rico owes more than 72 billion dollars of bond funds (Long,1). Slowly the value of my homeland is decreasing and my family, who still lives in Puerto Rico, is suffering the consequences of the economic instability of the land. There have been a lot of budget cuts, higher…