Cutting Back On Government Spending

Our country’s debt is much higher than it should be and if we continue at the rate we are going, things are just going to get much worse. One solution to this problem would be for the government to cut spending, which I think is something we really need to do.

There are many ways the government could cut back on spending and one way to do it would be to cut back on defense spending. We don’t currently have any really serious enemies so what is the need for how much we are putting into defense? I do understand that the military is important and we really do need it, but we are going overboard by spending on top of the line equipment that isn't really a necessity and by having such a huge military when we don't really have the need for it at this point in time.

We also need to stop spending so much money outside of the U.S. We have too much going on here with things like our economy going to crap for us to be offering so much help to other countries. It makes no sense for us to be offering so much help to others when we are clearly in need of help ourselves. We need to focus more on what is going on internally before we go trying to save the world.

Cutting back on government spending does have the potential to do harm to our economy if we go about it the wrong way, such as cutting too much too fast. If we do it the right way, though, and do it slowly we could see more positive outcomes in the future of the U.S. There are also many proposals to cut spending that I disagree with, like cutting back more on education and on health programs. Something has to be done about our national debt, though, and we need to start looking for more effective ways to do it NOW.

Voting rights being threatened?

According to Marian Wright Edelma, the author of this article titled “The American Promise: The Right to Vote”, voting rights of Americans are being threatened. She claims that some of the newly suggested restrictions, including the need to show government issued identification to vote and added steps that must be taken to register to vote, are aimed at excluding many groups of people from the voting process. Some of the proposed new rules make it harder for younger or low income Americans to be able to vote because it is being made harder for them to prove they are U.S. citizens. She says that this is a right that is trying to be taken away from many of us and that this will affect all of us Americans, not just the ones who would be unable to vote due to the restrictions. Since legislation and the courts are now taking a look at these proposals, she says now is a time we need to do something about it. I agree with Edelma that we do need to take action against these restrictions. It is hard enough to get Americans to vote nowadays and by making it harder to vote, it will throw out a lot of people that are actually voting, which is ridiculous. If anything, we should be coming up with ways to make it easier to vote so we can get more people to do so! Americans not voting is already a big problem in our country and these new rules will just add to it if they end up being put into effect.