What is the future of democracy? Is it a realistic option?

One could only hope that the future of democracy gets better. Im a positive person and cant imagine anything else getting worse than it is right now because something good that is being hammered into our education system is equality. I think that future generations will continue to fight for it and with that our country will become a great democracy. Ofcourse it will take many years for that to happen but nothing happens overnight. I do think my opinion is a realisitc one because look at how far our country had become from when the first Europeans settled here. we have been through a civil war, a great depression, president assasination, terrorist attacks and now we have the first black president. Although times are hard right now I beleive, just like all the other times, americans will pull themselves together and make things great and even better again. If technology can continue to advance then so can our democracy.




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AMERICA (part 16) The Future of Democracy

What is the process to develop an economic policy that provides services and sustainability?

This is a very hard question to answer. I think that there is so much the United States could do to make itself better and more sustainable. I mean I think right now we are gettting away with the bare minimum and it is hard and hurting a lot of people. I think one thing our government could focus on making better is people having a job. There are lots of people in this country and I beleive that if we did all the work ourselfs instead of other countries, that more people would have a job. Yes those other countries would go down but should we go down too trying to help them? I think something else we could use more sustainablity in is education. That is key to having skilled workers and services. Look at how the education system is going down. Schools are being closed left and right because of budget cuts and that is not the costs we should be cutting. Im sorry to say but if our education starts to lack, we will end up like some of these other countries who don't have a lot of technology, money or learning resources to make them better....I dont want to become a stupid country.


There is a post going around on facebook right now about how much the president makes and other government officals and how budget cuts need to be made on their parts first before anyone else because they make more money. I agree with it and I think that if our country would start with budget cuts from those people first it would make more of an impact and I think the economic policy would be more sustainable by doing so first than anything else.

Critical question: If the United States developed a better economic policy and more jobs and other services became readily available, would we infact benifit from that or continue to be lazy and selfish making poor economic choices?


   "humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall. All the kings horses and all the kings men counldn't put humpty together again". I think this riddle describes how the United States is right now. We are "falling" with all these poor economic decisions we are making and the government says they are trying to be put back together to become stable again but its not really looking like it.

How does a government facilitate comprehensive care for its constituents without sacrificing equity?

Our government has created assistance programs to those who need it and right now there are a lot of people who do need it but can't get it because their income is too high according to the government (mostly middle class is affected by that). Lets look at the most used government assitance, food stamps. This program was created to help with the cost of food when food was cheaper, ex. milk was $1, and household expenses were very little. It has stayed the same when now a days the price of food has gone up and houseing expenses have also risen, that alone is not fair and shows no sacrifise on the governments part.


We can also take a look at childcare assistance. I know first hand how people take advantage of this and are dishonest so that they can continue to use it when there are people who actually need it. And what do you think the government is doing about this to make it more fair and harder for people to lie about work.....nothing.

I could go on and on about how the government says that they are helping people and are making sacrifices but they aren't. People are just using them to be lazy and I think it should be harder to get on any assistance, not by making the income guidelines higher but more checking up on people with drug tests and in person checking in as opposed to all the letters that are sent through the mail.

This counrty is turning into a lazy, poor, dishonest, selfish country and the government is letting that happen when they could be doing something about it.

Critical Question: In light of the current situation of the government shutdown, do you think that they will make harsher guidlines for government assistance to help save some money for other needed things?
 
 

 
 
 

How should a nation-state develop its foreign policy in accordance to its values and in connection to the development of its domestic policy?

Well first of all lets break this question down. A nation state is a state inside a nation which can both have their own policies abide by both but the nation has a more powerful say. For the nation state to develop its foreign policy it needs to look at both the nation and states individual policies because both have a say in what is happening. However a country that wants to make some sort of trade and agreement among other countries need to look at their policies and respect the policies of the other country when coming to an agreement.




Now what I have to say about our nation-state in dealing with foreign policy and our domestic policy is.....we suck. We have pushed our way in and try to control the other country thinking that we know whats best, but really we don't. Our Nation-state does not allow other countries to push their way in and get what ever they want from us, so why should other countries allow us to walk all over them. I think our Nation-state has a lot to work on in trading and keeping us safe.

Critical question: Do you think we have have more allies if we didn't take advantage of every country we could get into?

Most Muslims like American values but strongly dislike American foreign ...

I think this video is a good example and goes along with what I said.