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Running Head: GOVERNMENT SPENDING: FOREIGN AID AND MILITARY 1

Government Spending: Foreign Aid and Military
Gabriel Gjonaj
Oakland University

GOVERNMENT SPENDING: FOREIGN AID AND MILITARY 2
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In this paper we discuss how the government squanders too much money in military and foreign aid endeavors and doesn’t focus on its own problems here in the United States. We first look at how effective the government was to responding to Katrina. Then we compare Katrina to Haiti and the Iraq Reconstruction to show that our government needs to put its natural disaster needs first and not another countries. Next we discuss the military squandering’s in the wars with both Afghanistan and Iraq. I point out that the reasons we went to war with both countries have been addressed and that we should no longer continue to be in either country. I also point out that our presence in either country is not effective in helping them progress and therefore we should pull out of the Middle East. I go on to say that most of the public criticizes both wars. I also suggest better ways the government could spend money on projects here at home.

GOVERNMENT SPENDING: FOREIGN AID AND MILITARY 3
Government Spending: Foreign Aid and Military
In recent years many have been feeling the effects of the recession, some more than others, but its presence is known to everyone. The United States debt grows larger everyday like the fast growing bamboo that is strong enough to penetrate a human body within a matter of days. (The bamboo was actually rumored to be used as a torture device in Japan during WWII. People were strapped over bamboo shoots and the bamboo would grow through them). The more it grows the more we are tortured. Looking at our history within the past decade or so it seems our government likes to go to war, rebuild the helpless war torn country, give aid to other countries (even when it


References: Democracy Now. (2009, Aug 31). Four years after katrina, new orleans still struggling to recover from the storm. Democracy Now. Retrieved from http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/31/four_years_after_katrina_n ew_orleans) Margolis, E. (2011, Oct 8). Afghanistan: ten years of aimless war. Common Dreams. Retrieved from http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/08-4 Pincus, W., Milbank, D ThinkProgress. (2005, Sep 6). Katrina timeline. Retrieved from http://thinkprogress.org/report/katrina-timeline/ GOVERNMENT SPENDING: FOREIGN AID AND MILITARY 13 Transportation for America. (2010). The fix we’re in for: the state of our bridges. Transportation for America. Retrieved from http://t4america.org/resources/bridges/overview/
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