...THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES Looking at both debates, it seems both candidates are using lines and words for their ad campaigns to point out the other’s faults and their strengths. The format of a Town Hall setting is not as useful or structured as the last debate at the Lynn University. The Town Hall is too much of a “get your question asked” style with the candidates yelling and talking over each other. The moderators seem to lose control of the debate as it went on and it was more of a shouting match then an actual debate. Also the debates feature a the incumbent, who has 3 ½ years of a record to go on, and the challenger, who hasn’t been a Governor for awhile and has no record, per se, to run on and can easily say ‘I can do better than the President”. As for the debate itself, questions are being asked but neither candidate is willing to give full answers or barely answer the question. They seem to already have a script of what they intend to say and repeatedly veer off topic to other points they want to make. As far as the Social and economic issues, they are clear contrast on how each candidate wants to tackle things. The one pressing question I would have for both of them are how they expect to get the things down with a Congress controlled by the Republicans and the Senate controlled by the Democrats. For example, President Obama said “Fiscal Cliff” is not going to happen but how does he get the Republicans to go along with the not letting sequestration without...
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...Despite the 2016 United States Presidential election occurring in almost one year, it seems to be the only topic which the news media feels like discussing. The candidates have made themselves known, and with candidates such as Donald Trump, there is plenty to talk about. However, there are some candidates which the news media simply will not cover, whether it be because of their unpopularity, controversial viewpoints, or bias of sponsors. Senator Bernie Sanders is one of these such candidates, and being a self-declared Democratic socialist, he is a candidate whom the news media would rather ignore. The first Democratic Debate on October 13 (hosted by CNN), Hillary Clinton, being a previous candidate and well-known politician, was promptly declared to have “won” the debate by CNN, despite most focus groups declaring Sanders to be the winner. During the debate, Bernie Sanders made what many considered to be bold, revolutionary statements, such as his belief that college tuition should be nonexistent. Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for President of the United States for 2016 because he will lessen the wealth gap, strive for...
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...The Reliability of Social Security The Reliability of Social Security For several years now the general public and politicians have debated the long term solvency of the Social Security system. While Americans continue to pay weekly, biweekly or monthly into the program no one person seems to understand whether or not the Social Security Department is stable enough nor is it even going to be around when they retire. The purpose of this debate paper will be to provide you the reader with enough information written from both sides of the argument and providing you with resources enough that you can continue your own research in order to form your own opinion of whether Social Security is Reliable or not. The first order in this debate is to argue that Social Security is solvent and reliable. And how do we know this? This is where understanding Social Security gets a bit tricky. One has to understand that we have a group of “Social Security Trustees” who oversee the funds and report out on the funds on annual bases. According to the Social Security web site and the Trustees reports the” program and report on it financial conditions, program cost are expected to exceed non-interest income form 2011 onward. However, due to interest (earned at 4.4% rate in 2011) the program will run an overall surplus that adds to the fund through the end of 2021”. What means to me is the system is a “pay-as-you-go...
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...This paper outlines why security and privacy cannot be mutually exclusive. As we continue to advance with information and communication technologies, our society will require cyberlaws and the government needs to equip law enforcement with modernized tools to protect society’s most vulnerable in cyberspace. To achieve a happy medium between security and privacy, I propose the concepts of transparency, accountability, integrity, and professionalism in the security-privacy debate. Today, there are over three billion online users, which make up about 40% of the world population (ITU 2014). The users are online, conducting daily communications, transactions, and sharing of information. The Internet has created an increasing amount of personal...
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...Social Security Sherese Jones BUS681 Instructor Lori Wieters March 17, 2014 Social Security Every human being is faced with the problem of economic security (Dewitt, 2010). It’s a universal problem that encompasses the way in which an individual or family provides for assurance of income when an individual us either too old, too disables to work, when a family head of household dies, or when a worker faces involuntary unemployment (Dewitt, 2010). Some strategies are mostly individual such as saving and investing. Others rely on help from family members, religious group, unions, or social welfare programs (Dewitt, 2010). Some strategies are mixed with both and with use of various forms of insurance to reduce economic risks (Dewitt, 2010). The concept of insurance is to minimize economic risk by contributing to a fund from which benefits can be paid when and insured individual suffers a loss (Dewitt, 2010). From this social insurance was derived. Social insurance provides a method to address their economic security (Dewitt, 2010). The concept of social insurance is that the individual contributes to a central fund managed by governments and then used to provide income to individuals when they become unable to support themselves thus, creating the U.S. Social Security system (Dewitt, 2010). For this assignment, the concept of social security will be discussed as well as the viability of the program over the next 20 – 30 years and will provide recommendations on how...
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...Debt Ceiling Crisis This essay is intended to provide a breakdown of the debate concerning the debt ceiling. As the house debates, the debts increases and the issue continues to become complicated. The nation is in a crisis along with complex issues. President Obama along with the rest of the house is at odds deciding if the debt ceiling should be raised. The debate on Capitol Hill has been going on for few months now, as the August 2, deadline nears. The democratic and Republican Party both agree it is imperative that the ceiling needs to be raised but the issues surrounding the debt separates congress. The current debt ceiling stands at 14 trillion dollars and continues to grow. This debate has divided the nation’s citizens as well. It is not just a situation of more money to spend, if the ceiling is not raised the money would have to come from social security and Medicare. The Democratic Party supports raising the debt ceiling. The democrats know that if the ceiling is not passed there would be a dramatic downward spiral in the nation’s economy. This act would cut social security and Medicare. The democrats acknowledge the monies borrowed must be repaid but not at the expense of taking away from the elderly. “Understand - raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up. In the past, raising the debt ceiling was routine. Since the 1950s, Congress has always...
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... Individual Assignment Social Security – Proposals to reform the Portuguese system Márcio Felizardo, student no. 11345 Index Introduction 4 Government Intervention – Provision of Retirement Pensions 4 Raising the Retirement Age 5 Limiting the Retirement pension 6 Conclusion 6 Bibliography 7 Introduction The present assignment will focus on the expenditure on old-age pension programs and will focus in the specific case of Portugal. Recent history shows that when economies tend to slow down their performance, there are remarkable expansions in the demand for social benefits. This enforces European governments – especially Portugal - to spend important amounts of revenue in order to provide a certain level of income to all of those who are temporarily affected by unemployment and other social problem. Along with this extra temporary expenditure, governments incur in elderly benefit programs that usually include retirement pensions and healthcare exemptions. Whenever there is a crisis, a public debate regarding efficient allocation of social security benefits arises because economic slowdown shows the fragilities of the system and forces governments to cut some benefits on permanent social security programs – which people claim to constitute a right that meet their working period contributions. It will be analyzed whether or not the systems are sustainable in the present and if there are reforms that may turn Social Security programs more efficient while...
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...material taken from international agencies with similar content. Do not seek a "scoop" at the expense of your country and its security. It is absolutely forbidden to broadcast messages, information or breaking news that may lead to the targeting of security forces, the uncovering of their positions or the identification of their areas of deployment, thereby giving terrorists a "free service" while trying to attack them or instigating attacks on them. It is absolutely forbidden to conduct live or recorded interviews, personally or via satellites, with individuals who are...
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...their information monitored, when virtually none of them are aware that they agreed to that. The debate about the morality of government surveillance is...
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...Social Security Essay Outline Social Security Outline The current system has disproportionate burdens for current and future youth, if not changed immediately. 1. There are simple reasons as to why the system is projected to be unable to pay future benefits. A.) Social Security involves today’s workers to pay for retirements of today’s retirees. B.) When Social Security began there were 16 workers paying in for every retiree. C.) In the future there will be 1 or 2. D.) The benefit formula is increasing above inflation but it is not enough to cause the problem. E.) The ratio of working to retired is the problem. The debate isn’t whether we will go broke it is when. 2. If projections are correct, we will be dipping into a surplus in the Social Security taxes. A.) This is not fair and the “surplus” does not exist, the government borrows against our own money. B.) At this rate the system will be short on money by 2042. C.) This will make for higher taxes, and cuts in government spending. D.) Worse case scenario, benefits will be also be cut. I sequenced my paragraphs as such to show my audience the severity of Social Security benefit decline in the near future. Most people are not aware of how Social Security even works. I had chosen this topic because I do not agree with the idea, that there is no need for retirement plans because Social Security pays for itself. That thought process is false. I am here to disprove that claim and show my audience...
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...employee. This ensures that all people are fairly paid and not defrauded by companies or businesses. Minimum wage is now a staple in 90 percent of countries in the world (Minimum). Even with these minimums, a person’s lifestyle is hard to maintain. Sustainability, in my opinion, is the ability to keep or maintain a certain amount of physical or mental property. In this light of sustainability, minimum wage is not a sustainable amount of money in which to survive with a basic quality of life. There are many supporters and objectors to the minimum wage debate. Supporters say that increasing minimum wage increases the workers earning power and wages. Objectors say that increasing minimum wage only leads to unemployment due to small companies’ inability to pay workers. Also the increased inflation rate of goods only hurts the economy, which leads to many jobs being lost, mainly the jobs held by minimum wage patrons. Although this is a heated debate there is one thing to which both sides agree; something needs to be implemented so that workers are not exploited by businesses. Economists are exploring the viability of minimum wage, the standard minimum wage payments, and if there is anything we can do to keep the world on an equal playing field. There are many thoughts and opinions on minimum wage. Minimum wage was put into practice to keep businesses from taking advantage of the “small people.” Most of the workforce making minimum wage is “young adults” because companies feel that they can...
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...economy and also created more social safety-net programs for the unemployed. For instance, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Progress Administration all extended the central government’s power to areas previously regulated by the states alone. “The New Deal years were characterized by a belief that greater regulation would solve many of the country’s problems” (Hardman). However, some Americans felt that “the clause in the Preamble [contained] no substantive grant . . . to extend the power of Congress to so many new fields of human activity” (Herbert...
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...After reading debates from Jeff Madrick and David Boaz, I come to a conclusion that there could not be a possible comprised between both disposition. In a perfect world it may be possible to find a solution to find a solution to please both party but unfortunately in the world we currently live in it approve to be impossible. Having a big or small government is like a pendulum most of the time it will be leaning towards to one side more than the other, rarely there will be a perfect solution where the pendulum stays in the middle. So one party will have to compromise and take the loss and deal with it. In the case of Jeff Madrick he propose that the bigger government is helpful, not only it stimulates the economy but also improve citizen’s life. He further on layout all the social service that has been put in place to stimulate the economy such as Marshall Plan, the G.I bill for veterans, and Social Security coverage, Medicare etc. Madrick also explained that our economy is more stable after world war II than ever before, he further stated that if the federal, state, and local government absorb roughly 30% of GDP it would generate 700 billon dollars a year to protect its workers and other financial and social programs. In my opinion this is a very slippery slope because in the book he also suggested that the government should take 35% instead of 30%, he also compared the U.S to Europe where he said that European nation contribute 40% of GPD. He also explained on how...
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...Policies - Welfare and Unemployment In this essay I will provide information on Welfare and Unemployment Polices and how it causes national debates as sell as the conflicting federalism issues it creates. Federalism “is the formal division of authority and power between states and the national government”. (Levin-Waldman, 2012, Chapter 3). The American federal system is set up so that all of the states and national government within are equal in control. It is in that “equality” that the debates, pro and cons of these policies occur. If every states is equal and has equal control over the nation’s government policies, why is that these policies differ from state to state? Welfare and Unemployment were both created for assistance to the people of the nation who were in need. Welfare began in around 1911 when the United States adopted “England’s poor house laws.” ("Welfare," n.d., para. 4) The U.S. has had some form of Welfare in place since before our independence was won. In 1935 “during the Great Depression, when emergency relief measures were introduced under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's New Deal focused predominantly on a program of providing work and stimulating the economy through public spending on projects, rather than on cash payment.” ("Welfare," n.d., para. 4) President “Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, which contained provisions for old age insurance, welfare, and unemployment insurance.” ("Welfare," n.d., para. 5) With the Act in...
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...Interested in learning more about security? SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room This paper is from the SANS Institute Reading Room site. Reposting is not permitted without express written permission. Legal Aspects of Privacy and Security: A CaseStudy of Apple versus FBI Arguments The debate regarding privacy versus security has been going on for some time now. The matter is complicated due to the fact that the concept of privacy is a subjective phenomenon, shaped by several factors such as cultural norms or geographical location. In a paradoxical situation, rapid advancements in technology are fast making the technology both the guardian and invader of the privacy. Governments and organizations around the globe are using technology to achieve their objectives in the name of security and conveni... AD Copyright SANS Institute Author Retains Full Rights Legal Aspects of Privacy and Security: A CaseStudy of Apple versus FBI Arguments GIAC (GLEG) Gold Certification Author: Muzamil Riffat, muzamil@hotmail.com Advisor: Chris Walker Accepted: June 1, 2016 Abstract The debate regarding privacy versus security has been going on for some time now. The matter is complicated due to the fact that the concept of privacy is a subjective phenomenon, shaped by several factors such as cultural norms or geographical location. In a paradoxical situation, rapid advancements in technology are fast making the technology both the guardian and invader of the privacy...
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