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that do.. We distribute loans worth billions of dollars at a dangerously fast rate. This hurts both the United States and our citizens as we lose large sums of money as well as those who take out the loans cannot necessarily pay them back.
averted. The fact that we have a house of representatives dominated by Republicans and a senate dominated by Democrats causes measures passed by either government body to come to a roadblock at its counterpart.
In order to make America more “exceptional” on the world stage, we must start with our government. Another reason we are no longer exceptional is the incredible magnitude of partisanship that dominates our government. There are clear party divides within our government, divides that cleave our government in two. The United States Government has been continuously criticized for its lack of bipartisanship. Because our government is split into two groups that oppose each other, the productivity and effectiveness of our government has been reduced. The Democratic and Republican parties disagree on numerous issues, which prevent bills from being passed and crises from being
The question that remains is: how can we become exceptional again? How should we regain our role as trailblazers and pioneers? In order to become exceptional again we must find and improve areas in which we are lacking. In order to make America more exceptional, we need to start with our government. One of the first things the United States can do to become more exceptional is to fix one of the reasons that we become unexceptional in the first place, partisanship. If bipartisanship is stressed in the United States, the United States government will become more ef-
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fective, stronger, more powerful, and will be able to reform America’s issues until it appears back on top. If our political parties work together, compromise, and pass measures; the methods necessary to make America exceptional will be available. We must manage funds more accurately as well. We need to find a way to assess more accurately how much money a project needs so money is not wasted nor needed. We must reform the allocation of the government’s funds in such a way whereas individual rights are respected while the government is made more fiscally solvent. If this is effectively done, America can reduce its debt, and regain its place as In order to make America a safer country, we have to make our police departments, and hospitals more easily accessible, and more effective in terms of technology and methodology. We need to stress within our schools sciences, mathematics, and technology much more than we are currently doing. We also have to teach the Americans of tomorrow how to live in a healthy manner, and how to make intelligent informed choices.
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