Blog 8: Recounting Michigan

In my fellow classmate, Thomas McDill’s blog, he emphasizes the suspicion that candidate Donald Trump committed voter fraud because of his request to recount Michigan’s vote. As questionable as this sounds I feel as tho this is unnecessary because at the end of the day I don’t believe this makes much of a difference in the outcome. Donald Trump has already won the electoral vote, so what difference would it have made? if there was a possible “mistake,” so to speak in Michigan, what other mistakes could have been made in other states that we aren’t at all aware of? I agree and sympathize with McDill when he mentions that it would only be righteous to allow Michigan to have a recount. In addition, I also find it ridiculous that this situation occurred, being that that is exactly what President Elect, Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of doing.

Blog 7: Military Spending

Of the United States Government’s budget, we spent in the year of 2015 slightly over half on the military. In total, it was about 600 billion dollars. Compared to other countries we spend the most on our military, and surprisingly, double, almost triple of China’s military budget, who is only second to us. I honestly believe that this is a ridiculous amount of money that is being spent to protect, secure, and attack other countries. Yes, I do believe that the protection and security of our country are important, however, it is preposterous to think that portions of the military budget could go to other necessary things like expanding the budget of our education system, medical and healthcare, energy and the environment and science.

During the tragedy of 9/11, this horrific event caused a spike in our military budget to occur in attempts to prevent the possibility of similar terroristic attacks from happening again. Fortunately since the year of 2011 our budget as slowly, but surely been decreasing. However, this could drastically have been reduced much sooner. Much of this money is spent unnecessarily, where it can be used towards problems in our countries internal affairs. As much as our country focuses on war and external affairs, I feel as though our country doesn’t take as much to recognize the value of the issues we face here on our homeland. Take our budget on science for instance, if we were able to double such spending we’d be able to come up with so many different innovations, and progress in our medical field to improve the lives and health of our citizens. This would be able to go hand in hand with if we were also able to add more to the budget of our medical and healthcare programs. Imagine the quality of life not only progressing, but also being more affordable for those in the middle and lower class and aren’t as fortunate to afford such health services.

As important as it is to protect, secure, and defend our nation, it is possible to do so without having to take away from such money that could individually help those in need of it. The health of our citizens is to our advantage to progress as a people and nation with more innovative and aware ideas.