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Loretta Said:
What would happen in the USA if the government suddenly stopped funding social support programs?We Answered:
Noyes
Maybe, maybe not
Legal immigration would not change.
SS and medi are not social, they are paid for by the people that use them.
Welfare, Medicaid are social. people getting something for nothing.
Erica Said:
what are cons of the government funding space programs?We Answered:
Corporate Media Likes Corporate Welfare but notHandouts to the Poor
In Spinoff 1994, a publication by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Commercial Development and Technology Transfer Division, an exciting crossbreed between a helicopter and a plane, called the XV-15 tiltrotor research craft, is photographed stunningly in mid-flight. The tiltrotor is exhilarating because as a viable candidate for service as a shorthaul commuter transport, it could relieve air traffic congestion at major airports by operating from small, near-city 'vertiports'. This is good news for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company. They anticipate having a $5-7 billion dollar annual market share in tiltrotors by 2010.
This is because NASA--which has already paid for the research and development on the tiltrotor and tested it---plans to give it to Boeing. This transfer between public and private industry is called Spinoff at NASA. According to Spinoff 1994, a glossy, 132 page yearbook-style advertisement for the process, "There have literally been tens of thousands of spinoffs. Collectively, they represent a substantial return on the nation's investment in aerospace research. Frequently they spark formation of new companies and thereby create new jobs; they generate lifestyle innovations and solutions to pressing public problems; and they have a stimulating influence on the national technological process, hence make [sic] a valuable contribution to the U.S. economy."
Spinoff is also a favorable term for what is actually corporate welfare. The corporations receiving them freely charge the public what they can for this high-tech technology. The taxpayers, by funding NASA's research and paying for technological advances (a.k.a. brain power) are taking all the risks. The largest profits go to the major shareholders and CEO's of the receiving organizations. The taxpayer, they say, also gains by seeing lower prices in the marketplace. However, those who make these arguments frequently ignore the long-term reality that large, well-connected corporations tend to receive government handouts more quickly than smarter and more deserving competitors who could better utilize the subsidy.
This partnership between the public and private industry--the very converse of 'free-markets'--is widespread in the U.S. The principal purpose of the Pentagon, "radical" (and frequently censored) critic Noam Chomsky maintains, is to provide high-tech subsidies to privileged corporations under the guise of protecting our national security. Yet, the mainstream media continues to criticize welfare as if it only meant payments to the poor.
For instance, in late January the Times-Mirror owned Baltimore Sun ran a series entitled "The Disabling of America" that focused on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program of Social Security. The series implied: 1) that fraud permeates SSI, and 2), since fraud exists, this program should be dismantled under the new Congress. At no place in the articles (and don't wait for it to come in the new year) was any sense of realistic perspective attached. There was no mention that instances of outright fraud in the military is probably tens of thousands of times more prevalent and costly than what was uncovered about SSI. Also, if SSI has flaws it can be reformed. The chilling contention that it must be immediately liquidated ignores the enormous hardships this will cause the families with severely disabled children that SSI is primarily intended for.
In addition, when Labor Secretary Robert Reich spoke out against corporate welfare the Sun put it in quotes. They wrote: "[Reich] put congressional Republicans on notice today that the administration was ready to take on what he called 'corporate welfare', some $111 billion in tax breaks handed out to American companies (11/22/94)." From this, the Sun would have you believe that either corporate welfare doesn't really exist--or that Reich alone has coined the term. Neither is true. (This is a subtle and very unhealthy form of propaganda by the Sun. Noam Chomsky believes that the U.S. has more propaganda in its media than do even societies ruled by dictatorships!)
In summary, the increasingly centralized mainstream media is trying to minimize the importance that corporate welfare (seen from high tech subsidies and elsewhere) plays on creating our national deficit. The focus of the coming spending cuts is always on what government and private elites want to hear. It is on reforming welfare for the poor and disabled, dismantling the arts endowments, cutting foreign aid, eliminating national service, etc.--all worthy programs that every industrialized society maintains in one form or another.
There is a good Video on this topic called Star Wars Returns
which can be found by doing a google video search on Star Wars Returns.
I found the link to the film. It's only 28 min but very educational.
Here is the link...
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Julie Said:
Should We Stop Government Funding of the US Military?We Answered:
And it never gets called "big govenment" even though the Pentagon and all related programs are HUGE! Nearly half of our discretionary budget goes to military expenses in one form or another.Katie Said:
Government funding Safe Sex/Abstinence programs. Opinions?We Answered:
i advocate governmental funding of programs that teach safe sex and provides information about all forms of birth control, including abstinence. i've handled lots of paternity cases in court, and was continually amazed the the overwhelming ignorance of folks, especially teens, regarding sex and procreation. girls sincerely believed they could not get pregnant the first time they had sex! were they surprised 9 months later... Raging hormones, ignorance of the facts of basic human procreation, susceptibility to peer pressure, individual insecurities that make it difficult to say"no" -- i think all these things are the ingredients for disaster if teens are not armed with complete and adequate information to make informed choices . i wish we could also teach self-respect and responsibility (the inevitable result of unprotected sexual activity) but that is probably beyond the 6 hour school day. i certainly think abstinence should be discussed, both in terms of birth control and in terms of the emotional consequences of early sexual activity. but i think it is extremely unlikely that abstinence only sex education is adequate. too many children having children.Annette Said:
What are the different funding programs available from government for businesses?We Answered:
The governement provides various programs for businesses. I am not fimilar with all of them the one I know the most about id the programs through the SBA ( Small Business Association). They provide a variety of programs from start up assistance (money or grants), getting your Employer Identification Number (EIN) through making money with your busniess. They offer plans for women owned businesses, business that hire minorities (8a and Hubzone are their names) The offer programs for government contracting, how to bid jobs for the governement etc. I have found that they are the most comprehensive of all the funding programs that the government offers. They make it easy for you to get started and they also have plans in place that monitor your business progress, like audits, regular how are doing etc. They do have ceilings on governement contracts though if you make a profit of more than 5 million od government jobs they do subject to a complete detailed financial audit. If you do choose to go that way make sure your paper work is in order like all bid and contracts documented and progress payment recorder properly, becuase the catch here is that you can not bid another governement job until the audit is complete. The website for the SBA is www.sba.gov. I hope this helped and I am sorry that I didn't know more about other government funding programs.