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Purposes of Government
Purposes of Government: What does your government do?
1. Maintaining Social Order
To keep the peace within a state by preventing people from fighting
After Wisconsin upset Kentucky in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament Saturday night, there was a riot near Kentucky’s campus in Lexington
A limousine was set on fire and some buildings damaged during the protests in DC
Far-right rallies in Charlottesville have met resistance from locals and anti-racists
2. National Security
Protecting the United States from external threats
As of May 2017 the U.S intelligence has listed these as our biggest threats to national security
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html
http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-facts-what-is-kim-jong-un-capable-of/news-story/9ffcaf27e513004c651853bec3c36707
The aim of ISIS to overthrow all existing governments in the Muslim world and replace them with their own, and later, to attack the West from a position of power to spread their ideology to all of humanity
al Qaeda pose an existential threat because they accelerate the collapse of world order, provoke domestic and global trends that endanger American values and way of life, and plan direct attacks against the U.S. and its partners.
3. Providing
Public
Services
Supplying citizens with goods and services that they could not provide for themselves
Is that Mr. Burns?!
Public transportation: below is the bus routes throughout Milwaukee WI
What happens when funding gets cut for public services?!
https://medium.com/westwise/in-their-own-words-national-park-service-explains-impacts-of-crippling-cuts-in-trumps-budget-ea6d19f420fd
4. Making Economic Decisions
Making choices that involve money and commerce (business)
Budget
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/trump-budget-cuts-programs/index.html
Where is this? Why would the government need to help make decisions here?