Homework assigned Wednesday and Thursday

Followup questions for homework for Wednesday and Thursday, NOT FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY LOOK TO THE PREVIOUS POST.:

1. Based on the budget making activity you worked on today, how would you argue that the Office of Management and Budget is a very powerful organization in the federal government?

Look at the budget pie chart (to the left) and answer the following questions:

2. What type of programs seem to be the highest spending priority for our government? (hint: the answer involves the colors blue, orange and dark red).

3. What kinds of programs do you think the category "Other Mandatory" refers to?

4. Is national defense important to our country? Argue using the evidence?

5. How important, relatively speaking, does the idea of helping the less fortunate in the world seem to be?

6. The yellow part worth 15.72% of the budget refers to non-discretionary spending. Use the internet to find out some examples of this.

7. If you could make three changes to this budget, what would you do, and why would you do it?