Our government is doing a bad job.

Most notably 500 Million dollars went to see why five year olds can't sit still.ADHD affects 11% of U.S children, and often hinders their ability to learn, read, and communicate. Research into this field is very good, as it helps children become better adults. Not to mention that the 500 million in research money accounts for only .14% of the Federal Budget, and only 2% of CHIP (The department that fund this kind of research) funding. Also 42.7 billion in defense cuts were made in the sequester which is actually 7.9 percent of the overall budget. Pro has misunderstood me. The cuts I was talking about where from the 2013 to 2014 budgets, and had nothing to do with the sequester. And dare I mention operation north woods, where it was planned to make a fake attack on US soil for an excuse to have a Cuban intervention? That was in 1962. We are debating the current government and its policies, not the government of 51 years ago. The wars were partially to protect American oil interest. If anything, those wars hurt American oil interest by causing chaos in the Middle East. The chaos reduced oil production dramatically. The U.S imported 298 million barrels of oil from Iraq in 2001, but after the intervention, the oil imports have averaged out to about 190 million per year. One and a half trillion dollars for some plane crashes and threats.The 1.4 trillion dollars were not spent on "some plane crashes and threats." They were spent on moving millions of U.S soldiers almost half way across the globe, then housing, supplying them with firearms, ammo for firearms, clothing, leaders, transport, and food. That's an expensive thing to do. An EMP devastating the country and killing a large portion of the population in one year.It is highly unlikely that a country will make a EMP attack on America, as we have to many allies that won't allow such event to go unchecked. Any country that attempts such an attack would be destroyed as well. No one except North Korea would be crazy enough to do this. And even if North Korea did, it lacks the large scale weapons to take out the entire country. Iran is a serious threat, and Russia has just agreed to let them have a nuclear reactor, making them full nuclear capable. Iran has stated multiple times that its nuclear program is merely for power, and hasn't shown evidence otherwise.Though the US currency has imaginary value, it has no real value since it lost the gold standard. All currency has imaginary value, its bits of money and paper that we give value to. And as I stated earlier, the U.S currency does have value. I want to know what this mystical "gold standard" that you continue to use as justification for your arguments. As far as playing nice goes, we should work in the interest of our country, not backing down to seem polite.We do work for the interests of our country, but we can't go around demanding that every other country does things the way we want them to. Again, we have to be a responsible member of the international community. Sources:http://www.digitalsurvivors.com...http://en.wikipedia.org...http://math.about.com...http://healthland.time.com...http://kidshealth.org...