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| community policing (Mario V) | is a joint effort of the law and the community to recognize problems of crime and wrong doing in a specific community. It is important because it clearly demonstrates a collaboration between the law and the common people. |
| Equality of opportunity (Mario V) | is where all people under the constitution are seen equal, with the same opportunity to succeed. This view is color blind as well as sex neutral in that all people are seen as equal. It is important because now in schooling, work, and every other institution cannot favor a certain race, religion, sex, etc. |
| Equality of results (Mario V) | is the view that race, sex, sexual orientation must be made apparent in schooling and work, etc it must make certain that the minorities are hired in order to assure all people get a same life ending. It is important because it brings a counter view to the equality of opportunity, suggesting we should give preference to certain demographics. |
| Natural Rights (Mario V) | are unalienable rights that we are born with; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/property. We may never have them taken or given up. It is important because it insures our living principles. |
| Equality of condition (Mario V) | We are all given equal conditions for all social groups to attain same results in the end. It is important because it helps create diversity and allows all to live equally. |
| Budget | A document that states tax collections, spending levels, and the allocation of spending among purposes |
| president-OMB (Office of Management and Budget) | The OMB estimates the amounts spent by the federal governments and deals with the department budgets. The president submits the budget and the OMB creates the budget the president submits to Congress. |
| Congress-CBO (Congressional Budget Office) | The House and Senate budget committees study the budget after receiving an analysis from the CBO and proposes a budget resolution. After each committee approves its appropriations bill and Congress passes it, it goes to the President for his signature. |
| Bureaucracy-GAO(Government Accountability Office): | Supports the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and help improve the performance and ensure accountability of the federal government. |
| Entitlements | (A claim for government funds that cannot be changed without violating the rights of the claimant.) Two-thirds of what the government spends is mandatory including Social Security, Medicare payments, and food stamps. |
| Deficit | A deficit occurs when an entity spends more money than it takes |
| Debt | Is that of which is owed, usually referencing assets owed |
| Interest on the Debt | the cause of capital on a loan or other debt obligation |
| Hatch Act | United States ferderal law whose main provision is toprohibit federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity |
| Logrolling | the exchange of support of favors,sep. by legislators for mutal political gain as by voting for eachothers bill's. |
| Entrepreneurial Politics | A pollicy in which almost everybody benifits and a small group pays the cost. |
| Policy Entrepreneurs | Activits in or out of goverment who pulls together a political majority or behalf of an unorginized interests. Is someone who is usually active in the fields of either politics or busniess who finds a new political project, group or political party. |
| Gross Domestic Product | is the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year, equal to total consumer, investment and goverment spending plus the value of exports, minus the value of imports. |
| Process Regulation | is basically rules governing commerical activities made to improve consumer,worker or enviromental conditions |
| Earned Income Tax Credit | a refundable tax credit; it is means tested, and designed to encourage low-income workers and offset the burden of U.S. payroll taxes. For tax year 2009, a claimant with one qualifying child can receive a maximum credit of $3,043. A claimant with two qualifying children can receive a maximum credit of $5,028. The credit is expanded for tax year 2009 and 2010. For claimants with three or more qualifying children, the maximum credit is $5,657. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings can also claim a child as their qualifying child provided they shared residence with the child for more than six months of the tax year. However, in tie-breaker situations in which more than one filer claims the same child, priority will be given to the parent. A foster child also counts provided the child has been officially placed by an agency or court. |
| Isolationism | The views that the United States should withdraw from world affairs, limit foreign aid, and avoid involvement in foreign wars. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. |
| containment | a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to temper the spread of Communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect". |
| disengagement | The political disengagement of young people is a common theme across many of the mature democracies. One element of this disengagement is a cluster of characteristics and proclivities that might be termed “political inattentiveness.” This inattentiveness among the young comprises three key elements: low levels of political knowledge, a relative lack of political interest and inattention to politics in the media. |
| human rights | Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. |
