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Week 1 Websites

Growth and Size of Government http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/03/the-impact-of-government- spending-on-economic-growth (Links to an external site.) Depending on how money is raised and spent by government can be one reason around the growth of government. Peters (2010, 9) discusses how a “displacement effect” can have an effect on this growth. Meaning money may be raised from increased taxes during a certain time for a certain reason but then the money is used for a totally different reason. When used by the government for new policies and programs this increases the size of government (2010, 9). This website is a paper discussing the different ideas that policymakers have on the increase of government size around economic growth. This is useful in seeing different views from different sized governments and the impacts for each.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/american-politics/the-2004-national- election/pressure-groups-in-america/ (Links to an external site.) Pressure groups have a significant part in the politics of America. As these groups state their needs and wants to the government such as special interest groups. Peters talks about a group in Germany that was even able to make themselves into a political group. Many of these groups ask for benefits increasing power within the government (2010, 11). This website helps to give distinction between pressure groups and political parties so to understand how they function. Pressure groups can work in conjunction with government giving way for more growth. These groups can obviously bring both a positive and negative aspects to government. Depending on what benefits the groups are asking for and how the government responds to any requests could change the way certain parts of the government are ran.

https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/unsustainable-entitlement-programs- continue-be-fiscal-threat (Links to an external site.) As more the generation retiring becomes bigger and bigger spending on entitlement programs such as health care grow more and more. This holds true with other groups as well, not just in terms of the entitlement program of social security. Peters discusses how some of these entitlement programs give a need for the growth of government as demographics change (2012, 8). It is not completely basic but as population grows so must the government with it. This website discusses how entitlement programs are forcing more debt onto the country, breaking things down according to how money is spent and the need for entitlement reform. Entitlement programs are broader than pressure groups so it seems as though the results of how these relationships work impacts a large amount of the public.

My classmate response is Kelly,

The article regarding entitlements and their fiscal threat was very interesting. The

growth rate of the government is matched by that of its expenditures and projected

debts. The call for entitlement reform by those in Washington is paramount to the

issue at hand. Entitlement programs such as healthcare and social security are

constituted at a high price especially when the public debt is already out of

control. The article also references the consequences of not dealing with the current

state of expenditure for these entitlements. This discussion fell perfectly inline with

the references made by Peters in this weeks reading. Nice selection.