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4 Government Regulation

Government Expenditures
The federal government spends most of its money on defense and social programs. A chief source of this spending is on specialized departments and agencies that provide a wide range of services. Crime control would be an example.

Government Deregulation
Deregulation

removes government rules from businesses and the economy to create a more free marketplace. Businesses claim that deregulation makes the economy more productive and efficient.

Government Regulation
Government

regulation refers to the government stepping in to help the American citizens. The government regulates food, the airlines, protection of the environment, and many other ways.

FDA (Food and Drug Administration)

The

FDA is responsible for the safety regulation of most types of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics.

The FDA is responsible for the nutrition facts of food.

Labels the FDA forgot to add

Upton Sinclairs, The Jungle

The

Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. This novel showed the harshness of the working conditions for the common worker. Many people claimed wage slavery because of the low pay and horrible working conditions.

Jungle was a novel written in 1906 by

There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and whiteit would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but aman could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put

poisoned bread out for them, they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together. This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shovelled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw onethere were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some

jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale waterand cart load after cart load of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast. Some of it they would make into "smoked" sausagebut as the smoking took time, and was therefore expensive, they would call upon their chemistry department, and preserve it with borax and color it with gelatine to make it brown. All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound. ...

Sinclair said he aimed for the hearts of Americans, but hit the stomach.

The Jungle opened the eyes of many to the dangers of factories to workers.

Department of Health and Human Service (HHS)

Center for Disease Control (CDC) part of the Department of Health and Human Services that concentrates specifically on disease threats. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". Its annual budget is over 20% of the states total budget.

Center for Disease Control (CDC)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a US federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Georgia. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations.

Transportation
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is a cabinet agency that sets regulations for all public carriers. The DOT includes the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which works to ensure the nations transportation system meets acceptable safety standards.

Department of Transportation (DOT) The North Carolina

Department of Transportation plans, constructs, maintains, and operates the North Carolina transportation system. The system includes aviation, ferries, buses, railroads, and highways. The Transportation Department also licenses drivers and registrar motor vehicles.

National Transportation Safety Board

National Transportation Safety Board makes sure the nations transportation system is safe and conducts investigations on transportation accidents.

Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV )

The DMV is a statelevel government agency that administers vehicle registration and driver licensing.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

An independent U.S. government regulatory agency responsible for overseeing all interstate and international communications. The FCC acts to maintain standards and consistency among the ever-growing types of media and methods of distribution, while protecting the interests of both consumers and businesses.

FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

The

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of the airlines in the U.S.

Environmental Protection

The

government has agencies with the sole purpose of protecting the environment.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

The

Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and with safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land. The EPA began operation on December 2, 1970, when it was established by President Richard Nixon.

Air Quality in America

The Meltdown at 3 Mile Island

It

was a civilian nuclear power plant located on an island (Three Mile Island) The plant is most well known for being the site of the worst civilian nuclear accident in United States history when in 1979 TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown.

The Meltdown at 3 Mile Island

What if Homer Simpson ran a nuclear power plant near you?

 It

gained widespread infamy after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker, captained by Joseph Hazlewood, hit Prince William Sounds Bligh Reef in Alaska and spilled an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. This has been recorded as one of the largest spills in U.S. history and one of the largest ecological disasters.

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

This is the Drunk that we can blame for the largest ecological disaster in American history!

BP Oil Spill
The BP oil spill was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed constantly for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to seep. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum. The explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others. 90-180 million gallons spilled!

National Security
Other federal agencies oversee national security. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deals with threats from foreign countries. The Department of Homeland Security combats terrorism. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services controls immigration and naturalization, or the process by which aliens become citizens.

Affirmative Action
Affirmative

action refers to policies intended to promote access to education or employment aimed at a historically socio-politically nondominant group (typically, minorities or women).

Many white men claim that Affirmative Action is Reverse Discrimination

FEMA & Katrina

The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is part of the Department of Homeland Security and assists with disaster relief such as a hurricane.