Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
While the actual behavior of a government depends on the political system of the particular state, including the presidency term, whether or not the system is one of democracy or dictatorship, etc., the goal of a government should rightly be the wellbeing of the citizens of the country. The prompt recommends that governments should concentrate on solving the current problems before considering the long-term ones. I mostly disagree with this statement, and will elaborate from three angles.
First, while advocating for policies that improve the immediate well-being of the citizens may well promise a successful political campaign, it should NOT be the ONLY thing a government focuses on when it is serving the term. In countries where a democratic political system exists, voters choose their preferred political leader based on their own biases. It is human nature to tend to focus on current or short-term issues, the ones that have already caused obvious pain points, and put off the long-term issues, the ones that may cause great pain but not until in the future. A leader should know better than just quenching the thirst of his people. He or She should possess the vision for the future, plan strategically and implement policies that could ensure the sustainable prosperity of the country, as well as anticipate dangers that may be on the horizon, and carry out preemptive actions to prevent them.
Secondly, even if we take a thousand steps back and agree that the government should mainly spend its resources on solving the immediate problems, there would be disparity between what “immediate problems” are from the perspectives of an upper-middle-class and of the lower class. The former may worry about their children’s education or want extra paid leaves, while the latter struggles to afford the next meal and is most concerned with survival. Without siding with any particular sector of the population, it is almost impossible for the government to determine which problems should be assigned with higher urgency and thus higher priority. The scale of the problem and the social value in solving the problem should be evaluated as well as the level of immediacy.
With the above being said, I think a government that does focus on SOLVING problems, whatever types of problems they might be, already puts itself in the category above the other governments that are run through dictatorships and cater to their own profit. But this does not put the problems of today in comparison with the problems of tomorrow. One still cannot say the problems of the future are of less value than the problems of today.
In summary, it is hard to agree on what the “immediate problems” are to start with, let alone it is harder to argue that the problems of the future should wait after the problems of today are solved. Although we appreciate a government that solves problems in general, we would not want to go so far to suggest that the government should focus on solving the problems of today rather than trying to solve the problems of the future.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 131, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...r state, including the presidency term, whether or not the system is one of democracy or dicta...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, while, i think, in general, in summary, as well as, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 52.1666666667 142% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2584.0 1977.66487455 131% => OK
No of words: 511.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05675146771 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83349730861 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 212.727598566 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497064579256 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 780.3 618.680645161 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 20.1344086022 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.9043550325 48.9658058833 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.0 100.406767564 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0588235294 20.6045352989 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.47058823529 5.45110844103 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.370826828071 0.236089414692 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124128546346 0.076458572812 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0950994383784 0.0737576698707 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222300103729 0.150856017488 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108268388008 0.0645574589148 168% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 11.7677419355 148% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 86.8835125448 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.0537634409 139% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.4 Out of 6.0
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