A government has a responsibility to its citizens to ensure their safety Therefore some people think that the government should increase spending on defence but spend less on social benefits To what extent do you agree

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the safety of the its citizens. Due to this, some people believe that governments should increase the defence budget and decrease the spending on social benefits. To a large extent, I agree with this view, the reasons for which will be enumerated in this essay.

Firstly, by increasing defence budget governments can ensure that their citizens are living in peace and harmony. This is because spending more on defence will improve the quality of military infrastructures and it will also equip the soldiers with high quality weapons. The benefit of this is that, foreign countries will think twice before attacking their neighbours. For example, the aggressive nature of the Chinese soldiers at the Indian border has deceased nowadays, and this is mainly due to the better infrastructure of the Indian army. So, it is evident that increased defense budget will ensure the safety of citizens.

However, I believe that the defense spending should not be at the expense of social benefits. This is because, today there are many people around the globe, who largely depend on the state in areas of health care and education. These people are able to live peacefully because of the subsidies and amenities provided by the governments. Also, it helps to narrow the inequality gap between the rich and poor in the society. For instance, a recent survey found out that around 80% of the people are dependent on government subsidies. So removing these subsidies will cause problems such as, economic instability and social unrest.

In conclusion, I believe that defence spending to thwart the aggression of unfriendly neighbours is as important as providing assistance to poor citizens through various social benefit schemes.

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Average: 9.1 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19860627178 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75475151808 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540069686411 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.8191001299 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4666666667 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1333333333 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327286001036 0.244688304435 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111362471907 0.084324248473 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105952563604 0.0667982634062 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203483534249 0.151304729494 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0927655961764 0.056905535591 163% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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