Using the pie chart in your reading, what percentage of our total tax dollars is used by the federal government to fund the Social Security and Medicare programs?

32.42% or $1.15 trillion

Explanation:

Working with the Pie Chart of Federal Government expenditures from the fiscal year 2010(figure is attached as an image), we have the following:

Total expenditure = $3.55 trillion,

Social security (sector) = 19.63% or 0.1963,

Medicare (sector) = 12.79% or 0.1279

Social security + Medicare (sectors) = (19.63 + 12.79) % = 32.42%

Together, Social security & Medicare account for 32.42% of the Federal government's total expenditure

Amount spent on Social security & Medicare = Sector percentage * Total expenditure

Amount = 32.42% * 3.55 * 10¹² = 0.3242 * 3.55 * 10¹²

Amount = $1.15091 trillion

Amount ≈ $1.15 trillion

Therefore, Social security and Medicare account for about $1.15 trillion of the total expenditure

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)