1. United states Ireland Vs By: KarLee Runyon

2. Barack Obama (United States)  The typical length of a presidential term is four years.  A president can be re-elected once after serving to make for a total of eight years in office.  You must be 35 years of age.  You must be born in the united stares and lived in it for at least 14 years. Michael D. Higgins (Ireland)  He was elected.  The people of Ireland can have the length of 2 years. But they can serve 7 years.  The candidates for election must be eligible to become President and must be nominated.  To be eligible for election as President, you must be an Irish citizen and over 35 years old.  You may be nominated as President by at least 20 members of the Oireachtas (that is the Dail and the Seanad ) or by at least four local authorities.  The election must take place by the date on which the current President's term of office expires but may not take place more than 60 days before this. If the current President is removed, becomes incapacitated, resigns or dies, then an election must be held within the following 60 days.  The Presidential election is by secret ballot and based on proportional representation by the single transferable vote.

3. Barack Obama (United states)  House represenitive (435)  Senate (100)  Bicameral Michael D. Higgins (Ireland)  Seanad (senate) they have 60 members.  Dáil Éireann (house of deputies) they have 166 memebers.  Bicameral.

4. United States  Does the United States have freedom of speech and press? Yes.  Does the United States have freedom of religion? Yes.  Does the United States have the right to bear arms? Yes. Ireland  Does Ireland have freedom of speech and press? ?Yes.  Does Ireland have freedom of religion? Yes.  Does Ireland have the right to bear arms? Yes.

5. United states  two party system  Democrat and Republican  Democrat is the donkey symbol.  Republican is the elephant symbol. Ireland  They have multiparty system.  Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Fein.  Democrat republican

6. United states  In addition to possessing US Citizenship you must be at least 18 and registered to vote, and not be a convicted felon.  Election Day is the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, so that date will be between November 2nd and November 8th. Congressional elections are held every two years (the term of election for the House) and Presidential elections every four years. Ireland  Elections are held ever five years.  You have to be 18 to vote. You just have to vote for qualifications.  The next Irish general election must take place no later than 8 April 2016.

7. United states  They do charge on income tax.  They put tax on good and product the try to sell to make money.  Our government builds buildings for people to work in to make money.  Military- 680 billion dallars  Education- 62%  Healthcare- 17.7% Ireland  There are two rates. They are 20% and 41% for their taxes.  By giving more jobs to the poor, and lowering taxes, and making smart decisions for their country.  Military– 1,302 since 2011  Education– 105% since 2011  Healthcare- 9.3% since 2011

8. United states  Characteristics of offenders vary from the average for specific types of crimes and specific crimes. In terms of violent crime by gender, in 2011, 80.4% of arrested persons were male and 19.6% were female.  Males were 88.2% of those arrested for homicide, while females were 11.8%.  Among those arrested for rape in 2011, males were 98.8% and females were 1.2%.  For property crime in 2011, 62.9% of arrested persons were male and 37.1% were female. Ireland  Using statistics from 2012, the Irish examiner has found that Dublin is Ireland’s crime capital with an average of 789 offences per 10,000 population.  That figure far exceeds the national average of 532 offenses per 10,000.

9. United states  According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2011 – about 0.94% of adults in the U.S. resident population.  Additionally, 4,814,200 adults at year-end 2011 were on probation or on parole.  In total, 6,977,700 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2011 – about 2.9% of adults in the U.S. resident population. Ireland  Historically, Ireland has enjoyed an extremely low rate of imprisonment. Recently, however, there has been considerable growth in the prison population.  The prison population in Ireland per 100,000 inhabitants is just under 94.  There are currently 14 prisons operating in Ireland with a total bed capacity of 4,106 as of 31 December 2009.  The daily average number of prisoners in custody in 2009 was 3,881.  On 25 January 2011 the prison population stood at 4,541.

10.  First, Ireland and America are different. Ireland’s relatively tiny size, both in terms of population and geographic area, has myriad consequences. In particular and despite recent improvements, infrastructure here just can’t be compared to what exists in the United States. Of course, the reality that Ireland was never an economically prosperous country until quite recently is also to blame for deficits in infrastructure. Both because of a paucity of funds in the government coffers and because a significant percentage of the population could be counted on to emigrate, what was regarded as sufficient government investment in roads, public transit, health care and school building historically has proven inadequate to meet the needs of Ireland in the twenty-first century  Moreover, the reality that Ireland is an island country with a limited population means that the cost of goods and services is inevitably going to be higher than in the continental United States.