what are five important responsibilities or duties of all U.S. citizens?

Question

I need help i seen several answers but none of them made any sense to me

Answer 1

The first responsibility of a US citizen is to exercise all your freedoms granted to us by the Constitution. Speaking your mind and participating in the electoral process, things like that, will help EVERYONE as a citizen keep their rights. Use what are your rights as often as you can... This way, it would be harder for someone to take them away from us. If we just sit back and let the government and other people speak for us, we start to lose that free speech, the right to participate.

Second... Vote. That kinda falls under "participation" and "speak your mind", but it's also important enough to deserve its own "bullet". The people are the government, and you affirm this every time you fill out a ballot.

Third... Pay your taxes. The government runs on money its citizens pay. We need money to keep libraries, schools, prisons open, money to fund police and fire departments, money for public transportation. Once you stop paying your taxes, you're crippling your neighbors.

Fourth... Well, this is my opinion, but I think one duty is to support the people in the Armed Forces. I don't care if you don't like war, or you don't like the politicians in government, but these sailors, soldiers, airmen, they're volunteering so you don't have to. Without them, the draft could have been reinstated long ago. And they're doing a sworn job, a duty to you as an individual. They're simply carrying out orders, some of them might not like the war, either, but they're still working to get the job done. It's called sacrifice.

Fifth... This is another opinion, I guess, but I can't think of a good fifth responsibility/duty. I'd say that the fifth duty of a U S citizen is to keep the homeland clean (environmentally). I see litter, trash everywhere in this city, I know it's not like that for all cities, but it's just added pollution that no one benefits from. That falls under helping care for your neighbors, because everyone is affected by garbage littered along the streets and parks.

Answer 2

The US has hands-down the most expensive health care in the world. For the first five years your family will be paying out of pocket for everything, including her health carre needs, and when she finally becomes eligible for Medicare, you'll have to pay part of the premiums since her monthly SSI stipend won't be enough, and Medicare doesn't cover everything anyway. There are co-pays and limited coverage for some treatments and medications. The days when naturalized citizens and dual citizens could immigrate their elderly parents here and dump them on the government as public charges vanished with welfare reform in the 90 s. Getting an all-expenses-paid retirement is no longer an option. If you want to provide your mom with a higher standard of living, your choices are 1) sponsor your mom and be 100% responsible for all her living expenses the first five years and mostly responsible the rest of her life since her modest SSI benefit won't even cover her Medicare premiums; or 2) send your mom a few hundred dollars every month, which will go a lot further in Belarus than in the US. Your choice, your responsibility.