... Over the next ten years we will spend a truly staggering $13.796 trillion dollars on NET M/M, NET SS, and MANDATORY Income Security outlays ($8.953, $1.802, $3.041, respectively).
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And the nature of this spending is direct cash payments to individuals, not for hours worked, services rendered, materials or products, but as an Entitlement. No other form of government spending is as anywhere near as likely to be used for vote pandering or outright graft and corruption.
Since the beginning of Liberalism in the early 1900s, the ratio of Entitlement Spending to non-Entitlement spending has grown exponentially, and with its increase the standard of living of the common taxpaying non-government worker compared to the common "Public Servant" has plummeted.
When government spends money on a public work, such as a library, bridge, hospital, jail, park, school, or laboratory, individuals can and do profit from the spending, but only by participating in the construction or operation of such faculties. But, in any moderately well run and overseen project, the public at large receives the majority benefits of having those facilities and services.
In direct cash payment Entitlements, One Person is the direct beneficiary, well, until you look at the ratio of funds consumed by the bureaucracy employed to distribute the cash....
If you want to see why Liberals support Entitlements, simply follow the MONEY. And they've got the gall to state with a straight face that Wall Street is Greedy!
While I do understand the threat of the "Vast Military Industrial Complex", that threat is dwarfed by the threat of the
"Colossal Entitlement Redistribution Bureaucracy!"
Again, on average, since the great society program increases of the 1960s, the spending on Entitlements compared to all other
Spending has been 4X or greater.
And that spending is like a ratchet, good economic times or bad, the Entitlement Spending goes up when it can be afforded or crisis justified, but it NEVER goes down.
Military spending has always gone up and down on semi-predictable cycles, as it SHOULD!
It is the challenge of our generation to insure that
Colossal Entitlement Redistribution Bureaucracy will also be expected and required to have significant cycles of growth and reduction.
Unrestrained exponential growth of any population, including Liberals, will always end in starvation, chaos and collapse. In that collapse, the rest of America will die with them.
