The flames from Greece's debt crisis protests have cast new light on the perils of our own overspending and overborrowing. You know the litany. California is imploding. Public sector unions there, and across the country, are swallowing budgets. In California alone, pension costs have gone up 2,000 percent in a decade. At the national level, ObamaCare has done little to fix -- and much to hurt -- America's long-term entitlement mess. Already, America's structural deficit has tripled since 2007. Economist Price Fishback has just published a paper finding that America spends more on social welfare than socialist Sweden (though we...
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In a Welfare State, How Much is 'Enough'?
The illegals, the lazy, and the indolent ought not be fed, housed or medicated on my dollar.
Let the bleeding hearts take up their cause privately, and pay for it out of their own pockets. I owe it to no man to walk his walk for him; I've got enough to do taking care of my own.
Well, a gal can dream, can't she...?