“Entitlements” are Bankrupting the USA

The thing that’s unleashed the federal leviathan the most since our founding is the concept of entitlements. In 1933, the modern entitlement state was born in the form of the federal government’s first and most expensive income transfer program: Social Security. In the 1960s, LJB launched the Great Society, creating a whole new menu of entitlement programs, chief among them Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Once created, these redistribution programs were virtually impossible to restrain.

Glenn Beck, Arguing With Idiots, pg.208