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
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The cost of rent everywhere is so high, it is nigh impossible for most people to be able to sustain themselves without something like a Section 8 Housing Voucher. You can't even make it by living modestly and saving up money for a house or a car.
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