A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic

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In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one among our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the last fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. These days, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy- to- read, four color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, the whole thing from medicare to disability payments.  But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic.   He powerfully argues that whilst this spending surely drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real,long-lasting, negative affect at the character of our citizens. 
Also included within the book is a response from one among our leading political theorists, William Galston. In his incisive response, he questions Eberstadt’s conclusions in regards to the corrosive effect of entitlements on character and offers his own analysis of the affect of American entitlement growth.  


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