Category · 6 postsSocial Spending
All posts in the automatic “Social Spending” category, newest first.
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April 3, 2020
Now We Know Why!
Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
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December 31, 2017
Happy New Year. It’s Infrastructure Time!
In the 1800’s, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, with little government oversight or involvement, spent his life building transportation and financial infrastructure that made him possibly the…
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August 7, 2016
Feral Cats, Hardwood Floors, Guns, or Butter (6/12/2011)
Originally published 6/12/2011 · republished 2016
The classic “guns or butter” dilemma concerning use of federal tax revenues (and borrowed money) suggests a choice between spending on national defense or welfare.…
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August 1, 2016
Universal Basic Income: Next Big Thing
The item below is from the August 1, 2016, Time Magazine. Search “universal Income” and you will find recent much longer articles from The New…
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July 1, 2016
Our Commitment to Social Benefits: More than a Tithe (10/28/2013)
Originally published 10/28/2013 · republished 2016
Sometimes it helps to provide some historical context for currently observed phenomena. The chart below shows total federal, state, and local social benefit spending for…
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July 1, 2016
FDR and Granny’s Outhouse (12/22/2014)
Originally published 12/22/2014 · republished 2016
My grandparents, Oscar and Ezalee, Hobart and Bessie, were born in 1895, 1895, 1897, and 1898 respectively. Their children, three sisters in the first case…
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