Regarding your expenditure chart, most of that is infrastructure. Social infrastructure includes education, SS, Medicare, unemployment, etc. Ever see what happens in countries where there is no social safety net? Think the negative effects are isolated to the poor? The primary beneficiaries of “welfare” are the rich (and middle/upper-middle class folks) who get to move through society without bodyguards, armored cars, etc. and who don’t have to live in walled fortresses.[/quote]
CAR: I totally agree with the need for a social safety net, but many of the gubment policies are redistributionist in nature and have nothing to do with providing a safety net at all, but more to do with vote buying.
The GOP tends to vote buy through favoring their moneyed interests, with the common denominator that both parties tend to screw the middle class.
