All governments - big or small - only seem to have ever learned how to ADD... they can never balance a budget... They never cut ANYTHING out unless forced to do so... If they have a SURPLUS... they immediately vote to spend said surplus on some program or other... and that program has future costs which are never addressed.
It's like building roads.... they have an ongoing cost to maintain etc. THAT part is never in the original projections etc.
According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government. Many are enrolled in more than one. That is about a third of the entire population of the country. Sadly, that figure does not even include Social Security or Medicare. Today the federal government runs almost 80 different “means-tested welfare programs”, and almost all of those programs have experienced substantial growth in recent years.
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