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Brought to you by defense spending congress most reactionary budget

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measures Yeah All right All the following are true about

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entitlements Except what and hear the potential answers me man

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down All right Ever since fdr shook up the political

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landscape during the new deal americans have felt pretty entitled

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to certain things from their government Let's see what exactly

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is driving the inflation of our bureaucratic ego is a

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social security and entitlement program Well it sure is Social

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security which provides monthly retirement benefits Toe workers makes up

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about twenty five percent of the budget We sure which

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we had a quarter for every time someone asked us

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that question What about b medicare Well medicare which was

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part of lbj's great society agenda is an entitlement program

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that provides health care for the elderly along with medicaid

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and the children's health insurance program which provide health care

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for low income individuals These health insurance and tattle on

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programs make up around twenty percent of the budget every

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year It's a lot of room for healthy debate Do

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see entitlements fall under the category of mandatory spending The

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federal budget has two major areas discretionary spending which is

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up to surprise surprise the discretion of lawmakers and then

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we have mandatory spending which congress is forced to spend

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even if they don't want to spend it they have

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to entitlement programs fall into that mandatory category since benefits

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promised toe eligible individuals are pretty non negotiable E entitlements

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represent more than fifty percent of all federal spending Well

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let's say we're up to forty five percent with social

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security and those health insurance programs but they're also benefits

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for federal retirees and veterans wants another eight percent plus

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there's unemployment insurance food stamps and other safety net programs

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well that's another twelve percent right there though the entitlement

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glasses weigh more than half full which means the government

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does not d spend more on defense than on entitlements

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even though defense counts for about twenty percent of discretionary

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spending each year That's only a third as muchas is

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spent on entitlements which account for over sixty percent of

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the budget So d is that correct answer Because discretionary

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spending on lee makes up one third of the budget

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each year advocates for defense spending really have tio stick 00:02:28.028 --> [endTime] To their guns in order to guarantee their funding

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