The Growth of Entitlements

I was reading the comments section to this Royson James article, wherein he points out that Ford obviously lied about how he could find a billion dollars worth of "gravy" at City Hall and eliminate it without having to cut services. As a result of his threatened service cuts and library closings, some of the people who voted for Ford feel betrayed.

Obviously, the anonymous comments section was full of nonsense, but a couple of Ford-fellators wrote words to the effect of how the growth of entitlements and government spending has finally reached the crisis point: there's simply no more money to pay for all our demanded ponies and sugar-plums anymore.

I hear this from time to time, and it's an especially common refrain among the US-American right-wing.

But it's complete bullshit.

I've been watching spending and services being cut for decades people, and I've been watching politicians cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations for all that time. But for these guys, it's eternally 1972 and the welfare queens are calling out for, and getting, all the "free stuff" from the hard-working white people.

You don't debate with these people because they're either liars or abominably ignorant.