Where Is Our Debt Coming From?
Posted By Conn Carroll On January 5, 2010 @ 11:49 am In Entitlements, Taxes & Spending | 45 Comments
Spending. As Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Brian Riedl explains, runaway federal spending is where our historic levels of debt are coming from. Watch:
And as Reidl mentions, as fast as spending has been rising this century, thanks to our long term Entitlement [1] obligations, our spending and deficit problems will only get worse:
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[1] Entitlement: http://www.heritage.org/LeadershipForAmerica/entitlements.cfm
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