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Episode 52: Why Does Government Keep Expanding?

Words & Numbers

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The Debate Over Social Security

The government is spending so far beyond its means that to balance the budget, you pretty much have to shut down everything else. James Carville: Largely in this country, we've stopped talking to each other. The more we keep battling each other, voter versus voter, the more leeway we give the two parties to keep expanding the therapeutic and security states," he says.

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