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Public policy must empower rather than enable

Deseret News - (7/17/2011)

As national lawmakers have debated raising the national debt ceiling above its staggering $14.3 trillion legal limit, the consequences of entitlement spending--which currently accounts for more than 60% of the federal budget--loom large. Recent publications show that entitlement programs now account for a whopping 35% of wages, up from 21% just nine years ago and 8% fifty years ago. Those claiming that economic growth can be sustained without changes to this acceleration of entitlement expansion are simply wrong.

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