The Entitlement Culture in One Picture

The chart below shows how fast government payments have expanded over the last 30 years. Now ask yourself which of these two explanations is the more likely:

A. The portion of the population that just can't survive without government assistance is 60% higher than it was in 1983.
B.  Incumbent politicians realized that creating a very large class of government dependents enhances their reelection prospects.





Won't life be grand when that number reaches, say, 90%? When we can all sit around the table passing money to each other while the House takes a cut?