周末閑讀: George Will @WP: "Mugging our descendants"

As you know, he is from conservative side but not a crazy one. In this article, he even cited the criticizing of republican party:

“The growth of entitlement spending over the past half-century has been distinctly greater under Republican administrations than Democratic ones. Between 1960 and 2010, the growth of entitlement spending was exponential — but in any given year, it was on the whole over 8 percent higher if the president happened to be a Republican rather than a Democrat. . . . The Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush administrations presided over especially lavish expansions of the entitlement state.”

and some new features of entitlements:

 in 2011, 8.6 million were — more than four times the number of persons receiving basic welfare benefits under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Nearly half of the 8.6 million were “disabled” because of “mood disorders” or ailments of the “musculoskeletal system and the connective tissue.”

the entile article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-slouching-toward-disability/2012/10/26/2befb014-1ec3-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html?hpid=z3