Friedberg estimates nearly half the US population receives government paychecks, pensions, or welfare benefits.
“Today, if you add up federal, state, local government employees, plus all the contractors for the government, plus all the people that live off of a retirement check or or a welfare support check, so all the people that are living off government checks, it's about nearly half The US population.”
Friedberg claims more than half of Americans rely on government income making spending cuts democratically difficult.
“And so it's become very difficult because a majority of the population is receiving benefit or living from some sort of government flow of capital,”