Ultimately, this game leads to a fiscalcrisisofthe welfare state as the political dynamic stimulates an insatiable appetite for forcibly taking resources from other people to be allocated from the center to satisfy political demands.
In testimony before the House Budget Committee Feb. 9, 2011, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blew the whistle on these projections when he endorsed large spending reductions and fessed up that unless Congress cuts spending dramatically there is no way to grow our way out of a looming fiscalcrisisofthe welfare state.