On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future

ISBN-13: 9780765805751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 444 str.

Peter G. Peterson; Neil Howe

Opis

Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They are regarded as sacrosanct by lawmakers, yet many people see them as one of the greatest threats to the American Dream. This volume argues that by sacrifi cing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers

Spis treści

I: Posterity in Danger; 1: The Imperiled American Dream; 2: The Myths of Entitlements; 3: A Fiscal Nightmare; II: The Forces Driving the Projections; 4: Driving the Projections: An Aging Society; 5: Driving the Projections: Health-Care Hyperinflation; 6: Driving the Projections: Indexing; III: From Complacency to Reform; 7: Social Security: The End of the Chain Letter; 8: The Federal Pension Bonanza; 9: Health-Care Policy: Facing the Painful Trade-Offs; Conclusion; 10: The Failure of the Libertarian Welfare State

O autorze

Neil Howe