That bit about the daughter of a civil war veteran still drawing a combat pension 150+ years after the civil war is a crazy story! What a great bit of history!
Peter, your book review procedure is matched by none. Your questions are inquiring and concise. They always bring deeper dialogue and wisdom in the answers. Thank you. Only hope is that you are able to do them more often. Much wisdom to learn from the book Jedi.
Time and again, your highly *rewarding* conversations with the *most instructionally valuable* intellectuals manage to replenish the brain, reassure the heart and ground the feet. No other show induced me to buy the presented books like yours. They're lining up on the shelves, and reading them is a vivid experience, given that thanks to you I've got to know a bit about the great authors. Thank you for your invaluable service. My intellectual and spiritual loneliness is fading with each video.
Daniel Orloski thats not ignorant. Its distasteful at best. We have a system that essentially encourages teenage pregnancy and single motherhood. I work and go to school full time and some of tgese programs give out more momey than i make a month. There is a massive issue in urban communities where young people are taught to not take responsibility for themselves and make poor life decisions because they know they can live off the government for their whole life.
Dom Musilli You are not the one who decides who should have and how many babies. Those of us who want to see fewer abortions don’t have problems with pregnant women getting money. The babies will grow up into people who will contribute to the economy and it benefits the country (similar to how immigrants also help the economy by contributing to its growth). If some poor people don’t get help when they have children they’d be more likely to have them aborted.
It's good to know about the early pension programs to explain entitlement creep. But benefits to the military is really one of those few things that government has to take care of. It's a debt of the American people to her service members. Only the government can pay that debt. The new deal and onward is where social engineering reared it's repulsive head and we became truly lost.
thanksfernuthin I think they did a good job of delineating the two types of entitlements. There is a clear line between the two that could used to define a set of "okay entitlements"
I owe nothing to the veterans of unlawful, undeclared wars of aggression. I mean all the wars since 2004. You sign up, you take the risks, you do the unlawful killing, you take the pay, OK I get that. But please don't prance around telling me you're a hero. You're not. And I owe you not one damn cent. Deal with it.
@@mengoingabroad8576 As a ten year Army Veteran, I never heard any service member claim to be a hero, other than the fallen. But we sure as hell don't expect your derision. And last time I check, Congress and the President authorizes force, not the individual service member.
22:35 John Cogan] "The New Deal and the Great Society changed the nature of entitlements..." Yes, particularly from the Great Society on to today, the effective goal of social welfare spending and entitlements became to provide the *safety, security, and predictability* of a middle class lifestyle to people who were not productive enough to generate a middle class income. This scheme cannot work through entitlement spending because you *must* lower the lifestyles of the middle class in order to accomplish a lifestyle boosting of the entirety of the lower classes. In other words you make every one less safe, less secure, and society as a whole less stable and predictable. Only by improving the personal productivity of the poor is it possible to have them be able to afford the safety, security, and predictability of a middle class lifestyle. In other words we need to grow the middle class.
To me an entitlement is something you have earned. For example, I am entitled to live in my house because I bought it, but no on else is entitled to do so.
You are talking about Rights, this is financial entitlements. You have the Right to live in a house you inherited as well as one you bought. Who actually buys a house with cash? Most do not own a house until the mortgage is paid. The bank can sell your mortgage loan and loans can be called in. Eminent domain can take your house too and now so can civil forfeiture, the first is supposed to be paid while the latter is arbitrary and created more corruption. Never get too comfortable. "Entitlement" is a word and whatever definition is applicable as to the time of day it is used. Pre-Revolutionary War days British soldiers could move into your house as they pleased. The Bill of Rights forbids that but the times are a-changing, again. War vets that are disabled and racial disparity are two things the government has jumped in to "fix" thus destroying the free market system just as government's "fix" of the stock market which created The Great Depression which FDR "fixed". What you pay into Social Security will be paid back two years into retirement, after that it is welfare.
You are entitle to your house because you bought it. Are you entitle to the value of you house if and when you'll sell ? Suppose a public housing facility for the homeless is built near you. What are you going to do ?
Maybe I'm missing something, but Social Security Retirement isn't a handout paid to everyone over 65. It's paid for by our payroll taxes, which are not progressive. Granted, there isn't an exact match between what we pay in and what we get out, since the length of employment counts as much as the size of our salaries/wages in the calculation of our monthly benefit payments and because some of us live longer than others. The highest-paid people pay a smaller percentage of their salaries in these taxes, but partially as a result get benefits that are likely dwarfed by their pensions or compensation from other sources, and many of them feel that they are being cheated. It's true that some people receiving benefits from the government haven't paid in to receive them, and that this does indeed contribute directly to the deficit; SSI is such a program. But the real problem that we're facing now with retirement benefits is not the excessive generosity of the government, but the increasing ratio of retirement-age people to working-age people as a result of improving health and reduction of the birthrate, as well as the higher medical insurance costs for older people, motivating employers to lay off their more senior employees at ever earlier ages. Not all of these causes are problems in themselves, but those that are deserve to be looked at more carefully than they have been.
One factor not mentioned during this interesting discussion is that Social Security and Medicare are programs that require workers to pay insurance premiums throughout their careers for possible future benefits. Age requirements, premiums and income limits are variables that can and should be increased.
I disagree on the word entitlement when a soldier signs up he basically says he’s going to die for the country of needed I think that earns a little more respect than been: call entitlements
When will the US STOP sending 50 to 60 billion dollars yearly to foreign countries. It's called foreign aid. Billions of dollars are spent on legal and illegal immigration yearly. Social security is how I live and I'm very grateful for it.
23:10] The "strange ratchet" where entitlements grow during bad times as well as good. Congress discivered they could continuously gain power for themselves and their institution whether there was money or not by endebting the nation and making slaves of future generations who would grow up indebted to the very people who had made them dept slaves.
Hey, when a newly arrive people (legal or illegal) who are unskilled, have kids, are disable, and are over 66 years old, they will get entitled benefits accordingly. Unemployment, food stamps, disability, and social security, all of the persons will get the benefits.
Can you provide evidence where the illegal arrivals get entitled benefits such as unemployment, food stamps, disability, and social security. I suspect there are cases when they get them in some jurisdictions. But you’re suggesting that all illegal immigrants get them as a rule anywhere in the US, which is a complete lie. I immediately know you listen or watch conservative radio or websites because only they make this claim and don’t substantiate it.
This video is the most important videos that will show how we lost our fiscal responsibility to govern a modern state. Every congress person will get elected again and again so long as the entitlements continue. Accordingly, the revenues will not be enough to pay for the entitlements because of the continuing enrollments seeking those benefits. If the statistics prove to be true there will be no entitlement at or near 2050. We will have no monies to pay for those entitlements. Look to the countries that have no entitlements to find out what America will be like.
You know what the need to help the people through these entitlement programs is one of the best use of government spending that the national budget goes too. I really believe that a decrease in military spending can do a lot to alleviate the cost of these entitlements and to hopefully decrease are nationally deficit as well. These entitlement programs help both republicans and democrats. I understand that these entitlement programs are expensive but they are helpful to those in our nation most in need of help.
I give my largest patience to the writer. What I wanna say is he too much undermine the complicity of the human society and show very little empathy to human life tragedy. In human society, there are people who will work hard and be responsible no matter if there will be an extra reward like entitlement police or social welfare. This isn't a large number of the population but it exists. Meanwhile, there are amount of people who won't be able or motivated to work hard and be responsible regardless of the possible outcome is death or going to prison. Marriage which is the fundament to capitalism and morality of Christianity isn't justice. In China, the social welfare is significant low and the Medicare is very limited. What happened is people tried everything to make money and save money for their own sake, so they sell blood even their organs. The government encouraged capitalism, and to respond to that even prisons transfered into factory and executed prisoners are often became organ providers. Besides, young children from poor family have to started working before 18 in manufacturing industry which isn't reputed in a good working environment. Old people lost their income and without their children to help after getting sick lay at home to die. Children are dumped by their parents because of their genders or disabilities . Women who get pregnant go to abortion all the time if they are not able to afford without partner's help. Just because government takes free meet away from poor people won't protect the morality of Christianity. Poverty pushes people to do everything to survive in a capitalism society. Regardless of the efficiency of economic growth, capitalism itself is very cruel to humanity and that's why communism became popular in 20th century. Democratic political system may created huge amounts problems of debt. Criticizing the basic welfare like petition after retirement should not be existed is either ignorant or heartless. There is a fundamental question here : why is a country should grow economy? To China, there is a one reason called survival from poverty of largest population. To U. S, why economy should grow if everyone also had to struggle to survive like Chinese in the past with a much less population? What's the point of being a rich country if a huge amount of people lived in poverty without help under a democratic government? It's sad to see the book came out. The good intention stands to the mercy to humanity. Hope people could think of that a bit more.
Amy Wei exceptionally few Americans are truly impoverished (not thanks to the government), and those that genuinely need help can turn to charity and churches. It's entitlements that are slowly impoverishing the country. Not only that but capitalism evolved in a Judeo-Christian cultural substrate, so it shouldn't be assumed that it will translate perfectly elsewhere. Still, it's been the adoption of essentially capitalistic practices that has lifted a billion people out of abject poverty over the last twenty to thirty years in China and India alone. Yes people suffer. Still doesn't serve as an effective argument for government intervention.
Marxism spreads like wild fire because it tells people they are not responsible for their own life. It makes them victims of class, or nowadays victims of skin colour/gender/sex and then sets the groups against each other. This is a poison that slowly kills society. We are all individuals, and as individuals we are responsible for our own lives, we are not victims.
Amy Wei I think you’re correct and I agree with you. IMO he intentionally ignores the alternatives for the people who actually need them by immediately talking about people as statistics. AND he uses instances where people abuse the system to suggest that therefore the system itself is wrong or corrupt, which is false. Only brainwashed far right conservatives would say that all entitlement programs are bad. Ironically, a lot of people who do get government benefits are white people in the southern states.
Compared to military spending and the many complex inter related factors..this book serves as a highly convenient and selective approach to examining one set of government transfers. How do these guys end up teaching at such a reputable University. . .
Politics are loaded with debate. Another academic professor in the Ivy tower. Entitlements are complex. Let me tell you what's really happening. Corruption, greed, and the taxpayers paying the bill. After being drafted by LBJ, I was sent to Vietnam and blown up. I was put in a field hospital. Got shell shock too. Do veterans then pay for their own health care? So the history of Veterans is don't go. I keep telling people that the government has dealt with Veterans since the Revolutionary War. The Veteran Affairs know how to deny claims and had over 200 years. Haaa haaa these dudes have me rolling with laughter. I bet money these 2 dudes were never shot at by the enemy. Haaa haaa haaa. By the way. I earned, paid, and qualified for social security. I got cut on my maximum social security by 30% because I taught high school in Texas. Let's cut those tax subsidizing monies going to Stanford and especially the Hoover Institute. I'm calling my representatives today. Regards...
What's this obsession with marriage? THAT is the consequence of Entitlements? Surely the dead hand of government allocation of resources BEYOND poverty alleviation and the wrongness of taking unnecessary money from people that have earned it is the issue. Conservatism hits the rocks every time when they get into religiously inspired morality and the politics of the bedroom.
The best interviewer in the business. I adore Peter Robinson.
That bit about the daughter of a civil war veteran still drawing a combat pension 150+ years after the civil war is a crazy story! What a great bit of history!
Peter, your book review procedure is matched by none. Your questions are inquiring and concise. They always bring deeper dialogue and wisdom in the answers. Thank you. Only hope is that you are able to do them more often. Much wisdom to learn from the book Jedi.
Tim Morris couldn’t agree more . Well said
Time and again, your highly *rewarding* conversations with the *most instructionally valuable* intellectuals manage to replenish the brain, reassure the heart and ground the feet. No other show induced me to buy the presented books like yours. They're lining up on the shelves, and reading them is a vivid experience, given that thanks to you I've got to know a bit about the great authors. Thank you for your invaluable service. My intellectual and spiritual loneliness is fading with each video.
Stop letting the government become your baby daddy.
Make Videos Great Again what an ignorant comment. Many of these programs benefit the poor and the ill
Daniel Orloski thats not ignorant. Its distasteful at best. We have a system that essentially encourages teenage pregnancy and single motherhood. I work and go to school full time and some of tgese programs give out more momey than i make a month. There is a massive issue in urban communities where young people are taught to not take responsibility for themselves and make poor life decisions because they know they can live off the government for their whole life.
Dom Musilli You are not the one who decides who should have and how many babies. Those of us who want to see fewer abortions don’t have problems with pregnant women getting money. The babies will grow up into people who will contribute to the economy and it benefits the country (similar to how immigrants also help the economy by contributing to its growth). If some poor people don’t get help when they have children they’d be more likely to have them aborted.
It's good to know about the early pension programs to explain entitlement creep. But benefits to the military is really one of those few things that government has to take care of. It's a debt of the American people to her service members. Only the government can pay that debt. The new deal and onward is where social engineering reared it's repulsive head and we became truly lost.
thanksfernuthin I think they did a good job of delineating the two types of entitlements. There is a clear line between the two that could used to define a set of "okay entitlements"
I owe nothing to the veterans of unlawful, undeclared wars of aggression. I mean all the wars since 2004. You sign up, you take the risks, you do the unlawful killing, you take the pay, OK I get that. But please don't prance around telling me you're a hero. You're not. And I owe you not one damn cent. Deal with it.
@@mengoingabroad8576 As a ten year Army Veteran, I never heard any service member claim to be a hero, other than the fallen. But we sure as hell don't expect your derision. And last time I check, Congress and the President authorizes force, not the individual service member.
22:35 John Cogan] "The New Deal and the Great Society changed the nature of entitlements..." Yes, particularly from the Great Society on to today, the effective goal of social welfare spending and entitlements became to provide the *safety, security, and predictability* of a middle class lifestyle to people who were not productive enough to generate a middle class income. This scheme cannot work through entitlement spending because you *must* lower the lifestyles of the middle class in order to accomplish a lifestyle boosting of the entirety of the lower classes. In other words you make every one less safe, less secure, and society as a whole less stable and predictable.
Only by improving the personal productivity of the poor is it possible to have them be able to afford the safety, security, and predictability of a middle class lifestyle.
In other words we need to grow the middle class.
To me an entitlement is something you have earned. For example, I am entitled to live in my house because I bought it, but no on else is entitled to do so.
You are talking about Rights, this is financial entitlements. You have the Right to live in a house you inherited as well as one you bought. Who actually buys a house with cash? Most do not own a house until the mortgage is paid. The bank can sell your mortgage loan and loans can be called in. Eminent domain can take your house too and now so can civil forfeiture, the first is supposed to be paid while the latter is arbitrary and created more corruption. Never get too comfortable. "Entitlement" is a word and whatever definition is applicable as to the time of day it is used.
Pre-Revolutionary War days British soldiers could move into your house as they pleased. The Bill of Rights forbids that but the times are a-changing, again.
War vets that are disabled and racial disparity are two things the government has jumped in to "fix" thus destroying the free market system just as government's "fix" of the stock market which created The Great Depression which FDR "fixed".
What you pay into Social Security will be paid back two years into retirement, after that it is welfare.
You are entitle to your house because you bought it. Are you entitle to the value of you house if and when you'll sell ?
Suppose a public housing facility for the homeless is built near you. What are you going to do ?
Jim Buford I take it you don’t have kids?
Maybe I'm missing something, but Social Security Retirement isn't a handout paid to everyone over 65. It's paid for by our payroll taxes, which are not progressive. Granted, there isn't an exact match between what we pay in and what we get out, since the length of employment counts as much as the size of our salaries/wages in the calculation of our monthly benefit payments and because some of us live longer than others. The highest-paid people pay a smaller percentage of their salaries in these taxes, but partially as a result get benefits that are likely dwarfed by their pensions or compensation from other sources, and many of them feel that they are being cheated.
It's true that some people receiving benefits from the government haven't paid in to receive them, and that this does indeed contribute directly to the deficit; SSI is such a program. But the real problem that we're facing now with retirement benefits is not the excessive generosity of the government, but the increasing ratio of retirement-age people to working-age people as a result of improving health and reduction of the birthrate, as well as the higher medical insurance costs for older people, motivating employers to lay off their more senior employees at ever earlier ages. Not all of these causes are problems in themselves, but those that are deserve to be looked at more carefully than they have been.
I sent Cogan's book to Trump at The White House
One factor not mentioned during this interesting discussion is that Social Security and Medicare are programs that require workers to pay insurance premiums throughout their careers for possible future benefits. Age requirements, premiums and income limits are variables that can and should be increased.
I disagree on the word entitlement when a soldier signs up he basically says he’s going to die for the country of needed I think that earns a little more respect than been: call entitlements
When will the US STOP sending 50 to 60 billion dollars yearly to foreign countries. It's called foreign aid. Billions of dollars are spent on legal and illegal immigration yearly.
Social security is how I live and I'm very grateful for it.
This is insightful!
That ended on a very good uplifting note.
23:10] The "strange ratchet" where entitlements grow during bad times as well as good. Congress discivered they could continuously gain power for themselves and their institution whether there was money or not by endebting the nation and making slaves of future generations who would grow up indebted to the very people who had made them dept slaves.
This discussion certainly was a great means of introduction into the topic, and I look forward to reading this book as a result of it!
Every month!!!! I think I'm having an aneurysm.
well defined and illustrated the misuse of funds by the politicians?
social security is only an entitlement if you are drawing from it without paying into it for your working years, right?
Hey, when a newly arrive people (legal or illegal) who are unskilled, have kids, are disable, and are over 66 years old, they will get entitled benefits accordingly. Unemployment, food stamps, disability, and social security, all of the persons will get the benefits.
Can you provide evidence where the illegal arrivals get entitled benefits such as unemployment, food stamps, disability, and social security. I suspect there are cases when they get them in some jurisdictions. But you’re suggesting that all illegal immigrants get them as a rule anywhere in the US, which is a complete lie. I immediately know you listen or watch conservative radio or websites because only they make this claim and don’t substantiate it.
The Gipper baby! LOL
This video is the most important videos that will show how we lost our fiscal responsibility to govern a modern state. Every congress person will get elected again and again so long as the entitlements continue. Accordingly, the revenues will not be enough to pay for the entitlements because of the continuing enrollments seeking those benefits. If the statistics prove to be true there will be no entitlement at or near 2050. We will have no monies to pay for those entitlements. Look to the countries that have no entitlements to find out what America will be like.
You know what the need to help the people through these entitlement programs is one of the best use of government spending that the national budget goes too. I really believe that a decrease in military spending can do a lot to alleviate the cost of these entitlements and to hopefully decrease are nationally deficit as well. These entitlement programs help both republicans and democrats.
I understand that these entitlement programs are expensive but they are helpful to those in our nation most in need of help.
What % of entitlement program goes to immigrates
Fifty five percent of households I am not believing this
My name is Cogan
I give my largest patience to the writer. What I wanna say is he too much undermine the complicity of the human society and show very little empathy to human life tragedy. In human society, there are people who will work hard and be responsible no matter if there will be an extra reward like entitlement police or social welfare. This isn't a large number of the population but it exists. Meanwhile, there are amount of people who won't be able or motivated to work hard and be responsible regardless of the possible outcome is death or going to prison. Marriage which is the fundament to capitalism and morality of Christianity isn't justice. In China, the social welfare is significant low and the Medicare is very limited. What happened is people tried everything to make money and save money for their own sake, so they sell blood even their organs. The government encouraged capitalism, and to respond to that even prisons transfered into factory and executed prisoners are often became organ providers. Besides, young children from poor family have to started working before 18 in manufacturing industry which isn't reputed in a good working environment. Old people lost their income and without their children to help after getting sick lay at home to die. Children are dumped by their parents because of their genders or disabilities . Women who get pregnant go to abortion all the time if they are not able to afford without partner's help. Just because government takes free meet away from poor people won't protect the morality of Christianity. Poverty pushes people to do everything to survive in a capitalism society. Regardless of the efficiency of economic growth, capitalism itself is very cruel to humanity and that's why communism became popular in 20th century. Democratic political system may created huge amounts problems of debt. Criticizing the basic welfare like petition after retirement should not be existed is either ignorant or heartless. There is a fundamental question here : why is a country should grow economy? To China, there is a one reason called survival from poverty of largest population. To U. S, why economy should grow if everyone also had to struggle to survive like Chinese in the past with a much less population? What's the point of being a rich country if a huge amount of people lived in poverty without help under a democratic government? It's sad to see the book came out. The good intention stands to the mercy to humanity. Hope people could think of that a bit more.
Amy Wei exceptionally few Americans are truly impoverished (not thanks to the government), and those that genuinely need help can turn to charity and churches. It's entitlements that are slowly impoverishing the country. Not only that but capitalism evolved in a Judeo-Christian cultural substrate, so it shouldn't be assumed that it will translate perfectly elsewhere. Still, it's been the adoption of essentially capitalistic practices that has lifted a billion people out of abject poverty over the last twenty to thirty years in China and India alone. Yes people suffer. Still doesn't serve as an effective argument for government intervention.
Marxism spreads like wild fire because it tells people they are not responsible for their own life. It makes them victims of class, or nowadays victims of skin colour/gender/sex and then sets the groups against each other. This is a poison that slowly kills society. We are all individuals, and as individuals we are responsible for our own lives, we are not victims.
Amy Wei I think you’re correct and I agree with you. IMO he intentionally ignores the alternatives for the people who actually need them by immediately talking about people as statistics. AND he uses instances where people abuse the system to suggest that therefore the system itself is wrong or corrupt, which is false. Only brainwashed far right conservatives would say that all entitlement programs are bad. Ironically, a lot of people who do get government benefits are white people in the southern states.
Compared to military spending and the many complex inter related factors..this book serves as a highly convenient and selective approach to examining one set of government transfers. How do these guys end up teaching at such a reputable University. . .
Politics are loaded with debate. Another academic professor in the Ivy tower. Entitlements are complex. Let me tell you what's really happening. Corruption, greed, and the taxpayers paying the bill. After being drafted by LBJ, I was sent to Vietnam and blown up. I was put in a field hospital. Got shell shock too. Do veterans then pay for their own health care? So the history of Veterans is don't go. I keep telling people that the government has dealt with Veterans since the Revolutionary War. The Veteran Affairs know how to deny claims and had over 200 years. Haaa haaa these dudes have me rolling with laughter. I bet money these 2 dudes were never shot at by the enemy. Haaa haaa haaa. By the way. I earned, paid, and qualified for social security. I got cut on my maximum social security by 30% because I taught high school in Texas. Let's cut those tax subsidizing monies going to Stanford and especially the Hoover Institute. I'm calling my representatives today. Regards...
Dr. Fastestinthewest "ivory tower"
What's this obsession with marriage? THAT is the consequence of Entitlements? Surely the dead hand of government allocation of resources BEYOND poverty alleviation and the wrongness of taking unnecessary money from people that have earned it is the issue. Conservatism hits the rocks every time when they get into religiously inspired morality and the politics of the bedroom.