TY - BOOK ID - 135563571 TI - A nation of takers : America's entitlement epidemic PY - 2012 SN - 1283692031 1599474360 PB - West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press, DB - UniCat KW - Entitlement spending UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135563571 AB - In A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country's foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government's total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy- to- read, four color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, eve ER -