Originally Posted by thommy

I wish you would know how to use a calculator

1. Since 1950 the american population went up from 150 million to 350 million (~ +125%)
2. Inflation and CPI went up from 1950 til today + 800%

so if in 1950 the amount was 80 billion and you simply add 125% more popupulation
you would have been already at 200 billion in 1950

if you add to this 200 billion inflation rate and CPI of 800% than you get to a total of 1,6 trillion.

and here you see that this costs went down and not up, you anti-genius.

and if you still not see it than set it in compare to GDP and you see how much the social spendings went DOWN !!!