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Taxpayer-funded social welfare spending has massively increased across the US since the 1950s, not just in absolute terms, but as a share of GDP:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

Yet you still blame lack of social welfare spending for the deterioration in conditions.

[naijaboiler]

This is a disingenuous comment. Between social security and Medicare, most of this social surrendering is just taking care of old folks

[ETH_start]

The old folk population has not grown nearly as rapidly as social spending, so your response is what's disingenuous.

Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), TANF, SNAP (food stamps), Head Start, WIC, LIHEAP, and EITC didn't exist in 1950, and now they do. Society is vastly more social democratic today than it was then.