A Nation of Moochers (34 page)

9
. Ibid.

10
. Rich Lowry, “Bourgeois Dignity & the Miracle of the Modern World,”
RealClearPolitics.com
,
December 3, 2010,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/03/innovation__the_miracle_of_the_modern_world_108143.html
.

11
. Deirdre McCloskey,
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 1.

12
. Aristotle,
Politics
2. 3. 1261b, translated by Benjamin Jowett as
The Politics of Aristotle: Translated into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885), vol. 1 of 2.

Chapter 20. Step Away from the Trough

1
. Kelly L. Ross, “Rent-Seeking, Public Choice, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma,”
www.friesian.com/rent.htm
,
http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov
.

2
. Chris Edwards, “A Plan to Cut Spending and Balance the Federal Budget,” Cato Institute, November 2010.

3
. Paul Ryan, “A Roadmap for America’s Future,” Budget Committee Republicans, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 2010.
http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/
.

4
. Olson,
The Rise and Decline,
73 (see chap. 2, n. 2).

5
. George Lightbourn, “It’s Morning Again in Wisconsin,”
WI Magazine,
Fall 2010.

Index

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ABC News

ACORN Housing

adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs).
See also
mortgage loans

ADM.
See
Archer Daniels Midland

Affleck, Ben

Affordable Advantage program

AFL-CIO

AFSCME labor union

agricultural subsidy programs

cost of

crop insurance and

disaster relief-based

favoritism in

meal programs tied to

necessity of

origins of

stigma associated with

Aid to Families With Dependent Children

AIG (American International Group)

collapse/bailout of

lobbying, political, by

Air Force One

American Enterprise Institute

American International Group.
See
AIG

Americans for Tax Reform

“A Nation of Moochers” (O’Rourke)

Andreas, Dwayne

antihomelessness subsidies

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)

Arends, Brett

Aristotle

ARMs.
See
adjustable rate mortgages

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlantic

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand)

AT&T

Bailout Nation
(Ritholtz)

bailout of 2008-09

AIG and

auto companies and

CDSs related to

Citigroup and

conflicts of interest in

Fannie Mae and

Freddie Mac and

General Motors and

Goldman Sachs and

for homeowners

lobbying ties to

mortgages, high-risk, and

precedents to

Balmoral Farming Partnership, Louisiana

Bank of America

bailout of

Bank of New York

Barro, Robert

Bastiat, Frederic

Beach, William W.

Bear Stearns

Beiter, Peter

Bell, California, public employees in

Bellwood, Illinois, public employees in

Bernanke, Ben

Biden, Joe

Black Swan
(movie)

Blanco, Kathleen

Boaz, David

Boden, Leslie I.

Boeing

Boomsday
(Buckley)

Boortz, Neal

BP oil spill

Bradley, Kiki

Buckley, Christopher

budget, federal.
See also
national debt

2007

2009

2011

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

corporate lobbying and

national debt/spending under

real estate bubble and

Caesar

California Highway Patrol

California Public Employees’ Retirement System

Carney, Timothy P.

on bailout of 2008-09

on corporate lobbying

Carter, Jimmy

Cash for Clunkers program

failure of

Cassidy, John

Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance

Cato Institute

on federal subsidy programs

on food stamps

on lobbying

CBO.
See
Congressional Budget Office

CDOs.
See
collateralized debt obligations

CDSs.
See
credit default swaps

cell phone subsidies

Census Bureau

Centennial High School, Pueblo, Colorado

Center for Responsive Politics

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CESI Debt Solutions

Challenger
(Space Shuttle)

Chicago Tribune

childcare subsidies

Christie, Chris

Chrysler, bailout of

Churchill, Winston

Cisneros, Henry

Citigroup

bailout of

Citizens Against Government Waste

City Journal

Civil Sidewalks measure (San Francisco)

Clinton, Bill

CRA under

Cloward, Richard

CNBC

Coalition on Homelessness

Coca-Cola

Coleman, James

collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
See also
mortgage loans

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

Concannon, Kevin

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

health insurance estimates by

national debt estimates by

Congressional Oversight Committee

Conrad, David

converter boxes, television

Cook, Ken

corporations.
See also
bailout of 2008-09

automaker

green initiatives for

lobbying, political, by

mortgage securitization by

pharmaceutical

subsidy programs for

tax credits for

CRA.
See
Community Reinvestment Act

Crane, David

credit default swaps (CDSs)

cronyism.
See
corporations

Daily Caller (web site)

Daily Mail

Daniels, Mitch

Dauphin Island, Alabama, flooding of

Davey family (Great Britain)

Davies, Gareth

De Boer, Nico

defaults, mortgage.
See also
mortgage loans

morality and

stigma associated with

strategic

DeHaven, Tad

Delphi

Dembe, Allard E.

Democratic Party

campaign donations to

dependency culture and

work ethic and

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Department of Public Instruction (Wisconsin)

The Detroit News

on corporate lobbying

on unemployment

disaster-relief subsidies

agricultural

flood-prone areas and

for Katrina, Hurricane

necessity of

Disney

Dole, Bob

Dole, Elizabeth

Donaldson, Sam

The Dream and the Nightmare
(Magnet)

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

fraud related to

qualification for

Edsall, Thomas

educational subsidy programs.
See also specific programs

for meals

student loans and

Edwards, John

Einstein, Albert

EITC.
See
Earned Income Tax Credit

Elman, Richard

Employee Benefit Research Institute

entitlements.
See
subsidy/entitlement programs, government

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

ethanol subsidies

EWG.
See
Environmental Working Group

Fair Credit Reporting Act

families.
See also
subsidies, parental

age of dependency in

deterioration of

middle-class penalization in

mooching by kids in

mooching by parents in

perpetuation of welfare in

Fannie Mae

bailout of

real estate bubble and

Federal Communication Commission

Federal Housing Administration

Federal Reserve Bank

bailout by

of Kansas City

Feldstein, Martin

FEMA, hurricane subsidies by

Fiano, Cassy