America’s Dependency Crisis: How Entitlements Are Replacing Freedom
Conservative Politics & News: The P.A.S. Report
Release Date: 11/17/2025
America’s Dependency Crisis: How Entitlements Are Replacing Freedom
Conservative Politics & News: The P.A.S. Report
America is becoming a nation built on government dependency rather than self reliance, and the shutdown exposed just how deep the crisis goes. In this episode, Professor Nick Giordano breaks down the explosive growth of entitlement programs, the expansion of Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8, and ACA subsidies, and the hidden mechanics of how millions of illegal immigrants access public benefits through household eligibility rules and state funded programs. He exposes the fraud, waste, and abuse costing taxpayers billions, and connects it to the catastrophic failures of a one point four trillion...
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info_outlineAmerica is becoming a nation built on government dependency rather than self reliance, and the shutdown exposed just how deep the crisis goes. In this episode, Professor Nick Giordano breaks down the explosive growth of entitlement programs, the expansion of Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8, and ACA subsidies, and the hidden mechanics of how millions of illegal immigrants access public benefits through household eligibility rules and state funded programs. He exposes the fraud, waste, and abuse costing taxpayers billions, and connects it to the catastrophic failures of a one point four trillion dollar education system that produces students who cannot read, write, or understand their own country. This episode challenges everything you think you know about freedom, responsibility, and the future of America, and explains why a dependent people cannot remain a free people.
Episode Highlights
- How entitlement programs evolved into a massive dependency scheme that now reaches 127 million people
- The truth about mixed status households, imported dependency, and the real cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers
- Why a $1.4 trillion education system is failing and how this failure fuels long term government dependence
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Timestamps
- 00:52 The Government Shutdown: A Political Theater
- 03:11 Dependency on Government: A Growing Concern
- 06:00 The Rise of Entitlement Programs
- 08:48 The Impact of Dependency on Society
- 12:01 The Evolution of Welfare Programs
- 14:57 Fraud and Abuse in Entitlement Programs
- 17:45 The Role of Immigration in Dependency
- 21:07 Education Crisis and Its Consequences
- 23:50 The Future of American Freedom
- 29:54 A Call for Self-Reliance
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