That would include the various handout and subsidy programs that the author is talking about. Did you read the first sentence of the article?
"The largest threat to our prosperity is government spending that far exceeds the authority enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution."
I hope you're not calling the author a leftist. He's making the same point as you.
The author is identifying the same problem as I, but he focuses on the wrong result, debt, as the most important issue which is what the Left does. But, no, I don’t think the author is Leftist
Here’s my shtick on this.
Dr. Williams identifies a major if not the major cause of our rogue government, but he misses the bigger result - not a “debt crisis” but a freedom crisis”. The Left, the cause of our rogue government and its disastrous results, loves to scream about the big debt as insurmountable.
But huge government debt is solvable as it has been in the past. The “insurmountable” mentality comes from those who cling to the idea of the eternal life of unconstitutional and wasteful government bureaucracies.
Yes, federal entitlements are all almost without exception unconstitutional. The Constitution, the creator of the federal government, does not delegate such entitlement power to the feds. This entitlement monster was created by the likes of deceitful Leftist politicians like FDR who by the steady steam of Lying Leftist demagoguery and a citizenship not willing to stand up against such lying power grabs have hijacked our Free Constitutional Republic.
Nevertheless, the answer to the debt and the bigger issue, our freedom, is solved by dismantling these noxious bureaucracies and the rest of the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government with its noxious and lying “entitlements”. Easily said, almost impossible to do, right? Well, America’s birth was also “impossible”. How could a bunch of rag-tag colonists defeat the greatest military power in the world? But by the Divine Providence of Almighty God, it happened and America was birthed.
Likewise, by the grace of God, we will once again recover our Free Constitutional Republic. Recovery and maintenance of freedom requires faith. We need, and I think we will get, a new spiritual awakening that will turn hearts to God once again and away from depending on man and his miserable government. We will once again be an INDEPENDENCE and free people.
It’s not primarily a “debt” crisis, it is primarily a constitutional crisis.