The Obama campaign last week unveiled a new interactive feature supposedly showing how a fictional girl named “Julia” would benefit from President Obama’s policies over the course of her lifetime. The result was an ode to government dependence and a celebration of the cradle-to-grave welfare state. In the Obama campaign’s script, Julia enrolls in Head Start as a toddler, uses government student loans, gets Obamacare subsidies throughout her working life, and lives off Social Security and Medicare in old age.
Noticeably absent from the presentation was any mention of the mounting debt that the nation’s welfare-state obligations would impose on Julia, or the massive spending for which she’d be on the hook if nothing is done to change course. It’s worth taking a moment to fill in the blanks.
