The Liberal Establishment's Theda Skocpol- America, Not Germany Lead The Way With The Welfare State: Because of Civil War Pensions The U.S. Outspent Germany

The liberal establishment's Theda Skocpol of Harvard reveals a little known fact about the Welfare State. The United States was, sadly, the leader. Go to the 12:30 marker of the video. Civil War pensions were the foundation of the American Welfare State.