One of the reasons we are in the debt and deficit troubles we face now is because, over at least a century, we have shifted priorities from civil rights to economic rights. Both have always been important, but the idea that government must provide for economic “rights” has led us to incur massive current and future.costs. This video explains the difference between civil and economic rights and how we got here. We reference a video we did about Milton Friedman’s 4-quadrant money/spending matrix and you can view that video here.