It suffers from an entitlement and group-rights problem, to which the individual immigrant plays sorry hostage.
Also, spending is well entrenched with most of the revenue spent on entitlement programs and defense.
Everyone shares the challenge of changing our business culture of entitlement into a culture of merit.
Even after decades of Inside-the-Beltway entitlement talk, very little has registered with real people.
Meanwhile, Democrats jealously guard their entitlement programs while Republicans maintain fealty to their mandate on taxes.
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No one will see a certain future until we seriously engage the problem of entitlement reform.
It ends a major federal entitlement program, one that dates from the New Deal.
This sense of entitlement is crucial to understanding why people misbehave in high office.
There is every reason to think ending the Medicaid entitlement will have similar positive results.
And what that means is Democrats have to accept the need for entitlement reform.
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In addition to military spending, Bush put in place the Medicare prescription drug entitlement program.
So they're not getting what they say they want -- no tax reform, no entitlement reform.
The deal contained no framework for deficit reduction, entitlement reform or systematic reform of military spending.
This represents the entitlement burden for the next 75 years, discounted back to 2004 dollars.
The new, emerging Republican consensus regarding entitlement reform and social safety nets reflects precisely that.
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The age level entitlement for Social Security needs to be raised a couple of years.
Much of the push-back I received indicated, in my opinion, a sense of entitlement.
Especially given the looming entitlement crisis, this poses heavy danger for businesses and families alike.
The majority of such arrangements are informal and the families have no automatic entitlement to support.
We know that the policy prescription will require spending cuts, revenue increases and entitlement reforms.
That's a pretty reasonable, middle-of-the-road, common-sense approach to both tax reform and entitlement reform.
Today he favors entitlement reforms that are phased in gradually and don't affect current retirees.
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This relies on projections by government agencies on budget deficits, public debt, and entitlement spending.
Entitlement reform, tax policy and revenue-drawing energy programs are all subject to non-budget related congressional battles.
But Mitt Romney chose the road less traveled, by addressing the entitlement state head-on.
Serious reform of entitlement programs is critical to any fiscal plan that is to be successful.
Part D is the most cost-effective and successful entitlement program the federal government runs.
It should appeal politically to legislators given that it freezes, but does not cut, entitlement spending.
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President Obama shows no sign of being willing to put entitlement reform on the table.
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Rather, it was the perception that LeBron and the Heat lacked humility while exuding entitlement.
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