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I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
Allen West / Former United States Representative
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Angry
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Community
Entitlement
Entitlement Programs
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Motivated
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Social Welfare
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Truth Is
Welfare
Washington
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Mammoth
Out-Of-Control
Politically
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Supposed
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
George Will / Columnist
Aging
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Bolts
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Crisis
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Driven
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Looming
Market Crash
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Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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Stock Market
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We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
Bill Haslam /
Entitlement
Entitlement Programs
Investment
Programs
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Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.
David Limbaugh / Author
Eggs
Entitlement
President George W Bush
Reform
Social Security
Begin
Acknowledged
Both Parties
Bush
Commitments
Democrats
Discussions
George
George W
George W. Bush
Hanging
Heads
Nest
Parties
Ridiculed
Seniors
Social Security Reform
Sword
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Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
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Entitlement
Grandparent
Hundred
Medicare
Obamacare
Obligation
President
President Obama
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Sixteen
Billion
Billion Dollars
Grandparents
Greatest Threat
Sacrificed
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President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.
Kellyanne Conway / Strategist
Entitlement
Promise
Senior
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Conversely, conservatives assume that humans are fundamentally lazy and prone to immorality. In this view, the entitlement system coddles and rewards laziness. This cynicism spills over into their view of government and government 'bureaucrats.' It also spills over into their political tactics.
Krystal Ball /
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The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.
Michael J. Knowles /
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Entitlement
Forefathers
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Rights
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Earned
Inherited
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
Harold Ford, Jr. / Former United States Representative
Discipline
Entitlement
Long Term
Ought
Spending
Spending Cuts
Tax Cuts
Tax
Bringing
Cuts
Mouth
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The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.
George Lopez / Comedian
Entitlement
Me People Will
Me People Beginning
Flag
Me Beginning People
Upsets
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Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.
Juan Williams / Journalist
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Bunch
Concern
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Deficit Spending
Entitlement
Fringe
Independent
Outrage
Party
Self Destructive
Spending
Tea Party
Voters
Capturing
Elections
Swing
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Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.
Ben Sasse /
Independence
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Debt
Dependency
Entitlement
Names
Offspring
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Dole
Politicians
Leave
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Generational
How Many People
Instead
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Unsustainable
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While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.
Fred Upton / U.s. Representative
Entitlement
Focused
Medicaid
Needs
Overlooked
Program
Reform
Restraint
Spending
Taxes
Conservatives
Increasing
Preserve
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I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
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Entitlement
Tax Reform
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I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
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Compromise
Entitlement
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Privilege
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In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform. If not, Trump will not only become part of the Washington status quo on the issue, but will leave burdensome and expensive problems for future generations.
Katie Pavlich / Journalist
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Deficit Spending
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Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to address these problems by funneling more taxpayer dollars into this flawed program. President Barack Obama's health plan follows this logic.
Scott Gottlieb /
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Barack
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Flawed
Logic
Medicaid
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Taxpayer
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When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.
Henry Paulson / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
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Climate
Climate Change
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Economic
Entitlement
Entitlement Programs
Found
Grandchildren
National Debt
Better Shape
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Run
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Costs
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Hand
Off
Programs
National
Shape
Unsustainable
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Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.
Reince Priebus /
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Demand
Efficient
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Long Term
Social Security
Spending
Taxes
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Budget
Calls
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No Desire
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Tackle
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Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.
Jeffrey St. Clair / Journalist
Entitlement
Prestige
Thinking
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On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who voted against President George W. Bush's fiscally bloated No Child Left Behind education bill and hyper-expensive Medicare prescription-drug bill. He said he would not support new middle-class entitlements. He was consistent.
Lawrence Kudlow / Economist
Consistent
Economic Policy
Entitlement
Bloated
Budget
Building Block
Fiscally
George W
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I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Entitlement
Tickets
Athletes
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This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.
Chris Christie / Governor Of New Jersey
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Citizens
Country
Entitlement
Political
Rising
Spending
Standards
Steps
Tax System
Years
Tax
Deliver
Exactly What
Fails
Political System
Price
Rein
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Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.
William Vickrey / Nobel Prize Winner
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Would Be
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When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.
Scott Weiland / Musician
Communicate
Entitlement
Developed
Sold
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But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.
Antonio Villaraigosa / Former Mayor Of Los Angeles
Entitlement
Issues
Pension
Program
Seniority
Taken
Tenure
Thinking
Address
Budget
Democrats
Extend
Reinvest
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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie / Governor Of New Jersey
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Country
Demand
Entitlement
Lying
Sacrifice
Ahead
Biggest Challenge
Lies
Thinks
Truths
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I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but that it's his right and privilege - the apparent ease with which he handles black characters, fully aware that he's been criticized for that, too.
Michael Chabon / Author
Ease
Entitlement
Evident
Fascinated
Privilege
Tarantino
Apparent
Big Fan
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
Carly Fiorina / Executive Officer
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Choices
Conversation
Entitlement
Long
Ought
People
Thinking
Alternative
Together Long People
American People
Engage
Solution
Table
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A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
Amy Chua / Professor
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Children
College
Entitlement
Gratitude
Hey
Humility
Responsibility
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The Democrats and Republicans need to come together. I've criticized Democrats for their unwillingness to address entitlement reform and Social Security and Medicare. Republicans, on the other hand, never saw a tax that they liked, even when it meant closing tax loopholes. They don't want to in any way support any revenue enhancements.
Antonio Villaraigosa / Former Mayor Of Los Angeles
Closing
Entitlement
Loopholes
Medicare
Reform
Revenue
Social Security
Criticized
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
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You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle / Politician
Jobs
Government
Available
Citizenry
Entitlement
Spoiled
Unemployment
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey / United States Senator
Entitlement
Length
Medicaid
Scream
Social Security
Spending
Great Done People
Great People Will
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Profoundly
Reductions
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Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.
Robert Nozick / Philosopher
Entitlement
People
World
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