#entitlement

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#clear #country #created #entitlement #facing

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us. ↗

— Randy Hultgren

#conservative #entitlement #experience #lead #leadership

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. ↗

— Alveda King

#agenda #crippling #economy #entitlement #entitlement programs

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

#afraid #after #budget #called #done

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed. ↗

— William Vickrey

#developed #entitlements #firms #given #gross

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. ↗

— Scott Walker

#bargaining #clear #collective #collective bargaining #debate

When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected. Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both. Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#culture #entitlement #harassment #hypersexualization #rape

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#entitlement #opposite

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#bankrupt #entitlement #essentially #federal #federal government

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. ↗

— Richard Perle

#forfeits #government #national #national sovereignty #obligation