But it did little about the growth in Medicare, the single-biggest source of long-run spending.Mr Obama assumed entitlement reform would be part of a grand bargain in which Republicans also agreed to raise taxes.
Even if we assume that entitlements are reformed, the rising share of the elderly in the population, health care costs that grow faster than the rest of the economy, and American international obligations mean that revenue increases are required if the United States is to invest adequately in its future.
When asked if courts should not presume shared custody was best, Batty replied: "I don't think we should assume an entitlement of any parent".
It would be reduced sharply by any slowdown in the economy, and it assumes non-entitlement spending, including defense spending, will grow no faster than the rate of inflation -- a phenomenon that no sane person in Washington would believe.
When we claim the psychic space and set aside the personal time to pursue the knowledge and mastery of our Self -- when we assume the entitlement, the ability, and the authority to do so - we are able to access and transform our perceptions, our perspectives, our experience, our expectations, and, in the process, our entire reality.
Never assume your entitlement.
Institutions doled out easy money with an eye only to quick turnover and quicker profits; consumers assumed a foolhardy entitlement to material accumulation through debt.
Primarily used by the right to taunt the assumed preciousness and entitlement of the left, liberals have taken to returning fire with the very word used to attack them.
A point I've made repeatedly is that even if we simply assumed housing as an entitlement, we'd still need more of it.
Clearly Housing Benefit and Family Credit have a more serious "take-up" problem than Income Support, and this motivates our approach of modeling Family Credit and Housing Benefit programme participation but assuming Income Support entitlements are always received.
