Sentence examples for big entitlements from inspiring English sources

This would call for draconian changes in the big entitlements.

In federal dollars, excluding those from the three big entitlements, his suburban district ranked last in Michigan, but its family income ranked first.

Even when the three big entitlements were excluded and money from other programs was considered, the 16th District's $732.6 million ranked 13th.

An ageing population and health-care inflation are inexorably driving up the cost of the country's three big entitlements: Social Security (pensions), Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the elderly and the poor, respectively).

With big entitlements off the table, the spending cuts Mr Boehner wants would have to come from discretionary spending, which includes defence, or smaller entitlements such as food stamps, federal-employee retirement benefits and farm subsidies.

Deficit hawks are proclaiming Social Security one of the big entitlements that has to be cut in order to reduce the budget deficit.

Others called it another big entitlement program.

Cool heads in both parties know that the big entitlement programmes, which grow automatically, need fixing.

In 2003 he signed into law the first big entitlement in years, the prescription-drug benefit.

The Democrats refused to consider structural reforms to the big entitlement programmes (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security).

The $2.5 trillion in cuts would exclude the military, and would not touch the big entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security.