With both entitlement programs, the age eligibility requirements would gradually go up.
Here's a summary of where things stand: The president called for a new budget deal that would include both entitlement cuts and new tax revenue.
His campaign had centered around his hawkish foreign policy as well as his advocacy for both entitlement reform and immigration reform.
In 1990, that idea was dumped and replaced with a device known as "pay-go," which required both entitlement increases and tax cuts to be paid for.
What went down in the Land of Lincoln is just the reductio ad absurdum of an American era where both entitlement and corruption have been the calling cards of power.
There's a similar idea about death and movies swirling in "The Canyons," most obviously with the figure of Christian, an avatar of both entitlement and entertainment who's solely interested in making pornographic home videos, not actual movies.
At least, it makes no sense if we are trying, as most feminists hoped, to find a way to deliver both sexual freedom and freedom from sexism, both entitlement to pleasure and resistance to exploitation, abuse and market commodification of women's (and nowadays men's) sexual passions.
The whole debt-ceiling farrago has demonstrated just how difficult it will be to achieve significant medium-term consolidation incorporating both entitlement cuts and tax increases given America's truly dysfunctional political system.But, like my colleague, I doubt that a credit downgrade would be disastrous.
Wall Street is jittery; though the stockmarket rallied when the deal was announced, by the end of August 2nd the S&P 500 had tumbled to a seven-month low.In theory, the joint congressional committee that must find the next tranche of cuts could embrace both entitlement reform and an increase in taxes.
The committee can do this by looking at both entitlement reform and raising revenue and will have until Nov. 23 to finish its deliberations.
