In the letter, Reding asks member countries to find out whether Apple might be failing to notify customers of their "automatic and free-of-cost entitlement to a minimum two-year guarantee under EU law".
In the future, the cost of entitlement programs will balloon as 78 million baby boomers age.
As well as the cost of entitlement, they should consider the morality of keeping people on benefit.
Everyone agrees that the unconstrained growth in the cost of entitlement programs poses a long-term threat to federal solvency.
But there is a way for this country to get more from the millions of jobs we already finance with federal dollars, while reducing the cost of entitlement programs.
But he seems most energized when he discusses the ballooning cost of entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, and what he calls a need for more fiscal responsibility and less government in Washington.
It will call for deep spending cuts again in 2012, chart a path to reducing the deficit and slowing the growth of the accumulating national debt, and grapple with the politically volatile issue of reining in the cost of entitlement programs, starting with Medicaid, which provides health coverage for the poor.
So where does that support go?" In some ways, this should be an exciting year for an eager budget-cutter like Johnson: there seems to be a growing appetite, especially among Republicans, for proposals to sharply reduce the cost of entitlement programs.
The cost of entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security is racing ahead, at the same time that the federal government is ladling out dollars to fight the recession and collecting less in tax revenue because of the recession.
The total, $4 trillion, is the minimum reduction that many economists say is necessary to stabilize the growth of the nation's debt at a time when the population is aging and health care costs are rising, driving projected costs to entitlement programs to unsustainable levels.
Although we need to reduce health care costs, the entitlement expansion that Democratic lawmakers are proposing would only increase health care subsidies and push costs further upward.
