Information will change minds, but for those who don't read and think the sea change will occur when Congress is forced to default on entitlement obligations for Social Security and Medicare because it won't end the Bush tax cuts for the privileged or axe defense expenditures.
Others were presented as defaulting out of entitlement, wilfully abusing their contractual rights without living up to their responsibilities "because if one feels that they want to stop treatment they do so": Before people had rights, patients used to do the right things and you wouldn't fight or argue with them, everything was nice (female auxiliary nurse, 53, TB services, urban site 2).
But the can's just been kicked down the road -- another Congressional confrontation over spending cuts, entitlement programs and possible default will take place within a few months.
This wasn't exactly the Swimsuit Issue, and nine seemed a weird number, as if the author had left room for one more disaster T.B.D.: perhaps government default, or, if you'd prefer, crushing entitlement obligations.
It's a distinction that makes sense only in the current Washington frame of mind, but it's a trade-off worth making to avoid either a default or radical cuts to discretionary spending and entitlement programs.
"Raising the debt limit without addressing the cause of our debt — out-of-control spending, especially in entitlements — will be as damaging as a default," he said.
Whatever happens as a result of their failure or ability to come to a deal — whether that be default and global economic paroxysm, or else, say, diminished entitlements and higher taxes — will effect them only to the extent that they can blame these consequences on each other.
On the other hand are congressional Republicans, who have threatened to default unless they receive a significant amount of spending cuts or entitlement reforms first.
Three whole days to rethink the nation's fundamental entitlement programs and the labyrinthine tax code, with the winds of default beginning to howl outside the window?
Coburn argued that because some entitlement payments would still go out amid a government shutdown or debt default, Republicans shouldn't fear a move to reject raising the debt ceiling.
