Any effort to craft a statewide water policy in an era of increasing demand and shrinking supply will run into the roadblock of Westlands' enormous perpetual entitlement.
These lovingly made objects reflect the humanity of labor and design, but they are portraits of life styles and desires that few can afford, demanded by people with an enormous sense of entitlement.
Written so as to make the issues understandable to nonexperts, the book is designed to raise public awareness of the urgency to act by clarifying misconceptions and presenting the facts on the impending economic crisis driven by the federal government's enormous spending on entitlement programs.
If you saw "The Last Emperor," Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning film, and wondered where cute little Pu Yi, the toddler ruler of China, got his enormous sense of entitlement, Pan Asian Repertory Theater's "Empress of China" will make it clear: you should have seen his aunt.
People with NPD have a pathological need for admiration from others and lack empathy; they have rich fantasy lives and enormous senses of entitlement that belie fragile egos vulnerable to the slightest criticisms.
And does Beach's support for tax cuts not fly in the face of his lament about Congress's "seeming unwillingness...to seriously address the enormous challenges from entitlement spending"?
"All along Karl knew that any kind of enormous expansion of the entitlement programs was going to be an ideological-philosophical problem with the conservatives," said one Republican with close ties to the White House who did not want to be identified because it would hamper his relationship with a president who prefers that his advisers are not named in the newspapers.
In 2003, a conservative president and a conservative Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act, which, for all its virtues, created an enormous and unfunded new entitlement program designed in part to blunt Democratic attacks.
