Kent Conrad could have sponsored, and still can sponsor, the Kent Conrad Let's Make Some Tough Choices About Entitlements Act anytime he wants to!
Before the deployment there was controversy about the government's non-resolution of repatriation entitlements and peacekeeper coverage under the Veterans' Entitlements Act, and it had not decided if the deployment would be considered operational service.
Some junkies have a false sense of entitlement and act like I'm their servant.
Yet what was in question was not Yoo's right to walk the streets until convicted of a crime, but rather his entitlement to act as a teacher of law to young Americans--a post for which one qualification is a disposition to respect the rule of law and to honor the principle that sets no man above the law.
But for the past two years one of the most controversial political issues in that region of the state has been S. 881, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization Act, a grab-bag of a bill that was written by attorneys in the employ of the Sealaska Corporation, the regional business corporation based in Juneau, Alaska, that is owned by the Tlingit and Haida Indians.
The more than 300,000 screaming, purple-wearing (allegedly his favorite color) tweens who stood in the rain for the pop star's June 11 Mexico City concert could have easily moved their ardor to Los Cabos's G-20 Summit a week later and put some genuine teeth in the "tax and entitlement reform" act.
Instead, the president's first big initiative was to create an overdue but expensive new entitlement, the Affordable Care Act.
Residents should be issued with electronic smart cards that will contain basic medical information, provide access to detailed records, and act as entitlement cards, which they present each time they access non-emergency services.
