By contrast, entitlements amount to $1.2 trillion, or 41% of the whole; and, left unreformed, will grow to 60% by 2030.Still, Ms MacGuineas thinks Mr Obama has to start with waste and earmarks to build the necessary credibility for bigger steps.
This, together with a pledge to maintain welfare entitlements, amounts to a modern form of Keynesian fiscal policy (though of course not identified as such).
The term "net entitlement" means the amount by which the covered contractual payment entitlements of a financial institution or member exceed the covered contractual payment obligations of the institution or member after netting under a netting contract.
It is, at one level, a primer on global efforts to contain greenhouse gas emissions, and it concludes with Singer's well-reasoned call for granting nations, based on their projected population in 2050, a fixed entitlement to the amount of emissions they can produce.
Bentley can afford to take his chances, of course, since his accumulated pension and share entitlements at Centrica amount to about £10m.
He would lower cost-of-living adjustments for most Social Security recipients, subject Medicare benefits for wealthier senior citizens to a means test and enact other changes to entitlements that would amount to about as much as the deficit commission recommended.
But the concept has never been fully grasped by the electorate, and the Republicans have been able to rouse resentment at the amount of entitlement spending.
Previously in 2001, the Minister of Education, Trevor Mallard, had rejected the recommendation of the Strategic Plan Working Group, "for whanau [family] and families to have a universal entitlement to a reasonable amount of free, high quality early childhood education" (Strategic Plan Working Group, 2001, p. 5).
It's that amount of entitlement that has led to a misunderstanding of Affirmative Action is and who it really benefits.
