This is a false sense of American entitlement; of thinking that as an American one is entitled to an easy-way-out or to an advantage.
An attitude of entitlement -- thinking that we deserve to get what we want most or all of the time -- can make it much more difficult to deal with challenges when they come around and take you by surprise.
The situation in Detroit and Chicago is quite ugly indeed, but the solution starts with eliminating wasteful spending with money that's not available, liquidating assets, dissolving the unions, and getting out of an entitlement way of thinking that a bailout is the solution.
It is exactly this line of thinking – righteous entitlement – that leads to the idea of using taxes to support businesses that can't support themselves.
If you don't have kids, you better hope your neighbors do, because someone needs to spawn a working population large enough to pay for the unsustainable entitlements the Obama party has suckered you into thinking you're entitled to.
American consumers have been lulled into thinking cheap oil is their entitlement.
The fans had been thinking sweep, with all the riotous entitlement of folks who expect a championship every October.
Just because we were brainwashed into thinking a wedding is the ultimate entitlement doesn't mean we have to act on it.
The precise core of Hayek's concern is not the mirage of thinking merit does matter, but the mirage of thinking entitlement doesn't.[10] Note the similarity between Hayek's view and the view expressed by John Rawls in "Two Concepts of Rules" (1955).
Parents often want to bestow upon their children, who may grow up thinking a BMW on their sixteenth birthday is an entitlement, a sense of obligation to those who will spend their entire lives riding the bus.
