It is clear that money flooding into the game has warped fans' sense of entitlement, as well as players.
Yet the true aim of American budget policy these days has to be quite different: to try to ensure the solvency of entitlement programmes well into the next century.
Starting this week, it effectively becomes a means-tested entitlement, as well over a million families with a member earning £50,000 or more lose their child benefit either in full or in part.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been promoting his ambition to triple paternity entitlement as well as existing plans to allow parents to share their leave.
Particularly good is Ryan Spahn, whose Dean is a portrait of thwarted entitlement — a well-educated infant who is finally, belatedly, forced to confront something real.
Indeed, the next move on entitlements may well be a big expansion.
Chris Simpkins, director general of the RBL, fears the effect of spending cuts on general benefits and housing entitlements, as well as on service budgets.
Many Republicans fault Mr. Obama for resisting structural changes to entitlements as well as lesser changes, like raising the Medicare eligibility age, which he entertained in 2011.
We've got to get more Americans working again for their own dignity — and to generate the rising incomes and wealth we need to pay for existing entitlements, as well as all the new investments we'll need to make.
"The first priority should be to ensure that each of the affected workers has immediate access to their legal entitlements, as well as counselling, financial advice and employment support".
Commissioned by the island's government and named after one of its authors, Anne Krueger, a former World Bank and IMF economist, the report suggested severe cuts in Medicaid and federal entitlements, as well as reducing the minimum wage.
