That means extending the conversation about ending the age of entitlement beyond Joe Hockey's ultimately inconsequential finger-waggling at the public – it requires Australian politicians to grapple with concrete steps to end their own age of entitlement.
Too many of our own children don't know where Somalia is and they don't care, so long as the stories of celebrities and their misdoings can continue to upholster their privilege and entitlement, a world beyond right or wrong.
Disciplined and unyielding, he argues for raising taxes on the wealthy while offering nothing new to rein in spending and overhaul entitlement programs beyond what was on the table last year.
Bonnie and Clyde were poor kids from the dusty slums of West Dallas, both in their early 20s, scrawny (Clyde was barely 5-foot-6) and possessing a sense of entitlement far beyond their meager talents.
Second, I believe we're at the outer edge of the fiscal space-time continuum wherein we pay for things we need to do now without raising revenues, higher deficits, or entitlement cuts beyond the 2percentt cut to Medicare providers that's part of sequestration (and was, in fact, extended for two more years, 2022-23, in the new budget deal).
Furthermore, the campaign (in German) by ver.di relating to the trade unions' success in contractually establishing and extending vacation entitlements in Germany beyond the legal minimum emphasises the role of the union in enforcing such claims (http://www.verdi.de/themen/arbeit/aktionswoche-urlaub-2013 //www.verdi.de/themen/arbeit/aktionswoche-urlaub-2013 //www.verdi.de/themen/arbeit/aktionswoche-urlaub-2013 January 30 , 2014
Last week, the National Audit Office revealed that between 2006 and 2012 the BBC paid out £2.9m to former bosses in agreements that went beyond contractual entitlements.
In some countries, these restrictions are direct (Portugal or Spain make entitlements to pension benefits beyond the standard age conditional on complete withdrawal from work) or frequently, individuals have to leave their current jobs to receive their pensions; see Blondal and Scarpetta (1998) or Gruber and Wise (1997).
It is time India looks beyond food entitlements, and makes necessary policy changes to turn agriculture not only sustainable but also economically viable.
