Sentence examples for entitlements has from inspiring English sources

Since 2004, the department's total budget — which includes health care, administrative costs and entitlements — has doubled, to $127 billion.

For all the talk of Social Security reform, the only White House action on entitlements has been to expand them.

The cost of entitlements has been rising vertiginously, and will do so even faster as the baby-boomers retire.

"And so I have gotten that kind of reaction, and unfortunately it's what we've come to expect, because the politics of reforming entitlements has become very bitter.

Much of the growth in entitlements has been paid for by defense cuts that were reaching their limits even before Sept. 11.

My main point in the piece was that social-insurance or earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare shouldn't be called "entitlements," because "entitlements" has a smug, I've-got-mine, you-owe-me-a-living sound to it.

So the question is not whether entitlements have to be brought under control, but how.

"And entitlements have to be on the table sooner rather than later.

Such entitlements have helped the Congress Party win votes, especially in rural areas.

But with a debt that now approaches 70 percent of total economic output, such long established entitlements have come under attack as never before.

That's because tax cuts have a constituency (those who will benefit), entitlements have a constituency (those receiving them) and defence spending has a constituency (defence contractors and their rah-rah chorus).