Just as teachers sometimes award high grades to undeserving students to avoid student and parent backlash, organizations turn a blind eye to entitlement in the name of workplace peace.
Samuelson, who has been slanting economic facts against middle class entitlements -- in the name of saving their children and grandchildren -- for three decades, headed his piece, "On Medicare and Social Security, Be Unfair to the Boomers".
If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.
To this day, many of the bitterest ideological battles raging across America (over prayer in schools, creationism, religious entitlements at work, and so on) are conducted in the name of different visions of religious liberty.
Social insurance programs that protect Americans against the common hazards of a market economy are "entitlements" that need to be revamped (read: cut) in the name of fiscal balance and deficit reduction.
His party will likely enact a new health care entitlement for the middle class, tax and regulate energy in the name of climate change, increase taxes on "the rich" and overhaul labor laws as a bouquet to the unions.
Accordingly, the affected persons can at least claim qua equal citizens and thus in the name of a politics of respect that amount of basic goods that is necessary for enabling them to effectively use their legal entitlements.
Since vacation entitlements are based on calendar years, employees can generally use remaining entitlements in the first months of the subsequent year.
So, if you are new to looking into your entitlement, start by finding out all the names of the benefits that are available.
