"We always said that there'd be a day when all that the federal government does is debt service, entitlement payments and defense.
Obama will use his bully pulpit to explain to the public that the Republicans have forced withholding of entitlement payments and the closing of vital government services.
But the pledge does not say which programs would be cut to achieve that; all it does is specify that no cuts would be made to national security programs, entitlement payments like Medicare, or interest on the national debt.
No advanced capitalist country today allows the market to distribute income without supplementing or altering the resulting pattern of rewards through taxes, subsidies, welfare systems, or entitlement payments such as old-age pensions and health benefits.
Higher federal deficits will result because of entitlement payments.
The core activities of the government, such as the operation of courts, collecting revenues, managing public lands and making sure that entitlement payments don't go to the wrong people, make up another one eighth.
Coburn argued that because some entitlement payments would still go out amid a government shutdown or debt default, Republicans shouldn't fear a move to reject raising the debt ceiling.
Although new mothers are entitled to 52 weeks maternity leave (during which you should continue to accrue holiday entitlements, pension payments and other benefits like health insurance or gym membership), your employer only has to pay 39 weeks of maternity pay, worth 90 per cent of your average pre-tax earnings.
John's wife divorced him when she refused to join the sister harem; the von Sass girls eventually sued John, stating they were owed certain entitlements and payments from a decade spent as his common-law wives.
The militias are a security threat in Darfur and they also constitute a challenge to Khartoum – they don't obey the rules and have differences with the government over entitlements and payment.
