Sentence examples for expensive entitlement from inspiring English sources

"It is an expensive entitlement".

The Supreme Court has recently established another expensive entitlement for defendants in capital cases.

This is no radical overhaul of America's most expensive entitlement, but at least it is a start.Two things, however, mean this may not come to very much.

Mr. Schumer said pointing out Mr. Ryan's support for Medicare Part D, an expensive entitlement program addition, and his vote against the Simpson-Bowles framework on deficit reduction are other good things to point out.

The concerns on the far right were magnified by the Bush administration initiative that created a new, expensive entitlement: partial federal coverage of prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients.

Well, the aging of America means that if working-age labor force participation keeps falling, we'll be back to the levels of the 1950s much faster than anyone expected – and that workforce will be paying for a much more expensive entitlement system than the workforce of the Eisenhower era did.

Without reform of expensive entitlements, the federal government faces bankruptcy.

The right's soft spot, as Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich learned amid the conservative ascendancy of the 1980s and early '90s, is the popularity of expensive "entitlements" serving the elderly.

"But I have tremendous concern about creating what I am confident will become one of the largest, most expensive entitlements in the nation's history".

"Democrats and moderate Republicans have decided they would rather keep expensive entitlements than rebuild our military after two exhausting ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and turn our focus to the security challenges of East Asia," he wrote.

Voters also want to keep expensive entitlements and are hoping Republicans can reverse cuts to the Medicare program and extend the Bush tax cuts set to expire at year's end.