The Web site of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation flashes a frightening fiscal fact: The looming retirement of 78 million baby boomers has generated unpaid entitlement obligations that are triple the size of the entire economy — $175,000 for each American.
Critics might counter, however, that this account wrongly presumes that psychological attachment is sufficient to generate moral entitlement.
Smith observes that reliance can ground obligation only if the promisee is entitled to rely and claims that only a harm-independent account of promissory obligation could generate such entitlements.
After all, all this check writing the greatest binge in U.S. history, with the exception of the Civil War and World War II is unfolding before the wave of baby-boomer-generated entitlement spending that will crush Medicare and Social Security.
It is important to note that the moral bindingness of such an agreement is crucially dependent on the initial set of entitlement claims generated by labor, desert, and non-worsening.
Then these heirs receive millions of dollars, "at which point," he said, "they're often struggling to establish an identity, struggling to understand and handle the money, struggling to cope with economic differences in the world that have begun to generate guilt or entitlement, or both".
However, unlike historical entitlement doctrines, historical patterned theories will not determine the justice of the particular holdings of individuals on the basis of whether those individuals acquired those holdings through entitlement generating or conveying processes.
Although this sort of criticism rests on the mistaken idea that, for Nozick, just processes are simply not unjust processes, it does highlight how little Nozick does offer in the way of a positive account of the nature and power of entitlement generating or conveying processes.
Most of them, the Tribunal ruled, are low tide elevations that can neither be claimed as sovereign territory nor generate their own entitlement claims.
Cuts in education and in the entitlement to and payment rates of welfare benefits generated greater demand for social services.
"Opening the doors" challenged the traditions, legacy and sense of professional entitlement that were a part of ICU culture and generated considerable initial resistance among nurses and physicians.
