But official American largesse has become so much the norm that by now it walks and quacks like a global entitlement program.
That would well and truly amount to a global entitlement program, costing upfront hundreds of billions over the next few years, and predictably fringed with a self-reinforcing bureaucracy, special interests and market-wrecking pitfalls that could in the end make subprime mortgages look small.
From abortion and civil rights to global warming and entitlement spending, it is ongoing dialogue that cultivates consensus, despite its cumbersome and time-consuming nature.
He spends much of two chapters, 73 pages in all, reeling off a list of contemporary economic problems, from excessive entitlement spending to global imbalances that have little to do with inflation.
But on issues like gun control, immigration, entitlement reform, and global warming — where the onus is on the reformers — the ultras may well be able to wield a veto, which would mean another two years, at least, of gridlock.
Thanks to an array of brand partnerships in addition to heavy global radio play, near-full entitlement on songwriting and production credit for his releases, and a million dollar an hour asking price, Calvin Harris has more than double the salary of the No. 2 DJ, with $66 million compared to David Guetta's $30.
Where states are unable or unwilling to provide their populations' health entitlements, the paradigm obliges global actors to help states meet their obligations.
Republicans have acknowledged that the two parties will not be able to agree on Medicare and other entitlement programs — a "big, grand, global bargain" on debt reduction, as Mr. Ryan put it — before the August deadline for increasing the debt limit.
"The case for separation grows," said Neil Dwane, chief investment officer Europe for Allianz Global Investors, citing a "cultural problem of entitlement to bonus and risk-taking" and also the management risks.
We need more resources rushed to Africa, less of an attitude of Western entitlement, and a bigger sense of global brotherhood and sisterhood.
The formulation of a claim as a human right with corresponding obligations and entitlements enhances its weight in the global competition for scarce resources.
