Sentence examples for growing entitlements from inspiring English sources

Only a small part of it comes from America's big and growing entitlements, Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the elderly and poor, respectively) and Social Security (public pensions), whose worst fiscal problems lie beyond 2019.

"There is a growing frustration within the House caucus -- and it's palpable -- of members' saying, 'We can't continue to call ourselves fiscal conservatives with big deficits and growing entitlements,"' Mr. Gutknecht said.

Our government is paralyzed as our nation spirals into a quagmire of growing entitlements and larger deficits.

And America's budget deficit and growing entitlements indicate America can't pay forever.

But their policies have created a culture of dependency, a reduction in responsibility, growing entitlements and an unsustainable deficit.

How do you plan to address our growing entitlement mentality?

Medicare's coverage of hospice, which began in 1983, has become one of the fastest growing components of the government's fastest growing entitlement.

The president didn't "ask" for an increase; he simply reminded Congress that the authority to continue borrowing had run out because of spending already incurred, largely because of wars, the recession, growing entitlement programs and the Bush tax cuts.

We have no strategy today other than the status quo of greater spending, higher taxes and a growing entitlement state.

Young voters understand that growing entitlement spending is creating a long term nightmare for their generation and that high deficits will wind up being on their tab when the bill finally comes due.

But this rhetoric lies in stark contrast with the massive growing unanswered entitlement debt and deficit.