Instead of playing entitlement games of one sort or another and throwing money where it's not needed, why not just educate the kids?
Maybe it's the "new" (crappy) economy, or our fear of the imminent zombie-vampire-Tea Partier apocalypse, or the realization that teaching our kids self-reliance instead of whiny entitlement really is the best approach to parenting, but there's so much emphasis on, well, ultra-femme domestic activity these days.
Instead of expanding entitlements, as the administration and Congress have been doing, we must modernize those programs without further delay".
Instead of a federal entitlement, the money is distributed by states, whose feet are held to the fire by Washington in order to receive the financing.
Instead of having a sense of entitlement, they ought to have more of a sense of serving their constituency".
Instead of ambition they have entitlement.
As Ward Connerly, a University of California regent, has noted, California is now "moving toward the notion that college, too, is an entitlement instead of something you earned".
The healthcare reform law establishes a confusing assemblage of rights, responsibilities and programmes, instead of creating a new entitlement with clear benefits that a broad swath of people would buy into.
Moreover, instead of being a federal entitlement, available to all Americans who meet the eligibility criteria irrespective of the cost, the programme would become a "block grant" to the states, which would receive a fixed amount to spend each year, irrespective of demand.
But instead of emphasizing the everyday entitlement of its privileged members, it took viewers on a murder-mystery adventure: after a young man is recruited, his friend is murdered by the club's high-ranking member, so the latest addition tries to – and eventually does – uncover the truth.
