Mr. Romney also said the committee needed to tackle the issue of entitlement programs for the coming generation.
Then there's the issue of entitlement, the suspicion, deeply held by some on the left, that the Clintons have an assumption of ownership over the Democratic party and over high office.
There is an ongoing debate over the extent of the Gen Y issue of entitlement, but when you're dealing with celebrities, the effects are cast in an even sharper relief.
Issues of entitlement become a matter of life and death.
Carol Butler, a psychotherapist with a practice in Greenwich Village, said New Yorkers' reactions to weather have "a lot to do with issues of entitlement and control".
In practice many respondents reported that staff would first treat patients and then possibly consider issues of entitlement and insurance.
The issue of parliamentary entitlements made headlines last year when it emerged that then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, had used more than $5,000 of taxpayer money to charter a helicopter to attend a Liberal party fundraiser.
His offense was apparently not so much that he was wrong on the merits, but that his move "cancels out any bludgeoning that Democrats might give the Republicans" on the potent issue of geriatric entitlements, in the remarkably candid words of one House Democrat.
The issue of funding entitlements has not gone away.
The issue of grandparents' entitlements can come to the fore when parents separate, and grandparents are unhappy with the access they have to their grandchildren.
