Sentence examples for massive entitlement from inspiring English sources

Everything is on the table, from massive entitlement programs to relatively small subsidies for emerging industries like electric vehicles.

"Florida will opt out of spending approximately $1.9 billion more taxpayer dollars required to implement a massive entitlement expansion of the Medicaid program," said Mr. Scott, a former health care executive.

In his speech this week, Mr. Perry hit Washington for "bloated stimulus spending, record debt and massive entitlement programs" and said solutions to government finance problems "will come from places like Texas".

That evening on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart crowed, "Never get between a mama grizzly and her maternity leave!" He then broadcast an earlier clip of Ms. Kelly lamenting "the tentacles that government has placed into our lives" with "massive entitlement programs".

Democrats said the student-loan legislation would save enough to finance the new programs and still leave $10 billion to return to the Treasury, while Republicans called the legislation a "massive entitlement spending spree" that would add to the deficit, not reduce it.

In their view, Bush and the Republican Congress proved to be about as grounded in conservative principle, fiscally and internationally, as Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill — spending the nation into debt with patronage projects, going soft on immigration, passing a massive entitlement program for prescription drugs, piling up indictments and mismanaging the military.

But some wrongheaded individuals seek to silence or marginalize social issues, oblivious to the profound reality -- proven throughout history -- that where families crumble there is an unstoppable public outcry for government to fill the void with massive entitlements and programs.

That goal is only realistic if budget cutters dive into the massive entitlements of Social Security and Medicare and if Congress can be persuaded to slice deeply into areas of spending such as health research, transportation, homeland security and aid to the poor.

Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, said the bill would "create a massive new entitlement" to government-subsidized insurance.

"The Obama administration ignored repeated warnings about the financial solvency of this massive new entitlement and suppressed information on the viability of the program," Mr. Thune said.

"And it wasn't on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement, the prescription drug plan, without a source of funding".