Sentence examples for old entitlement from inspiring English sources

Indeed, for many liberals, eliminating the deficit is simply a counterintuitive means to an end: protecting the grand old entitlement programs of Medicare and Social Security and restoring the government's credibility so it could plausibly do (and spend) even more.

Even if the Irish crisis passes, they are unlikely to get their old entitlements back.Investor confidence had begun to return in the months following Greece's rescue in May.

Under the deal, the states relinquished their 60-year-old entitlement to additional federal money when their welfare rolls rise.

While some versions of this competitive model have support across party lines, some Democrats contend that it marks a fundamental shift away from the guaranteed benefits, a 35-year-old entitlement, of the Medicare program.

But you might also say that the habit of giving the regal name of tragedy to every untimely death or untoward circumstance transforms an old aristocratic entitlement into part of the universal democratic birthright.

But policies had changed there since the federal welfare overhaul dismantled the old A.F.D.C. entitlements for poor children.

Large numbers of tomorrow's elders could also wind up impoverished, left stranded by an absence of financial preparedness and dwindling old age entitlements.

Only after winning those fights, and probably electing a new president, should the old-age entitlements be up for reform.

That's why Republicans find themselves tiptoeing into an unfamiliar role — as champions of old-age entitlements.

Unless the nation can shore up its work force, it faces a long-term drag on economic growth at a time of soaring obligations for old-age entitlements.

There's a risk of a vicious cycle, in which a shrinking working-age population bears the burden of growing old-age entitlements, which in turn discourages precisely the kind of risk-taking and family formation required to keep the system solvent.