“We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.” NeedsTryingProblemSocialPresidentSecuritySeriousProgramReformAddressesSocial SecurityDeficitEntitlementMedicareMedicaidEntitlement ProgramsMedicare And Medicaid Author:John W. Snow
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.” NationsSocialSecurityHigherTaxesProgramSpendingDefenseCombinationBudgetsSocial SecurityDeficitEntitlementMedicareModificationEntitlement ProgramsBudget Deficit Author:Ben Bernanke
“What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.” AbleGenerationsProgramDemocratCurrentsReformGrandparentFuture GenerationEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Jeb Hensarling
“If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.” PeopleIfsEndsHardGovernmentStuffClassImpossibleMiddleExampleProgramMiddle ClassReceivingEntitlementBack AgainEntitlement Programs Author:Fred Thompson
“To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?” PeopleGovernmentForceProgramFavorsFinanceGreedyCompulsionTaxpayersEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:John Stossel
“Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.” PeopleIfsMeanChildrenRealityGovernmentSchoolLinesPovertyAirConditionsCarTelevisionColorLowsProgramPhonesHungryIncomeCellsOfficialsNeighborhoodDevicesLunchTruckEntitlementCell PhoneOverweightOvensUnheardLow IncomeMicrowavesEntitlement ProgramsSchool LunchElectronic DevicesColor Television Author:Thomas Sowell
“I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.” ThinkingWayStatesCuttingHugeRepublicanProgramPrioritiesBlockBudgetsFortunatePretendingAttackingEntitlementMessed UpSaluteMedicaidEntitlement Programs Author:David Brooks
“After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.” TryingWealthProgramWelfareEnterprisePushingPromotingEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Van Jones
“I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.” ProgramAskingEnterpriseEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Van Jones
“Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.” GovernmentQualityEconomyPlansHonestProgramBeing HonestAgendasQuality Of LifeStimulusEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Alveda King
“When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.” PathCuttingProgramSavingEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Marco Rubio
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.” YearsGovernmentResultsWasteProgramAbuseDollarsCreditBillionsCardsAgencyFederal GovernmentBureaucracyEntitlementCredit CardMisuseGovernment BureaucracyMismanagementEntitlement ProgramsGovernment AgenciesGovernment Waste Author:Chris Chocola
“The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindCertainWillingProgramSpendingEntitlementPublic LifeEntitlement Programs Author:Chris Christie
“Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'” ThinkingMayLongActionLastsClassDemocracyGrowingCryLimitsProgramHarmonyInequalityConsiderationDivisionControversyEntitlementBluntAffirmative ActionAffirmativeLikelihoodEntitlement ProgramsAlarmistsTime Limit Author:Orlando Patterson