Entitlement Quote by Edward Conard

“Republicans' focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare - an unpopular entitlement program - rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and Medicare, has raised questions about their true objective. But critics forget that spending is fungible.”

Edward Conard

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God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.

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The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

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The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

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In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

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To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.

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I am the individual who formed and funded W Spann LLC. I authorized W Spann LLC's contribution to Restore Our Future PAC. I did…

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Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.

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I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make…

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Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when 'Unintended Consequences' was published, the media held up my book as a defense…

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Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don't recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.

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We have to make sure that the banks pay every nickel of loan losses that they create, but we don't want to hold them…

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High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

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Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the…

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When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

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If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not…

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I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

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This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

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So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in…

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I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups,"…

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“Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re perpetually entitled to be comfortable…

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