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entitlement mentality
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Culture Challenge of the Week: Entitlement's Rampage Americans stand aghast at the chaos that unfolded in Britain last week. Young people rioted, burned and looted their way across London neighborhoods for days. Two vastly different narratives about why it all happened are competing for the public's ear.
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WASHINGTON - It is better to be fired by General Motors than it is to be hired by most companies. Remember this when you are rightly ridiculing the riotous French who have successfully insisted that even workers under 26 should have property rights to their jobs. Remember because the accelerating crisis of private-sector welfare states such as GM prefigures the coming crisis of the public sector's entitlements. France has been convulsed by young people whose sense of entitlement was affronted by a law - now withdrawn in a triumph of mob rule - that would have allowed employers to fire a young worker in the first two years of employment. Detroit's crisis also involves an entitlement mentality.
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Their high-profile positions give them access to gifts and services not available to everyone else. They know they're not supposed to accept the extra benefits, but they do so anyway, often bringing shame to their institutions when caught. Despite numerous examples of prohibited perks leading to a downfall, the cycle continues, with new reports surfacing on a regular basis. No, not quarterbacks and point guards in college dorms, but politicians and CEOs in halls of power.
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A story in Friday's Wall Street Journal told of an Occupy D.C. protester. "Chris Rooney, 27 years old, of Baltimore, carried a sign at the Washington march that read, 'Dude, where's my job?' The Journal reported that Rooney has a college degree (it did not specify in what) and has not yet been able to land a full-time job.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The campaign to deny Luis Paucar his right to economic liberty illustrates the ingenuity people will invest in concocting perverse arguments for novel entitlements. This city's taxi cartel is offering an audacious new rationalization for corporate welfare, asserting a right -- a constitutional right, in perpetuity -- to revenues it would have received if Minneapolis' City Council had not ended the cartel that never should have existed. Paucar, 37, embodies the best qualities of American immigrants. He is a splendidly self-sufficient entrepreneur. And he is wielding American principles against some Americans who, in their decadent addiction to government assistance, are trying to litigate themselves to prosperity at the expense of Paucar and the public.
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It's a fact: Workers are entitled Ryan Messmore's Dec. 24 Viewpoint column "Threat of the 'entitlement mentality'" echoes the right wing's passion for derision, ridicule and contempt of folks who receive benefits from legitimate government programs like Social Security. He claims they have an "entitlement mentality - a sense of being owed something for nothing." He even alleges America's credit downgrading was caused by "runaway spending on Social Security and other entitlement programs." I am sick and tired of this right-wing claptrap.
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THANK GOODNESS for Portsmouth Mayor Jim Holley and Newport News Del. Phil Hamilton. These two elected officials have proved, with unabashed ardor, that they love their jobs. Or at the very least, the perks they've collected along with their duties.
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It might not be evident to everyone reading his syndicated columns published in the Telegraph Herald, but Pulitzer-Prize winning author George Will has a finely tuned sense of humor. Granted, the comments often were barbed and aimed at left- leaning politicians, but Will's remarks Wednesday night provided his University of Dubuque audience with ample opportunity to laugh, sometimes at themselves.
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During presidential elections, when candidates postulate this or that "crisis" for which each is the indispensable and sufficient cure, economic hypochondria is encouraged, so a sense of suffering is rampant. Recently The Wall Street Journal, like Joseph Conrad contemplating the Congo, surveyed today's economic jungle and cried, "The horror! The horror! Declines in housing values and the stock market are causing some Americans to delay retirement. A Kansas City man had been eager to retire to Arizona, but now, the Journal says, "figures he'll stay put for another couple of years." He is 59.
