Gerson: Kerrey nails entitlements - Herald Tribune
28 May 2012, 12:01 am
the surprise winner of Nebraska's Republican Senate primary -- Sarah Palin let a competent candidate slip through her normal screening process. Fischer is no Sharron Angle or Christine O'Donnell -- tea party favorites in 2010 who seemed to view ...

Revised Murray-Darling plan sticks to cuts target - ABC Online
27 May 2012, 11:04 pm
The revised draft of the Murray-Darling Basin plan has maintained its proposed 2,750-gigalitre cut to water entitlements. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has today sent the revised Basin Plan to state water ministers. After 20 weeks of consultations ...

Last Decade, 65 Percent of Federal Expenditures Went to Pay for entitlements - Weekly Standard
26 May 2012, 10:48 am
"About 65 percent of federal expenditures over the last ten years have gone towards entitlements," Paul Miller writes. "By comparison, about 15 percent has gone towards national defense, excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq has cost three ...

Mrs Zuckerberg's post-marriage entitlements - Sydney Morning Herald
22 May 2012, 4:22 pm
The new Mrs Mark Zuckerberg might not have to worry much about money, but that doesn't mean she is automatically a billionaire. The timing of Mark Zuckerberg's marriage to his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan, on Saturday, just a day after he took his ...

Ezekiel Emanuel on entitlements: Rich people should wait longer for Medicare, Social Security benefits - ABC News
21 May 2012, 10:04 am
Wealthy people should have to wait a few years longer than the poor to start collecting their Medicare and Social Security benefits, argues bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel in the New York Times today. Emanuel, who is the older brother of former ...

Ex-premiers angered by move to cut entitlements - Sydney Morning Herald
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
WEALTHY former premiers including Nick Greiner, now a key adviser to the O'Farrell government, objected to moves to take away their generous taxpayer-funded entitlements. The government yesterday stopped short of slashing entitlements to former premiers ...

NSW premiers' entitlements stripped back - Sydney Morning Herald
19 May 2012, 6:13 pm
Retired NSW premiers are about to get less of the generous life entitlements they have previously enjoyed including free air travel, office staff and access to cars and drivers. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says the changes, coming into effect from next ...

The real record on entitlements - Washington Post
16 May 2012, 2:56 pm
Suzy Khimm has a great item out today about the Peter Peterson deficit confab yesterday, noting a crucial difference between the parties: Democrats are willing to consider cutting entitlements, but Republicans have an absolute hard line against ...

Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don’t talk about raising taxes. - Washington Post
16 May 2012, 1:16 pm
The line you often hear in Washington is that Republicans won’t talk taxes and Democrats won’t talk entitlements. The two parties, the thinking goes, are similarly irresponsible, albeit on opposite sides of the budget. “Our party’s problem is, we ...

In Response to Obama Attack Ad, Romney to Tackle Economy & entitlements - RedState
14 May 2012, 4:17 pm
Obama has decided that he’d like to tussle with Romney in the economic playground this week, releasing an ad that has echoes of Gingrich’s SuperPAC spots but with even less factual basis. It’s cleverly named “Steel.” My favorite line ...