The Sixth Form Colleges' Forum said it was concerned about a reduction in Entitlement Funding which pays for extra-curricular activities.

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This child has an entitlement and if there are issues over funding then we'll resolve that later.

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Outside funding also breeds a sense of entitlement to interfere.

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With regard to the sequestration process, it was designed mainly to cut discretionary funding rather than so-called mandatory entitlement programs.

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The 1996 welfare reforms proved that the poor can enjoy higher incomes, while the taxpayers would save trillions, if those same reforms based on fixed, finite, block grants of the federal funding back to the states, were extended to the 200 or so additional means tested entitlement programs for the poor, with broad discretion for the states to reform the programs.

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When the administration unveils its fiscal 2010 budget Thursday, the key items to look for will be how the White House proposes to handle the ballooning costs of entitlement programs--Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security--and how it will offset the recent stimulus funding.

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The President has put forward a proposal that does meet those objectives -- that achieves entitlement reform, that achieves tax reform in a balanced and fair way, that allows for the necessary level of funding for our national security interests, that allows for the continued strengthening of our border security.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing