The substantial majority of these people, Bill and others are discovering, would far prefer to remain productively engaged, and would prefer independence and self reliance to government entitlement for as long as they can.

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It requires a sense of entitlement, the ability to network and self-promote without seeing yourself as an arrogant, schmoozing blowhard.

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Self-reliance and mutual voluntary aid has yielded to victimhood and entitlement.

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If self-sacrifice for the needs of others is a moral imperative, then so is the entitlement state.

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This is a particular problem for Gen-Y, which is being told to achieve, excel, and self-promote while at the same time being hectored by their elders about their presumed sense of over-entitlement.

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