This is the third of three posts about entitlement: 04/19 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” Today – “When needs are met” I have no trouble sharing my candy, when I have plenty. Jim Snyder even offers people cigarettes, when he has plenty. When needs are met, one becomes generous. Until needs are met, one will be selfish. And it’s a good thing: I got in the fix I’m in via decades of trying to be unselfish, and I need to reverse that now.

This is the first of three posts about entitlement: Today – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” 05/03 – “When needs are met” Let’s get rid of (the term) entitlements “In 2012, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone represented 44 percent of spending; all entitlement programs were 63 percent. But it’s hard to control entitlement programs because their constituencies are so large.” It makes sense to me that, as Samuelson proposes, we sho