[Ads-l] entitlement junkie

[Jonathan Lighter]

2007 _Daily News Leader_  (Staunton, Va.) (May 23) 9 [Newspapers.com]:
They also tend to pander to another kind of entitlement junkie: people who
believe that even though they cannot afford to send their child to a
private school, the government is somehow obligated to help them pay for it.

2007 Kimberley Llewellyn _The Quest for the Holy Veil_  (N.Y.: Berkley,
2007) [Google Books, unp.]: She's so used to having things come so easy to
her, she's become an entitlement junkie.

2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kristi-noem-calls-travel-ban-042829543.html
: "I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on
every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches,
and entitlement junkies," Noem wrote on X.


The term seems to have been quite rare.


JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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