{"entry":{"title":"The Entitlements Era Is Winding Down","date":"Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"Michael Barone, Washington Examiner","description":"
It's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, just a few years more than the Biblical lifespan of three score and 10.<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/14\/history_suggests_that_entitlement_era_is_winding_down_116665.html"}}