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In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays.
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Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy- to- read, four color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, everything from medicare to disability payments. But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic.
He powerfully argues that while this spending certainly drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real,long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens.Also included in the book is a response from one of our leading political theorists, William Galston. In his incisive response, he questions Eberstadt’s conclusions about the corrosive effect of entitlements on character and offers his own analysis of the impact of American entitlement growth.08.27.10-Interesting Moon.
Running time90 minutesCountryFranceLanguageEnglishBudget$25 millionBox office$226.8 millionTaken is a 2008 -language film written by and, and directed. It stars,. Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former operative who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter Kim (Grace) and her best friend Amanda (Cassidy) after the two girls are kidnapped by human traffickers while traveling in France during a vacation.Taken was released in France on February 27, 2008 by, and later in the United States on January 30, 2009. The movie grossed more than $226 million. Despite mixed reviews from critics, numerous media outlets cited the film as a turning point in Neeson's career that redefined and transformed him to an star. The first film in the, the film was followed by two sequels— and —released in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
A for the series premiered in 2017 on, with portraying Bryan Mills. Contents.Plot Retired field agent Bryan Mills attempts to build a closer relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, who lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy stepfather, Stuart.
While overseeing security at a concert for pop star Sheerah, Bryan saves the musician from an armed attacker. Out of gratitude, Sheerah offers to have Kim assessed as a singer.
Before Bryan can tell her about the offer, Kim asks her father for permission to travel to Paris with her best friend, Amanda. As he is wary about Kim's safety since she wants to go on without him, he initially refuses but eventually gives in to her demands. At the airport, Bryan learns that the girls are actually planning to follow during their.Upon arriving at, Kim and Amanda meet Peter, an attractive young Frenchman who offers to share a taxi. Kim and Amanda go to Amanda's cousins' apartment, where Kim finds out that the cousins are in Spain. After answering a call from Bryan, Kim sees men enter the apartment and abduct Amanda. Kim follows her father's instructions to hide and listen closely. After she is dragged out from underneath a bed, Kim yells a description of her abductor.
Bryan hears a person breathing heavily and, realizing one of the abductors has picked up the phone, tells him that he will not go after the kidnappers if they release his daughter but warns them that failure will result in their deaths. A man tersely replies, 'Good luck.' Sam, an old friend and former colleague of Bryan, deduces that the kidnappers are part of Albanian sex trafficking ring and identifies the man as Marko Hoxha. Based on previous history, Kim will disappear for good if she is not found within 96 hours.
Bryan flies to Paris, breaks into the apartment, and finds Peter's reflection in a picture on Kim's phone. He finds Peter at the airport, trying to charm a solo female traveller, and tries to capture him. While he tries to make his escape, Peter gets hit by a truck. With his only lead dead, Bryan turns to an old contact, former French intelligence agent Jean-Claude Pitrel, who now has a desk job.
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Jean-Claude informs him of the local red-light district, where the Albanian prostitution ring operates, but warns him not to get involved. Bryan enters a makeshift brothel in a construction yard, where he rescues a drugged young woman who has Kim's denim jacket.
After a gunfight and high-speed chase with the brothel's operators, Bryan takes the woman to a hotel, where he treats her with improvised detoxification.The next morning, the woman tells Bryan of a safehouse, where she and Kim were kept. Posing as Jean-Claude, Bryan enters the house under the pretense of renegotiating the police protection rate. When he identifies Marko Hoxha by making him repeat the same phrase as on the phone, the meeting erupts into a fight that results in the death of all the gangsters except Marko. A quick search reveals several heavily-drugged girls, including a dead Amanda. Bryan ties Marko into a makeshift electric chair and interrogates him using. Marko reveals that virgins like Kim are sold quickly because of their prized value and identifies the buyer as Patrice Saint-Clair. Bryan leaves him to die from continuous electrocution and visits Jean-Claude's apartment that evening.
Having discovered Jean-Claude's corruption, Bryan injures the latter's wife to coerce him into disclosing Saint-Clair's location, before knocking him out as well.Bryan infiltrates a covert sex slave auction taking place beneath Saint-Clair's manor, where Kim is the subject of the last sale. Bryan forces Ali, an Arab bidder, to purchase her. While making his way out, Bryan is knocked out and chained to a pipe but manages to escape and eliminate Saint-Clair's henchmen.
Saint-Clair reveals a yacht owned by a client named Raman before Bryan kills him. Bryan pursues the yacht and eliminates the bodyguards, including Ali, before he encounters Raman in his suite, where he is holding Kim at knifepoint.
When Raman attempts to negotiate, Bryan kills him with a headshot. Back in the United States, Kim is reunited with Lenore and Stuart. Lenore reconciles with Bryan and allows him to bond with Kim by visiting Sheerah together.Cast.
as Bryan Mills. as Kim Mills. as Lenore Mills-St John. as Amanda. as Sam Gilroy.
as Mark Casey. as Bernie Harris.
as Sheerah. as Stuart St John. as Jean-Claude Pitrel.
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as Patrice Saint-Clair. as Marko Hoxha. as Isabelle. as Peter. as Gregor. as Raman.
as AliProduction The film was produced by 's. Pierre Morel had previously worked as a director of photography for Besson, and they had also collaborated on Morel's directorial debut,. Besson pitched the idea of Taken one night over dinner and Morel immediately became attached to the idea of a father fighting to protect his daughter.
Was first cast as Bryan Mills, but after he dropped out of the project, Liam Neeson accepted the part, desiring to play a more physically demanding role than he was used to. Neeson at first thought the film to be no more than a 'little side road' for his career, expecting it to be released. Music The score of the film was composed by and released on 27 January 2009.
Taken: Original Motion Picture Soundtrackby. Main article:In September 2015, NBC ordered a TV series depicting a younger Bryan Mills with portraying Mills, James Landry Hebert, Jennifer Marsala and are cast as John, Vlasik, Casey, Scott, Dave, Riley and Faaron, members of OPCON. Is cast as Asha, an attractive, well-educated young student from an upper-middle-class family who is furthering her education when she first meets Bryan and is cast as Christina Hart, the Special Deputy Director of National Intelligence who has taken Mills under her wing. Is a writer, executive producer and showrunner for the series and directed the pilot. The show lasted two seasons, beginning in February 2017 and ending in June next year.References. Retrieved 23 September 2017. 4 April 2010.
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