Programs like Social Security or Medicare, which provide automatic benefits to those who are eligible, would be exempt.

It would place no reins on spending for automatic benefits like Social Security and Medicare, which account for two-thirds of federal outlays.

The measure would make the payments an automatic benefit like Social Security or Medicaid.

Other cuts: $73 billion in automatic benefits; $25 billion in the Federal work force, and $19 billion for agriculture.

There are no automatic benefits to the economics.

Budget experts say it would be more difficult for a freeze to include cover "entitlement" programs providing automatic benefits for qualified recipients.

His argument was that tenure should be a reward and not an automatic benefit based on years of service.

Programs that provide automatic benefits to everyone who meets qualifications, like Medicaid and Social Security, would not be affected.

Those who give the EU the automatic benefit of the doubt are doing it no favours.

Mayor Giuliani, who was elected as a fusion candidate in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, had not previously indicated much taste for dismantling automatic benefits programs.