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In reply to the discussion: STOP Calling Social Security & Medicare Entitlements! [View all]redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)26. If they are then I am "entitled" to all of the money I have paid into these programs for 45 years.
Fine, write me a check for the money I have paid in over the years. Of course they can't since the current generation will be paying for us, as we did for the one before us.
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We paid for them, so we are "entitled" to them. I do get that GOPers have made the term evil.
Hoyt
Mar 2019
#2
Exactly. We are legitimately ENTITLED to them; GOP has trashed a perfectly good word.
lagomorph777
Mar 2019
#17
Exactly. We paid for them so we are entitled to them. Republicans love twisting words
emulatorloo
Mar 2019
#28
we let team limbaugh spin it for 30 years - money is free speech, corporations are people,
certainot
Mar 2019
#50
They ARE ENTITLEMENTS. People pay into Social Security and Medicare, and they are ENTITLED
still_one
Mar 2019
#3
Excellent response. Not only farmers, the tax bill gave those "socialist" corporations all kinds of
still_one
Mar 2019
#11
It's not the word, it's how the media and right wing use them to their desires.
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2019
#14
Sorry folks, this is unrelated to this trend , but I wanted to know how NRaleighLiberal's trip ...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#29
I love taking away the rights edge policies by using their own logic against them.
populistdriven
Mar 2019
#21
If they are then I am "entitled" to all of the money I have paid into these programs for 45 years.
redstatebluegirl
Mar 2019
#26
EXCEPT THATS WHAT THEY ARE - people are entitled to them exactly because they are an earned
Kashkakat v.2.0
Mar 2019
#53
Shouldn't it be "Stop lying and calling Social Security and Medicare entitlements"
cstanleytech
Mar 2019
#60
But this is a whole big pot of money that the entitled rich aren't entitled to steal . . . yet.
tclambert
Mar 2019
#62
Doubling down on directly reclaiming the word "entitlements" is a big mistake.
summer_in_TX
Mar 2019
#64