THEY ARE I.O.U.s, NOT ENTITLEMENTS!

[hedgehog]

Sorry to be so loud so early in the morning.

[MattBaggins]

1. They are Bonds not IOUs

[Egalitariat]

2. Medicare is an entitlement. The only think you have to do to be entitled to it is have a 65th

birthday.

Entitlement is not a bad word.

[hedgehog]

4. Money is taken out of my paycheck every week for Medicare -

why is it no one complains when people take money from a 401K, but Medicare is tagged an entitlement?

[damntexdem]

9. The issue is that a perfectly good word is being stigmatized.

ENTITLEMENT is a wonderful concept.

[Egalitariat]

13. The money taken out of your paycheck, and your entitlement to Medicare are mutually exclusive

If you never worked a day of your life, and therefore never paid a penny into Medicare, you'd still be entitled to it on you 65th birthday.

That's what makes it an Entitlement.

[phleshdef]

3. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the word "entitlement".

We need to stop allowing the right wing to make good words mean bad things.

These ARE entitlements and we are all potentially entitled. Now lets move on.

[Codeine]

5. If they were IOUs

then they'd stop paying us as soon as we used up the amount we put in. Most of us will take more out than we contributed if we are healthy.

[hedgehog]

6. We contribute from our share of the current economy to ensure

getting a share of a future economy. True, we won't make as much as the most successful investor, but we accept a lower payback because of the reduction in risk.

[Codeine]

10. Which is an entitlement, not an IOU.

There's nothing wrong with the term "entitlement."

[MilesColtrane]

7. They are entitlements because you are entitled to receive benefits after paying into them for years.

There is nothing dirty or wrong with the word.

[damntexdem]

8. They are funds to which we ARE entitled!

We paid in and grew a surplus. The government borrowed the money in the form of bonds. We are entitled to the money when we are eligible and file for it.

[hedgehog]

11. While I agree with you, I think that the Right has turned

"entitlement" into a dirty word. I'm trying to retrieve the original concept.

[JCMach1]

12. If they are not going to pay out then give me my damn money back!

Frak the frakking Repigs...