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Showing Original Post only (View all)They should not be called entitlements.. they are earned benefits!! [View all]
Every time I hear some one from our side use the term entitlements I just want to slap them aside of their head and say.. NO!!! I PAY SS tax.. I PAY into medicare.. These are earned benefits.. Do no use the other-sides language.. Sheesh..When we will learn words have meanings..
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Entitlements also refer to benefits that are not 'earned' such as medicaid
Freddie Stubbs
Mar 2013
#1
An entitlement is a thing to which you are entitled by exchange or by contractual agreement
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#3
They are called entitlements because we are ENTITLED to them because we earned them.
pnwmom
Mar 2013
#4
Okay, following your line of reasoning, do you have the right to drive on that portion....
OldDem2012
Mar 2013
#19
I'm in favor of a Government that has a constitution that begins with the words,.....
OldDem2012
Mar 2013
#49
No, thats not it. He is entitled to the returns on 40-50 years of investments. That is a lot of
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#47
Entitlement comes off as weak only if you let conservatives sell it that way.
Gormy Cuss
Mar 2013
#39
That's such a ridiculous distortion of reality that I can't take you seriously
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#67
This is what marks you out as a right wing libertarian with no idea about economics
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#81
You say you are a "liberal economist," yet you believe that redistribution is theft.
Common Sense Party
Mar 2013
#79
Your property is defined by government laws, and you obtained it with government help
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#68
not really, since insurance is only claimed when you 'need' it. social security, at least, is not.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#35
they may, but need is not the criterion for benefits. an important point since so many on the
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#51
The fourth Wednesday of each month an amount to which I am 'entitled' is deposited into my
bike man
Mar 2013
#38