Reply #4: first of all, lose the word "entitlement" altogether

[Roy Rolling]

and change the framing of the argument. The use of the word "entitlement" is the Republican way of saying Medicare and Social Security are free gifts to recipients. They are not "entitlements"---they are the payoff from years of paying premiums. You don't call money received from your car insurance after a wreck an "entitlement"---it is an insurance benefit. A settlement, a payment,...never is it called an "entitlement".

Wording is SO important and anyone who uses "entitlement" to call benefits we receive after a lifetime of paying for them has already sipped the Kool Aid.

GET RID OF THAT WORD---ordinary people do not know what an "entitlement" is. Republicans use it as code talk to their base for "things that are free from government and should be cut."