Quit calling SS and Medicare entitlements. The recipients paid into it while

[muntrv]

they were working.

[DemonGoddess]

1. Thank you!

Future recipients are paying into it now. This is something that we all do, so that we CAN retire.

[dflprincess]

2. Though, in a sense, because we paid for it

we are entitled to it.

Perhaps we need to take the word back.

[Freddie]

3. Technically that's what "entitlements" means

You paid into it, therefore you are entitled to the benefit. It's the Repugs that twisted
the meaning.

[yardwork]

4. Right wing crap.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. I know. It drives me nutz

I am 59. I've been disabled on and off since 2012 and I'm getting disability now and I feel bad about it. But then I remind myself that I've worked at least part time since I was 16, about 40 years. There was about 7 years that I worked full AND part time. So I try not to beat myself up.

[Ilsa]

6. No, we need to take back the goodness and justice in that word.

We are entitled" because we paid into the system. Republicans have turned it into a dirty word, like a description of their entitled rich kids.