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Robert Eckert's avatar

No, an "entitlement" is not money for doing nothing. You are "entitled" to things that you pay for. When you pay off your mortgage or car loan, you become "entitled" to your house or auto: the bank transfers to you the "title".

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Mary Hall's avatar

Nope. SS and Medicare are EARNED BENEFITS. not an entitlement.

People think it's an entitlement because they are "entitled" to get their money back. Some people pay into the system for 50 years and die before they collect their earned benefit. It's an insurance policy.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Yes. ThatтАЩs what the word тАЬentitledтАЭ means. You are entitled to things that you have earned and paid for.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

The problem is that "entitlement", like many english words, has two different meanings:

1) The fact of having a right to something

2) The belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment

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MARY's avatar

We are entitled to the benefits we as a society agreed to. Which the not 1% paid into for a lifetime. These billionaires are succeeding in stealing OUR federal dollars. They sure as hell didn't pay in like every working stiff did.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I believe you have missed my point. Getting money as the oligarchs do, from capital gains because they have excess money IS the entitlement.

DonтАЩt take the prejudicial term literally Robert.

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