Entitlement Programs: This makes me insane!

Social Security and Medicare are NOT entitlement programs. Welfare, food stamps, etc, might be called entitlements, but when I PAY for something for YEARS, this is not an "entitlement" program. Oh, this makes me INSANE. And NPR is just encouraging this by calling it this. UGH! They want to cut these programs. Sorry, but I paid you, and with compounded interest, I should be able to get cost of living increases. I should be able to get medicare without you calling me a freaking cow sucking at the teet of Uncle Sam.
MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE!

away with it, I want my damn money back!

At the going rate each month I payed in.

They are social insurance programs. This is a fact.

It doesn't mean "charity." It doesn't mean "welfare."

It means something that is owed to you, that you have title to, no matter what your income -- because you paid for it.

(Welfare and food stamps are not entitlements, by the way. They are need-based social welfare programs.)

Words mean things. The right-wing framed this to be a bad word. It's not.

Entitlement should not be thought of as a negative.

Those other taxes that we pay that we don't receive in our hands do important work too. Like build roads that allow us to go to work, for goods to be transported, to travel, etc. Paying all those taxes makes it possible for everyone to have a better life because we collectively use it for the good of everyone. Such a socialized idea.

Don't confuse the meaning of entitlement as used in "entitlement program" with the pejorative one. These programs are called "entitlements" because we are entitled to them by law. They are a defined and guaranteed right due to statute. It has nothing to do with negative connotations such as "sense of entitlement" or "entitled little dipshit."

You were paying for previous generations' retirements. Now, you are at the mercy of both the faulty accounting of those years, and the willingness of shrinking generations behind you (if you're a baby boomer) to continue this scheme, even though they stand even less chance than you of getting anything out of it.

we WERE paying for what was supposed to be our own retirement. They were taking enough out to pay for that -- until they broke their promises and started diverting that money for other purposes (not using it just to pay for current retirees, but to balance the budget).

"supposedly". Anytime you create a great pot of money that is subject to the control of only Congress, expect that cookie jar to have many hands in it.

An entitlement is "a right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)". It has nothing to do with who is funding the program. Social Security is, in fact, an entitlement.

To quote the great EstimatedProphet:

Of course it's an entitlement. BUT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ENTITLEMENTS

Idiot teabillies think that SS is a tax. They think this because they are stupid. People pay into SS, and it is no different than a 401K - with 1 exception: it's safer. However, it's far from an entitlement the way they think of an entitlement, as money that gets taken from them and given to those dirty neegras and messicans. But, as I said before, they think that because they are stupid.

Social Security is, by definition, an entitlement.

By calling them that, they make people on Social Security and Medicare sound like who they call "welfare queens" who have "litters" to suck off the teet of the government. Pisses me off.
Quotes are their terms, not mine.

SS is, by definition, an entitlement. They use it improperly, not people who refer to SS as an entitlement. It is.

The collectively GOP wants your (our) money and expects *not* to have to work for it.

Saying it that way might make the moderate Republican actually do something to give their radicals the boot.

An entitlement is the right to guaranteed benefits, such as Social Security or Unemployment Insurancw compensation. It is NOT welfare.

as the average American does? Who pays the difference?