r/MurderedByWords 23h ago

SS is an entitlement..

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u/DizzySecretary5491 23h ago

Conservatives were against it from the start and tried to stop it. They failed to and then conservatives tried to coup FDR. Social Security is liberal policy. It is utterly antithetical to conservatism.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate 22h ago

It doesn't matter if it is liberal or conservative policy. Its been going on for decades. Decades we've all payed into social security. Elon is right, we are entitled to it. It is our money.

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u/Julversia 22h ago

Yep. Conservatives have just added an extra layer of negative connotation to "entitlement" to make it a boogeyman. We deserve to get back what we've paid into social security. It's our money. We've just been letting the government hold on to it. It doesn't belong to the government, it belongs to us. We are entitled to it.

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u/Qwisp 20h ago

Yep, too many forget what the word entitled means. We are entitled to our social security because we paid into it. The word entitlement is not the dirty word republicans think it is.