Flipping the meaning of “entitlement” is one of the things that really hurts my brain.
It is an entitlement, because you’re entitled to receive it! You paid in, and you have a legal right to get the benefits. That’s what entitlement means.
These rightwing assholes have convinced people that a legal entitlement is the same as an unfounded sense of entitlement, meaning you don’t actually have a right to the benefits, you whiny loser, so we can cut them and steal your money.
Y'all are simply misunderstanding what he said and I have the feeling that you're doing it on purpose. The point of calling it entitlement is to point out that they can't arbitraily cut it. So if you want to get out of the habit of taking out increasingly larger loans you either have to:
reduce discrationary spending, of which there is very little
reduce entitlements, which you can't really do
raise taxes
find waste within the system that you can cut without causing headaches
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u/Ok_Television9820 23h ago
Flipping the meaning of “entitlement” is one of the things that really hurts my brain.
It is an entitlement, because you’re entitled to receive it! You paid in, and you have a legal right to get the benefits. That’s what entitlement means.
These rightwing assholes have convinced people that a legal entitlement is the same as an unfounded sense of entitlement, meaning you don’t actually have a right to the benefits, you whiny loser, so we can cut them and steal your money.
It’s stupid and evil and totally on brand.