Mike Lee blasts Social Security
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Most definitely a Ponzi scheme. SS was a good idea, but designed incorrectly from the beginning.
it always pisses me off when they refer to it as an "entitlement"
Yeah, I think a lot of people don’t properly understand what that word means.
I think they mistake it for a transfer program - or welfare or something along those lines. So they bristle at it being used to describe Social Security, since we pay a payroll tax to fund it.
It is a transfer program, there is no mistake. Working age people pay a tax and the funds are transferred to retirees.
Just because people are ignorant of how the program operates.... Or the dictionary definitions of the English language, doesn't change reality.
Well it is..... entitlement, to me, means that I have a right to it.
I think most people think of it the other way and that is being inherently deserving of something just because I think that I am....i.e. a kid thinks they are entitled to have an iPhone.
I think of this definition...
" It can describe a belief that one deserves certain privileges without necessarily earning them."
The average Joe thinks of ss as an entitlement bc “it’s his money he paid in.” They don’t view it like food stamps. In truth they are both entitlements but that’s not how it’s perceived.
Social Security is one of the worse government programs created. It's a regressive tax that takes from productive members of societies and gives to less productive...aka enslavement. Or as socialist like to say, it's a tax and wealth transfer.
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: the state or condition of being entitled : right
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: a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract
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: belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges
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: a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group
also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program
Definition of ENTITLEMENT
the state or condition of being entitled : right; a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract; belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges… See the full definition
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"dammit jim, i'm a doctor not an english major"1
a
: the state or condition of being entitled : right
b
: a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract
2
: belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges
3
: a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group
also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program
Definition of ENTITLEMENT
the state or condition of being entitled : right; a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract; belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges… See the full definition
quit trying to confuse me
So that's the reason you can't write so a person can't read it! 🤣
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I agree with that but I don't think the average Joe thinks of it an entitlement because they view an entitlement as something like food stamps.
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