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Old 10-11-2020, 08:13 AM
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Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. If anything they are lifetime taxes that generally fail to reach the payout of a lifetime of conservative investments. I resent the implication advanced by an effete ruling elite that after 55 years of contribution to the programs i have become a burden on the system.
I always have an issue with the way that the word "entitlement" is often used in this argument. IMHO, we who have paid into the SS system for decades are entitled to the benefits that we have paid for all these years.

Calling welfare and medicaid entitlements is wrong to me. Those reaping those benefits are not entitled to them. They are charity.

I think that we have it backward.
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