Social Security and Medicare aren't "ENTITLEMENTS." They're EARNED BENEFITS!
Many who work for others look at their paycheck every week/month and wonder why it doesn't add up to the amount they're earning. It's because (most) of the deductions from their checks are providing Social Security and Medicare for the elderly. And when any working person turns 65, all of those deductions start paying for their own Social Security and Medicare.
That's the way it works. It's really that simple.
Republicans hated it when it became part of our system, they hate it now, and they want to end it. They call those payments "ENTITLEMENTS," to make people think the government is handing out charity. Democrats call them EARNED BENEFITS, which is what you paid for your entire working life.
Why are Republicans against these fair, decent, civilized programs? Because they don't want that money going to the peasants, (the vast majority of us). They want it to go into the pockets of the very wealthy and themselves.
We are fed much shit by Republicans about Social Security going broke. Well, that may be, because they have been stealing from the Social Security fund for decades for their "sacred tax breaks for the rich." If they'd keep their fucking hands off of OUR MONEY, our benefits wouldn't have a shortfall.
Joe Biden called them out on this during the SOTU and they booed him. Gotta' wonder why. And then he flipped it on them and told them that it was good that everyone agreed on the necessity of Social Security and Medicare. Then they applauded him because they didn't want to appear to be the dicks they are.
But, of course, as always, Republicans are full of shit. They will not abandon their efforts to fuck Americans out of their earned benefits for the sake of their owners and themselves.
Let no one ever again ask why Republicans are horrible human beings. Believe them when they show us it's who and what they are.
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before retirement, and still have to pay taxes on a retirement pension. Often I worked two jobs, a full time and part time one when I wanted extra income for a special, expensive purchase.
In fact, I've actually "worked" since I was a child in elementary school, setting up a lemonade stand and a "store" for selling my mother's cast off jewelry, dresses, and shoes when she cleared out her closet. Plus, my sister and our best friend and I put on "shows" in the neighborhood that we charged a nickel admission for.
But we never made enough to report to IRS. 
When I was 11, I "babysat" for a neighbor's 4 month old for 2 hours while the mother went to the grocery store in the middle of the afternoon. The baby slept in her crib the whole time and my mother and neighbors were nearby if I needed help or advice. Throughout my teens, I earned pocket money from babysitting, but never enough to report.
But from 18 to 68, I worked steadily, paying into my earned benefits.
