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Freddie

(10,075 posts)

7. Technically "entitlement" means

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 07:47 AM

Feb 2014

"You paid for it, therefore you are entitled to it." They are using the term correctly. It's the Repugs who turned the word around to mean (to some) "you lazy moochers getting something you are NOT entitled to." Yet another example of them redefining terms to suit their agenda.