STOP calling it an entitlement [View all]

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I've paid the FICA and medicare taxes since before I had a job at a company that handed me a check. I paid FICA even back when I was a teen-ager and raising soy beans and cattle on the farm. It was pretty much a cash business but my dad made us file tax returns and pay the self-employment taxes because that was the right thing to do.

So I've been paying into Social Security and Medicare for the last 30+ years. That means if I get SS benefits I'm not getting a hand out aka "entitlement." I'm getting earned benefits for which I have paid.

So GOP, stop demonizing a program that will pay out to people who paid into it as an investment for all their working life.

And Democrats, please get a clue and re-frame the argument. You won't lose by insisting people get the benefits for which they paid over their life as workers. Correct the GOP and tell them SS and Medicare are NOT entitlements. I've paid for them.