STOP calling it an entitlement

[Speck Tater]

23. A word "means" what it's used to imply.

By being used in a certain way a word can be used to mean something different from it's "true" meaning. When used in that way long enough the word comes to mean something different than it's "true" meaning.

"An awful, pompous, artificial edifice" was a high compliment paid to St. Paul's Cathedral meaning awe-inspiring, majestic, and man-made. But those "true" meanings have been forgotten after the new meanings were "used into existence".

The Republicans are using the the word "entitlement" in a context that implies something you have not actually earned, but think you deserve anyway. We can't undo the contranym, so we need to step away from the word itself and re-frame the issue.

It's the same process that we've seen with words like "retarded", "crippled", "colored", which used to be perfectly good words, but which were tainted by pejorative use and had to be replaced with more neutral terms.

"entitlement" has become a tainted word and needs to be discarded.