You worked for it; you're Entitled to it:

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2. There's "apparently" about it.

The Republican goal is the elimination of Social Security, Medicare, and the entirety of our social safety net. They will do this, given the power, either by legislative fiat or by simply cutting taxes so severely the programs are no longer sustainable. The thought of elderly and poor people dying homeless, hungry, sick, and in despair is, for Republicans, a fair price to pay to keep the rich rich, and their pillaging of the resources, natural and human, of this country unhampered by any social consciousness.

As retired police detective and successful crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh once observed, the criminal mind thinks that conscience is a con. And that epitomizes the Republican mind very well.