Are Social Security and Medicare actually ‘entitlements’?

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    Posted by Spirited-Gold9629

    23 Comments

    1. someoldguyon_reddit on

      Don’t want the US to go broke? Pay your fucking taxes. And release the pedo files.

    2. Muck is an idiot that doesn’t care about anybody but himself. America go bankrupt because these fs keep stealing our money from us and give back nothing. 

    3. privatejokerog on

      He sure didn’t mind building his companies using all those entitlements from the government

    4. seriousbangs on

      Remember, they never cut them for the current receipts, not directly anyway.

      The plans are always to take it away from your children and grandchildren while telling you your save.

      IGMFY

    5. Yes, they are legally an entitlement. A contractual right to benefits. You are entitled to this money because you paid into it.

    6. What he will not tell you is that 6 or 7 T per year still has to get spent.  If it doesn’t a huge % of Americans have no living funds after they all out of the workforce due to age and many no Healthcare.  

      This more of a discussion on whether that spending will move to private business where a % gets shaved off for profit.

    7. Pennies2millions on

      You can dislike the word because of the connotations, but yes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are technically entitlement programs. 

    8. Vivid-Shake4012 on

      This mofo should have no Damn say in what and what isn’t an entitlement .Mr subsidies

    9. I am entitled to them as they are forcefully withdrawn from my paycheck. Of course some rich asshole thinks I’m not.

    10. j____b____ on

      Immigrants are trying to destroy this country! They were right, Musk and Murdoch are killing us!

    11. apparently it’s …  “DO WANT ALL INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS TO GO BANKRUPT” 

    12. waitinonit on

      >Are Social Security and Medicare actually ‘entitlements’?

      Congratulations reddit, you’re now on par with FB discussions.

    13. Technically, they are entitlements. The issue is, as they usually do, conservatives have distorted the meaning of the word “entitlement” as if it were something bad, turning it into derogatory word. A person contributing to a program is entitled to the benefits (although, non-citizens contribute but are not entitled to most of these, so they are being leached off).

      Think about it this way… people buy insurance policies. And they are entitled to benefits of it. But, leave it to conservatives to claim entitlement is bad.

    14. Opinionsare on

      Elon wants more despair in the working class as this makes it easier for him to abuse them for his personal benefit.

      He see the path to being the first trillionaire lined with millions living in poverty, while working every day of their lives.

      Tax the Rich back to reality.

    15. I paid the max SS for 25 of my 35 working years. FU Elon. Sadly he doesn’t know the difference.

      Buffet gave a plan to get rid of the deficit. No politician wants us to do it.

    16. Or, we cut the billions of dollars of entitlements disguised as subsidies to the Musk corporations.
      What’s even more pathetic is this mentality is self defeating. Even the MAGA sycophants who rely on these entitlements will be screaming up a storm should the Federal government start messing with them. This isn’t high gas prices jackass, this is the bread and butter of people who expect their government to actually honor the social contract.
      FAFO, for sure.

    17. I paid into the system for about 50 years. I am entitled to having my damn money back!

    18. MaleficentLack4190 on

      Sure, as long as they give ME back EVERY PENNY I paid into them. What a douche

    19. Accurate_Good_2740 on

      Can some journalist with an ounce of professionalism ask him why his companies deserve billions of tax breaks and incentives, but the people of this country who paid into social security dont deserve to get their money back? This is insanity. We need to end the billionaire class. They are malignant cancer that needs to be excised.

    20. LegoRedBrick on

      If he ran things we’d all be in concentration camps being used as jet fuel. Dude has no soul. Greedy amoeba.

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