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How can social security be considered an entitlement program when us working class folks are paying for it???
Amazing how you answered your own question but didn't recognize that you had. There are entitlement programs, the benefits that you are entitled to, and need tested programs that you apply for and you might get them or you might not.
Or am I the one who is missing the point that you are trying to make?
An entitlement program can be defined as a governmental mechanism where public funds are given to people because they meet some kind of requirement. One commonly known American example of an entitlement program would be the federal food stamp program, which allows people without sufficient funds to buy food. Another well-known entitlement program is Medicare, although only certain parts of that program actually qualify as entitlements.
Entitlement is a government term which enables them to disconnect the contract made between the government and you regarding monies deducted from your wages and hopefully invested on your behalf for use at retirement to one where you are bestowed benefits which may be reduced as determined by the government.
Your 401K is a private entitlement program. As is your private pension or annuity, etc. I mean using the same logic the government has.
You are born here you are a citizen
You legally emigrate here you are a resident
You illegally emigrate here and you are an undocumented resident. Previously, you were an illegal alien.
See how a word or words can change the meaning of the same thing?
You paid for it, thereby making you entitled to their benefits.
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