Mandatory spending. Benefits that cannot legally be withheld from someone that meets the requirements set forth for said benefits. Since you can't deny or cap them or accurately predict how many will need them, they play hell on the budget process.
Something you directly pay for IMO. SS and Medicare are entitlements because it's a line item on my pay stub and I pay cash money for them each payday.
Unemployment isn't, though I believe in the program. It should only be given to those that are actively job hunting though. Yes it's paid for with my taxes, but there's no line item on my pay stub showing me exactly how much I paid.
Unemployment isn't, though I believe in the program. It should only be given to those that are actively job hunting though. Yes it's paid for with my taxes, but there's no line item on my pay stub showing me exactly how much I paid.
The buzzword as used by politicians means Social Security, Medicare, Food stamps, Housing assistance etc. a combination of the governments insurance programs and the welfare programs.
I think entitlement is a negative term that should not be applied to the insurance programs. The insurance programs should not be lumped in with the government sponsored charity programs. In my mind it applies to getting money from the government for nothing other than an inducement for a behavoiur, (i.e. Farm subsidy, corparate welfare, green energy) or scamming the government for disability, Welfare, foodstamps, and other government mandated Charity.
I don't consider Social security, Medicare, unemployment to be entitlements since they are insurance programs we have paid into for the government to waste and mismanage. No doubt these programs need reform from the politicians that have turned aspects of them into "Entitlements".
I don't think anyone should be "Entitled" to charity from the government. Charity is not only about the helped but also about the helper and the helping itself. Goverment "Entitlements" have robbed us of the benefits of being the helpers. Charity without oversight and direct involvement of the charitable ends up being a pig trough where the unscroupulous starve those really in need.
I think entitlement is a negative term that should not be applied to the insurance programs. The insurance programs should not be lumped in with the government sponsored charity programs. In my mind it applies to getting money from the government for nothing other than an inducement for a behavoiur, (i.e. Farm subsidy, corparate welfare, green energy) or scamming the government for disability, Welfare, foodstamps, and other government mandated Charity.
I don't consider Social security, Medicare, unemployment to be entitlements since they are insurance programs we have paid into for the government to waste and mismanage. No doubt these programs need reform from the politicians that have turned aspects of them into "Entitlements".
I don't think anyone should be "Entitled" to charity from the government. Charity is not only about the helped but also about the helper and the helping itself. Goverment "Entitlements" have robbed us of the benefits of being the helpers. Charity without oversight and direct involvement of the charitable ends up being a pig trough where the unscroupulous starve those really in need.
The couple that was checking out in front of me at Buy For Less yesterday. I would say they they were about 25 years old. They had what looked like a 2-3 year old kid sitting in the basket and she looked to be about 8 months pregnant. They were paying for their food with pieces of paper that looked like checks but werent. As the clerk was scanning their items she was looking on the pieces of paper I guess to see if the item was on it. Through the course of checking out she handed the clerk 3 separate pieces of paper. When they were through she had to pay less than 4$ cash. When I was going to my car they were pulling out of a handicap parking spot in a new looking Mustang with aftermarket wheels and exhaust. (car was loud) I watched as the young man rolled down his window and lit a cigarettte. I would say that whatever that was that paid for at least $50 of groceries for them and only cost them less than $4 cas would be an entitlement.
^^^This^^^ I would ad that the man who doesn't work for his money is entitled to do without.
It all depends on who's doing the talking.
Anything provided to you at the expense of others, and that you did nothing to earn.
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