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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dugby" data-source="post: 1885174" data-attributes="member: 7393">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.</blockquote>