the term "entitlements" should be retired!

[grasswire]

It's too easy for low-information people to misunderstand the concept, ignoring the fact that people have invested their money in those programs -- programs which are really various types of insurance and not freebies.

Surely some smart wordsters could devise a substitute for "entitlements"?

Something that conveys the truth?

[nichomachus]

1. Any Democrat who uses it

should have to put $500 in a "cuss jar."

[Blue Idaho]

2. Entitled? Bullshit! I paid for those those benefits!

Every day of my working life.

They Are EARNED BENEFITS!

[99th_Monkey]

3. Rather than change the word

how about changing what it has come to mean.

Actually it is not a bad word to describe programs that, yes, people
ARE indeed entitled to, precisely BECAUSE they paid into them.

What is really sick is how the GOP knuckle draggers have corrupted
the word insinuating it means "government handouts", but that really isn't
what the word means even, that's just their sick twisted view of it.

This would be kind of like where Obama recently openly and publicly
EMBRACED the work "ObamaCare" and turned it around on the
ReThugs, contrasting it with "Romney-Doesn't-Care."