Hertzberg: Guess Who's Entitled

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2013/04/guess-whos-entitled.html#entry-more

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"My main point in the piece was that social-insurance or earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare shouldn’t be called “entitlements,” because “entitlements” has a smug, I’ve-got-mine, you-owe-me-a-living sound to it. Calling someone “entitled” or having “a sense of entitlement” is not a compliment. It suggests an arrogant B-list movie star expecting the best table in an exclusive restaurant as a matter of course, or a spoiled heiress going wild in the shoe department at Neiman-Marcus. That’s why conservatives so successfully sought to insinuate “entitlements” into the speech centers of innocent American brains. "

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. People

who FEEL entitled (Romney, Trump) vs. people who ARE entitled (all of us who have paid into SS).

[SoCalDem]

2. Actually entitlement (to me) means something different

Last edited Sun Apr 7, 2013, 08:38 PM - Edit history (1)

It's a DUE...

As citizens we should be entitled to certain benefits.

People who join an organization, team, employment venue always want to know what that membership entitles them to.

We need to start taking back the true definitions of the "sneer-words" used by right wingers.

noun: right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)

Our constitution is our contract

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Right, right, right

What I probably should have said is people who have paid into SS are DUE their SS.