Social Security AND Medicare are NOT entitlements in the sense of the word today. Entitlements today generally mean things that you get for free from the government. We've all paid into the SS and Medicare through our payroll deductions. Now, you can argue about the amount that should be paid in or paid out and I see the day coming when the taxes will be raised and/or benefits reduced, but the fact remains that I am paying for those 2 programs every paycheck. One problem with SS is that people are trying to scam the system by getting on disability before they are eligible for retirement benefits. I know 1 guy who retired at 53, has millions in the bank, got very sick and filed for SS disability at 58. AND HE GOT IT!
Medicaid, WIC, etc are different. The people who receive those benefits pay zero, zilch, nada for them. And they are the feistiest, most arrogant, demanding people to deal with regarding them. (My wife encounters them as a nurse in an urban hospital) They think it's their right to have babies at 15, drop out of school, lay around the house with no ambition and have you and I pay so they can have the same level of health care that we pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month for.
Just today on the radio I heard a plea to provide food to kids in SE Michigan during the holiday break. These kids normally get free lunches at school. They said there are 300,000 of them in SE Michigan alone! What are the parents doing? If they can't afford to feed kids, they shouldn't be having them! But I'm sure they all have nice smart phones, tattoos running up and down their arms, gold chains hanging around their necks, decorated nails and fancy hairdos. Anyway, I think there will be some painful adjustments coming for all of us in one form or another, but they're necessary.
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