Yes-they are entitlement programs, and I am wondering if they accept it for them, but want to ruin it for the younger generations?
These two programs are clearly the most expensive government programs. Is this where they want budget cuts?
Is a senior who thanks God he has SS and medicare but votes tea party a hypocrite?
I have been paying into it all of my life, I have years to go, but I do not want that taken away because selfish hypocrites are in office
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Those entitlement programs pay back to everyone that paid in, not just the people that need it. That is one difference.
However I think the tea party/libertarian stance would be that it infringes on your freedom to spend recklessly and be a bum at old age, so it has to go.
Reality doesn’t work that way though, because nobody wants old bums in our society. So yeah, a little responsibility to tuck some money away is forced on you.
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“When you have been paying in to it for your entire working life, it is not an entitlement program.”
It is a ponzi scheme though…you get the money you put in within 8 years. Your kids are footing the rest of your tab.
When you have been paying in to it for your entire working life, it is not an entitlement program.
They are entitlements only is that they are things that have been paid for. Those who were forced to pay in are entitled to get the return they were promised, just as you are entitled to the money you have deposited in the bank.
“Yes-they are entitlement programs”. They sure are. Even the news called them that. And like was asked the other night on the news, HOW are they going to pay for that those “Bush tax cuts” since they don’t want their monthly Medicare and SS touched??? They have to be paid for! I can’t stand hypocrites!
One last time
Social security and Medicare are NOT ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS.
People who receive benefits from the aforementioned programs do so because they paid into them throughout their lives
Entitlement programs are benefits given to those who paid nor earned anything
SEE THE DIFFERENCE?
There is no “tea party platform” since it’s not a party. But tp’s seem to believe that Social Security and Medicare are welfare and people should just take care of themselves.
Actually, Medicare and Social Security are entitlement programs. It’s just that people have given that term a bad meaning, i.e. welfare.
From a political glossary:
The most important examples of entitlement programs at the federal level in the United States would include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, most Veterans’ Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans, unemployment compensation, food stamps, and agricultural price support programs.
I don’t know about the tea party but I think they should be voluntary not mandatory. People bad mouth the stock market but if the money I paid in the soc. sec. the past 35 years was in stocks instead I could retire comfortably right now.
