New Rule: "Entitlements"

[Triana]

[world wide wally]

1. So true ^

[yeoman6987]

4. I agree

The only way for this to get any traction would be for the media to get on board with the name and use is often.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Entitlements is not a dirty word. Don't buy into Republican framing that made it a dirty word.

Republican control of the language of discourse (due to Democratic vacuum in that area) made "entitlements" a dirty word by applying it as a pejorative for help for the poor, elderly, disabled and veterans. (They love troops, hate vets.)

Don't buy it.

There needs to be a different pejorative so that Democrats can stop ceding language and framing to Republicans.

There is no way in hell that 1% is entitled to yachts.

Call it "waste, fraud, and abuse". That is a Republican catch-phrase to turn on its head.

It is waste, a fraud, and abusive to let the 1% have their yacht tax breaks. (Yachts being just one of many examples.)

[PeaceNikki]

9. Amen.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

3. Unentitlements?

[radiclib]

5. Big difference

SS and Medicare are earned 'entitlements' that we all pay for. The rich have done approximately zero to earn theirs.

[Triana]

7. +1

We not only pay for our own so-called "entitlements", we pay for theirs too! Someone pays the taxes they don't have to: the rest of us. Or, we end up with fewer needed services because they money's not there (services THEY will never need).

That makes THEM the "moochers".

[kmlisle]

6. Welfare for the Rich

Is what I call it. And it adds up to far more than food stamps and unemployment insurance and housing assistance combined.

[Triana]

8. Hey! Slightly belated Welcome to DU!

[kmlisle]

11. Thanks! ;-)

[Ilsa]

10. It's not an entitlement because they did nothing

To earn it and be entitled to it.

I agree that it's welfare for the rich, though.

[badtoworse]

12. Do you have any examples? What do the rich get that isn't available to everyone else?