“So Social Security recipients, who have been real producers all their life are now labeled takers? If that’s the best that they can come up with, we are sunk.”
Good point.
Might I suggest a “re-phrasing” of an old axiom?
There is no denying that a growing portion of Americans are now living on entitlements.
But could they be divided into two sub-categories, those being:
1. The “deserving” entitlees, as distingushed from
2. The “UNdeserving entitlees”?
Conservatives had better decide to recognize and make use of this distinction. For if they choose to attack the deserving entitlees as well as the undeserving entitlees, they are destined to lose the ideological battle.
(Full disclosure: This year I, too, became an “entitlee”, retiring from the railroad after a 32+ year career. As it was, I stayed more than two years beyond the point at which almost everyone else leaves, and might have stayed longer if some health issues had not intervened...)
It is vicious, misleading and self-defeating to broadly lump people who have been productive all their life with hardcore parasites. Such lies are liable to hand the election over to the Democrats. Such is the decay of the professional windbag class since Ronald Reagan. Reagan knew how to express hard truths without demeaning the worth of anybody.
The author of this piece in FoxNews should be ashamed.