I tire of hearing Social Security and Medicare lumped in as entitlements. People had their pay docked to pay for those.
Entitlements are Medicaid for drug abusers and other nonproductives, welfare to health people who should be working at least part time, subsidized housing for imports, like the Somali population we have in Seattle, headstart for kids whose parents are not working anyway and should be able to take them to the library.
So we support all these moochers at the expense of not funding our military - which does not mean we have to use it, but at least have the ability to - and become a weak country filled with the weak-minded and lazy that can be overrun by countries who actually care about supporting their lands, people and their chosen religion.
Tire away, that's what it is. The taxes were to pay for current retirees, not yours. Early on they made out quite well. Now it's a screw-job. I don't expect ever to see a dime.
Although both obviously badly need reform, I don’t consider SSI and Medicare welfare either.