It’s not entitlements when it’s your money.
If the government was considering this an *investment* then they owe the money to the people they took it from, with interest.
It’s not denial. Denial is not realizing that the government TOOK people’s money with the promise that they would get it back and then abdicating on that promise.
Entitlement is welfare and food stamps and medicare and medicaid. Stuff that no one invested (even by force) in but that is just handed out for those too lazy to work for a living. Entitlement mentality is them thinking that someone OWES them all that just because they’re alive breathing the same air as you and I.
It is not entitlement to expect a promised return on an investment.
It was never an investment, nor could anyone who did the least bit of research ever consider it an investment.
The first recipients never paid any Social Security tax. How is that an investment program?
It is a socialist retirement program. People pay taxes to the government, and the government pays out welfare payments. There is no connection between the two actions.
>It is not entitlement to expect a promised return on an investment.
Ok, then please explain where that money is going to magically come from. You do realize that all government income is from current taxpayers right?
Social Security is not an investment. It has no principle. It is a Ponzi scheme rigged out to perform a Welfare function.
Oh, and I hate to break it to you, but Medicare is funded in the same way as Social Security, with a payroll tax. It’s just even more insolvent.
Though I admit that it’s a positive sign you’re making progress in that you see Medicaid as an entitlement. It gives me hope that you’ll figure out Social Security eventually as well.
Well said, metmom.