Full Definition of ENTITLE
1
: to give a title to : designate
2
: to furnish with proper grounds for seeking or claiming something
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I maintain that according to definition two Social Security and Medicare are the TRUE entitlements because those who pay for something should be entitled to receive what they paid for. The word has been corrupted so that people no longer give it its true meaning, calling something that people have not paid one penny for an entitlement and then being insulted when someone says that what you DID pay for is an entitlement seems absurd to me.
How did an entitlement come to be regarded as the same as a scam? It used to be that if you told someone he was “entitled” to something it meant that he had damned well earned it or at least was the legitimate heir to it, not that it was being given as charity. Anyone who said that someone was entitled to be supported by the state would have been regarded as out of his mind.
Ayn Rand warned long ago that one of the main tools of the left is the corruption of language and they have certainly done a fine job of it, conservatives have allowed the left to convince them that “entitlement” means whatever the left claims without bothering to even think about the fact that for centuries it has meant the opposite.