Entitlements should remain
I want to address all the enlightened ones who believe all “entitlements” should be done away with.
First, I paid into Social Security and Medicare since I started working at age 13. I only stopped work when I became too ill to continue. No one chooses to live on Social Security. Some have no choice at all.
Second, no one is giving me anything. I paid for it all. I still pay taxes. To take away so-called “entitlements” is to hurt the oldest, sickest and poorest of our society.
May I thank you, from all of us, for your contempt at our circumstances. I hope you never have to live with them. But you’ll be glad those “entitlements” are there if you should find that life is not as perfect and predictable as yours seems to be or you believe it to be.