Because apparently it needs to be said.

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26. "Entitlement" is pure Newspeak that RWNJs started to use and Democrats who

weren't thinking clearly, those "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" types we were stuck with in the 80s and 90s, picked right up.

Social Security is an INSURANCE PLAN that was set up to decrease poverty among children who had lost parents, among people who became disabled through illness or accident, and people who just had too many birthdays to keep on working. We pay our premiums out of every single paycheck and if any of the above conditions affect us, the insurance pays out.

Rich SOBs have been trying to kill it off since its inception in the 1930s. Some years ago, my right wing dad, then in his mid 80s, told me not to be alarmed at hysteria from Republicans that the system was going broke or it would bankrupt the country, he'd heard the same horseshit from them since the day it was passed.

Republicans are the deadly enemy of all working people. Never forget that.