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In reply to the discussion: The Real Entitlements, and the Numbers...Welfare Entitlement of the Rich [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)is as you describe: benefits one has earned.
Unfortunately the right wing meme machine has worked for many years to make it synonymous with
"entitled" :
believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
"his pompous, entitled attitude"
which would better describe the attitude of wealthy individuals that feel entitled to the unearned benefits they receive from all of us via tax dodges and giveaways to them.
This was a carefully planned projection that allows them politically to cast a negative light on earned benefits that are received by those that earn them.
They have confused the public enough with this conflation that I feel it is best to refer to entitlements as earned benefits simply so that people that don't know the actual meaning are not confused by a very nasty yet successful false meme.
The article is poorly titled, yet the article itself is pretty good in my opinion.
It just goes to show how successful rich fucks are at confusing our language to the point that such mistakes are often made