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Old 08-12-2012, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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The use of the word "Entitlement" program was used correctly.
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Old 08-12-2012, 11:47 AM
 
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You're right, it doesn't matter who wins the election because normal Joe is screwed regardless.
It's every man for himself.
Indeed it is. I feel sorry for those of the next generation of Americans citizens that are in mountains of debt due to college debt and have worked hard to achieve their goals, while Obama and DACA ensure that they will not have jobs to pay off their debt or have a future in their own country.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:03 PM
 
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That is not going to end well. Being able to collect FICA from them "indefinitely" while they know they can never collect on it is not going to last long. And we won't get much when FICA is taken from low wage jobs.
We both know this. Unfortunately, after leaving the White House he doesn't care since financially, he and his family will be set for life.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:08 PM
 
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So I have a hard time seeing how at a private function, some pinhead can run in and start ranting and raving and yelling about all sorts of nonsense.

It's another false scenario concocted by liberal nutjobs. Storm into a place, create a big scene and then when the police take you away cry foul. That is stuff children do, not 71 year olds.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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The 71-year-old senior citizen was obviously unhappy about Ryan’s use of the word “entitlement” when he has paid, as all working people have, for the benefits he receives. It’s apparent that he went to the meeting to voice his opposition to that term being used; a view shared by many.

Ryan has a history of being booed and hissed at Town Hall meetings. He has told folks to leave and he progressed to having them arrested. Here’s a video by Moveon.org showing three other people arrested for asking about jobs at the same gathering:

Yeah so "cold" and so "heartless" that that 71 year old's Medicare won't change a bit. He's obviously been fooled by leftists singing siren songs about about the security of Medicare/Medicaid. Something needs to be done about those entitlements or they will nuke our budget. Paul Ryan is neither "cold" nor "heartless" he's just got backbone enough to tell the truth about entitlement spending in America. Most Americans don't want the truth though, they want reassurance. Like the guy in the video.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:31 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I like how they put a 71 year old on the ground and arrested him for expressing his opinion to a public official. Welcome to America. He was 100 percent correct. Medicare,social security and unemployment aren't "entitlement" programs, they're insurance programs.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:48 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Entitlement is defined in the dictionary as follows:

1. a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract

2. a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also: funds supporting or distributed by such a program.

The old guy was out of line. Maybe Ryan should bring a dictionary with him.

Entitlement - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

It doesn't say anything about who did or didn't pay into them. Are dictionaries not on the Democrat reading list anymore?
Technically, yes. I pay health insurance premiums so I'm entitled to benefits. But when a conservative politician uses the term "entitlement program" everyone knows what he's talking about, and it doesn't have a positive connotation.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:50 PM
 
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Medicare,social security and unemployment aren't "entitlement" programs, they're insurance programs.
That is the lie we were told in order to support them. Real insurance is not set up the way these programs are set up.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:50 PM
 
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I like how they put a 71 year old on the ground and arrested him for expressing his opinion to a public official. Welcome to America. He was 100 percent correct. Medicare,social security and unemployment aren't "entitlement" programs, they're insurance programs.
Bamboozled by libspeak. Just like that 71 year old who was being exceptionally rude. He got what he deserved.
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Old 08-12-2012, 12:52 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Bamboozled by libspeak. Just like that 71 year old who was being exceptionally rude. He got what he deserved.
People who speak deserve to be arrested? I'll be sure to remember that.
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