Can working class and middle class Americans really believe that Social Security, Affordable Health Care, and Medicare are Entitlement to which working class and middle class Citizens are not entitled?
Wealthy families for too long have been able to coerce and convince poor, working class, and middle class Americans to turn against their own. In doing so, they have succeeded in convincing the non-rich to turn against their own families. While most Americans aspire to be rich, powerful, and famous, 99% are not rich, nor will they ever be rich. Even given the small possibility--combined with an enormous improbability--of striking gold in one of the various state and national Lottery games notwithstanding, most Americans will never be absurdly affluent.
So it is with a sense of juvenile wishful thinking that borders on self induced insanity that there are those among the poor, working class, and middle class who identify with the wealthy more than they identify with Americans who are like them.
It is patently insane that poor red state Americans living in poor trailer parks, many of who receive help from the government, vociferously complain about billionaires having to pay too much taxes in support of "lazy poor" Americans.
How quickly these same members of the poor working class forgot that following the Clinton White House and the surpluses gained during the Clinton administration, conservative politician and pundits reported that ordinary Americans were not entitled to the benefits those surpluses afforded. They arrogantly insisted that entitlements to this surplus rested solely with the wealthy upper class.
Based on this arrogant assumption, the Bush administration and its greedy conservative confederates proceeded to rape Social Security and the public treasury without shame or even a feigned semblance of remorse. Conservative Republicans decided that any surplus in the public treasury belonged to wealthy Americans since, in their perverted sense of logic and morality, poor, working class, and middle class Americans did not contribute enough of it for any of it to be theirs.
Leading up to the 2012 election, conservative Republicans and political pundits on the predatory side of America did their best to make entitlement a bad word. Conservative Tea Party Republicans insisted that entitlement were demands and expectations made on the state and federal government by Americans who were not entitled to them. First they pinned the label on senior citizens, the poor, the unemployed, and the disabled.
Eventually, conservative Republicans included in their disdain middle class Americans and upper middle class Americans who had paid into and received benefits from Social Security and Medicare. Based on the obscene predatory logic that Americans who worked in the private sector did not enjoy similar retirement plans predatory conservative Republican also included in their rant against entitlements the retirement plans of teachers and civil service employees, among others, as entitlements to which they did not deserve.
Social Security and Medicare is an American Right created by forward thinking liberal leaders who recognized its value in maintaining a healthy democracy. American workers pay into a working system of Social Security and Medicare to which he or she is entitled to receive their due rewards when they retire. Every American who buys American goods and services pay state sales taxes which benefit every American and to which every American is entitled.
America's real and most obscene sense of entitlement rests resolutely in the selfish arrogant minds of the rich. They range from paying no taxes to paying a tax rate that is sinfully smaller than that which middle class Americans pay. They believe the wealthy should be exempt from corporate, business, and industrial regulations and inspections that protect Americans from their abuse.
Before it is too late, the 99% of Americans who are not wealthy must learn a valuable lesson. Just because a politically and economically greedy motivated group demonize a word and paint that label on anyone who is not par ot the 1%, does not make the word a bad word. entitlement is no more a bad work than is liberal--no matter what anyone says about either.
Members of the rapidly diminishing middle class need to stop slurring the word entitlement over their lips as if it were some despicable expectation of someone who is undeserving. Because if they insist in their reckless electing predatory conservatives, they soon may find themselves among the group for whom they display so much disdain.
