Social Security Battle: AARP Plans Secret 'Salon' With Social Security Opponents

How can we discuss paying for the trillions borrowed from Social Security when citizens are demanding more 'free' government entitlements. Free contraceptives for all, which will cost billions, is the latest demand.

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An "entitlement" is so called because American workers have paid into it -- They're "entitled" to that which they've bought and paid for.

And you're got the contraceptive battle all wrong.  It's not "free" contraceptives, anymore than an antibiotic would be free under your health insurance plan.
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Social Security Battle: AARP Plans Secret 'Salon' With Social Security Opponents

Every time the libs start whining about the possibility of losing something they feel entitled to receive

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It's not a "feeling"; the people of all perspectives and persuasions, not just liberals, are "entitled" because they've already bought and paid for it.
   
But the only thing that Republicans could do with the word, with the concept of 'entitlement', was to try to change people's attitude about the word itself, conflate it with a common parlance of the word used to describe people who are 'putting on airs' --  "Look at her, all high and mighty, as if she were entitled."

The first step is recognizing the tricks of the trade (political pin, weasel-speak, and Democrats do it, too), and reclaiming the language.
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Patriot Act: Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Government's Use Of Surveillance Powers

Read the last line from the NYT article:

The letter from Mr. Wyden and Mr. Udall also complained that while the Obama administration told Congress in August 2009 that it would establish “a regular process for reviewing, redacting and releasing significant opinions” of the court, since then “not a single redacted opinion has been released.”

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