Entitlements and Guaranteed Bankruptcy

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-Gary North

Almost nobody these days likes to call a spade a spade in public. In fact, calling a spade a spade in public is a form of political incorrectness. The Establishment puts negative pressure on all those who identify a spade as a spade, if that identification might cost the government a loss of power.

Here are a few examples. We are not supposed to say "government handouts." Instead, these are called "entitlements." It is not proper to say "central bank inflation." This is called "quantitative easing." Illegal aliens are "undocumented workers." In true Orwellian fashion, the systematic practice of deception is called "transparency."

The word "entitlement" is the most value-laden in this list. The promoters of government handouts have long suffered in the United States from a sense of shame associated with taking checks from the government. Most Americans have tried to avoid receiving private charity. To receive charity is a mark of weakness, of failure.

They said to recipients: "This is not charity." It told voters that handouts were an "investment in the future." This never sold well. This is why the word "welfare" was substituted for "charity." But this change in wording did not deflect the stigma attached with going on the dole. So, "entitlement" replaced "welfare."

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[srkruzich]

this is why i am building a business from scratch. I can't really implement it for another 3 or 4 years as i have to build up my production stock but when i do, i will be planning for my future.  It will support me instead of social security.  i am no fool, i know it will be taken away from us in the next 10 years.  So i am using what i have paid in as a catalyst to providing for my future.  I will also have my house paid for in 10 years and be entirely debt free.

[Diane Amberg]

goats or bees? personally I love goat milk soap...and no I don't eat it...I got there first!

[Wilma]

Let's see now, my house is paid for and I am debt free and my social security is supporting me quite nicely.  What more do I need?  Incidentally, my husband and I were debt free when we retired.