> I'm shocked that they are so brazen as to frame one of the categories as "entitlement spending". What's wrong with calling them that, those are entitlements.

> I'm shocked that they are so brazen as to frame one of the categories as "entitlement spending". What's wrong with calling them that, those are entitlements. > Technically, retirement benefits are things to which retirees are entitled to. Which is why they're called entitlements. > This is the literal meaning of the word "entitle", not the pejorative that it's become. It's only a pejorative to some and those same people think liberal is a pejorative. Nothing remotely wrong with the word entitlements, it's not pejorative to anyone who understand what the word actually means.