Friday, March 04, 2011

SSI Is NOT An Entitlement

Social Security is paid for with a social security tax. It is roughly 15% of your yearly taxable income. It is your earned money that is set aside for your retirement.

Therefor, Social Security is not an entitlement. Social Security is not a benefit that the government grants us because they have extra money floating around and out of the goodness of their hearts have decided to give to you and me when we are old.

It is a savings account that we have deliberately and consistently paid into year after year.

So, why does the WSJ and House Leader Boehner keep referring to Social Security as an entitlement program?

WSJ: GOP Aims to Tame Benefits Programs
Entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid make up more than 60% of the budget. Annual outlays are expected to grow an average of 5.4% for Social Security and 6.8% for Medicare through the end of the decade.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Because it's the right wing frame that counts. SSI has to be reduced to welfare in the minds of the masses so they can justify gutting it. Same with Medicare and any other Social program they were against from day one and fought back then. the GOP has always hated any safety net because they think it makes people lazy lay abouts and what they want is to work people to death. In their world view the only people that have any right to life are the unborn, after your born you have no rights. ( unless your rich and then you have all of them plus.)

Jim Sande said...

What I want to know is why is an allegedly intelligent rag like the WSJ repeating the lie?

What the hell kind of journalism do you call that?

Its garbage.

Glynn Kalara said...

It's a variant of the BIG Lie method the Nazis used. They know that people don't know that SSI is an Insurance program like Unemployment and that people pay for it as a separate tax. So they use Frank Luntz's frame because they're owned by GOPers and it's the party line to call all these programs Entitlements because that has a very negative connotation. Then the rest of their echo chamber repeats it endlessly and it's so. The left has no real way to fight back not having it's own echo chamber and Barry seems to accept the GOP frame for some reason or another? Like maybe because he's really a Goper? I don't know but they're getting ready to gut it just like they reformed health care. Why can't they just leave well enough alone?