Thursday, December 04, 2008 | 12:17 p.m.

The Entitlement Mess

by John Stossel

Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about "entitlements"?

That's the government's ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn't.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

To finance "entitlement" programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called hu ...

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Posted by: Jerry McCahan
Comment: #1
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:29 AM

Hi John, I have read your entitlement mess story. I do agree that social security is a mess, but first of all their are to many hands in it. The feds taking money out to help pay the budget, people on ssi who never payed a dime into it. I know because my son in law is on it. But he is able to go out and cut trees down and do landscaping work for pay but he gets a check every mouth and he is only 28. People always talk about benefits that the working man gets and payed into all their life. We have people in this country collecting a pay check from welfair, how much does that cost the tax payers. Being out here I do see that most that I know can work but it easyier to stay at home and collect a pay check. The other thng is the people in jail. I worked in a prison, they get better medicial coverage then the working people on the street that obey the laws. Between wel fair and inmates we tax payers spend alot of money. The press is getting as bad as the Feds, you both want to cut the legs out from under the working man, and at the same time give more to those who want a free pay check or those who want to brake the law. Thank you Jerry

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