Should We Allow Republicans to Change the Meaning of the Word "Entitlement?"

No. Instead, ask Republicans if they believe you are truly not entitled to receive the benefits you have been paying for all of your working live and that everyone else who works has been paying for all their lives. Ask them if the law does not entitle you to receive those statutory benefits. Ask them if they intend to take away the benefits to which you are entitled by law. Ask them if the promises made to you by the federal government before making you pay into that system are worthless.

Ask them specifically if they plan to take away your individual benefits under Social Security or Medicare. Put them on camera saying that they plan to take them away from you and everyone else who is entitled to them. Watch them run away from you as fast as they can.

They're trying to redefine a word again, as they have done so many times in the past. We should not let them do that. Instead, say this: