When used in a different tone, the meaning of a word can change from its long understood definition,… to the complete opposite.
I would remind those who banter the word entitlement around to be careful how they use it.
The overuse of this word implies there is no difference between things that are earned and things that are selfishly assumed for merely being born. I fear that a mind-set will form that clusters any benefit, (earned or leeched) into a category called entitlement.
When a word holds as much power as the word entitlement, we need to be careful not to confuse this descriptive word of merit with unmerited demands of haughty-presumption.
The line can become blurred. Don't listen to people who twist the word entitlement into something that deserves to be cut.
Radical politicians (from the left and right) play with our life as if it were a game of monopoly, using us as tokens. To them we are no more than a clump of pewter, as plain as a thimble or flat iron. To stop them playing this game, a few may need ,…"To go directly to jail."
When the word entitlement is used to describe cutting fat from the budget, it sounds like an insult because it tacitly implies there is no difference between unmerited benefits, and the earned benefits of hard working, honest citizens, who expect a nation they pledge allegiance to, to show allegiance to them.
James A. Bolt
Hixson