entitlement is a tactical device floated by conservative media to reframe the question of welfare and other types of social assistance (the safety net) away from its functionalities and toward generating a sense that the social safety net is something inflicted on the petit bourgeois by an evil state.
there is no analytic content to it, beyond that.
in fact, the term "entitlement" as it presently operates works to get in the way of thinking about what teh social benefits of teh redistrubtion of wealth might be. just look at any number of threads about taxation--conservatives generally have nothing to say about the redistribution of wealth beyond "i dont like it." which is not an analysis.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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