Re:NASA Struggles Over Deep-Space Plutonium Power
by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @03:11PM
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>entitlements
Such a weird word. By its very core, it is about things you are entitled to. Like SS, which you are entitled to because you paid into it.
But yet calling someone entitled, and the use of the word entitlements, is meant to describe someone thinking they are entitled to something they aren't. It is a word that in practice means the opposite of what it should mean in theory, especially when used in a political sense.
Re:NASA Struggles Over Deep-Space Plutonium Power
by underdown on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @03:21PM
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Under the social security umbrella there's also supplemental security income, that has nothing to do with what you or your spouse paid in. Medicare has medicaid, same story.
Such a weird word. By its very core, it is about things you are entitled to. Like SS, which you are entitled to because you paid into it.
But yet calling someone entitled, and the use of the word entitlements, is meant to describe someone thinking they are entitled to something they aren't. It is a word that in practice means the opposite of what it should mean in theory, especially when used in a political sense.