{"id":30929,"date":"2011-04-17T23:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30929\/entitlement-programs\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T23:33:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:33:15","slug":"entitlement-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30929\/entitlement-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Entitlement Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are entitlement programs?  Unlike corporate welfare and unlike tax breaks for the rich, these are programs that working Americans pay for.  Unlike some truck drivers and taxi drivers and others whose income is unreported, most working Americans pay social security tax and fica tax each pay period.  This payment is taken out of every paycheck so that when we reach that magical retirement age we will collect our social security and have our health care continue.<\/p>\n<p>We have paid our dues for these programs all our working lives.  And now the Republicans want to take away our money we have paid and we are supposed to be happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>The real free loaders are the corporations, rich people and those who work at jobs where their income remain unreported.<\/p>\n<p>I personally think those that yell the loudest are among these free loaders.  They are jealous that we working Americans have contributed to our retirement.  They want us to face the same uncertainty that they face because they have never contributed a dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are entitlement programs? Unlike corporate welfare and unlike tax breaks for the rich, these are programs that working Americans pay for. Unlike some truck drivers and taxi drivers and others whose income is unreported, most working Americans pay social security tax and fica tax each pay period. This payment is taken out of every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}