Why are Republicans against entitlements?

Question

Do they believe they won't get old and need Social Security, or that their savings habits are so good that such a safety net is a waste?

Are they natural gamblers and believe they will make it through their income generating years without serious illness? Therefore, Disability is just another waste of money.

Do they think letting the poor get sick, infectous, and die is a good thing? Is it that they think they can avoid contact and thus not contract the illness themselves? If so, then why the TB scare?

Do upwardly mobile rising star Republicans, convert to Democrats when the stumble and fall?

I take a offense at those that indicate liberals don't take responsibility. To read how it's been explained here, conservatives have taken a narrow view of responsibility to mean their own family; while liberal takes responsibility for their own countries people. It takes a lot of gull to damn everyone else in order to take care of your own. Though, it makes sense in relation to synergies with racism I read.

I work, I pay taxes, and I'm self reliant. I'm in the top 5% of income and my wife gets to be a homemaker. It wasn't handed to me. Assumptions to the contrary are overreaching generalizations that appear based on resentment that you have to pay for entitlements. Why?

Why is it so hard to believe things happen in life, and sometimes nobody is there to pick up the pieces, that your country has an obligation to provide help. It's not like those that pay very little into Social Security get much back.

Answer 1

The answer is so simple that you should be able to understand it...we are not against those who are truly truly disabled or too old to work getting help, we are against the government wanting to support every Tom Dick And Sally who wants to lay up making babies on our dime! We are against a massive government confiscating our hard earned money and giving it away where they want to. Do you realize that if only those who were disabled and those elderly who could not AFFORD to live without help were the only ones who received it we could actually pay the deserving few a REAL living wage!

Answer 2

Let me see if I can sort through your rantings and try to address each point in an intellectual manner at an educational level you will be able to grasp.

SSI is a ponzi scheme, where you have to continually con more people to be able to keep paying off the original investors. It has failed. Had I put the money that was stolen from me into a low risk mutual fund it would be worth almost 50 times what the government is going to give me back if I live to age 80. I would much prefer the 50 times return than being forced to participate in a ponzi scheme. Make sense?

Despite having the SSI money stolen from me and the confiscatory income tax we still managed to save 20% of our gross income. It was not easy, we had to do without a lot earlier in our marriage but we wanted to retire at 55 so we felt it worth doing without luxuries to get there. I had pancreatic cancer that was treatable and I am fine now, 57 and retired, my lovely wife of 32 years has been healthy. We had disability insurance that we paid for, wrapped into our life insurance policies. Yes it was expensive but we felt we could afford it if we did not have new car payments, new stereos, new TVs and all of the other luxuries that so many people feel are their rights to have.

We help pay for my wifes sister and her husbands health insurance through a small company we set up, they do not get coverage where they work. We also pay for my son and his girlfriend and help with my mother in laws medicines. We take care of our own, we help each other, we do not expect others to do it for us, you see we all believe in personal responsibility.

I have always been a liberal, but a hard and fast capitalist. The free market has rewarded our sacrifices and hard work. I have voted for both sides and even stupidly voted for Perot. We have stumbled, but we took care of it, and here we are.

retired, self-sufficient and personally responsible.

You should try it sometime, it feels great.

Answer 3

Republicans aren't against entitlements. The Republicans had complete control of the governemnt for years there, and you didn't see them abolishing Social Security. They may want to limit some entitlements a little: no COLA one year, increased means-testing another. Shave the costs a bit, or freeze them so they can wedge in a tax cut, but, by and large, they stick with the programs because it's become politically expedient to do so.


Those who are against entitlements, I think, are more against them on principal, then out of a sense of invulnerability. By the same token, I wouldn't think that most of those who are for entitlements support them only because they plan on using them.

Answer 4

Republicans understand the concept of property rights and how important that right is to have and maintain. You might think that these entitlements are a gift from a caring gov't, but really what they are is an attempt to take from those who earn money and give to those who did not earn it. Plus entitlements are backwards. They encourage people to not work hard for themselves but to kick back and let the gov't give them a chance to coast. A Republican understands how important it is to see people handle their own lives instead of being babied all the time.

Answer 5

If you are born does that "ENTITLE" you to a large screen TV or a Cadillac Escalade. The Reps believe that you are given all the chances in the world to make something of yourself. What you do with it is up to you. Tehe Reps won't let people go hunger or die out in the cold but we aren't going to put them up in the Beverly Hills Hilton either.

Answer 6

I have no problem helping people who are in need, and I avidly support entitlement for our elderly. But my real problem is the ones who breed for dollars, or the families with 4 generations on welfare. There are just way too many of these types. You may have enough money to throw away, but I do not. What does TB have to do with entitlements. Its the damn illegals in the country that are bringing in diseases that were previously non existent.

Answer 7

Some of us work hard and we do not piss our money away or spend beyond our means. I for one know there will be no social security for me, so I would rather invest that money that is taken from my check. I believe in investing and saving. I believe in a diverse portfolio is the best way to ensure finical stablity. I also believe in not waiting for the government to come by and take care of me. I believe in hard work and I do not believe in hand outs. I believe in working and paying for my health care, so it will be quality and not letting the government muck it up. I know this will be offensive to some liberals, but hey get a job and work and you might sing the same tune.

Answer 8

Look at many of the problems that the lower class has. While it might be stereotypical, I see many come into the convenient store where I work and buy beer or scratch-off tickets/lotto. The smart person would save that money everyday for when they get ready to retire. You cannot help people when they will not help themselves.

Answer 9

It depends on the definition. If you mean hand outs it's because I work to support my family and what is wrong for me expecting those who can work to do the same.
If your speaking of those who are "really" disabled, then you are a brain washed liberal, who's reading from the socialist the handbook. Get with the program, real compassion for American's has never come from the left and never will.

Answer 10

Income redistribution is socialism and it rewards bad behavior.
Why should someone who works have to pay for someone who doesn't?
Why should someone who is responsible pay for someone who has multiple children without the means to care for them?
What incentive is there to work if everything is confiscated from those who work and given to those who don't?
This thinking is what has caused the welfare class, and it gets worse every year.