Have you seen this meme? It gets me so frustrated.

Your social security is absolutely an entitlement. We’re entitled to it. That’s why it’s called that!

Republicans keep trying to redefine the word “entitlement” to mean the exact opposite of what it means so they can cut it. They want people to think “entitlement” is a bad word.

Memes like this only help them do that.

Can Congress decide not to make it an entitlement? Of course, but that doesn’t change the meaning of the word.

Right now, Republicans are moving in that direction, having just voted to gut Medicare so they can give huge tax breaks to the billionaires who bribe them with campaign contributions. But we need to embrace the word “entitlement” and rub it in their faces for the very reason stated in this meme, and not run away from the word.