Listening to people talk about entitlement or at least what they view as entitlement today, one would think that it was a mental disease, and, at this rate, it will probably make it there eventually. If you run a quick google search on the word entitlement you will only see it spoken of as a negative mode of thought that prevents you from becoming a billionaire. Here are some of the articles that pop up when you run that search: “Entitlement Mentality: Causes, Symptoms and More” (WebMD), “The Psychology of a Sense of Entitlement” (betterhelp.com), “Five Ways to Deal With Entitled People” (quickanddirtytips.com), “Entitled People: What To Expect and How To Deal With Them” (spsp.org). This is a symptom of capitalism run amuck. Now, people who demand what used to be civil rights (the right to eat, the right to employment that aligns with one’s talents, the right to marry, the right to walk down the street without being harassed) are suffering from “entitlement mentality”. It seems to me like this is just another war on the poor cloaked in the guise of righteousness. But what does entitlement actually mean? What is the real definition? Here you go. Entitlement: the fact of having a right to something, the amount to which a person has a right. Those are the first two definitions of the word. It is not until you get to the third and final definition of the word that entitlement is presented as being in any way negative. Entitlements are also a form of government welfare such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment and Welfare Programs (WIC, Food Stamps, TANF and so on). The vast majority of entitlement programs are geared toward elderly people and children. Without these entitlement programs countless elderly people and young children would starve to death. The elderly people of the day did not steal this money. They worked for their social security and medicare by paying taxes their entire lives. The same can be said about people on unemployment; our tax dollars fund unemployment programs, not your tax dollars, everybody’s tax dollars! And what of the children you all pretend to love? Would you have them die of starvation because a person is injured and cannot work? Would you have poor people stripped of their children because they have fallen on hard times? Do you wish that child to be torn from their family and thrown into an orphanage, which is known to cause criminal behavior in children? Do you want the crime rates to continue to rise? Do you enjoy it when old people die slow painful deaths? Seriously, what is your problem? Many of you behave this way with protests as well. You say, “how dare they protest getting beaten to death by police? How could they be so entitled?” Do you not know that protest is a protected right? You say, “how dare they get married and have children when they cannot afford it?” Do you not know that marriage and starting a family is a civil right as defined by Supreme Court in 1967? Do you know anything or are you just a grumpy person who is jealous of us poor people who have found some comfort in a ruthless world? Have you grown so cold that you are willing to take away even the little tiny bit of comfort that we have developed for the poor in this nation? I think that people who demand that entitlement cease are the entitled ones. They feel entitled to take rights away from others simply because they are successful. What happens when your luck runs out? What happens if you develop a chronic illness? Who will care for you if not the government rights and programs that you so readily mock as entitlement syndrome? I really hope that your talking points don’t end up destroying your life like they have destroyed mine. I lose four jobs, four jobs because of this nation refusing to get vaccinated or practice basic hygiene and you call me entitled so you can take the only things from me keeping my family from starving? You don’t even know the meaning of the word.