How Conservatives Have Twisted Language

I can't stand it anymore. Dictionary-challenged folks (mostly Republicans and Tea Partiers) keep using the word "entitlement" to describe Social Security and Medicare as gifts that a lot of lazy, undeserving riffraff (we retirees who otherwise couldn't afford to retire) receive when we hit retirement age. Not true! Send these conservative high school dropouts back to class for their GEDs! 

Social Security and Medicare are entitlements because the people who receive them have already paid for them -- with the FICA tax that came out of their earnings throughout their entire working careers, and they're entitled to get what they paid for.

The programs work. They don't contribute to the national debt. And my head is going to explode if I hear someone misuse "entitlement" one more time. (KABOOM!... that's what I get for listening to a conservative newscast.)