They call them entitlements because you pay into, so you're entitled to get out of. SS, Medicare, VA. disability. These are earned, just as the paycheck received for work, which funded the first 2. VA disability was earned in blood in Vietnam. I resent anybody who thinks that benefits should be reduced, because the funds have been raided over the yrs for other things for which the funds were not intended, by people who don't care about working people>Republican Party. This is nothing short of robbery.