I had little use politically for either Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan, but I cannot imagine either of them making a speech like this even at a private fundraiser. I pay taxes; my daughter has a Federally-subsized student loan for a couple thousand bucks each year that she will be repauing herself. Someday soon I'm going to go on Social Security and Medicare for which I have paid taxes for decades. That is the sum total of my collecting "entitlements" from the Federal Government. Otherwise I buy my own food and pay my own rent.
Yet somehow I'm still going to vote for Obama. Imagine that.
As my daughter said "Viewing access to food as an 'entitlement' is seriously disgusting."
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