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A Quiz on "Entitlement Programs"

A Quiz on "Entitlement Programs"

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by: ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 15, '14 11:52pm  
So how much doe you know and how much is just popular myth?








 
 


 



 
 

 


 
 
 

 











 



 
How much do you know about US entitlement programs? Take our quiz.
 






 

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The push to reform entitlement programs is at the heart of debates about the future of the US budget. Many Republicans want big changes as Medicare and Medicaid, in particular, consume a larger share of federal spending. Most Democrats merely want to ensure the programs' survival.Entitlement programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (welfare). How much do you know about them?
 
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Allison Terry, Correspondenthttp://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/1231/How-much-do-you-know-about-US-entitlement-programs-Take-our-quiz/Percentage-of-US-recipients 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 12:05pm  
oh come on....the christian science monitor ....and you might learn something 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 12:07pm  
I took it . I got an 85 or 6.. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 12:21pm  
but the important part is you learned something i bet. 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 12:32pm  
Ok the minute they put social security down as an entitlement I quit..test lost all my attention after that. Up to that point I had missed 1.......I put west down as most using welfare when it was east..east uses 2 more percent. But if they are counting SS as welfare/entitlement then they dont know what the hell they are talking about and the test is useless! SS is suppose to be a savings of said persons own money...Its already theirs not a welfare or entitlement. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 12:55pm  
it is a term and be sure to tell your congressperson if you feel it is a bad terminology. seems the word entitlement has become clouded with pejorative connotations. entitlement can also mean you are entitled to be paid for the loss of your car because you've paid your car insurance and you are entitled to be made whole for damages to your home because you have paid your homeowners insurance.  social security is NOT a savings account. it is more like an insurance pool that everyone pours their share of earnings or wages paid into a pot from which the payments are made down the line when the person paying in becomes eligible to collect. in point of fact, the monies paid in by a person are recouped from social security within a very few years and the person is then collecting from what others pay in 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 1:16pm  
it is a term and be sure to tell your congressperson if you feel it is a bad terminology. seems the word entitlement has become clouded with pejorative connotations. entitlement can also mean you are entitled to be paid for the loss of your car because you've paid your car insurance and you are entitled to be made whole for damages to your home because you have paid your homeowners insurance.  social security is NOT a savings account. it is more like an insurance pool that everyone pours their share of earnings or wages paid into a pot from which the payments are made down the line when the person paying in becomes eligible to collect. in point of fact, the monies paid in by a person are recouped from social security within a very few years and the person is then collecting from what others pay in
 
@ProblemAgain: But the test is using it as welfare and thats why when they ask what group uses the most welfare the answer was the senior citizens age range because they are on SS,....Also why it shows over 50% using welfare  that supported Romney as he had a huge senior support group. you take SS out of the equations and all those answers change. It leads people to believe our seniors are the ones putting most strain on the system and thats just flat out BS!!! Social security should not be grouped in with welfare in any kid of test or study of this sort...it misleads people.
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 1:25pm  
fine but in the meantime, that is the term they use. they used to used 'earned benefits' but then a certain segment began railing about 'entitlement programs' that's why the use of the term and where the term came from. and incidentally, price support payments to farmers are also included in the entitlement programs. the original bill for food stamps for the poor (which was intended to alleviate diseases and conditions caused by malnutrition especially in the south) was coupled with price supports for farmers. the idea was to provide better nutrition, forestall the boom and bust cycle of farming and thereby create a more stable and dependable food supply for our country.now you can quibble all you want about facts but thems the facts ...and refusing to finish the test or saying the test is biased doesn't address the points now does it? 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 1:27pm  
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thegoodwife Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 1:30pm  
If I knew anything about entitlement programs I would be on them already... I believe the phrase "work the system" 4951
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KingwoodDotCom Active Indicator LED Icon 18 Site Admin
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:16pm  
@Burnsway -- I think you're confused about the definition of "entitlement"...which is understandable, because it's often used with a negative connotation. "Entitlement" simply means you are entitled to, or "have the right" to, something...it does not mean "welfare." You're "entitled" to social security payments, because you've paid your own money into the system, and "have the right" to receive those payments (i.e., are "entitled" to those payments). 4951
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KingwoodDotCom Active Indicator LED Icon 18 Site Admin
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:16pm  
@ProblemAgain -- Nice quiz, I learned a couple things. 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:27pm  
@Burnsway -- I think you're confused about the definition of "entitlement"...which is understandable, because it's often used with a negative connotation. "Entitlement" simply means you are entitled to, or "have the right" to, something...it does not mean "welfare." You're "entitled" to social security payments, because you've paid your own money into the system, and "have the right" to receive those payments (i.e., are "entitled" to those payments).
 
@KingwoodDotCom: I agree but in the case of this test they group it with welfare programs. By doing that while you take the test and makes others think Seniors are getting more "welfare" than other age groups when they are not. That was my point, that in a test that was obviously meant to dispell myths about welfare should have been on welfare only not other programs.They cant have it both ways...its either welfare or not, if its not welfare then it should not be in the statistics of who is using more welfare.I think by adding it in it makes the test not accurate.
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:31pm  
Ok here is what the paragraph introducing the test says:Entitlement programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits,Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (welfare). How much do you know about them?They are grouping welfare and true entitlement Emoticonrograms together. This is going to mess up any stats on who is using welfare and who isnt. Making the test and answers misleading. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:35pm  
the point is that social security is grouped with the entitlement programs...and it is the entitlement programs that have been attacked over and over. all the speeches and the talking and the pontificating and the absolute bull******** is pointless unless you actually have fact-based discussions. we can't have any meaningful dialogues about finances and futures unless we deal in facts, not hyperbole, not pr rhetoric designed to enflame a situation in order to garner votes from people who don't want to actually deal in facts but like the simple solutions of slogans. a relevant quote:“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

Harlan Ellison 4951
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KingwoodDotCom Active Indicator LED Icon 18 Site Admin
~ 10 years ago   Feb 16, '14 2:45pm  
@Burnsway-- But this quiz isn't about welfare, it's about entitlement programs...Medicare isn't welfare either, not in the same vein as Food Stamps, certainly... 4951
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