Entitlements are simply something people are legally entitled to.
No one thinks that entitlements Social Security and Medicare go predominantly to minorities and a lazy underclass, and yet they're the biggest parts of our budget. (Some people do, however, labor under the impression that SS and Medicare make up 5% of the budget and the remaining 95% goes to welfare, foreign aid, and greedy public employees, but that's another issue entirely.)
No one thinks that entitlements Social Security and Medicare go predominantly to minorities and a lazy underclass, and yet they're the biggest parts of our budget. (Some people do, however, labor under the impression that SS and Medicare make up 5% of the budget and the remaining 95% goes to welfare, foreign aid, and greedy public employees, but that's another issue entirely.)