Comments on: Entitlement http://hi411.bobvineyard.com/2006/03/06/entitlement/ Easy answers to difficult questions Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Bob Vineyard, CLU http://hi411.bobvineyard.com/2006/03/06/entitlement/#comment-3 Bob Vineyard, CLU Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:09:00 +0000 http://hi411.bobvineyard.com/2006/03/06/entitlement/#comment-3 The folks who worked for Eastern Airlines also had promises. Same goes for a lot of other companies. Things change. Sure, free health care for life is a great deal if you can get it. So is $230 a year. That is $0.63 a day. I will lose that much in my couch . . . The folks who worked for Eastern Airlines also had promises. Same goes for a lot of other companies.

Things change.

Sure, free health care for life is a great deal if you can get it.

So is $230 a year.

That is $0.63 a day. I will lose that much in my couch . . .

]]> By: Fred Brown http://hi411.bobvineyard.com/2006/03/06/entitlement/#comment-2 Fred Brown Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:42:00 +0000 http://hi411.bobvineyard.com/2006/03/06/entitlement/#comment-2 I understand where you are coming from but I get where he is coming from also. Military folks were promised for years that they would have free medical care for life. No office visit co-pays, no hospital fees nothing. All of it was supposed to be free. So there is your sense of entitlement; it was promised, they expected it to be delivered. Yes what they have is cheap and most folks would fall all over themselves scrambling to get it if it were offered but it is still less than the benefit that was promised. Say you call up a store and ask if they have any widgets in. Normally a widget cost $50. The guy says, "Sure we've got them on sale. $10 apiece." You go down to the store and there's the widgets, but they aren't $10, they are $20. Still a deal but not the deal you were expecting. Wouldn't you feel deprived and somewhat cheated? I understand where you are coming from but I get where he is coming from also. Military folks were promised for years that they would have free medical care for life. No office visit co-pays, no hospital fees nothing. All of it was supposed to be free.
So there is your sense of entitlement; it was promised, they expected it to be delivered. Yes what they have is cheap and most folks would fall all over themselves scrambling to get it if it were offered but it is still less than the benefit that was promised.

Say you call up a store and ask if they have any widgets in. Normally a widget cost $50. The guy says, “Sure we’ve got them on sale. $10 apiece.” You go down to the store and there’s the widgets, but they aren’t $10, they are $20. Still a deal but not the deal you were expecting. Wouldn’t you feel deprived and somewhat cheated?

]]>