Entitled?

Politicians and news guys are throwing around the "entitled" word again.  Last use was to describe undocumented immigrants, but in the last 6 years I have heard it used to describe hungry people, poor people, students trying to go to college, people trying to buy a house, sick people without access to healthcare, homeless veterans, owners of small farms and small businesses, people without jobs.....you know, small, powerless, people with no money to to affect the current political powers.
So are we using the word correctly?

Entitle Definition

dictionary.search.yahoo.com

tr.v.

1. To give a name or title to.
2. To furnish with a right or claim to something.
   
   
   Apparently we are.  All of those people should have a right or claim to the things mentioned.  Even those undocumented immigrants that traveled here to escape a place that was not allowing them basic needs like food/shelter/safety (got to love Maslow--he kept it basic) are entitled to find a place that does allow them claim the basics for themselves and their family.
   
   
    Below is a list of rights internationally considered the rights of all humans.
   
   
   •  freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution
   •  freedom of speech,
   •  freedom of religion
   •  freedom from fear
   •  freedom from want
   •  right to a fair trial
   •  protection against enslavement,
   •  prohibition of genocide
   •  right to education 
    
   
   
    That is quite a list of entitlements.  And not one that I can picture anyone using in a negative way.  So why is the word entitled being used as if people are asking for things that they have no right too?
   
   
   When I was young, the children of the very rich were referred to as "born with a silver spoon in the mouth"  They were called "entitled" not as if they had earned their wealth, but with a kind of sarcasm because by no action of their own they were born with more, born "lucky"    While we all know that being born to wealthy parents does not guarantee a happy/healthy/wonderful life, it pretty much guarantees that their human rights will not be ignored except perhaps by their own family.
   
   
   When a child is born into poverty, any and all of their rights might be ignored.  Who will protect their rights.  Their parents will try, but poverty is soul-sucking.  Poor people are NOT free of fear.  They know how easy it is to become homeless, and homeless is not safe,  They are not free of want, they know that their is constant complaints about any aid they receive and that there are no promises for the future.  They did not receive the same education as the children of the wealthy, they have seen their parents and relatives in prison, frequently for such ridiculous things as shoplifting or hot-check writing  or other moneymaking schemes all aimed at keeping them safe, clothed, fed, and sheltered.
   
   
   Those with wealth and power have long used both to influence how those without are treated.  We only protect the religious freedom of the ruling class.  We allow large corporations to keep providing jobs that are under the poverty line in compensation--only falling outside of the realm of enslavement because "they can always quit" if they don't like it.  Our Justice system and prisons are filled to overflowing with people that could easily become the face of next genocide.  The right to a fair trial is a joke,  Most poor people are talked into a plea bargain with threats of longer times based on stats about brown people in prison and the wrong color of jury.  And does anyone believe that the low profile poor person's free public defender is the same as a multimillion dollar "dream team"
   
   
   So, we are all entitled.  But some of us get to benefit from that much more than others.  So maybe we need to stop letting the lucky, wealthy, powerful people tell us what to think and start protecting the rights of everyone equally.