Perhaps you’ve seen the email I’ve included below or one of the many like it. The clowns that write this fact starved crap have more passion than brains.
Alan Simpson is a great public servant who is nothing if not wildly out spoken. When Simpson inimitably mentioned the milk cow with 310 million tits, he wasn’t talking just about Social Security; he was talking about the federal government becoming a trough that the entire nation feeds from and the need for reform.
"Yes, I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too. It's the same with any system in America. We've reached a point now where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits!" said Simpson.
I agree with Simpson when he says that mine is the greedy generation – either that or the dumbest generation. We presided over the second vast expansion of federal and state government [FDR being first], the creation of vast debt and unfunded liabilities that are almost beyond imagination. I think such a generation should offer to sacrifice something by way of making up for our folly but Alan Simpson has made no such suggestion.
Simpson's interview was full of his characteristically colorful language, including when he went after the "jerks" who charge that the debt commission wants to privatize Social Security. "We never suggested that," he responded. "We're talking about doing a hideous thing to change the retirement age to 68, by the year 2050, and hear people howl and bitch about that."
As part of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Simpson has joined the majority of its members in saying that the debt and deficit are nation ruining and that there is no solution available from cutting earmarks or raising taxes alone. The solution will come only from reforming Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense along with raising some taxes.
Democrats and Republicans did not get our November message. They are cutting peanuts from the budget, including some programs that have actual value and might even help the employment situation. Republicans are doing nothing and the President is proposing increased spending – each hoping the other will be first to suggest real change and thereby commit political suicide.
Seniors are important because they vote. We ought to be important because we have common sense and believe in things like fiscal and personal responsibility. We should be clamoring for governments to balance their budgets in order to protect our children and grandchildren. We should be abandoning AARP because they advocate irresponsibility. Instead, seniors have joined Democrats and progressives in support of continuing to make things worse.
Shame on us.
Here’s the [uneditied] email that set me off this time:
Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared " Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010 ..
Heres a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana, I think he is a little ticked off !
He also tells it like it is !
Hey Alan, lets get a few things straight…
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy &Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67.. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us greedy for calling bullshit on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are greedy. It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. Thats right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.
PASS IT ON!!!!