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From: thy Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 Subject: Senator Alan Simpson Calls Seniors "Greediest Generation"
I don't know if this is "for real" but I do like what he has to say -- no, I'm not going to snopes to check it out -- The person who wrote this one is really feed up with all the crap that is being discussed to solve our debt problems. Another part of this same issue is the changing of the Federal retirement calculations for retirement pay from the high 3 years to the high 5 years. What's next, changes to the veterans benefits? There does not seen to be any discussion about changes the Congressional benefits.
Subject: Senator Alan Simpson Calls Seniors 'Greediest Generation'
"We had the greatest generation," Simpson said. "I think this is the greediest generation."
A Comment from Montana. Uh - something tells me this guy might be a teensy bit p'oh'd. Senator Alan Simpson Calls Seniors 'Greediest Generation'... Therefore this, from a man in Montana ....who - like the rest of us - has just about had enough:
Hey Alan,
Let's 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 of YOUR debt?
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bull****" on your incompetence.
Well, Captain Bull***, I have a few questions for YOU?
1. How much money have you stolen 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 Bull****, 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.
That's 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 SOB.
Alan Simpson Calls Seniors "Greediest Generation"
"We had the greatest generation," Simpson said. "I think this is the greediest generation."
"We had the greatest generation," Simpson said. "I think this is the greediest generation."
I almost spit up my coffee. Per TPM:
Where to begin.
Simpson doesn't apparently understand the program that it has been his life's mission to destroy. Collecting Social Security isn't a gift. You pay into it all your life, and then when you get old, you get your turn to collect. But his perspective indicates something even more vile: a belief that people's sole source of income, their very livelyhood, is some sort of mass generosity. It isn't. Social Security is a deal. A new sort of deal that didn't exist before FDR created it. Instead of working all your life and then spending your elder years destitute, why not take care of the old people now and then when you get old, you'll get yours. It's a deal, not a handout.
I don't see how you can reach consensus with someone like this. There is no middle ground between people who think Social Security is a government handout and reality. To malign people who have worked their entire lives and kept their end of the bargain, he says to them, essentially "you're beat." You cant negotiate with a guy like that. He doesn't believe in keeping his end of the deal. In fact, there is a word for people who take money and then don't hold up their end of a bargain: a thief. I say it is that person who is truly greedy.
From a link provided by Scarce:
Where to begin.
Simpson doesn't apparently understand the program that it has been his life's mission to destroy. Collecting Social Security isn't a gift. You pay into it all your life, and then when you get old, you get your turn to collect. But his perspective indicates something even more vile: a belief that people's sole source of income, their very livelyhood, is some sort of mass generosity. It isn't. Social Security is a deal. A new sort of deal that didn't exist before FDR created it. Instead of working all your life and then spending your elder years destitute, why not take care of the old people now and then when you get old, you'll get yours. It's a deal, not a handout.
I don't see how you can reach consensus with someone like this. There is no middle ground between people who think Social Security is a government handout and reality. To malign people who have worked their entire lives and kept their end of the bargain, he says to them, essentially "you're beat." You cant negotiate with a guy like that. He doesn't believe in keeping his end of the deal. In fact, there is a word for people who take money and then don't hold up their end of a bargain: a thief. I say it is that person who is truly greedy.
From a link provided by Scarce:
Simpson said he's spent about $25,000 of his own money on travel and hotel expenses on behalf of the debt commission -- an expense he said he doesn't mind paying.
Simpson might appear cynical about politics these days. But he said he hasn't lost heart. "I really believe that there are more patriots in America than selfish, selfish people," he said.
Can you believe this guy? He's got 25 grand to throw around to go cut your social security, but he says YOU are selfish. Hey Alan, how about you pay some higher tax on all that wealth you have? Then the problem Social Security has 27 years from now will be put off for another 75 years.
Simpson might appear cynical about politics these days. But he said he hasn't lost heart. "I really believe that there are more patriots in America than selfish, selfish people," he said.
Can you believe this guy? He's got 25 grand to throw around to go cut your social security, but he says YOU are selfish. Hey Alan, how about you pay some higher tax on all that wealth you have? Then the problem Social Security has 27 years from now will be put off for another 75 years.
By Brooklynbadboy | Sourced from Daily Kos, Posted at November 25, 2010
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