Opening statement: ‘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’.
Alan Simpson insulted every US citizen - all 310 million - many of whom have subsidized his Senate perks for decades- even as they were forced to contribute to the Ponzi schemes: SS & Medicare - foolishly expecting elected officials to keep their word and be trustees of the programs.
See post 18 - we can start again from there.
I don’t have carry any brief for Simpson - he’s a RINO and a jerk. But he’s not the problem - the current structure of Social Security funding - and the Democrats responsible for making it so and keeping it so - are.
Kudos for this lady for slapping down Alan Simpson for being a dick. But if she doesn’t realize she’s been played for a sucker (as have we all) for the past 40 years, she’s missing the point.
We’re getting close to election time. Expect a bunch of articles, posts and replies pushing the general point that Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. Some of them are. But ALL Democrats are just as bad as Democrats, and until they’re marginalized, we’ll never have a shot at dealing with this stuff. Whether or not Alan Simpson ever gets a clue.