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Deficit Commission co-chair Alan Simpson sounds downright ornery. HuffPo’s Ryan Grim furnishes an email Simpson sent to one of his critics.
And 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! Call when you get honest work!
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Derek Leaberry| 8.25.10 @ 10:24AM
That might be the first wise thing Simpson has said in decades. But, of course, look for Simpson to back a VAT tax when the deficit commission releases its report to the President.
RWinks| 8.25.10 @ 11:07AM
I'll bet Simpson is collecting his Senate pension which pays about 5 times more than SS. This guy has lived off the taxpayers most of his life. Talk about somebody milking the system! And right, he has always wanted taxes higher for people who work for a living.
David Lampo| 8.26.10 @ 1:19PM
The fact that Simpson's pension is too high doesn't change the fact that Social Security is a fraud and a ripoff. When it began, most people didn't even live to the retirement age of 65; now we routinely live 20 years or more after it. If the retirement age had been "inflation-adjusted" as life expectancy increased, it wouldn't be the ticking timebomb it is today.
Rush| 8.25.10 @ 1:01PM
I told you so, heh heh heh.
Believer| 8.25.10 @ 1:47PM
The day I went to sign up for Social Security the office was standing room only with everyone but senior citizens. I counted two other seniors with the rest made up of hispanic females, and most of them needed a translater. S.S. is the only retirement that i know of that allows people who dont contribute to have access to it. To say the problems with S.S. can be blamed on Congress is a huge understatement, wholesale borrowing from the system started with LBJ with conservatives warning all along that it would eventually bankrupt the system. Both party's were responsible for this so dont put the blame on anyone but your selves, so this Nov. be a good little boy and convince you selves your going to make a difference by voting the for the two party's.
Flee| 8.25.10 @ 3:18PM
Do you think if the govt offered all of us actively contributing a cashout plus int for all we have contributed to SS, that a majority would accept? I think it would be a great way to slowly eliminate the programs all together. Like freezing a corp pension plan; anyone getting benefits keeps them until they die. No new entrants; no non-citizens. There must be a sensible way to stop entitlement programs before we all become even more slaves to the govt. I know it goes against the feelings of Obama but there must be a better way.
Sheila| 8.25.10 @ 4:11PM
I can't say I care for Simpson, but I love that quote and image and will adopt it for my own: Social Security - the cash cow with 310 million tits. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, all you "it's my money' whiners. I'm over 50 and the government has illegally taken a boatload of my money, and I would willingly give up any claim if only someone had the balls and principles to shut down that damned PONZI scheme. Decline and fall.
Melissa| 8.26.10 @ 2:42PM
It is 'teats' not 'tits'.
Charles Martel| 8.26.10 @ 3:32PM
I posted this first on the "Why Colin [Simpson] Lost" thread, but it's about Alan, so I'll paste it over here too.
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Alan Simpson has always occupied a place in my mind next to that of Bob Dole, both of them easily derided as accommodating "tax collectors for the welfare state", but what finally secured his downfall in my estimation was his cameo appearance as himself in the 1993 movie "Dave".
For those of you who have not seen the movie, it was effectively a cartoon written by Democrats for Democrats. A Republican president (Kevin Kline) -- as hard hearted as their distorted imagining of Ronald Reagan -- has a massive stroke while, um, vigorously engaged with a comely member of his staff (an early Laura Linney role) and is replaced with a look-alike small- and part-time entertainer (Kline again, of course) by the menacing and Machiavellian Al-Haig-like chief of staff (Frank Langella). The entertainer comes to get the upper hand in the relationship, fires the chief of staff, who can do nothing to stop him without admitting the ruse and going straight to the Federal pen, and implements a national jobs program, as unconstitutional here as it was under FDR, that he has long dreamt of in his day-job running a temp agency. Various real-life pols appear in cameos to applaud (Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin) or denounce (Alan Simpson) the proposal, the former as good guys, the latter as chumps.
And there you have it, as we see again in Obama's service, the tax collector for the welfare state: Alan Simpson, chump.
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