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The Water Cooler Title: Deficit Commission's GOP Chair: Seniors Are The 'Greediest Generation' Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson has a pretty low opinion of the people that have paid into Social Security all their lives and now need something back. The co-chair of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission lashed out at seniors Wednesday because they are unhappy with his ideas for reducing the deficit by cutting Social Security benefits while reducing corporate taxes. "I've never had any nastier mail or [been in a] more difficult position in my life," Simpson told Jeremy Pelzer at the Casper Star-Tribune. "Just vicious. People I've known, relatives [saying], 'You son of a bitch. How could you do this?'" The draft report released by Simpson along with co-Chair Erskine Bowles proposed raising the retirement age to 69 by 2070. Additionally, 90 percent of Social Security income would be taxable, as opposed to 82.5 percent as is currently projected.
Critics of the proposal have dubbed the group the "catfood commission" because seniors who see their benefits cut would have to reduce their expenses or find additional sources of income. GA_googleFillSlot("Raw_Embedded_300"); "We had the greatest generation," Simpson said. "I think this is the greediest generation." Referring to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as "that," the commission co-chair blamed political polarization for the attacks on him. "You don't want to listen to the right and the left -- the extremes," he said. "You don't want to listen to Keith Olbermann and Rush Babe [Limbaugh] and Rachel Minnow [sic] or whatever that is, and Glenn Beck. They're entertainers. They couldn't govern their way out of a paper sack -- from the right or the left. But they get paid a lot of money from you and advertisers -- thirty, fifty million a year -- to work you over and get you juiced up with emotion, fear, guilt, and racism. Emotion, fear, guilt, and racism." One contributor to the liberal website Daily Kos believes that Simpson "doesn't apparently understand the program that it has been his life's mission to destroy."
"[H]is 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," wrote brooklynbadboy. "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."
It's not the first time Simpson's comments about Social Security have raised eyebrows. In an August email, he described the program as a "milk cow with 310 million tits!" Simpson told Ashley Carson, executive director of the Older Women's League, that those who oppose cuts to Social Security are "Gray Panthers" and "Pink Panthers." After his remarks, The New York Times' Paul Krugman called on the president to remove Simpson from the deficit commission.
"At this point, though, Obama is on the spot: he has to fire Simpson, or turn the whole thing into a combination of farce and tragedy — the farce being the nature of the co-chair, the tragedy being that Democrats are so afraid of Republicans that nothing, absolutely nothing, will get them sanctioned," wrote Krugman. But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed to reporters that Simpson wouldn't lose his job. "We regret that he sent that e-mail," Gibbs said. We don't condone those comments. But Senator Simpson has and will continue to serve on the commission." Simpson later released an email to Carson apologizing. "I can see that my remarks have caused you anguish, and that was not my intention." Simpson's remarks to the Star-Tribune were first noticed by Talking Points Memo. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Seniors Are The 'Greediest Generation' Grampa Simpson walks into the Social Security office:
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson #2. To: Brian S (#0) Its true. Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit. #3. To: Badeye (#2) Its true. What's true? And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #4. To: Wood_Chopper (#3) all senior citizens should be executed for their crimes against America. anglobitch.com #5. To: Wood_Chopper (#3) Its true. Didn't seniors overwhelmingly vote for Republicans this year?
#6. To: continental op (#4) all senior citizens should be executed for their crimes against America. They should be shot after they're hung by the neck. Bastids! And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #7. To: go65 (#5) Didn't seniors overwhelmingly vote for Republicans this year? Who knows. It's a secret ballot. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #8. To: Wood_Chopper, badeye (#7) Midterm voters tend to be older than voters in general. But this year’s midterm voters aren’t just older than the voters who show up when the White House is up for grabs. They’re older than your typical midterm voter, period. Edison Research's Exit Polls showed that those over age 65 voted 57-41 for the GOP. No wonder Boehner has vowed to block any attempts to cut Medicare.
#9. To: go65 (#8) 41 Percent of seniors are the greediest generation. -----------------------------------------------------------
#10. To: Brian S (#0) Makes sense. They raised the most spoiled, fucked up baby boom generation in history. Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over. #11. To: go65 (#8) You don't KNOW how seniors voted go. No one does. All you "know" is what Edison Research says was the results of a poll they took, and what someone else says was the make-up of voters. Have you verified that what they are telling you is the truth? And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #12. To: All (#11) Who cares how seniors voted? They still want their unearned and undeserved socialist security. Everyone over 65 should be prohibited from voting anyway. anglobitch.com #13. To: continental op (#12) Who cares how seniors voted? They still want their unearned and undeserved socialist security. One of Obamacare's "provisions" will take care of those greedy bastids. The nerve of them! You'd think someone that old would have learned their place by now. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #14. To: Wood_Chopper (#13) there's no one to teach them their place. anglobitch.com #15. To: continental op, Badeye (#14) there's no one to teach them their place. Oh fear not dear. There will always be people like Alan Simpson, and people who think what he says is true (like Badeye), to let them know just where they belong, and just how screwed up they are. It is odd, isn't it. The real bad guy in this whole thing, a government that takes money by force from these people to pay into this Ponzi scheme (called Social "Security) then tells them, "Sorry, we're changing the deal" when it's time for those very same people to collect, is completely let off the hook, while the victims are blamed for the whole thing. The old "pit them against each other" ploy. Even our seniors are not safe from being demonized. True Alinsky tactics. One of the greatest measures of a society is how it treats its senior citizens. And just think! The same company that runs Social Security now runs health care!! And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #16. To: Wood_Chopper, continental op, Badeye (#15) The real bad guy in this whole thing, a government that takes money by force from these people to pay into this Ponzi scheme (called Social "Security) then tells them, "Sorry, we're changing the deal" when it's time for those very same people to collect, is completely let off the hook, while the victims are blamed for the whole thing. When you are correct woody, you are F ing A correct. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free! #17. To: all (#16) Sheep who let them selves be shared should be butchered anglobitch.com #18. To: Mad Dog (#16) When you are correct woody, you are F ing A correct. Thanks Mad Dog. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #19. To: continental op (#17) Sheep who let them selves be shared should be butchered Sheep who let them selves be sheared will be butchered, sooner or later. Those that speak up against the shearing, will be demonized. You're correct. Their choice, really. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #20. To: Wood_Chopper (#18) Thank you for speaking the truth about this matter. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free! #21. To: Wood_Chopper (#11) (Edited) And you know that seniors are greedy how?
#22. To: go65 (#21) And you know that seniors are greedy how? Just how fucking stupid are you? If you can't figure out my position on this matter by reading the thread, it is no wonder you're a dupe for the left. Get a brain. Get some common sense. Then get back to me. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #23. To: Wood_Chopper (#22) If you can't figure out my position on this matter by reading the thread, it is no wonder you're a dupe for the left. My apologies, we're in agreement on the below:
It is odd, isn't it. The real bad guy in this whole thing, a government that takes money by force from these people to pay into this Ponzi scheme (called Social "Security) then tells them, "Sorry, we're changing the deal" when it's time for those very same people to collect, is completely let off the hook, while the victims are blamed for the whole thing.
#24. To: go65, Mad Dog (#23) My apologies, we're in agreement on the below: Accepted go. Darn decent of ya. When there is something like this that you, Mad Dog, and me all agree on, whoever is trying to demonize these senior citizens is toast. And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Burma Shave. #25. To: Wood_Chopper (#24) No 'demonizing' here. Just noted the obvious. Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit. #26. To: Wood_Chopper, go65 (#24) When there is something like this that you, Mad Dog, and me all agree on, whoever is trying to demonize these senior citizens is toast. From your lips to God's ear I pray. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free! Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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