You have to read it to believe it..............
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> This is Great! it hits the nail right on!
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> Senator Alan Simpson (R) Calls SeniorRs 'Greediest Generation'... from
> a man in Montana....who - like the rest of us - has just about had
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> Hey Alan,
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> 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 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. 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.
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Wow, this half qualifies as a left wing forward. There's some confusion here but for the most part its right on in its indictment of Simpson and his ilk.
When we the people voted for people who would lower our taxes to a level that was not sustainable, thereby necessitating the raiding of SS and the increase in national debt, we gave our elected leaders the go ahead for this plan. This plan has been in play since Reagan's whopping tax cuts were instituted. But we doubled down on the plan with Bush the Lesser also. I bet this whiner was really happy when his tax rate went down. Now he wants to blame the guy he voted for. That's not only selfish but stupid too
"decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes"
If by "losers" you mean the super-rich who benefitted from tax cuts, and by "votes" you mean "campaign contributions and propaganda funding to buy you votes", then yes.
"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?"
I'll tell you for what: the super-rich people who really run things (including the Republican party, just FYI).
Sometimes, the right-wing gets OH SO VERY CLOSE to reason, one could ALMOST have hope.
But we keep cutting taxes! And tax cuts always pay for themselves! What more can we do?!
I'm ever so slightly tempted to let Republicans kill Medicare, just so all these loopy old gaffers can see what medical care actually costs these days if you're not on the government dole. You think there'd be death panels under Obama? Try buying insurance from Wellpoint as an 80-year-old, bub!
I like Dave Ramsey's idea on SS. Stop taxing my SS and you can keep your ill gotten taxes I've paid in so far. I then can put my moey in my own savings plan and I will come out farther ahead of anybody who is being taxed by the SS.
Social InSecurity is just a gov't run Ponzi scheme.
Like any insurance plan, some people will collect no money from SSI, others will get back what they put in, and others will collect a lot more than they put in. This is how any insurance works. Its only a ponzi scheme if the gov't stops paying. Barring complete collapse, that seems unlikely to happen.
"I'm ever so slightly tempted to let Republicans kill Medicare..."
So that they can blame it on Democrats.
Seriously.
I have a friend who is a Right-Wing True Believer. [I forgive her for this because I consider it to be a kind of mental illness brough on by an abusive childhood, abusive marriage, and targeted propaganda, and just avoid talking politics with her, but that's neither here nor there.] Anyway, she relies on Medicare. Any cuts to Medicare will be seen as a result of the eee-vil Obamacare, not the result of federal funding cuts. Period.
Those who are incapable of learning don't learn.
"I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS "
"50-year political career"
All government workers PAY into a pension, just like SS, at a higher rate than those in SS. He's paid 2 years longer and at a higher rate.
Raise your taxes "yet again"?
First of all, Bowles-Simpson places a quite strict (excessively so) statutory limit on tax rates.
Second, your federal income taxes have been going down for the last fifty years. Kennedy cut taxes, Reagan cut taxes, and Bush cut taxes. There was a mild increase in the Clinton years, but that was from a historically low, completely unsustainable rate.
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