“We had the greatest generation,” Simpson said. “I think this is the greediest generation.”
Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.
Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS* in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
[Note from Joe: I've been paying them for 53 years. I am now 70]
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 losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make 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" are 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 our 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 "incompetents" 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 off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling you incompetent. Well, 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 and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
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.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!
*No one can verify the actual author of this Email. That does not negate the frustration and anger that she/he and I feel about the issues in the Email.
3 comments:
Joe - "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 losers in return for votes..."
That's a lie. That has never been the case. There were never any "interest bearing accounts". Social Security has never been an investment account collecting your contributions in your name and collecting interest.
That's why it makes me crazy to hear right wingers scream "I'm not getting government benefits! I paid into Social Security all my life! I'm just getting back what I paid in!"
That's a basic misunderstanding of how Social Security works which makes me think that people who say such things are probably misinformed about a lot of other things too.
It makes me immediately dismiss everything else they say as suspect and lacking in credibility.
Whoa, Joe sure don't like those Baggers when they come after his junk.
XO: "That's a lie. That has never been the case."
Of course. That's the point.
Of all people, I was sure you would recognize snide sarcasm when you saw it.
Have you not been paying attention to my other posts? Have you just been spewing your leftist dribble without reading the posts?
SS is a Ponzi scheme where those paying in now are paying for those who went before them, exactly what Bernie Maddof was doing.
Dismiss all you want. But you do so on a false premise.
Ducky: Do you think you actually said something in that comment?
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